Secular
Weddings of the Millenials are rejected by God
Koot van
Wyk
What
about the contemporary trend to create a lodabar (Amos 6:13) “no Word” wedding
thus, no pastor or preacher any longer as is done in South Korea even by
Seventh-day Adventists? God lists this phenomenon to the visionary prophet of
the End of Time (see Amos 5:24).
Their
music removed all sacred worship and God and Christ from their lips and secular
icon pop-culture is used with multimedia display and loudspeakers to drain the
Holy Spirit out of the meeting. Photographers are standing all over taking
pictures of the tragic event in beautiful display of white wedding hangovers
from the true wedding-era. Amos saw all this and more, the Apostacy among the
remnant (Andrews University Woman Ordination statement; all NAD participants in
Woman Ordination inforcement of Culture over the Bible issues like gay-rights
respect; Revelation drain of cardinal SDA truths the author of
the guide for Sabbath-School in March 2019 who stepped out of the Bible into
idiosyncracies according to Alberto Treiyer, and Jon Paulien with him as well;
with the denial of vicarius filii dei in 2000 already; with others and their strange Edenic allegories of tabernacle symbolism
in the garden of Eden to make Adam and Eve co-priests strengthening the right
of Woman Ordination; an Apostacy slip thus strongly perceived since the death
of Hasel in 1994 when some mocking the Adventist
disappointment of 1844 and using Reformed Theology principles to do so). This
phenomenon of Apostacy as Treiyer calls the 2019 Revelation Sabbath School
Lesson, is predicted as a signal by Amos 5:2-5:20.
But is
it really the End Time that Amos saw here? Answer: Yes, see Amos 5:18. And
more. The creation of “their festivals” thus millennial secular style weddings and
their pop-culture music in worship (Amos 6:5).
For this
it is important to get back to the Bible and look carefully what is more packed
in their for our own times.
Amos and
God’s rejection of worship of the unfaithful
Amos
describes God closing His eyes, ears and smell (Amos 5:21-23). He rejects their
festivals and will not smell their sacrifices (Amos 5:21). He will not see
their fattened cattle as burnt-offerings (Amos 5:22). "Take away from Me
the din of your sons, and the music of your lutes I will not hear" (Amos
5:23). The unconverted Adventists in the end-time created their own
"festivities", their own "fattened" donations for projects;
their own music "your songs" (Amos 5:21-23). Christ our Righteousness
shall appear as the King of Glory and "Justice shall be revealed (wǝyiggal) like water, and Righteousness like
a mighty stream" (Amos 5:24). Amos went back to history to look at what the remnant did after they
were saved from Egypt in 1450 BCE. The post-exodus wandering scene is brought
in. Why? For God prepared His bride during this time (Amos 5:25). God provided
for them during these 40 years. But, at the end-time they shall carry the
Siccuth and the Kiyun, Kochav their god which they have made for themselves
(Amos 5:26). The Lord will exile them beyond Damascus, the remnant weed of
Amos' day. One of the most controversial contemporary religious ethics is the
rules for a photographer. Not only is he/she participating actively against the
command not to make images and worship them, he/she is making them not
worshipping them, but others of his clients will. Do they? Icons in
pop-culture. Thus, he secondly has to take a picture while the prayer is
offered so that the worshipper has pictures of himself/herself of their piety.
Gudea the governor of Larsa was such a king in 2350 BCE. He made many statutes
of himself in a pious position to portray to all his piety.
Amos 6
and evil denouncement at the End
Amos
says there are people in the mountain of Samaria who "those who despise to
the day of evil" (hamenadim leyom ra) and Rabbi Rashi of the Middle Ages
says they "despise the prophecy of the days of evil" (Amos 6:3). Ibn
Ezra said they "push off the day of evil". Rashi prefers the reading
"you who cause yourselves to move to the day of evil". They are to
compare themselves with Babylon or Calneh as GAL.nu-hu or Hamath or Aramean
territory or Gath of the Philistines (Amos 6:2). There problems were (1)
house-furniture: "beds of ivory" very expensive and unecessary (Amos
6:3); (2) strange delicacies: "lambs from the flock and calves from the
midst of the stall" which is lamb meat and calve meat meaning that they
have so much that they will have no problem if they do eat it (Amos 6:4); (3)
musical problems: they sing according to the tone of the lute and some
translations suggests that they improvise according to sound of the harp. They
thought their instruments of song are like David's (Amos 6:5). Like David they
thought themselves instruments of song. What it means is that a spiritual song
in the hand of the unspiritual is not acceptable to God; (4) Alcohol: from
sacrificial bowls they drink wine (Amos 6:6); (5) Anoint themselves: "with
the finest of oils" again very expensive exquisite tastes for fashion and
lifestyle (Amos 6:6). Although the area of Joseph was ruined, they did not pay
attention to it. At the coming exile in future, they were to go into exile at
the head of the exiles (Amos 6:7). They have more problems: "you have
turned justice into poison" (Amos 6:12); the fruit of righteousness into
wormwood (Amos 6:12); they rejoice in lodabar which is the silencing of the
pastor or preacher or prophet (Amos 6:13); they take pride in their own
achievements "have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim".
Therefore the Lord is going to rise up a nation, maybe from Aramean territory
from Hamath (Amos 6:14).
Micah
1:4 Mountains melt under Him. Jerusalem is not spared “evil descended from the
Lord to the gate of Jerusalem” (Micah 1:12).