Amos 9:15 I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,” says the Lord your God. Thought for the day – The challenge of prophecy One of the challenges of reading scripture some two and a half thousand years after it's been written is history. And by that I mean the fact that so much has happened between when the prophecy was uttered and us reading it today. So an example of it is our verse today. Amos says that God would plant the people of Israel on their land and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that God has given them. And yet we know that the Northern Kingdom was completely destroyed and that even the tribes of Judah and Benjamin were sent into exile. Though Benjamin and Judah did come back to Jerusalem, even then however, Jerusalem was completely destroyed and the Jews completely dispersed in 70 AD, when the Romans sacked Jerusalem. So, the questio...