Vision of the Summer Fruit
a“The end has come upon My people Israel;
bI will not pass by them anymore.
Shall be wailing in that day,”
Says the Lord God—
“Many dead bodies everywhere,
bThey shall be thrown out in silence.”
And make the poor of the land fail,
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However, in Scripture, summer can also be a season of evaluation and judgment. As the year moves from spring to summer, symbolically, we move from the time of new growth and into the time of ripening fruit in anticipation of the harvest. But the harvest God is most interested in is what His people are producing in their lives. In years gone by, His evaluation of summer fruit has brought devastating national judgment.
In Amos 8:1-2, God gives Amos a vision of a basket of summer fruit. Then God tells Amos what the summer fruit means. He says, “The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.” It indicates the fruit of the nation had ripened, and when God examined it, He found that all of it was rotten. He could no longer overlook its corruption.
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