📖 The Book of Amos
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Social justice and the coming judgment on a complacent Israel.
Who wrote Amos?
Shepherd from Tekoa, prophesied against the northern kingdom.
Why Amos was written
Amos, a shepherd from Judah, confronts the northern kingdom's prosperity-drunk complacency, crushing of the poor, and religious formalism, announcing that God's justice will not be indefinitely delayed.
Outline of Amos
- 11–2: Judgment oracles against the nations — and then against Israel
- 23–6: Three sermons — hear, seek, woe
- 37–9: Five visions of judgment; the restoration promise
Key verses
How Amos points to Christ
The fallen booth of David restored (Amos 9:11-12) is quoted in Acts 15:16-18 as fulfilled in Christ and the inclusion of Gentiles in the people of God. Justice flowing like a river is the character of Christ's kingdom.
How Amos begins
1The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
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