I will cover the earth with darkness in clear day.

by Alejandro Roque Glez.

“And it shall come to pass in that day, said the Lord Yahweh, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.”

(Amos 8:9-12)

The prophet Amos pursued his prophetic ministry approximately over the years 780-740 BC, while in northern reigned Jeroboam II, and king Uzziah in the south. The prophet lived in the Kingdom of Judah, and he was a heavy load for the ears of his fellow citizens as well as the ones in the north, telling them to better amend their ways before God or risk being reprimanded due to so many iniquities, corruption and injustices, while believed themselves safe because of their material prosperity; and even later as a sign––once Uzziah, the king in the south is struck with leprosy for his temerity in violating God’s Temple––Israel is the victim of an earthquake (1:1). The prophet also foretells the punishment that would come upon the neighbors around Israel, and this is where he rises up into history and also announces the End Times.

When the prophet Amos declares by the Holy Spirit: “I will darken the earth in the clear day,” he was looking forward up to 800 years ahead of his time––about 30 AD, considering the inaccurate calendar––at the time when the Lord Jesus Christ, after being crucified, would give his spirit.

Id did happen at the time of the crucifixion, when “from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land to the ninth hour” (Mt 27:45-46) in broad daylight, while Jesus exclaimed: “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” while agonized in suffering with the heavy burden of human’s sin (Jn 1:29), and nailed to the Roman log. It was darkness over all the earth since 12.00 noon until 3:00 pm, when the sun was on its zenith (Lk 23:44-45).

The prophet does not stop in this vision for such a time and he foretells to the Jewish people that: “behold, the days come, said the Lord Yahweh, 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; 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 Yahweh, and shall not find it” (v.11-12). The beginning of the fulfillment of this prophecy occurred in 70 AD.

In that year the city could not continue to resist the Roman siege and was invaded, killing thousands of Jews and the Temple destroyed. For another 1878 years––exactly as prophesied by Amos and finally happened in history––begins the Diaspora of Jews around the world wandering from sea to sea and trying to seek words from Yahweh (v.12).

That lost people and nation is as well an equal representation of the world around them, not interested in rushing to seek the Word of God; to open their souls, eyes and senses, through faith; and that is why the prophet Isaiah also declared: “Seek you the Lord Yahweh while he may be found, call you on him while he is near” (Is 55:6), making us reconsider and realize that one day the door of Salvation would be closed, once the weddings of the Lamb of God begin.

And these weddings (Rev 19:7-9) will occur at the End in the end of our time––a very near event––which the prophet Amos also mentions (like the rest of God’s prophets) when he alerts: “Woe to you that desire the day of Yahweh! To what end is it for you? The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light” (5:18-20).

All prophets have foretold us about such a day, along with the Millenarian Kingdom that is followed, and of which we have written in the interpretation to the Book of Revelation. Read also our book entitled: 'The King Victorino.' The blessing under that Kingdom will be extraordinary, and the earth will bear fruit without much effort, compared to the sweat off our faces release now in order to merit it; but “behold, the days come, said Yahweh, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt” (9:13).

The prophet Amos warns us that this would not happen until the people of Israel as a whole––according to the divine count––would be back in their nation, when he says: “And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel” (9:14). As aforementioned, the process began in 1948 when the state of Israel was founded once ended the Second World War, and continues to this day, culminating after the end of the now close Third World War. Read the literary novel entitled: 'The Great Peacemaker from Hell.'

[This and other Old Testament prophecies are explicatively compiled in the author's book entitled: 'Minor Prophets of the Old Testament;' in print and digital edition] 

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