Amos 9:13-15
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman 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.”
King James Version
The messianic age's superabundant harvest where sowing and reaping overlap, the fullness of covenant blessing.
Fulfillment References
Acts 15:16-17 Isaiah 65:21-22 Revelation 22:2
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) PentecostalThe promised days of overflowing fruitfulness — 'the plowman shall overtake the reaper' — and the planting of Israel 'no more to be pulled up' belong to the restoration God brings. This follows the raising of 'the tabernacle of David that is fallen' (9:11), which James cites of the Lord Jesus gathering Jews and Gentiles (Acts 15:16-17). The Restorer of Israel and of Eden's abundance (Rev. 22:2) is the one God in Christ.
JewishA climactic promise of agricultural abundance and the permanent replanting of Israel in her land after exile — the reversal of judgment into blessing.
CatholicThe restoration and abundance of the kingdom, read with the raising of David's tabernacle (Acts 15) fulfilled in Christ and the Church.
ProtestantThe future restoration and prosperity of Israel; dispensationalists read a literal national replanting, others a fulfillment in the Messianic kingdom and the new creation.
AcademicThe hopeful epilogue to Amos (some judge it a later addition); the imagery of supernatural fertility and secure replanting reverses the book's judgment oracles.
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