Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs. But the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ Now therefore hear the word of the LORD.“YouContinue reading “Amos 7: 14-17…..There is more!”
Category Archives: Judgement
Amos 7: 1-9…..Does God really change His mind?
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings. When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,“O Lord GOD, please forgive! How can Jacob stand? He isContinue reading “Amos 7: 1-9…..Does God really change His mind?”
John 3: 16-21….Well known – but well understood??
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is notContinue reading “John 3: 16-21….Well known – but well understood??”
Amos 6: 8-14…..Listen very carefully!
The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, declares the LORD, the God of hosts:“I abhor the pride of Jacoband hate his strongholds,and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”And if ten men remain in one house, they shall die. And when one’s relative, the one who anoints him for burial,Continue reading “Amos 6: 8-14…..Listen very carefully!”
Amos 6: 1-7…..You think that you have it all!
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria,the notable men of the first of the nations,to whom the house of Israel comes!Pass over to Calneh, and see,and from there go to Hamath the great;then go down to Gath of the Philistines.Are you better thanContinue reading “Amos 6: 1-7…..You think that you have it all!”
Amos 5: 16-24…..Deliver us, O Lord!
Therefore the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, says this:“There shall be wailing in all streets,And they shall say in all the highways,‘Alas! Alas!’They shall call the farmer to mourning,And skillful lamenters to wailing.In all vineyards there shall be wailing,For I will pass through you,”Says the LORD.Woe to you who desire the day of theContinue reading “Amos 5: 16-24…..Deliver us, O Lord!”
Amos 5: 10-15….Please speak nicely, gently – God is so Good!
They hate the one who rebukes in the gate,And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.Therefore, because you tread down the poorAnd take grain taxes from him,Though you have built houses of hewn stone,Yet you shall not dwell in them;You have planted pleasant vineyards,But you shall not drink wine from them.For I know your manifoldContinue reading “Amos 5: 10-15….Please speak nicely, gently – God is so Good!”
Amos 5: 4-9……Don’t try evasive techniques!
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!”
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!”