OUR FATHER WHOSE JUDGEMENT WILL SURELY FALL ON THOSE WHO DO NOT RELENT FROM EVIL

The book of Amos chapter 1 verse 3 says this;

This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent.

Because she threshed Gilead with sledges having iron teeth,

This verse is the first of the judgements the Lord issues from Jerusalem. 

This judgement is against Damascus and is declared to be irrevocable because the multiple and continuous sins they committed.

Damascus would suffer destruction by fire and war. Their defensive gate would be broken and in their vulnerability, the people would then be exiled from their land.

The final straw against them was the fact that they had brought havoc on Gilead (their neighbour) using the technology of metalurgy.

Using iron spiked weapons, they brutalized the people in Gilead (the Amplified version includes the idea that these weapons crushed and shredded the people) and it was for this practice that Damascus was made to account for all their other sins and was struck with a judgement that forced them off their land and drove them into exile.

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