Amos 8:1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
This is another vision of Amos. This book is filled with visions that are designed to help us "prepare to meet out God" at the Day of Atonement. Prior to judgement day you have the Feast of Trumpets which announces the coming of the day of Judgement. I have considered that this was 2020 when we had the pandemic and the ten years from 2020 to 2030 are the fulfillment of these ten days. This is the fourth vision, so that would align with 2023.
The basket of summer fruit represents the last fruit harvested prior to the winter. This vision shows an abundant harvest while also indicating a coming hard winter. It is also a play on words, the word for summer sounds like "end" in Hebrew. This is a vision of the harvest at the end of the age.
We have discussed this while talking about the feast of ingathering. A harvest festival at the end of the summer and beginning of winter is the picture we are given concerning the rapture in the gospels. God is the same yesterday, today and forever indicated to many of us that the God who fulfilled the five spring feasts in His first coming would fulfill the Fall feasts in His second coming. We are told in Colossians that the feasts are a shadow of things to come, and we are told in Ephesians that Jesus is Lord of all and so everything that takes place, our calendar, our sabbaths (making Sunday the day off rather than Saturday) and our feast days are under His sovereignty. Jesus also told us at the time of His earthly ministry that "no one knows the day or the hour". That strongly suggests that the rapture is not on a Jewish feast day since those days were known. However, Jesus did not say "no one will know" and in fact that idea would contradict what He said about the Days of Noah and the Days of Lot, so it could be a feast day instituted later that no one knew about at the time of the gospels.
2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
When the fifth seal is opened in Revelation we see the martyrs under the altar, they are clothed with white robes and told to wait a little while for more martyrdoms before the judgement. One way to look at this is "the dead in Christ rise first". At the pre tribulation rapture the dead in Christ will be given white robes and will come out from under the altar (the graves they have been in since being killed). However, you are still seven years before the Day of judgement on the killers and during those seven years there will be many, many more martyrdoms. This verse where the Lord says "I will not again pass by them any more" reminds me of the 5th seal where the martyrs are crying out "How long O Lord will you not judge and avenge our blood".
3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
The songs of the temple shall be howlings, that reminds me of the judgement on the apostasy. All those who are left behind after the rapture. So we have a vision of the harvest at the end of the age, the dead in Christ rising first, and those who are left behind howling. Amos is showing us what we need to repent of, here there are many dead bodies in every place that they cast for with silence. If this is righteous judgement where "as you have done it will be done unto you" when did people cast forth dead bodies in silence? That is an abortion and that is many of these mass killings. In the US they said it was a woman's right to kill her unborn baby secretly. The law was that the government had no right to regulate abortion and that they should cover their eyes and ears and mouth like the three monkeys. We have had 60 million abortions since Roe v. Wade so it is not unreasonable to estimate the number of dead at this time will be 60 million in the US.
4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
There is a concerted effort in the US to make the poor of the land fail. In order to get big multinational corporations like Walmart, you need thousands and thousands of workers who will man cash registers or mop the floor or stock the shelves. If the US economy were a vibrant middle class and entrepreneurial economy it would be hard for these companies to fill their cubicles with drones. The failure of the US education system is intentional. They want teenage pregnancy as that helps make the poor of the land fail.
5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
The US dollar is "falsifying the balances by deceit". People think the piece of paper has value rather than the ephah of wheat. A five pound bag of flour cost $0.59 in 1970, today it is $5.24. As a result trying to grow an investment in "dollars" is deceitful. A million dollars today is worth what $100,000 was worth in 1970.
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
If you are an employee you are a slave. You have sold yourself for silver. However, the sweatshops where our shoes are made have sold them for a pair of shoes. Also look at the flour we do sell, it is bleached with all life removed so that it can sit in a bag for weeks even months without becoming rancid. Bread today is refuse. It used to be that any bread you didn't sell that day would be given to the poor because it wouldn't be good the next day. This made it too easy to be poor, you could get by easily if you didn't mind eating day old bread.
7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Abortion, mass murder, bioweapons, vaccine mandates, teflon, taking the US dollar off the gold standard, the military industrial complex, WMD's, FTX, mortgage meltdown and NINJA loans, etc. The Lord will not forget any of them. You had better confess your sins, repent and take the Lord's blood.
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
There are multiple prophecies that the US will be hit with Tsunamis that will drown our coastlines where 65% of the US population lives.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
This sounds like the result of a super volcano filling the sky with ash, or it could be the result of a meteor like that which wiped out the dinosaurs.
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
This is talking about "your" feasts, not God's, and "your" songs, not God's. We have hymns of praise, but I don't think that is what this is talking about. I have always felt the songs refer to Christmas songs. They depict the apostasy more than anything else. It is a corrupt confused mingling of pagan worship with the worship of Jesus. These songs promote fornication and the worship of mammon and hedonism. Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus, God is going to turn it into the mourning of an only son. This season is famous for cookies and pies, God will turn what was sweet into a "bitter" day. "Sackcloth upon all loins and baldness upon every head", the Christmas season officially begins on black Friday when people flock to the mall and shop for new clothes and get their hair done. Not this year.
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Right now we have filled the internet with the word of God. Every day you can find multiple dreams and visions, you can find many people posting messages, many preachers posting their sermons. Their is an abundance of the word of God, so how could this happen? This tells me that we are talking about after the rapture. Of course the books still exist, but after seeing the rapture now people are interested and want to hear more, but everyone who knew anything was raptured. The people left behind were like that "refuse wheat" that they were selling to the poor.
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.