For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel:“Seek Me and live;But do not seek Bethel,Nor enter Gilgal,Nor pass over to Beersheba;For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,And Bethel shall come to nothing.Seek the LORD and live,Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,And devour it,With no one to quench itContinue reading “Amos 5: 4-9……Don’t try evasive techniques!”
Category Archives: Judgement
Amos 4:13-ch5:3…..Open your eyes – and see!
For behold,He who forms mountains,And creates the wind,Who declares to man what his thought is,And makes the morning darkness,Who treads the high places of the earth—The LORD God of hosts is His name. Comment: Yesterday you were warned to Prepare to meet God. Think hard about what He can do!Hear this word which I takeContinue reading “Amos 4:13-ch5:3…..Open your eyes – and see!”
Amos 4: 6-12…..Prepare to meet your God!
I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,and lack of bread in all your places,yet you did not return to me,”declares the LORD.“I also withheld the rain from youwhen there were yet three months to the harvest;I would send rain on one city,and send no rain on another city;one field would have rain,andContinue reading “Amos 4: 6-12…..Prepare to meet your God!”
Amos 4: 1-5…..High-lighted in the ‘for three and four’.
“Hear this word, you cows of Bashan,who are on the mountain of Samaria,who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’The Lord GOD has sworn by his holinessthat, behold, the days are coming upon you,when they shall take you away with hooks,even the last of you withContinue reading “Amos 4: 1-5…..High-lighted in the ‘for three and four’.”
Amos 3: 9-15…..The leftover meal.
Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdodand to the strongholds in the land of Egypt,and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria,and see the great tumults within her,and the oppressed in her midst.”“They do not know how to do right,” declares the LORD,“those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”Therefore thus says theContinue reading “Amos 3: 9-15…..The leftover meal.”
Amos 3: 1-8….The secrets of hunting
Comment: The times are very different from Amos’ day to now, I have put in the text how things might be announced this age! Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:*** I know thatContinue reading “Amos 3: 1-8….The secrets of hunting”
Amos 2: 11-16…..Paralysing Fear.
And I raised up some of your sons for prophets,and some of your young men for Nazirites.Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?”declares the LORD.“But you made the Nazirites drink wine,and commanded the prophets,saying, You shall not prophesy.’“Behold, I will press you down in your place,as a cart full of sheaves presses down.FlightContinue reading “Amos 2: 11-16…..Paralysing Fear.”
Amos 2; 1-5….Moab and Judah.
Thus says the LORD:“For three transgressions of Moab,and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,because he burned to limethe bones of the king of Edom.So I will send a fire upon Moab,and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth,and Moab shall die amid uproar,amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;I will cut offContinue reading “Amos 2; 1-5….Moab and Judah.”
Amos 2: 6-11….The Target Struck!
Thus says the LORD:“For three transgressions of Israel,and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,because they sell the righteous for silver,and the needy for a pair of sandals—those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earthand turn aside the way of the afflicted;a man and his father go inContinue reading “Amos 2: 6-11….The Target Struck!”
Amos 1: 11-15….Around the southern tip and then the East-side of Israel.
Thus says the LORD:“For three transgressions of Edom,and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,because he pursued his brother with the swordand cast off all pity,and his anger tore perpetually,and he kept his wrath forever.So I will send a fire upon Teman,and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.”Thus says the LORD:“For three transgressionsContinue reading “Amos 1: 11-15….Around the southern tip and then the East-side of Israel.”
As I read it! 