Today is the 12th day of December. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It's awesome to be here

with you today as we gather again around the global campfire. Take another step forward on this

grand adventure of the scriptures.

We're working our way through the minor prophets right now in the Old Testament, and that's how

the Old Testament ends, and so it's kind of rapid because they're minor prophets, which

doesn't make them, like, lesser.

They're not as long, and that's why they're minor. I mean, it's just, they're not as long.

And that's why they're minor.

We're in the book of Amos right now.

And today we will read chapters seven, eight, and nine.

This is what the eternal Lord showed me. He brought a swarm of locusts when the crops had begun to sprout in late spring,

after the king's portion of the hay had been cut.

When I saw the locusts devour everything green in the land that belonged to the farmers,

I spoke, oh, eternal Lord, please forgive us.

How will Jacob's descent and survive this?

The nation is so small.

The eternal relented and showed mercy.

The eternal one said, what you have seen will not be.

Then the eternal Lord showed me this.

He called for a rain of fire and it devoured the deep abyss and began to devour the land

itself.

And Amos said, O eternal Lord, please no, not this. deep abyss and began to devour the land itself.

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