The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
(Amos 1:1) KJV
Amos prophesied the coming judgment of God two years before an earthquake. How did he know that it was coming? Amos was a herdsman and probably spent his nights outside. Did Amos see something in the heavens?
What did Amos see that caused him to begin his ministry? Amos prophesied in the days of Uzziah as did the prophet Isaiah. It appears that Isaiah begins his ministry standing in the ruins of the earthquake.
What we’re doing here in Matty’s Paradigm is to show how the Bible accounts for all physical evidence and empirical observations. We have covered Newton and gravity, Kepler and the planets, Darwin and the fossil record, and Velikovsky and plate tectonics.
Popular science (SciPop) is desperate to get you to believe that an extra-terrestrial impact at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary wiped out the dinosaurs. The problem is, there wasn’t a Cretaceous, Tertiary or a boundary, the event that wiped out most of the dinosaurs was Noah’s flood. However, we still have the evidence of a meteorite impact to account for.
Could this have been what Amos saw? If Amos saw a star approaching the earth on a collision course, then of course it was the judgment of God. He went to Jerusalem to warn the people. He preached that if they repented, God’s anger would pass and he would remove the danger. No one listened. Amos came away from Jerusalem feeling that the people deserved whatever they got. However, this does give us a reason for why King Uzziah would run into the temple of the Lord to burn incense.
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