Amos 9:15

Chapter 9 is quite short and to the point (link). Amos sees his god standing at an altar and telling him that his followers will be victorious against the evil cities that lie between the jews and their "promised land." God says that even if their enemies dig to hell or flee into the mountains they'll not get away, all of them are to be killed.

About this time, Amos and/or god starts to get a little carried away. God explains that he's going to touch the land of their enemies, make it "melt", and cause it to rise and drown them like the "flood" used to defeat the Egyptian army during the jewish escape from Egypt.

Amos 9:5
"And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt."

Amos 9:5 (Artist's rendering)

If that's really how things are going to go, I don't think they're going to have to worry about chasing down any fleeing survivors.

That sort of weird stuff goes on for a couple of verses and then we get to the post-war plans. First of all, verse 11 explains that the fallen temple of David will be raised again. Fair enough.

Verse 14 has the jews rebuilding and inhabiting those cities that they destroyed earlier and enjoying a nice life with plenty of gardens and vineyards. Nothing too crazy there.

On to verse 15, "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."

So after the jews escape from Egypt and fight their way to their promised land, they'll never be displaced from it again? That's what we'd expect to hear if Amos was just dictating his own hopes and wishful thinking, but not someone who actually has divine insight into the future of Israel/Palestine.

It actually wouldn't take anytime at all before this prophecy would be shown to be wrong. The book of Amos was written right around 750 BCE. Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs website shows that about 30 years later, in 722-720 BCE, Israel is "crushed by the Assyrians." As if that wasn't enough, 135 years later, what's left of Israel is conquered again by the Babylonians. As we can see today those "sinful kingdoms" of the surrounding area still haven't let up and the Jews still do not have undisputed access to the area.

So in short, this "promised land" exists today, but the Jews didn't end up possessing it forever as prophesied by Amos and, in fact, his prophesy only took about 30 years to disprove itself.

Too bad for Amos, the bible's pretty clear on what happens to false prophets.

Revelations 20:10
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

If there's such a thing as hell, Amos is in it.