Amos 8 - Not a Hunger for Food, but for the Word of God

Amos is shown a vision of a basket of figs, the end of summer fruit. This is a vision of the days at the end of times God says, when I will no longer look past the sins of the people. Oppression of the poor, taking advantage of the underprivileged, this will not be tolerated or overlooked. The very land itself cannot tolerate the lack of justice. The days will come when the land will be overcome with a terrible hunger and thirst, but not for food or water, but thirst for the truth of God. People will wander and search for truth but they won't find it in their wanderings. God is right there inside our hearts, we need not exhaust ourselves searching to the ends of the Earth to find Him.