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Mar 25, 2010 · Amos 3:6 says, “When disaster [ra] comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?” A description of natural disasters follows in Amos 4:6–12, where God says he brought hunger, drought, blight, mildew, locusts, pestilence, and the death of men and horses, “yet you have not returned to me” (verse 11).
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May 24, 2018 · An existing answer provides some bare essentials for a traditional understanding of "Amos's earthquake", that is, the earthquake that came two years after Amos's preaching and therefore (it is often argued) in some way confirmed his ministry.
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The book opens with a claim that Amos prophesied during the overlapping reigns of King Uzziah of Judah and King Jeroboam II of Israel: This would have been in the 760sB.C.E. This was a high point of Israel’s power, but Amos predicts that Israel will be destroyed because of their ethical failings. This takes place years later when the kingdom of Isr...
What then of the prophet Amos, the historical individual? Some of the book’s portions could go back to a historical prophet Amos. Nevertheless, the late date of many of the passages surveyed above suggests the book as a whole is not the work of a “prophet,” i.e., a mantic diviner who functioned as such, but is a literary construct. Our knowledge of...
The book of Amos is not “prophecy” per se, but rather is a “literary-predictive text”—a text written as prophecy to explain a historical development in terms of divine will. The book is thus both an indictment and an autopsy of fallen Israel, part of the general biblical understanding of Israel’s catastrophes as being due to the Israelites’ own rel...
Affirming that the eagerly expected "Day of Jehovah" will be darkness and disaster on disaster inevitable (Amos 5:18-20), it again emphasizes Jehovah’s desire for righteousness rather than worship (Amos 5:21-26), and closes with the threat of captivity beyond Damascus. "Jehovah God of Hosts is His Name," as at the close of 3.
Apr 23, 2018 · In Amos 4:11 . I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD. It seems that Amos is describing here a natural disaster that befell the inhabitants of the northern kingdom of the magnitude of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Amos: Israel as an Unjust Hypocrite. While Hosea examines Israel’s failure to uphold the worship and ritual reverence for God, Amos focuses on the moral decay and social injustice that represents the other half of the covenant-failure coin.
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Jun 22, 2004 · 1. The LORD God showed Amos a vision of coming judgment through fire which would destroy the sources of water (or all) and the farm land (or the people) of Israel 7:4. 2. Amos pleaded for the LORD God to relent and He changed His mind deciding that this too would not come to pass upon Israel 7:5-6
