“Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they have threshed GILEAD with implements of iron.” ‭— ‭Amos‬ ‭1:3‬.

The LORD also says, “Is there no balm in GILEAD? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?” (Jeremiah 8:22). What is the wound of My people? It is the wound that God Himself inflicted on His people. “The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the Lord binds up the bruises of His people and heals the wounds HE INFLICTED.” (Isaiah 30:26). Which is the wound that the Father sent the Son to heal.

For Jesus said, “My food is to do the will of My Father AND to finish the work that He started.” (John 4:34). What is the work His Father started? It is the wound He inflicted. And when did God wound His people? When He cast them out of heaven. And how did He wound them? By taking from them both their light (glory) and their life (immortal bodies). Which is why those who follow Jesus as He did, will have “the light of life” (John 8:12). Which is when the bruise (darkness) of the perishable light of His people will be bound up in an imperishable light (glory). And the stroke of the wound of mortality shall be healed with a body of immortal life.

Being when the light of the moon (lamp) shines like the light of the sun (Isaiah 30:26). Which is when rather than just reflecting the light, like the moon does as it has no light of its own (representing fallen man), then just like the sun, the moon will then have a light of its own. For what is a sun but a star on the high hill of the night sky that can never be hidden. And are we not all called to be stars? After the morning star? (Revelation 2:26-27). Being a light in the night sky of the world that cannot be hidden? For the light shone in the darkness, and the darkness could not overcome it. Which will be “in the day that the LORD binds up the bruise (darkness) of His people. And heals the stroke of their wound (mortality).” (Isaiah 30:26).

So Jesus Himself is the balm of Gilead. For is Gilead not an area east of the Jordan? And was Jesus not born in an area east of the Jordan called Bethlehem? The healing balm of Gilead is made up of myrrh. Myrrh is what the three wise men brought to the new born Jesus to prophetically announce the death of Jesus. The body of Jesus was embalmed with myrrh. The death of Jesus is also what healed the wound of God’s people. The gold is the restored glory lost by the wound that has now been healed through the balm of Gilead. The frankincense is the sweet smelling aroma that will then fill the nostrils of the Father from the presence of all His sons, now full of glory, who shall once more be with Him where He is, just as Jesus is.

And as for the three transgressions, being the “three transgressions of Damascus, and for four,” that God will not turn away its punishment because they have threshed GILEAD with implements of iron‬, this refers to the threshing of His Son with implements of iron. The three transgressions of Damascus, no four, of the “threshing of Gilead with implements of iron” are firstly the three nails, being three implements of iron that nailed the healing balm of Gilead to the cross. And the fourth implement is the spear of iron that pierced His side.

And for those who threshed His Son with these implements of iron, being those who God “will not turn away its punishment”, in like manner, God the Father will thresh in turn. "See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.” (Isaiah 41:15). Being the mountains of pride, and the hills of self-seeking, that deigned to thresh His Son without cause, who will be crushed and reduced to chaff. Being all those who, even today, likewise profane and trample the blood of Jesus, out of the ignorance of arrogance, and the folly of pride (Hebrews 10:29).

Just as Judas did not go unpunished. “Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for silver, And the poor for a pair of sandals.”— ‭‭Amos‬ ‭2:6‬. Judas sold the righteous (Jesus) for 30 pieces of silver; and they who participated in His threshing, took lots for His clothing.