Exploring the Meaning of Amos 3
Nga Helen Kennedy
A church cannot serve two masters. It cannot peacefully coexist with truths and falsities. To want to live with both and to seek a compromise will cause the church to be laid to waste. The church will perish, and the goods and truths of the Word will be taken away from it.
Arcana Coelestia #7101
7101. 'And sacrifice to Jehovah our God' means in order that they may worship the Lord, see 6905, where also similar words occur.