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  1. Jun 28, 2018 · The movie focuses on his difficulties with his complete loss of his vision at age 12 and his struggles to become a singer, and then an opera singer, and his first marriage. He demonstrated his singing ability early in his youth, but his family wanted him to be a lawyer. He did obtain his law degree and was a court appointed attorney. During ...

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  2. For example, from a short passage from the book of the eighth-century B.C. prophet Amos, we can learn: something about the problems of translation and why scholars sometimes emend (that is, change) the text; how a knowledge of everyday life in Bible times and of earlier pre-Israelite cultures help illuminate the text; something about the nature of the prophetic calling; and finally, a little ...

  3. Feb 7, 2011 · In the fulfillment of Amos’ prophecy, when the Northern Kingdom was destroyed in 722 B.C., what God threatened to do against Israel, God did not do. Amos indeed saw the coming of the Day of the Lord, a day when God would bring his judgment against his own people, but even in wrath, God’s mercy prevailed because the annihilating judgment ...

  4. Amos is the thirtieth book of the Old Testament. In the book of Amos, whose name is related to a verb meaning “to bear a load,” was burdened over the sin of the Northern Kingdom in the eighth century B.C. Hosea was crushed with a sense of the unfaithfulness of Israel to the love of God, and Amos was outraged at the violence they had done to the justice and righteousness of God.

  5. Each vision showed that the Lord intended to completely destroy the kingdom of Israel if the people did not repent. The first two visions were of destructions that were avoided because Israel repented (see Amos 7:1–6). The next three visions revealed ways Israel had not repented (see Amos 7:7–9; 8:1–3; 9:1–4). The result of these sins ...

  6. As Amos names all these neighboring nations—Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and Judah—you can look at a map and see that he’s drawing a circle with Israel in the center, like a target in the crosshairs. When he does get to Israel, Amos unleashes a poetic accusation three times longer and more intense than any of the others.

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  8. Nov 9, 2019 · Many would die of starvation. In his second vision, the fire meant devastation and death. After each vision, Amos prayed on behalf of the nation and God withheld both the locust plague and the fire. Amos was a righteous man and God answered his prayers and withheld judgment. Read James 5:16. Do you pray for God’s mercy on behalf of others?

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