Latter-day Saint interactions with Amos 9:11-12 (cf. Acts 15:16-17) are rare. I have discussed the meaning of “tabernacle” of David and how it refers to a sacred structure, refuting Robert Bowman’s (frankly stupid) argument against the Book of Mormon’s use of the phrase, “Temple of Solomon.” See Listing of Articles relating to Amos 9, "Tabernacle/Temple/Booth of David," and the "Temple of Solomon" Issue
This is the only example from a search of the New
Mormon Studies CD-ROM of LDS interactions with this text from the 19th
century. It comes from W. W. Phelps:
The prophet Amos
says in the 9th chapter of his prophecy, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15th verses:
"In that day will I raise up the tabernacle 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; That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all
the heathen which are called by my name, saith the Lord that doeth this.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the ploughman shall overtake the
reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall
drop sweet wine, and the hills shall melt. And I will bring again the captivity
of my people Israel and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them;
and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also
make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land,
and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them,
saith the Lord thy God."
The above
quotations with a great many others which might be brought, set forth that
order of society which will exist when the Savior reigns, that day, or the
thousand years. We have a most splendid description of it given in the Psalms,
beginning with the one hundred and forty fourth, to the end of the book; but we
deem it unnecessary to quote any more, as the candid reader will be enabled,
when the subject is laid before him so plain as is done in the above
quotations, to see and understand for himself, so as to deliver his mind from
darkness on this point, when reading the prophecies. Who cannot easily
discover, that the order of things set forth in the above quotations, from the
prophets, has never yet been on the earth, neither indeed can be, until the
Lord comes? For it is at that time that Jerusalem is to be built and never to
be thrown down, and it is at that time that the earth is to bring forth in her
strength, and when the mountains are to drop down new wine, and all nature to
rejoice before the Lord; for he comes to judge the earth in righteousness. It
is also at that time, that the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the
treader of grapes him that soweth seed. And it is at that time, that the
tabernacle of David shall be built, and Israel become the praise and glory of
the whole earth. (W. W.
Phelps, “Millennium
No. XIII,” The Latter-day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate 1, no. 6 [March
1835]: 86)
