Picking Up the Pieces
After everything falls apart, what kind of future does God promise to build?
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Amos 9:11-15
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11In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old,
12that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” says the LORD who does this.
13“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.
14I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.
15I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,” says the LORD your God.