‘… commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.’ Amos 2:12
In Amos (Ch. 2) the Lord states the humility Israel was lacking. How He delivered victory for them against the Amorites, after leading them through the wilderness for forty years to the Promise Land. The Lord anointed them with spiritual privileges and advantages raising up their sons to be prophet’s and Nazarites. And now the Lord has charged them with the abuse of His grace they benefited from, having commanded the 'prophets to prophesy not.'
Israel become more interested in what they wanted and refused to hear the truth, and even went to efforts to extinguish it; ‘you gave wine to the Nazarites to drink.’ It doesn’t take much for man to interrupt the Lord’s will. First and foremost is the avoidance of God’s Word in one’s life. Doing so dulls the spirit against conviction, and repentance. Leaving one’s spirit to stray in self-will and thought. Our culture today is becoming less accountable to God’s truth, thus defining their own. Don’t quieten the Word of God in your life. Allow the Holy Spirit to use your pastor to speak truth directly to your spirit, and humbly receive it as “profitable doctrine for reproof, correction, for instruction in righteousness.” (2 Tim 3:16).
You know you've gone blind to truth when you can ‘see nothing wrong’ with what God calls sin… HSAY
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