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Prosperous, prideful, passive – these words describe the rich people of Samaria. They partied and drank, and sang and ate, and lounged about, enjoying their wealth and their precious foods and ointments. Not caring that their wealth was gained through
National destruction was now imminent. There was no doubt Israel was going to fall. They would be carried into captivity (v.27) and most of their warriors would fall (v.3). As a result, God tells Amos to sin a funeral song
It’s amazing how stubborn people can be. Sometimes, no amount of reason or truth will change our minds. This was the situation in Amos 4. The chapter is initially addressed to the wealthy, pampered women of Israel, who had grown
On March 5th, the first person in the UK died of the coronavirus. Since then, 2,352 have died from the virus, an average of 294 people per day. This is indeed a shocking number, but it is only a small
One of the great sins of the world is oppression, when those who have power use their power to mistreat others, and when those who have resources seek to gain more from the poor and the weak. Oppression is the
Out of the fields came a man named Amos, a farmer and a shepherd. God gave him a message that “The Lord will roar from Zion” causing fields and mountains to mourn. His message begins by looking at the transgressions
Five times, “the day of the LORD” is mentioned in Joel (1:5; 2:1; 2:11; 2:31; 3:14). This “day” is talking about a period of time in which the LORD is intervening in the affairs of men and nations in very
How would you complete the following, “I wish that I had…”? These are words of regret. And all of us have things in our past that we wish we could change. Israel certainly did. As a result of their sin,
Israel had just experienced an unprecedented calamity – total destruction of all crops and green things by locusts (v.4). No one had ever seen or heard of anything as devastating (v.2-3). The instruction of this chapter is for the people
After many chapters of rebuke, Hosea 14 is one of hope. God offers to Israel a chance to be saved and to be healed. God desired to “heal their backsliding” and offered to “love them freely” for ‘[His] anger is
