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Amos 8:11

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The days are going to come, declares the Almighty Lord, when I will send a famine throughout the land. It won’t be an ordinary famine or drought. Instead, there will be a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.

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For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest who taught ⌞correctly⌟, and without Moses’ Teachings.

We no longer see miraculous signs. There are no prophets anymore. No one knows how long this will last.

Without prophetic vision people run wild, but blessed are those who follow ⌞God’s⌟ teachings.

I will make it a wasteland. It will never be pruned or hoed. Thorns and weeds will grow in it, and I will command the clouds not to rain on it.

One disaster will happen after another. One rumor will follow another. People will ask for a vision from a prophet. The teachings of priests and the advice of leaders will disappear.

If she refuses, I will strip her. I will leave her as naked as the day she was born. I will turn her into a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst.

That is why you will have nights without visions. You will have darkness without revelations. The sun will set on the prophets, and the day will turn dark for them.

When he saw the crowds, he felt sorry for them. They were troubled and helpless like sheep without a shepherd.

Samuel asked Saul, “Why did you disturb me by conjuring me up?” Saul answered, “I’m in serious trouble. The Philistines are at war with me, and God has turned against me and doesn’t answer me anymore—either by the prophets or in dreams. So I’ve called on you to tell me what to do.”

He prayed to the Lord, but the Lord didn’t answer him through dreams, the Urim, or prophets.

The boy Samuel was serving the Lord under Eli. In those days a prophecy from the Lord was rare; visions were infrequent.




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