Amos 7

November 14, 2022

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Reading along with us in Amos? Here’s today’s reading:

Amos 7 (NIV)

Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line
1 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. 2 When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”
3 So the Lord relented.
“This will not happen,” the Lord said...........Continue Reading

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  1. “Do two people walk together unless they have agreed to do so? (3:3)” It seems clear that neither kingdom is interested in walking with God. So, “Why do you long for the day of the Lord? (5:18)” This is the time that God will use the “plumb line” to decide who is “straight” with Him and who is not. I am pretty sure that the answer to their problem is not to silence God’s prophet.

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  2. It is amazing and a great testament to God’s mercy that He would relent from judgement on Israel after all the wickedness that they had perpetuated. It just shows that He would prefer not to, but it is necessary to straighten them out and express the message they need to hear: God’s ways are the best ways. A plum line was used to show how straight something being built was. And so God sets His plum line out to be the reference point for the people of Israel. But rather than accept Amos’s message, the ones who should be leading Israel to God’s line, the priest and the king, are telling Amos to leave town. In response, Amos shows the unique nature of God’s revelation to him and the depth of his conviction about it by saying, “Hey I was just a shepherd, I wasn’t trained in this”. And yet how good it is to have this personal information about Amos! But because Israel has officially rejected God’s prophet, the hammer will come down on them.

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  4. Amos. A shepherd sent by God as a prophet to warn Israel to repent. And their answer is. Amos is raising a conspiracy against Israel. Same mentality throughout the ages. Even when God became flesh.

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  5. There isn’t much place to hide from a plum line in construction. You can see easily if something isn’t straight so not surprising that those who knew their evil hearts would quickly be evident by God’s standard would come against Amos’ words and want to get rid of him. The truth is hard to hear!

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  6. Amos sees what will happen by locusts and by fire and prays to God to spare Jacob and “So the Lord relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.”

    When shown the plum line the priest himself tells the king that the land cannot bear Amos’ words and sends Amos away!

    Prophets rarely have good news. Makes me suspect of those who proclaim it today….unless it is the Good News of Jesus Christ.

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