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Amos chapter 7 verses and 13

and Amaziah said to Amos,

O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah and eat bread there and

prophesy there, but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the King's Sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.

So basically what this is in the book of Amos is a threat against Amos, an accusation against him in light of what he was prophesying.

So here was Amos saying things that the priest Amaziah and the king and Israel did not like. And the whole picture before this is we're not able to bear your words what

you're saying so go away from this land I don't speak here and there's all kinds of well different

applications we might consider as we see this picture of the Prophet of God being rejected by the people of God.

But I, so I was reading this verse, these two verses, just thought about the brothers and

sisters we have around the world right now who are speaking the word of God and are experiencing major persecution for it.

For our brothers and sisters in North Korea and Somalia and Yemen and Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia and so many different places in the world in Iran.

The church is experiencing all kinds of persecution and threats.

And the Bible calls us, commands us,

to pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters and to go to them, to serve them, and to care

for them, to serve them as our own family.

So I want to lead us to pray specifically

for the persecuted church in a light of this picture of Amos experiencing persecution in chapter 7

verses 12 and 13 so oh God our Father in heaven, we pray right now on behalf of our brothers and

sisters, your sons and daughters, who are in labor camps in North Korea because they are followers of you, they're experiencing

unimaginable suffering and pain

because they're following you.

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