Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

whole. you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with a famine

for the word as we pick up in Amos chapter 8 verse 10 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. In 763 there was a eclipse of the sun, which was about 24 years after this prophecy.

However, the total eclipse was over Africa and it would not have been a total

eclipse there in Samaria. However, we do read of one day, which was a feast day, the feast

of Passover, in which it turned dark at noon on a clear day.

It could not have been an eclipse because Passover takes place at full moon and it's impossible

to have an eclipse on a full moon.

That was the day that Jesus was crucified. You remember how it

declares that darkness cover the land from the ninth hour onward, sixth hour of his darkness over the land.

This could be a prophecy of that darkness at the time of the crucifixion of Christ, the sun to go down at

noon and darken the earth in a clear day and turn the feast into mourning, the

songs into lamentations to bring up the sackcloth and all

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