An Eclipse Prophesied
9 “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord , “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight. 10 I will turn your religious festivals into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day. 11 “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord , “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord . 12 People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the Lord , but they will not find it. (Amos 8:9) Thoughts: Amos prophesied between 840-800 BC and the eclipse he foretold came about 763 BC. The eclipse was prophesied as a wake up sign. It was a sign that people don't need more parties, but need and hunger for real mea...