Amos 7:7-8

Jesus is the plumb line…the only (straight) path to the Father. Where heaven meets earth, there in the cross hairs, where the vertical meets the horizontal, there is Jesus the Christ..all God all man. In His birth, death and resurrection we find the merciful salvation of the Trinity.

A plumb line is a string with a weight tied to one end, used to establish a vertical line so that a wall can be built straight.

The plumb line of God’s revelation in the law had been set in the midst of … Israel for many generations. Now God would stretch a plumb line to demonstrate how “crooked” the people’s observance of His commands had been.

Amos 7:7-8

⁷ Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand. ⁸ And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”

And I said, “A plumb line.”

Then the Lord said:

“Behold, I am setting a plumb line

In the midst of My people Israel;

I will not pass by them anymore.

¹⁷ Also I will make justice the measuring line, And righteousness the plummet; The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters will overflow the hiding place. 

Isaiah 28:17

¹⁸ Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy. 

Micah 7:18