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Apr 29, 2022 · The list is carefully constructed so that the judgment net slowly and inexorably closes around the very people to whom Amos was speaking.” 6 One of our purposes is personal application—making sure we determine how we fall short of what God wants and expects from his people (our sins), so we can return home through confession and repentance from where we have drifted (1 John 1:8-10).
And every judgment that falls upon an ungodly people or kingdom, as the ages roll away, is a harbinger of the approach of the final judgment. Amos 8:10. When the judgment shall burst upon Israel, then will all the joyous feasts give way to mourning and lamentation (compare Amos 8:3 and Amos 5:16; Hosea 2:13).
COMMENT: I. Judgment on surrounding nations, Chapters 1:1 — 2:3. A. Introduction, Chapter 1:1, 2. v. 1 — Amos does not identify himself as a prophet, but as a herdsman (see Amos 7:14). v. 2 — “The LORD will roar from Zion” (also Joel 3:16) suggests the roar of a lion as it pounces upon its prey. This speaks of the near judgment of God ...
Amos 5:18-20 meaning. Amos again announces judgment on the unrepentant Israel. The people of God will experience the day of the LORD and it will be a day of darkness, not of light; a day of judgment, not of rejoicing. Having predicted widespread lamentation and pain in Israel (vv. 16-17), the prophet proceeded by crying, Alas.
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.
1. (Amos 7:1-3) The vision of locusts. Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, He formed locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings. And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said: “O Lord GOD, forgive, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!”.
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Apr 11, 2022 · Accordingly, Amos saw any assignment that came from God as the highest of callings, not because of what it entailed, but because of who it came from. It was not a calling Amos could easily ignore ...
