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Jun 7, 2020 · A Study of Amos: The Faithful Love of God. June 7, 2020 in Article, Bible, Theology by Mandy Turner. In the summer 2020 message series “For the Love,” the Clear Creek Community Church Teaching Team will examine one of the least known sections of the Bible, the books known as the Minor Prophets, to better understand the great love of God and ...
- Mandy Turner
Mar 25, 2010 · That curse extends to everything in the natural world and makes it harder for people to live productively. Paul says that “the creation was subjected to frustration” by God’s curse, until that day when “the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay” (Romans 8:20–21). The next verse says, “The whole creation has ...
Amos, like Hosea, accuses Israel of idolatry, but the main burden of his accusation is about the results of social injustice connected to their idolatry. The book begins with a lion’s roar that withers fertile pastures (Amos 1:2). Yahweh was coming from Zion to judge the nations for their rebellion against the Creator of the earth.
- Whitney Woollard
- Retrospective History
- The Historical Prophet
- Amos as A “Literary-Predictive Text”
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...
Oct 21, 2013 · ” (Amos 7:2; cf. 7:4). He did not want the prophecies to be true. But eventually he could no longer protest. Once God introduced “a plumb line” into the vision (Amos 7:7-8) – a clear, fixed standard – Amos understood why God was right to punish the people that the prophet first hoped would be spared. Fourth, Amos’ message was unwelcome.
Amos 9:10. ESV All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, ‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’. NIV All the sinners among my people will die by the sword, all those who say, ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’. NASB All the sinners of My people will die by the sword, Those who say, ‘The catastrophe will ...
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Sep 10, 2021 · A contemporary of Jonah and Jeroboam II was the prophet Amos (the book bearing his name begins by telling us that he lived “in the days of King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel” Amos 1:1). Interestingly, Amos prophesied quite specifically that “Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land” (Amos 7:11).
