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May 24, 2024 · Explore the prophetic message of Amos, who passionately advocated for social justice and righteousness in ancient Israel. His words continue to resonate toda...
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Jun 19, 2024 · Book Of Amos: Understanding The Prophet's Message | Bible Reading | God's Message To Israel ☦️Join us in this comprehensive Bible study of the Book of Amos, ...
Apr 30, 2024 · It was not a popular message in Israel, as Amos boldly pointed out sin and God’s righteous judgment. Many sentences in the book of Amos begin with something similar to this: “This is what the Lord says: ‘For three sins of Israel, even for four, I will not relent’” (Amos 2:6). Although a simple shepherd and fruit picker, Amos ...
Discover the resonant story of the prophet Amos and his tireless fight for social justice in a time of great inequality and corruption in Israel. Through a d...
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- 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 did not make his living this way. Instead, he provided for himself in his work as a herdsman. Amos was also not the “son of a prophet” (Amos 7:14). He was not referring to the fact that his father was not a prophet. He was referring instead to what we might call the “schools” of the prophets where they would be trained to do the work.
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Israel was trying to ignore it, and they kept talking about peace. But Amos said, “Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth” (Amos 9:8). His message was not a popular message. He warned that it was God’s intention to punish sin. (McGee, J. Vernon.