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A. Judgment brings ruin. 1. (Amos 9:1-4) God’s judgment is inescapable. And break them on the heads of them all. I will slay the last of them with the sword. And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered. And it shall slay them. I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”. a.
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But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Amos 5:24(ESV) “Gross injustice demonstrates a basic premise: in our world something is terribly wrong and cries out to be made right,” explains Fleming Rutledge in her masterpiece The Crucifixion.1We all know this in our hearts, but often we don’t concern ourselv...
Amos was from Judah (the southern kingdom) and yet preached in the northern kingdom of Israel during the days of the divided kingdom, about 750 B.C. or so. Approximately thirty years later in 722 B.C., the northern kingdom fell to the Assyrians and its people were taken captive. James Montgomery Boice says this: “The Book of Amos is one of the most...
Amos’s message concerning Israel’s judgment (northern kingdom) continues with more details in the oracles in Amos 3:1-6:14. Note that Amos’s primary literary form is satire. (Read the section in the Appendix “Elements of Prophetic Literature.”) His message has been called a “covenant enforcement document” in which God lays out the nature of the Jew...
*** Rather than oracles, the final section of Amos documents visions he received from God. Read the entire passage from Amos 7:1-9:15.
I grew up in the Jim Crow South where state laws institutionalized racism toward Blacks. As a child, it seemed to just be the way the world worked. But as I grew I wondered. I wondered when my mother drove home the African-American woman who ironed our many cotton dresses in the back seat of our car when white adults always rode in the front. My he...
A. The logic of God’s judgment. 1. (Amos 3:1-2) God’s love and care for Israel makes their judgment unavoidable. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”. a. Against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt: Israel’s rejection and disregard of God was all the more inexcusable in light of God’s great ...
Amo 9:1-10. We have here the justice of God passing sentence upon a provoking people; and observe, I. With what solemnity the sentence is passed. The prophet saw in vision the Lord standing upon the altar (v. 1), the altar of burnt-offerings; for the Lord has a sacrifice, and multitudes must fall as victims to his justice.
Verses 3-8. Israel’s inevitable judgment by Yahweh 3:3-8. Amos asked seven rhetorical questions in Amos 3:3-6 to help the Israelites appreciate the inevitability of their judgment. In each one the prophet pointed out that a certain cause inevitably produces a certain effect. The five questions in Amos 3:3-5 expect a negative answer, and the ...
A Vision of Ripe Fruit (Amos 8:1–3) The fourth vision (Amos 8:1–3) concerns a basket of ripe fruit. The word for ripe fruit is qaµyis. c In a famous inscription known as the Gezer calendar, we find the word qs; there it is clear that it is the name of the last month of the ancient Israelite year: August/September.
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Jun 18, 2004 · A. Author and Date (1:1) Amos was a sheepherder from the southern kingdom of Judah. Amos 7:15 shows us that he received a direct call from God to go prophesy to the northern kingdom of Israel. So Amos goes to Bethel, which was functioning as the capitol of Israel. The king, Jeroboam II, lived there.
