Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about Amos.

Have you ever got to a place where you look at the insanity of the world and you're like,

you know what?

There's a time in life when I wanted to go fight about all of this, but now I'm tired

and the fighting doesn't seem to accomplish much, and I think I would rather just go

farm somewhere.

So I'm going to go buy farm and I'm going to bring some people I love.

Maybe I'll just have a family there and it'll be beautiful and we'll listen to classical

music and we will not participate in the insanity.

If you've ever felt that impulse, then I think you're going to be able to relate to the

prophet Amos really well, because I think this guy just wanted to be left alone.

He was a dude from the southern kingdom in the mid 700's BC.

The southern kingdom of course is Judah, and he was alive during the reign of a king

named Uzziah, who was, you know, good enough, I suppose.

And this isn't exactly a crazy hectic time in the history of the southern kingdom.

It's fine.

But on the other hand, up in the northern kingdom of Israel during the lifetime of Amos, you

got a guy named Jeroboam the second and he's maybe their rock star king.

This is perhaps the zenith of the northern kingdom of Israel's economic achievements, architectural

achievements.

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