EXAMINATION CONSIDERATIONS 1. Summarize in one paragraph, the philosophy of history as taught by the Old Testament prophets. 2. Describe in detail, the circumstances of the times in which Amos took God's message to Israel. 3. What is generally accepted as the theme of the book of Amos? ASSOC... [ Continue Reading ]
DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDTHOROUGH AND INESCAPABLE TEXT: Amos 9:1-6 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the Sword: there shal... [ Continue Reading ]
DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDDISRUPTION AND DISPERSION TEXT: Amos 9:7-10 7 Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? 8 Behold... [ Continue Reading ]
RESULTS OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDDAVID'S THRONE AND DOMINION RESTORED TEXT: Amos 9:11-12 11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old; 12 that they may possess the... [ Continue Reading ]
RESULTS OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDFRUITFULNESS AND PROSPERITY RESTORED TEXT: Amos 9:13-14 13 Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. 14 And... [ Continue Reading ]
RESULTS OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDSECURITY-PEACE-PROTECTION RESTORED TEXT: Amos 9:15 15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, saith Jehovah thy God. QUERIES a. When did God plant them upon their land? b. Were the Je... [ Continue Reading ]