AMOS
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Updated 01/2024
CHAPTER 1
- Amos prophesied during the
days of King Uzziah king of Judah,
and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel..
- Amos was a prophet for Israel but mainly prophesied against all
the nations around Israel.
(Damascus (Syria)
for coming against Gilead (2 Kings 16:9), the Philistines, Tyre, Edom,
and Ammon).
CHAPTER 2
- Amos prophesied against Judah and Israel last.
- Israel
and Judah
committed sin upon sin upon sin. Judah despised the law. Israel
mistreated the righteous, took advantage of the poor, misled the humble,
and committed sexual immorality.
CHAPTER 3
- God always reveals His
secrets to His servants the prophets (to warn His people of coming
judgment unless they may repent of their sinful ways and He could relent
of their punishment).
CHAPTER 4
- The people were
"worshiping, sacrificing, and praising God". They did these
things but their heart was not honest.
- God sent famine, drought,
blight, pestilence, and sword hoping the people would turn back to Him.
CHAPTER 5
- Bethel,
Gilgal, and Beersheba were places where the people
worshiped. (However, they not only imitated the law but also violated it.)
Bethel and
Gilgal will go into captivity and come to
nothing
- God would come to judge the
people and harm them rather than to have mercy on them. They would not
escape the calamity coming upon them.
- Israel was holding their feast
days, sacred assemblies, offerings, singing songs, and playing music to
the Lord but let justice and righteousness sour.
CHAPTER 6
- The leaders told the people
there was no day of doom. They were recklessly at ease, not fearing God's
judgment.
- The leaders were
self-indulgent. They ate well, had comfortable places to lie, and they relaxed with stringed instruments.
- The leaders shall be punished
and taken captive first.
- What should have been good
and just turned to evil and unjustness.
CHAPTER 7
- Amos prayed to God to relent
of the destruction by locusts and the destruction by fire on the land.
- God drew a line between He and Israel.
He would not be there to help them.
- Amaziah told Amos to go to Judah
and prophesy there. Do not prophesy against Israel.
- Amaziah's
wife would become a harlot in the city, his sons and daughters would die
by the sword, his land would be divided, and he would die in a defiled
land.
CHAPTER 8
- Israel was impatient during
the New Moon and Sabbaths. They wanted the days of the Lord over so they
could buy, sell, and trade deceitfully and take advantage of the poor and
needy.
- God would send a famine of
hearing the words of the Lord.
- Israel
worshiped the two golden calves that Jeroboam had made and placed at Bethel and Dan ( 1Ki 12:28-29).
CHAPTER 9
- God will destroy the house of
Israel
from the earth, but He will sift the remnant and save the good and bring
them back from captivity