What did Amos mean in the bible when he said: Amos 9:2?

Question

He said: If they dig down into the ground he would bring them up. Did they have large mineing caves in those days?
or when he said: If they go up into the heavens there I will bring them down.
No one could go up into the heavens in those days?
Amos 9:3 If they conceal themselves on the bottom of the sea? Before this time could they even go down to the floor of the sea and if they did how could they have survived before submarines?
9:6 He who is building in the heavens with his stairs and his structure over the earth that he founded. he who is calling for the waters of the sea, that he may pour them out upon the surface of the earth. Tidal waves ?
Was he talking about a means of climbing into the heavens by the stairs? Isn't there something about a Jacob's ladder?
Reaching into heaven??

Answer 1

No, this was knock-knock joke

knock knock
Hello, who's there
Amos
Amos who
amos quito bit me.

Answer 2

That was a surprise to me to. No one at this time had air planes or submarines or even these deep mining caves.
So how did he know that in the future they could go into the heavens or on the floor of the sea.
The stairs to me are indicating that their is a way into heaven but not with a flesh and blood body. With a spirit body.
Maybe to keep from being frightened going into heaven is like climbing stairs?
they read Nostradamus or some spiritist and the bible has just as many mysteries.

Answer 3

Amos 9:2-5 is meant to show that Jehovah's judgments are inescapable and that nothing is beyond his reach or power. Some, may seek to conceal themselves from Jehovah by means of digging into the ground and making underground bunkers similar to those popular during the cold war or like Xyleishas son, they may try to escape into outer space. One reference gives Genesis 11:4, where persons tried to build a tower into the heavens. Verse 6 shows that Jehovah is the Creator of the heavens and the sea, so it is foolish of men to think that can hide from him there.

Answer 4

I was wondering about that too. I want to show it to my youngest son (13 yo) because he always says he wants to build a spaceship and go to the moon during Armaggedon lol. I always tell him, Jehovah can find him no mater where he is.
I briefly looked it up in the Insight Book... under Heaven it says in part:

"Thus, in the physical sense, the term “heavens” covers a wide range. While it may refer to the farthest reaches of universal space, it may also refer to something that is simply high, or lofty, to a degree beyond the ordinary. Thus, those aboard storm-tossed ships are said to “go up to the heavens, . . . down to the bottoms.” (Ps 107:26) So, too, the builders of the Tower of Babel intended to put up a structure with its “top in the heavens,” a “skyscraper,” as it were. (Ge 11:4; compare Jer 51:53.) And the prophecy at Amos 9:2 speaks of men as ‘going up to the heavens’ in a vain effort to elude Jehovah’s judgments, evidently meaning that they would try to find escape in the high mountainous regions."

I don't really think it applies much to this weeks Bible reading though. Perhaps it was prophetic of our time?

Answer 5

“Get Ready to Meet Your God”

15 Since immorality and other sins were rampant in Israel, it was with good reason that the prophet Amos warned the rebellious nation: “Get ready to meet your God.” (Amos 4:12) Unfaithful Israel could not escape the approaching execution of divine judgment because for the eighth time, Jehovah declared: “I shall not turn it back.” (Amos 2:6) Regarding wicked ones who might try to hide, God said: “No one fleeing of them will make good his flight, and no one escaping of them will make his getaway. If they dig down into Sheol, from there my own hand will take them; and if they go up to the heavens, from there I shall bring them down.”—Amos 9:1, 2.

16 The wicked could not evade the execution of Jehovah’s judgment upon them by digging “down into Sheol,” figuratively denoting attempts to hide in the lowest parts of the earth. Neither could they escape divine judgment by going “up to the heavens,” that is, trying to find refuge on high mountains. Jehovah’s warning was clear: There is no hiding place beyond his reach. Divine justice required that the kingdom of Israel be called to account for its wicked deeds. And that time did come. In 740 B.C.E.—about 60 years after Amos recorded his prophecy—the kingdom of Israel fell to the conquering Assyrians.

Answer 6

That is no fair! I asked you that question and you put it on here saying you had to go to the meeting tonight. See what the others had to say. So you got someone else to look it up for you. Or for me?
Thanks! you are so funny. talk to you later.

Answer 7

he means you can't hide from God