"Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "When I will send a famine on the land, not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but rather for hearing of the words of the LORD. "People will stagger from sea to sea and from the north even to the east; They will go to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, but they will not find it."
When I read this for the first time about three and a half years ago, I knew this was true and this was happening now.
What is a famine?
Dictionary: extreme scarcity of food; a shortage.
Hebrew: ra'ab: famine, hunger, dearth.
Looking through the Scriptures in the Old Testament, there are many cases of famine. And there was an interesting reason that triggered famines in the Old Testament.
Deuteronomy 32:24 - They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.
The reason why:
Deuteronomy 32:15-18 - But Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and kicked - You are grown fat, thick and sleek - Then he forsook God who made him, and scorned the Rock of his salvation. They made Him jealous with strange gods, with abominations they provoked Him to anger. They sacrificed to demon who were not God, to gods whom they have not known, new gods who came lately, whom your fathers did not dread. You neglected the Rock who begot you, and forgot the God who gave you birth.
Action: Forget God and His ways
Reaction: He will cause things to happen to bring people low, one being famine
But in Amos 8 it is not just talking about a famine for bread and thirst for water. Its a famine for hearing the word of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 8:3 - He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.
This is the bread that man is suppose to live on, the word of the LORD, not just bread. So what happens when you remove this "true bread" that mankind is suppose to live on?
What is a famine?
Dictionary: extreme scarcity of food; a shortage.
Hebrew: ra'ab: famine, hunger, dearth.
Looking through the Scriptures in the Old Testament, there are many cases of famine. And there was an interesting reason that triggered famines in the Old Testament.
Deuteronomy 32:24 - They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.
The reason why:
Deuteronomy 32:15-18 - But Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and kicked - You are grown fat, thick and sleek - Then he forsook God who made him, and scorned the Rock of his salvation. They made Him jealous with strange gods, with abominations they provoked Him to anger. They sacrificed to demon who were not God, to gods whom they have not known, new gods who came lately, whom your fathers did not dread. You neglected the Rock who begot you, and forgot the God who gave you birth.
Action: Forget God and His ways
Reaction: He will cause things to happen to bring people low, one being famine
But in Amos 8 it is not just talking about a famine for bread and thirst for water. Its a famine for hearing the word of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 8:3 - He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.
This is the bread that man is suppose to live on, the word of the LORD, not just bread. So what happens when you remove this "true bread" that mankind is suppose to live on?