How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

The prophet Amos announced that the end of Israel's northern kingdom had come,

but will it really be the end, or does God have a plan for them in the future?

Welcome to Through the Bible.

I'm Steve Schwetz, welcoming you aboard the Bible bus,

as we set off for another fascinating study in God's word with our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

Now, this is our final study in the book of Amos, but before we dive

into scripture, Dr. McGee recorded a few words of caution about setting dates for Jesus' return.

So let's listen. Now, I want to call your attention to this matter of setting of dates.

Several of the gospels, and we're told in the Gospel of Matthew, when they came to

him, you remember, and they began to talk to him about the fact that they wanted a sign. Well,

he answered them in verse 38 of the 12th chapter of the gospel of Matthew.

It says when certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered saying,

Master, we had see a sign from thee.

And he answered and said unto them an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign.

And there shall no sign be given to it,

but the sign of the prophet Jonah. Now hold on to that for just a moment, because that's very important.

And over in the Gospel of Matthew, when this is recorded there, Dr. Luke says in the 11th chapter at verse 29, it says,

and when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, this is an evil generation.

They seek a sign, and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

For as Jonah was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to his generation.

Now, you must remember that the Lord Jesus said Jonah not only had a message for the Nineveites,

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