Amos 7 – Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line

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🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Amos 7

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0:00.0	The Bible Study podcast episode 756.
0:04.0	Today, the Bible study podcast continues the study of the book of Amos with chapter 7.
0:17.2	Welcome to the Bible study podcast. I'm your host Chris Christensen.
0:20.9	We continue on.
0:22.1	We're starting to wind up the book of Amos.
0:24.0	There are three chapters left counting today.
0:27.0	Today's chapter is about locusts, fire, and a plum line.
0:33.7	Chapter 7.
0:34.8	This is what the sovereign Lord showed me.
0:36.7	He was preparing swarms of locusts after the
0:40.0	king's share had been harvested, and just as the late crops were coming up, when they had stripped
0:45.7	the land clean, I cried out, sovereign Lord, forgive, how can Jacob survive? He is so small. So the
0:52.9	Lord relented. This will not happen, the Lord said. This is what the
0:57.2	sovereign Lord showed me. The sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire. It dried up the great
1:03.2	deep and devoured the land. Then I cried out, sovereign Lord, I beg you stop. How can Jacob survive? He is so
1:10.5	small. So the Lord relented. This will not happen either,
1:14.8	the sovereign Lord said. This is what he showed me. The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built
1:20.1	true to plum, with a plum line in his hand. And the Lord asked me, what do you see, Amos? A plum line, I replied.
1:29.4	Then the Lord said, look, I'm setting a plum line among my people Israel.
1:33.9	I will spare them no longer.
1:36.0	The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined.
1:40.8	With my sword, I will rise against the house of Jeroboam. So God is kind of mad,
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