Locusts :When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!” So the Lord relented. “This will not happen,” the Lord said.
Fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land. Then I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!” So the Lord relented. “This will not happen,” the Lord said.
A plumb line: Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer. “The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.”
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. Don’t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king’s sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.”
Amos answered Amaziah, “I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
“Therefore this is what the Lord says: ...
Five visions of doom are described in these passages. After each of the first two, the locusts and the fire, Amos begs God to forgive his people, and God relents. But the second two allow no such opportunity.
Judgment is necessary and certain. The last vision gives a terrifying picture of total destruction.
God's prophet and 'official religion' meet head-on in the confrontation between Amos and Amaziah. The prophet has God's authority for his message and will not be silenced. Amaziah will die in exile. The invading army will abuse his wife, kill his children, and seize his land.
Why?
Amos loves his people so asked Lord Jacob is small, and the Lord relented them.
Amos said the true word for the Lord, but the king of Israel doesn't like it asked him to go back to Judah, so more sever words come from the Lord. The destination is worse to priest of Bethel, Amaziah
Who can stand on when God's judgment comes upon us?
Amos is a shepherd, but God chose him to preached the warning message to God's people.
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三個異象，三件事情。阿摩司為民代求。菜割下來上繳糧後，應該會再長，但是蝗蟲來就使百姓無糧可吃。第二次是火，深淵是指地下泉源。變成焦土，連青草也不會長。阿摩司看見以色列民的軟弱，向神求，以色列人沒有看見。準繩，鉛錘，用來量測牆是否正直。此即顯出以色列人的罪。這次不再向神祈求，因為他明白神的旨意。如同亞伯拉罕向神求到10人就沒有再求了。
亞瑪謝也不是耶和華的祭司。他以為阿摩司所說的是為了有薪水，為了生活。亞瑪謝服事以自己有益處為原則。阿摩司不是為了這個先知服事，為了神的心意放下自己穩定的工作、生活。
我們今天是為誰辛苦為誰忙? 如果說為了教會，應該說為了神，如果為教會，是否為了建立大教會，建立功名在人間?
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How?
Honor the name of the Lord, do what God's command instead of human's word. This is the mission to Amos. So it is the same mission to us.
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