A few more comments concerning the house of Israel from the prophet Amos: “O house of Israel, the virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise. She is forsaken upon her land. There is none to raise her up.” (See Amos 5:1-2). And, again,”The end is come upon my people of Israel. I will not again pass by them any more” (Amos 8:2). And “Surely I will never forget any of their works” (See Amos 8:7). Why not? Because Israel was unrepentant. Finally, God had no recourse but to divorce Israel and remove the ten-tribed northern kingdom from His sight.
In the concluding 9th chapter of the Book of Amos, God says of Israel, “I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good…Are ye not as the children of Ethiopia unto me, O children of Israel (Ethiopians having never had a covenant with God)? says the Lord….Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth, saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the Lord. For I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel (those few who survive) among ALL nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth (God ever cognizant of their whereabouts). All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword (that’s the vast majority), which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent (confront) us.”
The eyes of the Lord were not upon Israel, or any of her tribes, to bless and build world ruling nations from any of those tribes! Such a concept is absolutely ludicrous when one reads the major and minor prophets and allows God to say what He has to say concerning the “lost” ten tribes of Israel. There remains one last part to this posting, Part 6.
God’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley