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- The coming downfall and the utter collapse of the northern kingdom are two major themes in the Book of Amos. The basis for these predictions is not the rise in power of the Assyrian empire, with its threat of invasion from the north, but rather the immorality expressed in the political, economic, and religious life of Amos' contemporaries.
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May 9, 2024 · Brief Summary: Amos can see that beneath Israel’s external prosperity and power, internally the nation is corrupt to the core. The sins for which Amos chastens the people are extensive: neglect of God’s Word, idolatry, pagan worship, greed, corrupted leadership, and oppression of the poor.
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Feb 14, 2017 · Amos 4:6-13 tells us how, in an effort to bring Israel to her senses, God sent a series of calamities, including famine, drought, blight, pestilence, disease, and violence. Nevertheless, Israel wouldn't turn back to God.
Mar 20, 2024 · The Book of Amos encourages believers to seek justice, pursue righteousness, and offer genuine worship. It calls us to examine our lives and align ourselves with God’s heart for social justice and compassion for the downtrodden.
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- Oracles Against the Nations. Amos begins by delivering God’s judgment on the surrounding nations of Israel, including Damascus, Gaza, and Edom.
- Judgment on Judah and Israel. Continuing from the first chapter, Amos pronounces judgment on Moab and then moves closer to home by addressing Judah and Israel.
- Israel’s Punishment Declared. Amos addresses Israel directly, stating that their special relationship with God makes them more accountable. He employs rhetorical questions and illustrations to emphasize the gravity of their sins.
- Israel’s Sins and Impending Judgment. This chapter chronicles God’s past attempts to bring Israel to repentance through various calamities. However, in spite of famine, drought, and plagues, Israel has not returned to God.
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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...
Through Amos’ words, we can still hear the call to learn from Israel’s hypocrisy and the disastrous consequences of their sins. It’s a call to embrace the true worship of God that should always lead to justice, righteousness, and loving our neighbor. That’s what the book of Amos is all about.
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The Book of Amos confronts religious hypocrisy and superficial piety. Amos admonishes those who engage in ritualistic practices without genuine devotion, stating, “I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me” (Amos 5:21, NIV).
