Amos 4:4 bring your sacrifice every
morning, and your tithes after three years.
From my post "Daniel 2300 days", I have
stated that Israel shall restore their daily sacrifice
after they witness the battle of Gog/Magog. They want to
give glory to God after God saves them from the hand of
Gog and his army. This evening and morning sacrifice
shall be interrupted by Anti Christ in mid-trib, when he
abolishes this daily sacrifice by breaking the covenant.
From the first day this evening and morning sacrifice is
installed, up to sanctuary is cleansed, there shall be
2300 days. Will God favor their evening and morning
sacrifice, or will God abhor their feast?
The Coming Judgment against Israel
Amos 5:16 Therefore the LORD, the
God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in
all streets; and they shall say in all the highways,
Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to
mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation
to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing:
for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
When shall this judgment against Israel be
fulfilled?
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the
LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is
darkness, and not light.
19 As if a man did flee from a lion,
and a bear met him; or went into the house, and
leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20 Shall not the day of the LORD be
darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no
brightness in it?
This judgment shall take place during the
Day of the Lord, that is, the second half of
tribulation, when the Jews are under persecution by
Satan and Antichrist. God went on to say he despised
their feast.
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and
I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and
your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither
will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy
songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
God despises their feast because they
still reject Jesus as their Messiah. They thought by
bringing back the feast and daily sacrifice, they can
restore the relationship with God. This wrong
thinking leads to the coming judgment on Israel in the
Day of the Lord. But there is an interesting verse I
found in Amos 4.
Amos 4:1 Hear this word, ye kine of
Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which
oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to
their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his
holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you,
that he will take you away with hooks, and your
posterity with fishhooks.
3 And ye shall go out at the breaches,
every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast
them into the palace, saith the LORD.
4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at
Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices
every morning, and your tithes after three years:
"Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal
multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifice every
morning, and your tithes after three years"
Some bible commentary dated this event
back to Deuteronomy 26:12 when the Law required a tithe
for every three years. But here's a question. God says
they bring their sacrifice every morning. According to
Samuel 1:3, 1:7, and 1:21, back then they only bring the
sacrifice once a year, not every morning. So far there
is no common consensus on a valid interpretation of this
verse. Some bible commentary even interpreted as tithes
every third day.
Here's my thought. "and bring your
sacrifice every morning, and your tithe after three
years" points to the first half of tribulation (three
years) when Israel is practicing the evening and morning
sacrifice daily. God has numbered their daily sacrifice
to the maximum of three years. After three years, God's
patience runs out with Israel, and allows this daily
sacrifice interrupted by Anti Christ. God even foretells
how severe the judgment is after the three years is over
from verse 9 to 1.
Amos 4:9 I have smitten you with blasting
and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and
your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the
palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto
me, saith the LORD.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence
after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain
with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I
have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your
nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the
LORD.
11 I have overthrown some of you, as God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand
plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned
unto me, saith the LORD.
For those Jews who don't return to God and
accept Jesus as their savior during the second half of
tribulation, God has this following words.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O
Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to
meet thy God, O Israel.
"Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" shall
be fulfilled when Jesus returns to Jerusalem.
Ray