WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.380 Day 200 and 45 00:00:04.735 --> 00:00:08.575 Listen to this message that the Lord has spoken against you. 00:00:08.635 --> 00:00:14.155 Oh people of Israel against the entire family I rescued from Egypt. 00:00:14.905 --> 00:00:20.665 From among all the families on the earth, I have been intimate with you alone. 00:00:21.355 --> 00:00:24.715 That is why I must punish you for all your sins. 00:00:27.130 --> 00:00:30.460 Can two people walk together without a agreeing on the direction? 00:00:31.390 --> 00:00:35.650 Does a lion ever roar in a thicket without first finding a victim? 00:00:36.580 --> 00:00:41.050 Does a young lion growl in its den without first catching its prey? 00:00:42.010 --> 00:00:45.670 Does a bird ever get caught in a trap that has no bait? 00:00:46.360 --> 00:00:49.180 Does a trap spring shut when there's nothing to catch? 00:00:49.870 --> 00:00:52.210 When the ram's horn blows a warning? 00:00:52.390 --> 00:00:54.160 Shouldn't the people be alarmed? 00:00:55.075 --> 00:00:59.275 Does disaster come to a city unless the Lord has planned it? 00:01:00.535 --> 00:01:05.485 Indeed, the sovereign Lord never does anything until he reveals 00:01:05.485 --> 00:01:10.525 his plans to his servants, the prophets, the lion has roared. 00:01:11.095 --> 00:01:12.325 So who isn't frightened? 00:01:13.015 --> 00:01:14.935 The sovereign Lord has spoken. 00:01:15.445 --> 00:01:18.805 So who can refuse to proclaim his message? 00:01:20.830 --> 00:01:25.510 Announce this to the leaders of Philistia and to the great ones of Egypt. 00:01:26.140 --> 00:01:30.910 Take your seats now on the hills around Samaria and witness the 00:01:30.910 --> 00:01:33.250 chaos and oppression in Israel. 00:01:34.150 --> 00:01:38.080 My people have forgotten how to do right, says the Lord. 00:01:38.860 --> 00:01:43.390 The fortresses are filled with wealth, taken by theft and violence. 00:01:44.080 --> 00:01:48.670 Therefore, says the sovereign Lord an enemy is coming. 00:01:49.285 --> 00:01:52.435 He will surround them and shatter their defenses. 00:01:52.975 --> 00:01:56.515 Then he will plunder all their fortresses. 00:01:58.525 --> 00:02:00.595 This is what the Lord says. 00:02:01.435 --> 00:02:06.205 A shepherd who tries to rescue a sheep from a lion's mouth will recover 00:02:06.210 --> 00:02:09.265 only two legs or peace of an ear. 00:02:10.210 --> 00:02:15.220 So it will be for the Israelites in Samaria lying on luxurious 00:02:15.220 --> 00:02:19.810 beds, and for the people of Damascus reclining on couches. 00:02:21.850 --> 00:02:24.550 Now listen to this and announce it. 00:02:24.550 --> 00:02:27.610 Throughout all Israel says The Lord. 00:02:27.910 --> 00:02:30.040 The Lord God of heaven's armies. 00:02:30.940 --> 00:02:35.290 On the very day I punish Israel for its sins, I will destroy 00:02:35.290 --> 00:02:37.270 the pagan altars at Bethel. 00:02:37.855 --> 00:02:42.835 The horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground, and I will destroy 00:02:42.835 --> 00:02:44.665 the beautiful homes of the wealthy. 00:02:45.205 --> 00:02:48.505 Their winter mansions and their summer houses too. 00:02:48.895 --> 00:02:52.975 All their palaces filled with ivory says the Lord. 00:02:55.045 --> 00:02:58.585 Listen to me, you fat cows living in Samaria. 00:02:58.855 --> 00:03:04.135 You women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and who are always calling to 00:03:04.140 --> 00:03:07.045 your husbands, bring us another drink. 00:03:07.945 --> 00:03:11.425 The sovereign Lord has sworn this by his holiness. 00:03:12.055 --> 00:03:16.195 The time will come when you will be led away with hooks in your noses. 00:03:16.825 --> 00:03:20.965 Every last one of you will be dragged away like a fish on a hook. 00:03:21.745 --> 00:03:24.325 You'll be led out through the ruins of the wall. 00:03:24.745 --> 00:03:28.495 You'll be thrown from your fortresses, says the Lord. 00:03:30.535 --> 00:03:34.405 Go ahead and offer sacrifices to the idols at Bethel. 00:03:35.140 --> 00:03:37.510 Keep on disobeying at Gilgal. 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:43.600 Offer sacrifices each morning and bring your tithes every three days. 00:03:44.170 --> 00:03:48.010 Present your bread made with yeast as an offering of Thanksgiving. 00:03:49.030 --> 00:03:54.490 Then give your extra voluntary offerings so you can brag about it everywhere. 00:03:55.450 --> 00:04:00.910 This is the kind of thing you Israelites love to do says the sovereign Lord. 00:04:03.085 --> 00:04:08.875 I brought hunger to every city and famine to every town, but still, you 00:04:08.875 --> 00:04:11.815 would not return to me, says the Lord. 00:04:13.315 --> 00:04:17.575 I kept the rain from falling when your crops needed it the most. 00:04:18.055 --> 00:04:21.385 I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. 00:04:22.165 --> 00:04:26.575 Rain fell on one field while another field withered away. 00:04:27.145 --> 00:04:30.535 People staggered from town to town looking for water. 00:04:30.880 --> 00:04:37.690 But there was never enough, but still, you would not return to me, says the Lord. 00:04:39.190 --> 00:04:45.100 I struck your farms in vineyards with blight and mildew, locusts, devoured all 00:04:45.100 --> 00:04:51.790 your fig in olive trees, but still you would not return to me, says the Lord. 00:04:53.350 --> 00:04:57.550 I sent plagues on you like the plagues I sent on Egypt long ago. 00:04:58.465 --> 00:05:02.755 I killed your young men in war and led all your horses away. 00:05:03.445 --> 00:05:08.185 The stench of death filled the air, but still, you would not 00:05:08.185 --> 00:05:10.645 return to me, says the Lord. 00:05:12.145 --> 00:05:17.275 I destroyed some of your cities as I destroyed Sodom and Gamora. 00:05:17.875 --> 00:05:21.655 Those of you who survived were like charred sticks, pulled from 00:05:21.655 --> 00:05:27.025 a fire, but still you would not return to me, says the Lord. 00:05:28.540 --> 00:05:33.280 Therefore, I will bring upon you all the disasters I have announced. 00:05:33.820 --> 00:05:37.750 Prepare to meet your God and judgment you people of Israel. 00:05:39.790 --> 00:05:44.290 For the Lord is the one who shaped the mountains, stirs up the winds 00:05:44.590 --> 00:05:46.930 and reveals his thoughts to mankind. 00:05:47.590 --> 00:05:52.630 He turns the light of dawn into darkness and treads on the heights of the earth. 00:05:53.380 --> 00:05:56.950 The Lord God of heaven's armies is his name. 00:05:58.990 --> 00:06:04.090 Listen, you people of Israel listen to this funeral song I am singing. 00:06:04.990 --> 00:06:08.920 The Virgin Israel has fallen never to rise again. 00:06:09.370 --> 00:06:14.230 She lies abandoned on the ground with no one to help her up. 00:06:16.270 --> 00:06:23.260 The sovereign Lord says, when a city sends a thousand men to battle, only a hundred 00:06:23.260 --> 00:06:26.500 will return When a town sends a hundred. 00:06:26.935 --> 00:06:29.425 Only 10 will come back alive. 00:06:31.435 --> 00:06:35.335 Now this is what the Lord says to the family of Israel. 00:06:36.115 --> 00:06:38.065 Come back to me and live. 00:06:38.695 --> 00:06:41.545 Don't worship at the pagan altars at Bethel. 00:06:41.995 --> 00:06:48.025 Don't go to the shrines at Gilgal or Bear Sheba, for the people of Gilgal will be 00:06:48.025 --> 00:06:53.215 dragged off into exile and the people of Bethel will be reduced to nothing. 00:06:54.115 --> 00:06:56.125 Come back to the Lord and live. 00:06:56.725 --> 00:07:02.155 Otherwise he will roar through Israel like a fire devouring you completely. 00:07:03.055 --> 00:07:06.775 Your gods in Bethel won't be able to quench the flames. 00:07:07.255 --> 00:07:11.575 You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the oppressed. 00:07:12.085 --> 00:07:14.215 You treat the righteous like dirt. 00:07:16.555 --> 00:07:21.385 It is the Lord who created the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. 00:07:22.045 --> 00:07:25.435 He turns darkness into mourning and day and tonight. 00:07:26.320 --> 00:07:31.000 He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. 00:07:31.660 --> 00:07:33.250 The Lord is his name. 00:07:33.970 --> 00:07:40.450 With blinding speed and power, he destroys the strong, crushing all their defenses. 00:07:42.490 --> 00:07:48.190 How you hate honest judges, how you despise people who tell the truth. 00:07:48.880 --> 00:07:54.340 You trample the poor, stealing their grain through taxes and unfair rent. 00:07:55.045 --> 00:08:00.805 Therefore, though you build beautiful stone houses, you will never live in them. 00:08:01.465 --> 00:08:05.755 Though you plant lush vineyards, you will never drink wine from them. 00:08:06.475 --> 00:08:11.545 For I know the vast number of your sins and the depth of your rebellions. 00:08:12.295 --> 00:08:16.105 You oppress good people by taking bribes and deprive the 00:08:16.105 --> 00:08:18.025 poor of justice in the courts. 00:08:18.715 --> 00:08:23.755 So those who are smart, keep their mouths shut for it is an evil time. 00:08:26.320 --> 00:08:32.890 Do what is good and run from evil so that you may live then the Lord God of 00:08:32.895 --> 00:08:35.080 heaven's armies will be your helper. 00:08:35.350 --> 00:08:41.500 Just as you have claimed hate evil and love what is good, turn your 00:08:41.500 --> 00:08:43.360 courts into true halls of justice. 00:08:44.890 --> 00:08:49.660 Perhaps even yet, the Lord God of heaven's armies will have mercy 00:08:49.690 --> 00:08:51.580 on the remnant of his people. 00:08:53.575 --> 00:08:59.965 Therefore, this is what the Lord, the Lord God of heaven's armies says 00:09:00.895 --> 00:09:05.845 There will be crying in all the public squares and mourning in every street. 00:09:06.655 --> 00:09:11.665 Call for the farmers to weep with you and summon professional mourners to wail. 00:09:12.325 --> 00:09:16.285 There will be wailing in every vineyard for I will destroy 00:09:16.285 --> 00:09:18.325 them all, says the Lord. 00:09:20.350 --> 00:09:26.890 What sorrow awaits you who say, if only the day of the Lord were here, you 00:09:26.890 --> 00:09:29.980 have no idea what you are wishing for. 00:09:30.610 --> 00:09:35.590 That day will bring darkness, not light, and that day you will be like 00:09:35.590 --> 00:09:41.530 a man who runs from a lion only to meet a bear escaping from the bear. 00:09:41.590 --> 00:09:46.720 He leans his hand against a wall in his house and he's bitten by a snake. 00:09:47.710 --> 00:09:54.340 Yes, the day of the Lord will be dark and hopeless without a ray of joy or hope. 00:09:56.380 --> 00:10:01.510 I hate all your show and pretense the hypocrisy of your religious 00:10:01.515 --> 00:10:03.940 festivals and solemn assemblies. 00:10:04.660 --> 00:10:07.810 I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. 00:10:08.230 --> 00:10:11.140 I won't even notice all your choice, peace offerings. 00:10:12.010 --> 00:10:15.760 Away with your noisy hymns of praise, I will not listen 00:10:15.760 --> 00:10:17.470 to the music of your harps. 00:10:17.830 --> 00:10:21.880 Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice. 00:10:21.940 --> 00:10:24.790 An endless river of righteous living 00:10:26.860 --> 00:10:27.760 was it to me. 00:10:27.760 --> 00:10:30.970 You were bringing sacrifices and offerings during the 40 00:10:30.970 --> 00:10:32.800 years in the wilderness Israel. 00:10:33.430 --> 00:10:40.660 No, you served your pagan gods, sako, your king God, and kiwan your star God, 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:43.420 the images you made for yourselves. 00:10:44.140 --> 00:10:50.770 So I will send you into exile to a land east of Damascus, says the Lord, whose 00:10:50.770 --> 00:10:53.500 name is the God of heaven's armies. 00:10:55.510 --> 00:11:00.160 What sorrow awaits you, who lounge in luxury in Jerusalem and 00:11:00.160 --> 00:11:02.320 you who feel secure in Samaria. 00:11:03.325 --> 00:11:09.685 You are famous and popular in Israel and people go to you for help, but go 00:11:09.685 --> 00:11:12.565 over to Kna and see what happened there. 00:11:13.315 --> 00:11:18.985 Then go to the great city of Hamath and down to the Philistine city of Gath. 00:11:19.885 --> 00:11:21.955 You are no better than they were. 00:11:22.435 --> 00:11:24.475 And look at how they were destroyed. 00:11:25.165 --> 00:11:30.055 You push away every thought of coming disaster, but your actions only 00:11:30.055 --> 00:11:32.185 bring the day of judgment closer. 00:11:33.130 --> 00:11:38.140 How terrible for you who sprawl on ivory beds and lounge on your couches? 00:11:38.620 --> 00:11:43.390 Eating the meat of tender lambs from the flock and of choice calves fattened 00:11:43.390 --> 00:11:49.300 In the stall, you sing trivial songs to the sound of the harp and fancy 00:11:49.300 --> 00:11:51.310 yourselves to be great musicians. 00:11:51.310 --> 00:11:56.050 Like David, you drink wine by the bowl full and perfume 00:11:56.050 --> 00:11:58.210 yourselves with fragrant lotions. 00:11:58.990 --> 00:12:01.480 You care nothing about the ruin of your nation. 00:12:02.230 --> 00:12:06.880 Therefore, you will be the first to be led away as captives. 00:12:07.330 --> 00:12:10.570 Suddenly, all your parties will end. 00:12:12.610 --> 00:12:17.740 The sovereign Lord has sworn by his own name and this is what he, 00:12:17.740 --> 00:12:23.770 the Lord God of heaven's armies says, I despise the arrogance of 00:12:23.775 --> 00:12:26.410 Israel and I hate their fortresses. 00:12:27.340 --> 00:12:31.630 I will give this city and everything in it to their enemies. 00:12:32.830 --> 00:12:36.670 If there are 10 men left in one house, they will all die. 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:42.010 And when a relative who is responsible to dispose of the dead goes into 00:12:42.010 --> 00:12:46.720 the house to carry out the bodies, he will ask the last survivor. 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:49.090 Is anyone else with you? 00:12:50.020 --> 00:12:53.170 When the person begins to swear, no, by. 00:12:53.725 --> 00:12:56.095 He will interrupt and say, stop. 00:12:56.815 --> 00:12:59.395 Don't even mention the name of the Lord. 00:13:00.745 --> 00:13:05.485 When the Lord gives the command homes, both great and small 00:13:05.785 --> 00:13:07.945 will be smashed to pieces. 00:13:09.985 --> 00:13:11.455 Can horses gallop over? 00:13:11.455 --> 00:13:11.845 Boulders? 00:13:12.375 --> 00:13:15.055 Can oxen be used to plow them? 00:13:15.865 --> 00:13:20.665 But that's how foolish you are when you turn justice into poison and the sweet 00:13:20.665 --> 00:13:22.855 fruit of righteousness into bitterness. 00:13:23.485 --> 00:13:27.925 And you brag about your conquest of low die, you boast. 00:13:28.255 --> 00:13:31.225 Didn't we take cardium by our own strength? 00:13:32.275 --> 00:13:33.955 Oh people of Israel. 00:13:34.615 --> 00:13:38.245 I am about to bring in enemy nation against you, says the 00:13:38.245 --> 00:13:40.105 Lord God of heaven's armies. 00:13:40.855 --> 00:13:45.445 They will oppress you throughout your land from Libo, Hamath in the 00:13:45.445 --> 00:13:48.205 north to Aba Valley in the South. 00:13:51.100 --> 00:13:53.350 The sovereign Lord showed me a vision. 00:13:54.070 --> 00:13:58.480 I saw him preparing to send a vast swarm of locusts over the land. 00:13:59.530 --> 00:14:04.210 This was after the king's share had been harvested from the fields, and as the 00:14:04.210 --> 00:14:10.540 main crop was coming up in my vision, the locusts ate every green plant in sight. 00:14:11.260 --> 00:14:17.560 Then I said, oh, sovereign Lord, please forgive us or we will not survive. 00:14:18.100 --> 00:14:23.710 For Israel is so small, so the Lord relented from his plan. 00:14:24.400 --> 00:14:25.750 I will not do it. 00:14:26.140 --> 00:14:26.770 He said. 00:14:28.780 --> 00:14:31.390 Then the sovereign Lord showed me another vision. 00:14:32.140 --> 00:14:36.250 I saw him preparing to punish his people with a great fire. 00:14:36.580 --> 00:14:42.790 The fire had burned up the depths of the sea and was devouring the entire land. 00:14:43.660 --> 00:14:49.930 Then I said, Sovereign Lord, please stop or we will not survive. 00:14:50.230 --> 00:14:56.380 For Israel is so small then the Lord relented from this plan too. 00:14:57.520 --> 00:14:59.530 I will not do that either. 00:15:00.070 --> 00:15:01.360 Said the sovereign Lord. 00:15:03.400 --> 00:15:05.440 Then he showed me another vision. 00:15:06.370 --> 00:15:10.780 I saw the Lord standing beside a wall that had been built using a plumb line. 00:15:11.590 --> 00:15:16.780 He was using a plumb line to see if it was still straight, and the Lord 00:15:16.780 --> 00:15:20.440 said to me, Amos, what do you see? 00:15:21.370 --> 00:15:26.890 I answered a plumb line, and the Lord replied, I will test 00:15:26.890 --> 00:15:28.540 my people with this plumb line. 00:15:28.990 --> 00:15:31.630 I'll no longer ignore all their sins. 00:15:32.140 --> 00:15:36.760 The pagan shrines of your ancestors will be ruined and the temples 00:15:36.760 --> 00:15:38.320 of Israel will be destroyed. 00:15:39.040 --> 00:15:43.780 I will bring the dynasty of King Je Boem to a sudden end 00:15:46.420 --> 00:15:53.320 then Amiah, the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jere Boem, king of Israel. 00:15:54.160 --> 00:15:58.330 Amos is hatching a plot against you right here on your very doorstep. 00:15:58.870 --> 00:16:00.940 What he is saying is intolerable. 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:07.300 He is saying Jeroboam will soon be killed and the people of Israel 00:16:07.300 --> 00:16:09.460 will be sent away into exile. 00:16:10.330 --> 00:16:13.030 Then Amiah sent orders to Amos. 00:16:13.540 --> 00:16:15.160 Get out of here you prophet. 00:16:15.910 --> 00:16:20.770 Go on back to the land of Judah and earn your living by prophesying there. 00:16:22.210 --> 00:16:25.240 Don't bother us with your prophecies here in Bethel. 00:16:25.810 --> 00:16:30.190 This is the king's sanctuary and the national place of worship. 00:16:31.225 --> 00:16:37.585 But Amos replied, I'm not a professional prophet and I was never trained to be one. 00:16:38.125 --> 00:16:42.325 I'm just a shepherd and I take care of sycamore fig trees. 00:16:43.165 --> 00:16:47.875 But the Lord called me away from my flock and told me, go and 00:16:47.880 --> 00:16:50.365 prophesy to my people in Israel. 00:16:50.845 --> 00:16:54.025 Now then listen to this message from the Lord. 00:16:55.225 --> 00:16:58.705 You say, don't prophesy against Israel. 00:16:59.215 --> 00:17:04.645 Stop preaching against my people, but this is what the Lord says. 00:17:05.305 --> 00:17:09.055 Your wife will become a prostitute in this city, and your sons 00:17:09.055 --> 00:17:10.465 and daughters will be killed. 00:17:10.945 --> 00:17:16.255 Your land will be divided up and you yourself will die in a foreign land. 00:17:16.855 --> 00:17:20.545 And the people of Israel will certainly become captives in 00:17:20.545 --> 00:17:23.365 exile far from their homeland. 00:17:25.930 --> 00:17:30.250 Then the sovereign Lord showed me another vision in it. 00:17:30.580 --> 00:17:33.280 I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit. 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:35.410 What do you see, Amos? 00:17:35.800 --> 00:17:40.720 He asked, I replied, a basket full of ripe fruit. 00:17:41.830 --> 00:17:48.040 Then the Lord said like this fruit, Israel is ripe for punishment. 00:17:48.580 --> 00:17:50.470 I will not delay their punishment again. 00:17:51.475 --> 00:17:55.135 In that day, the singing in the temple will turn to wailing. 00:17:55.705 --> 00:17:58.225 Dead bodies will be scattered everywhere. 00:17:58.765 --> 00:18:02.065 They will be carried out of the city in silence. 00:18:02.785 --> 00:18:05.815 I the sovereign Lord have spoken. 00:18:08.455 --> 00:18:13.075 Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trampled down the needy. 00:18:13.765 --> 00:18:19.405 You can't wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious festivals to 00:18:19.405 --> 00:18:22.045 end so you can get back to cheating. 00:18:22.045 --> 00:18:22.885 The helpless. 00:18:23.605 --> 00:18:28.015 You measure out grain with dishonest measures and cheat the buyer with 00:18:28.015 --> 00:18:34.945 dishonest scales, and you mix the grain, you sell with chaff, swept from the floor. 00:18:35.545 --> 00:18:40.165 Then you enslave poor people for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals. 00:18:41.395 --> 00:18:46.615 Now the Lord has sworn this oath by his own name, the Pride of Israel. 00:18:47.125 --> 00:18:50.335 I will never forget the wicked things you have done. 00:18:50.965 --> 00:18:54.535 The earth will tremble for your deeds and everyone will mourn. 00:18:55.405 --> 00:18:59.455 The ground will rise like the Nile River at flood time. 00:18:59.785 --> 00:19:04.135 It will hea up then sink again in that day. 00:19:04.495 --> 00:19:10.045 Says the sovereign Lord, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken 00:19:10.045 --> 00:19:11.845 the earth while it is still day. 00:19:12.535 --> 00:19:17.815 I will turn your celebrations into times of mourning and your singing into weeping. 00:19:18.595 --> 00:19:22.105 You will wear funeral clothes and shave your heads to show your 00:19:22.105 --> 00:19:29.605 sorrow as if your only son had died, how very bitter that day will be. 00:19:31.615 --> 00:19:33.145 The time is surely coming. 00:19:33.745 --> 00:19:38.155 Says the sovereign Lord, when I will send a famine on the land, 00:19:38.455 --> 00:19:43.195 not a famine of bread or water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. 00:19:44.065 --> 00:19:49.195 People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from border to border, 00:19:49.315 --> 00:19:52.975 searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it. 00:19:53.905 --> 00:19:58.045 Beautiful girls and strong young men will grow faint in that day. 00:19:58.435 --> 00:19:59.935 Thirsting for the Lord's word. 00:20:00.940 --> 00:20:06.910 And those who swear by the shameful idols of Samaria, who take Oves in the 00:20:06.910 --> 00:20:12.970 name of the God of Dan and make vows in the name of the God of Beersheba, they 00:20:12.975 --> 00:20:16.780 will all fall down, never to rise again. 00:20:19.360 --> 00:20:23.410 Then I saw a vision of the Lord standing beside the altar. 00:20:23.980 --> 00:20:29.830 He said, strike the tops of the temple columns so that the foundation will shake. 00:20:30.820 --> 00:20:36.190 Bring down the roof on the heads of the people below, I will kill with the sword. 00:20:36.250 --> 00:20:39.550 Those who survive, no one will escape. 00:20:40.510 --> 00:20:46.030 Even if they dig down to the place of the dead, I will reach down and pull them up. 00:20:46.510 --> 00:20:50.860 Even if they climb up into the heavens, I will bring them down. 00:20:51.520 --> 00:20:55.690 Even if they hide at the very top of Mount Carmel, I will 00:20:55.690 --> 00:20:57.550 search them out and capture them. 00:20:58.150 --> 00:21:01.690 Even if they hide at the bottom of the ocean, I will send the sea 00:21:01.690 --> 00:21:03.370 serpent after them to bite them. 00:21:04.030 --> 00:21:08.080 Even if their enemies drive them into exile, I will 00:21:08.085 --> 00:21:10.330 command the sword to kill them. 00:21:10.330 --> 00:21:16.390 There I am determined to bring disaster upon them and not to help them. 00:21:18.490 --> 00:21:23.500 The Lord, the Lord of heaven's armies touches the land and it 00:21:23.500 --> 00:21:26.140 melts, and all its people mourn. 00:21:26.935 --> 00:21:32.875 The ground rises like the Nile River at flood time, and then it sinks again. 00:21:33.925 --> 00:21:38.455 The Lord's home reaches up to the heavens while its foundation is on the earth. 00:21:39.205 --> 00:21:44.215 He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. 00:21:44.905 --> 00:21:46.705 The Lord is his name. 00:21:48.745 --> 00:21:53.095 Are you Israelites more important to me than the Ethiopians? 00:21:53.695 --> 00:21:54.715 Ask the Lord. 00:21:55.840 --> 00:22:00.910 I brought Israel out of Egypt, but I also brought the Philistines from 00:22:00.910 --> 00:22:03.640 Crete and led the Aramean out of Kiir. 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:09.310 I, the sovereign Lord, am watching the sinful nation of Israel. 00:22:10.030 --> 00:22:15.370 I will destroy it from the face of the earth, but I will never completely 00:22:15.370 --> 00:22:22.180 destroy the family of Israel, says the Lord, for I will give the command. 00:22:22.750 --> 00:22:28.300 Will shake Israel along with the other nations as grain is shaken in a sieve, 00:22:29.020 --> 00:22:35.110 yet not one true kernel will be lost, but all the sinners will die by the sword. 00:22:35.500 --> 00:22:39.101 All those who say nothing bad will happen to us 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:43.240 in that day. 00:22:43.240 --> 00:22:46.000 I will restore the fallen house of David. 00:22:46.540 --> 00:22:49.120 I will repair its damaged walls. 00:22:50.035 --> 00:22:54.985 From the ruins, I will rebuild it and restore its former glory, and Israel 00:22:54.985 --> 00:23:00.835 will possess what is left of Edem and all the nations I have called to be mine. 00:23:01.915 --> 00:23:05.605 The Lord has spoken and he will do these things. 00:23:06.355 --> 00:23:08.665 The time will come, says the Lord. 00:23:09.265 --> 00:23:13.285 When the grain and grapes will grow faster, then they can be harvested. 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:19.360 Then the terrorist vineyards on the hills of Israel will drip with sweet wine. 00:23:20.470 --> 00:23:25.120 I will bring my exiled people of Israel back from distant lands, 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:29.320 and they will rebuild their ruined cities and live in them again. 00:23:30.130 --> 00:23:32.440 They will plant vineyards and gardens. 00:23:32.980 --> 00:23:35.740 They will eat their crops and drink their wine. 00:23:36.250 --> 00:23:39.000 I will firmly plant them there in their own land. 00:23:39.955 --> 00:23:43.495 They will never again be uprooted from the land I have given 00:23:43.495 --> 00:23:46.285 them, says the Lord your God. 00:23:51.595 --> 00:23:54.415 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:23:54.565 --> 00:23:55.585 Thank you for joining us.