56. 28. (He who turneth the dawn into the shadow of death and day into night (Amos 5:8).)

(And it shall come to pass in that day that I will cause the sun to set at noon, and I will darken the earth in the day of light (Amos 8:9).)

Behold the days will come in which I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for waters, but for hearing the words of Jehovah (Amos 8:11). In that day they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah and shall not find it. In that day shall the beautiful virgins and the young men faint for thirst (verses 12-13).

In that day will I raise up the tent of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof, and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old; behold the days come that the mountains shall distil must, and all the hills shall melt; they shall build the devastated cities, then will I plant them upon their land nor shall they be pulled up any more out of their land (Amos 9:11-15).

In Genesis 21:23, this signifies affirmation.

The Lord swearing by himself signifies that divine truth testifies, for He is divine truth itself, and this testifies from itself and means itself. It says 'Jehovah swears' because the children of Israel had a representative church, and so the Lord's conjunction with the church was represented in a covenant similar to two people swearing their trust. This is why swearing was used to seal a covenant or deal. When 'Jehovah swears' it does not mean that He really did swear, but that divine truth testifies or bears testimony to the things asserted.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 474)