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"In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,

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The Reconstruction of the Tabernacle of David	J.R. Thomson	Amos 9:11
The Restoration of the True Moral Theocracy	Homilist	Amos 9:11
The Tabernacle of David Ruined by Man		Amos 9:11
The Restoration of the True Moral Theocracy	D. Thomas	Amos 9:11-15

Pulpit Commentary Homiletics

The Reconstruction Of The Tabernacle Of David

Amos 9:11

J.R. Thomson

The reference is probably not to that tabernacle which was replaced and superseded by the temple of Solomon, but to the house of David. The booth or hut may well serve as an emblem of the depressed state of the Jewish monarchy and people, not simply as they were in the time of Amos, but as the prophet foretold that they should be in days about to come. The language is very expressive, and depicts a restoration very complete. Breaches shall be closed, ruins shall be repaired, the structure shall be rebuilt. The fortunes of the people of David must indeed he dark for a season, but a brighter day shall surely dawn.

I. THE MOST GLORIOUS FULFILMENT OF THIS PROPHECY WAS IN THE ADVENT OF THE DIVINE SON OF DAVID. Jesus was recognized by the people as the descendant and successor of their national hero. They shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" He himself made the claim, only that he asserted that he was not only David's Son, but also David's Lord. Like David, he was "after God's heart;" like David, he sang praises unto God in the midst of the Church; like David, he overcame the enemies of Jehovah and of his people; like David, he reigned over the nation of Israel But unlike David, he was Divine in his nature and faultless in his character; unlike David, he was rather a spiritual than a worldly Conqueror; unlike David, he was King, not over one people, but over all mankind. In Christ the true Israel has found more than the Israel "according to the flesh" lost in David's removal.

II. THE MAIN PROOF OF THIS FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY IS TO BE FOUND IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MESSIAH'S SPIRITUAL KINGDOM. Time has given an interpretation to this language which was impossible beforehand. How truly the house of David has been more than rebuilt, the kingdom of David more than re-established, is apparent to every observer of what has occurred in the Christian centuries. The kingdom of the Redeemer is:

1. Spiritual. In which respect it is more admirable and more glorious than that of David, which was founded upon the sword, and whose sway was over, not the heart, but the outward life.

2. Universal. For whilst David reigned over a strip of Syrian territory, Christ's empire is vast, and is widening year by year. "The kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ."

3. Everlasting. The few brief glorious years of David's reign were prophetic of that sway which shall endure forever. Of Christ's kingdom "there shall be no end." - T.

Biblical Illustrator

In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen.

Amos 9:11

The tabernacle of David ruined by man

: —Things to take notice of.

1. The designation that the prophet Amos, by God's commission, gives unto the kingdom of Israel. A "sinful kingdom" (ver. 8).

2. An advertisement that the prophet Amos gives unto this sinful kingdom. He says, "The eyes of the Lord are upon it."

3. God's purpose and resolution with reference to the sinful kingdom. "I will destroy it from off the face of the earth."

4. The limitation of the awful sentence. "Saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob."

5. An account of God's management with respect to that remnant. "Yet shall not the least grain fall to the earth."

6. We are told what will become of the chaff. "Shall die by the sword." Now follows another scene: a scene of mercy is opened up in verse 11. Notice —(1) The designation that God gives unto His Church, particularly the New Testament Church. "The tabernacle of David."(2) The present case of the tabernacle of David; it is fallen; there are breaches made in it; it is in a ruinous condition.(3) We have a promise of rebuilding David's tabernacle. "I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old."(4) The time or season when this is to be done. "In that day." Observation. "That God many times ushers in a glorious work of reformation by very cloudy, dark, and dismal dispensations of providence." This is God's ordinary way of working, both towards particular persons and particular Churches. Illustrate by God's planting a Church for Himself in the land of Canaan. The return of the children of Israel from Babylonish captivity. The times of Constantine. The revival of the Church upon the downfall of Antichrist. Why is it that God goes to work in this way?

1. That He may be avenged on the persecutors and enemies of His Church and people.

2. That He may remove the abounding offences in the visible Church, and roll away the impediments that hinder her reformation.

3. And there is something godlike, greatlike, and majestic in this manner of procedure. There is something admirable in this way of working in respect of God Himself; in respect of religion itself. In respect of the people of God, and the effect that this way of working has upon them. Doctrine. That God has His own time and way of rebuilding or reforming His Church, when she is brought to a very low and ruinous condition.

I. WHY THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IS REPRESENTED UNDER THE NAME AND NOTION OF THE "TABERNACLE OF DAVID." There is evident allusion to the tabernacle which, by God's special command unto Moses, was reared in the wilderness.

1. The tabernacle was God's lodging and habitation in the camp of Israel, a symbol of God's gracious presence among them.

2. The Divine oracles, the law and the testimony, were preserved and kept in the tabernacle, and from thence they were given out for the use of Israel. So to the Church pertain the oracles of God; His revealed mind and will in the Scriptures of truth is committed to her trust.

3. The tabernacle was the place of worship. So the Church of Christ is the place where He will be worshipped and sanctified of all that are about Him.

4. The pattern of the tabernacle was given by God unto Moses in the mount. So the model of the Church, with a perfect system of laws, by which she is to be governed, is given of God in the mount of revelation.

5. No man was to intrude himself into the service of the tabernacle. So, in the New Testament Church, no man is to intrude himself into the sacred offices of the Church, without he is qualified and called of God unto that work.

6. The greatest and most sacred thing in the tabernacle was the ark and mercy-seat. And it is the great business of ministers of the Gospel, now under the New Testament, to disclose or open the ark of the covenant of grace, to preach Christ.

7. The ark was a portable or movable kind of tent. In like manner the Church of God, while in this world, is not fixed to any particular nation.

II. WHEN MAY THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID BE SAID TO BE FALLEN, BROKEN, AND RUINOUS?

1. When the God of the tabernacle is departed.

2. When the oracles of God are not carefully kept and purely dispensed.

3. When the God of the tabernacle is not worshipped according to His appointment.

4. When it is not kept according to the pattern in the mount.

5. When men are entered upon tabernacle service, without being called, qualified, and sanctified for such service.

III. HOW IS IT THAT GOD RAISES UP HIS TABERNACLE WHEN IT IS FALLEN?

1. In a time of defection He raises up witnesses to bear testimony against the corruptions and mismanagements of men about His tabernacle.

2. The Lord puts it in the hearts of His people and ministers to take pleasure in the stones and rubbish of His fallen tabernacle, and to mourn and lament over their own sins and the tokens of the Lord's anger that have gone out against them.

3. The Lord polishes and prepares some for tabernacle work and service, as He did Bezaleel and Aholiab.

4. His tabernacle is raised up by a plentiful downpouring of the Spirit.

5. Sometimes He inspires great men, kings, and nobles, to espouse the cause of His fallen tabernacle.

6. Sometimes He rears up His fallen tabernacle in the very blood and sufferings of His witnesses.

IV. OFFER SOME THOUGHTS ANENT THE TIME OR DAY OF THE LORD'S BUILDING UP THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID.

1. It is a time which God hath kept in His own power, and therefore we should beware of diving with too much curiosity into it.

2. When men think the time at hand, and their expectations are big, things frequently take another turn, and defeat all their hopes for that season.

3. God's time of building up His tabernacle is commonly when things axe brought to the last extremity.

4. God's time is a day of vengeance and vexation unto the wicked and ungodly world.

5. Yet is it a day of joy and gladness to all Zion's friends and well-wishers.In order to the successful building of the broken and fallen tabernacle of David.

1. It is necessary that every one of us prepare a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob in our hearts.

2. That we be well acquainted with the pattern showed in the mount, particularly of the New Testament revelation.

3. That, like Elijah, we be "very zealous for the Lord God of hosts."

4. We need to count the cost; to reckon what tabernacle work may cost.

5. Sympathise with and help all ministers or Christians who are endeavouring honestly, in their spheres, to build up the tabernacle of God.

(E. Erksine.)

The restoration of the true moral theocracy

Homilist.

The old Hebrew world was for ages governed by a theocracy. God was their King. He had under Him, and by His appointment, human rulers and other functionaries; but they were simply His instruments and He was their King. That form of government has passed away, but it was symbolical. It was the emblem of a higher theocracy. Of which we note —

I. IT ROSE FROM THE HUMBLEST CONDITION. "In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen." Its founder was a poor Jewish peasant. Its first apostles, who were they? In its origin, indeed, its symbols are the little stone, the grain of mustard seed, and the few particles of leaven.

II. HEATHENS ARE SUBJECT TO ITS AUTHORITY. "That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by My name, saith the Lord that doeth this." The old theocracy was confined to the Jews; this one, this moral theocracy, is to extend to the heathen. Even Edom — the old and inveterate foe of the theocratic people, who may be regarded as the representative of the whole heathen world — is to be subjected to it. It shall " inherit the Gentiles." It is to have the heathen for its inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for its possession.

III. ABUNDANT MATERIAL PROVISIONS WILL ATTEND IT. "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt." "The metaphorical language here employed is at once in the highest degree bold and pleasing. The Hebrews were accustomed to construct terraces on the sides of the mountains and other elevations, on which they planted vines. Of this fact the prophet avails himself, and represents the immense abundance of the produce to be such that the eminences themselves would appear to be converted into the juice of the grape." Just as this moral theocracy extends, pauperism will vanish. With the kingdom of God and His righteousness all necessary material good comes. Godliness is profitable unto all things.

IV. LOST PRIVILEGES ARE RESTORED AS IT ADVANCES. Three blessings, which man has lost through depravity, are here indicated.

1. Freedom. "I will bring again the captivity," or rather, I will reverse the captivity, give them liberty. Man in a state of depravity is a slave, a slave to lust, worldliness. etc. etc. This moral theocracy ensures freedom to all its subjects. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

2. Prosperity. "Shall build the desolate cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof." One of the sad evils connected with man's fallen depravity is, that he does not reap the reward of his labours. He builds cities and plants vineyards and makes gardens for others. Through the reign of social injustice he is prevented from enjoying the produce of his honest labours. Under this theocracy it will not be so. What a man produces he will hold and enjoy as his own.

3. Settledness. "I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God." Unregenerate man has ever been restless, homeless, unsettled. He stands not on a rock, but rather on planks floating on surging waters; he is never at rest. All the subjects of the true theocracy are established. "God is their refuge and strength." Let us have faith in this predicted future of the world.

(Homilist.)

People

Amos, Aram, Assyrians, Cushites, David, Ethiopians, Jacob, Syrians

Places

Caphtor, Carmel, Edom, Egypt, Kir, Nile River

Topics

Booth, Breaches, Broken, Build, Building, Built, Close, Damaged, David, David's, Fallen, Past, Places, Raise, Rebuild, Repair, Repaired, Restore, Ruins, Tabernacle, Tent, Thereof, Wall, Walls

Outline

1. The certainty of the desolation.
11. The restoring of the tabernacle of David.

Dictionary of Bible Themes

Amos 9:11

     1351   covenant, with David
     5366   king
     5370   kingship, human
     9145   Messianic age

Amos 9:11-12

     4209   land, spiritual aspects
     5508   ruins
     7511   Gentiles, in OT
     7610   Council of Jerusalem
     8160   seeking God

Amos 9:11-15

7233 Israel, northern kingdom

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A Revival Sermon
But, my dear friends, while this promise will doubtless be carried out, and every word of it shall be verified, so that the hill-tops of that country shall again bear the vine, and the land shall flow with wine, yet, I take it, this is more fully a spiritual than a temporal promise; and I think that the beginning of its fulfilment is now to be discerned, and we shall see the Lord's good hand upon us, so that is ploughman shall overtake the reaper, the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all he hills …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 6: 1860

The Prophecy of Obadiah.
We need not enter into details regarding the question as to the time when the prophet wrote. By a thorough argumentation, Caspari has proved, that he occupies his right position in the Canon, and hence belongs to the earliest age of written prophecy, i.e., to the time of Jeroboam II. and Uzziah. As bearing conclusively against those who would assign to him a far later date, viz., the time of the exile, there is not only the indirect testimony borne by the place which this prophecy occupies in …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

Letter ix. Meditation.
"Meditate upon these things."--1 TIM. 4:15. MY DEAR SISTER: The subject of this letter is intimately connected with that of the last; and in proportion to your faithfulness in the duty now under consideration, will be your interest in the word and worship of God. Religious meditation is a serious, devout and practical thinking of divine things; a duty enjoined in Scripture, both by precept and example; and concerning which, let us observe, 1. Its importance. That God has required it, ought to …
Harvey Newcomb—A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females

The Twelve Minor Prophets.
1. By the Jewish arrangement, which places together the twelve minor prophets in a single volume, the chronological order of the prophets as a whole is broken up. The three greater prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, stand in the true order of time. Daniel began to prophesy before Ezekiel, but continued, many years after him. The Jewish arrangement of the twelve minor prophets is in a sense chronological; that is, they put the earlier prophets at the beginning, and the later at the end of the …
E. P. Barrows—Companion to the Bible

Interpretation of Prophecy.
1. The scriptural idea of prophecy is widely removed from that of human foresight and presentiment. It is that of a revelation made by the Holy Spirit respecting the future, always in the interest of God's kingdom. It is no part of the plan of prophecy to gratify vain curiosity respecting "the times or the seasons which the Father hath put in his own power." Acts 1:7. "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God"--this is its key-note. In its form it is carefully adapted to this great end. …
E. P. Barrows—Companion to the Bible

The Prophet Amos.
GENERAL PRELIMINARY REMARKS. It will not be necessary to extend our preliminary remarks on the prophet Amos, since on the main point--viz., the circumstances under which he appeared as a prophet--the introduction to the prophecies of Hosea may be regarded as having been written for those of Amos also. For, according to the inscription, they belong to the same period at which Hosea's prophetic ministry began, viz., the latter part of the reign of Jeroboam II., and after Uzziah had ascended the …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

The Gospel Feast
"When Jesus then lifted up His eyes, and saw a great company come unto Him, He saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat?"--John vi. 5. After these words the Evangelist adds, "And this He said to prove him, for He Himself knew what He would do." Thus, you see, our Lord had secret meanings when He spoke, and did not bring forth openly all His divine sense at once. He knew what He was about to do from the first, but He wished to lead forward His disciples, and to arrest and …
John Henry Newman—Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII

Redemption for Man Lost to be Sought in Christ.
1. The knowledge of God the Creator of no avail without faith in Christ the Redeemer. First reason. Second reason strengthened by the testimony of an Apostle. Conclusion. This doctrine entertained by the children of God in all ages from the beginning of the world. Error of throwing open heaven to the heathen, who know nothing of Christ. The pretexts for this refuted by passages of Scripture. 2. God never was propitious to the ancient Israelites without Christ the Mediator. First reason founded on …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion

The Power of God
The next attribute is God's power. Job 9:19. If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong.' In this chapter is a magnificent description of God's power. Lo, he is strong.' The Hebrew word for strong signifies a conquering, prevailing strength. He is strong.' The superlative degree is intended here; viz., He is most strong. He is called El-shaddai, God almighty. Gen 17:7. His almightiness lies in this, that he can do whatever is feasible. Divines distinguish between authority and power. God has both. …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

The Doctrine of the Last Things.
A. THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. B. THE RESURRECTION. C. THE JUDGMENT. D. THE DESTINY OF THE WICKED. E. THE REWARD OF THE RIGHTEOUS. THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAST THINGS. Under this caption are treated such doctrines as the Second Coming of Christ, the Resurrection of both the righteous and wicked, the Judgments, Final Awards, and Eternal Destiny. A. THE SECOND COMING OF CHEIST. I. ITS IMPORTANCE. 1. PROMINENCE IN THE SCRIPTURES. 2. THE CHRISTIAN HOPE. 3. THE CHRISTIAN INCENTIVE. 4. THE CHRISTIAN COMFORT. …
Rev. William Evans—The Great Doctrines of the Bible

Baptism
Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them,' &c. Matt 28: 19. I. The way whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemptions, is, in the use of the sacraments. What are the sacraments in general? They are visible signs of invisible grace. Is not the word of God sufficient to salvation? What need then is there of sacraments? We must not be wise above what is written. It is God's will that his church …
Thomas Watson—The Ten Commandments

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