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Amos 9:11-15

January 7, 2009

I’m still catching up on posting from my personal reading over the holidays. As I finished Amos I found two sections that are both extremely powerful and timely. I wrote about Amos 8:11-12 here. The second section is found in the last 5 verses of the book, Amos 9:11-15.
“In that day I will rebuild the [...]

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Amos 8:11-12

January 6, 2009

There are two very powerful sections of Amos that I read over the holidays but haven’t written about yet. This is what God says in this first one (Amos 8:11-12)
“Be certain of this, the time is coming,” says the sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land – not a shortage of [...]

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Amos 7-9

January 5, 2009

I found several things interesting in these last few chapters of Amos prophecy that I want to point out.
1) Amos uses the Hebrew Adonai YHVH (translated “sovereign LORD” in the NET) 20 times throughout, but I didn’t notice it much until these last three chapters, where 11 of them are found.
Adonai is traditionally translated “Lord” [...]

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Amos 4-5

December 29, 2008

The main concepts in Amos are like two sides of the same coin: they seem like they are facing the opposite direction, but both are necessary to make it work.
In Amos the main theme seems to be judgment. But God’s judgment on his people is always for the purpose of repentance, and both are needed. [...]

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Amos 3:1-2

December 23, 2008

Certain things in God’s Word jump out at us differently as we move through various stages of life. Reading through the prophets makes that extra clear because they were speaking timely messages from God.
Here’s a perfect example: Amos 3:1-2. Following God’s condemnation of Israel and the surrounding nations, he said:
Listen, you Israelites, to the message [...]

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