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Ultimately, the Book of Amos issues a call for repentance and transformation. Amos urges his audience to turn away from wrongdoing and embrace righteousness, proclaiming, “Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is” (Amos 5:14, NIV). This call to repentance echoes through the ...
Mar 20, 2024 · Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil” (Amos 5:12-13). The people of the northern kingdom were guilty of injustice. Supported by corrupt judges, the rich were suing the poor, who couldn’t pay their bills, and forcing them into servitude and slavery.
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May 9, 2024 · Date of Writing: The Book of Amos was likely written between 760 and 753 B.C. Purpose of Writing: Amos is a shepherd and a fruit picker from the Judean village of Tekoa when God calls him, even though he lacks an education or a priestly background. Amos' mission is directed to his neighbor to the north, Israel.
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The prophet Amos lived among a group of shepherds in Tekoa, a small town approximately ten miles south of Jerusalem. Amos made clear in his writings that he did not come from a family of prophets, nor did he even consider himself one. Rather, he was “a grower of sycamore figs” as well as a shepherd (Amos 7:14–15). Amos’s connection to the simple li...
Amos prophesied “two years before the earthquake” (Amos 1:1; see also Zechariah 14:5), just before the halfway point of the eighth century BC, during the reigns of Uzziah, king of Judah, and Jeroboam, king of Israel. Their reigns overlapped for fifteen years, from 767 BC to 753 BC. Though he came from the southern kingdom of Judah, Amos delivered h...
Amos was fed up. While most of the prophets interspersed redemption and restoration in their prophecies against Israel and Judah, Amos devoted only the final five verses of his prophecy for such consolation. Prior to that, God’s word through Amos was directed against theprivileged people of Israel, a people who had no love for their neighbor, who t...
With the people of Israel in the north enjoying an almost unparalleled time of success, God decided to call a quiet shepherd and farmer to travel from his home in the less sinful south and carry a message of judgment to the Israelites. The people in the north used Amos’s status as a foreigner as an excuse to ignore his message of judgment for a mul...
Injustice permeates our world, yet as Christians we often turn a blind eye to the suffering of others for “more important” work like praying, preaching, and teaching. But the book of Amos reminds us that those works, while unquestionably central to a believer’s life, ring hollow when we don’t love and serve others in our own lives. Do you find your...
Guide to the Book of. Amos. One important aspect of the ancient TaNaK order of the Hebrew Bible is that the 12 prophetic works of Hosea through Malachi, sometimes referred to as the Minor Prophets, were designed as a single book called The Twelve. Amos is the third book of The Twelve. Amos was a shepherd and fig tree farmer (Amos 7:14 ) who ...
Aug 21, 2023 · Amos depicts the inescapability of God’s judgment, as He will find and punish the guilty no matter where they hide. However, the chapter concludes with a note of hope. God promises to restore the house of David and the fortunes of Israel. The land will be fertile, the exiles will return, and the nation will be rebuilt, never to be uprooted again.
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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 where the king, Jeroboam II, lived. Bethel had special significance in Israel’s history.
