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🗓️ 11 July 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:13.2 | Today we drop in on a sheep herding fig farmer named Amos, who happens to be a minor |
0:18.5 | profit in a spare time. |
0:20.2 | And one of my favorites at that. |
0:22.3 | Not only do I like wool and figs, but Amos is also a brilliant writer. |
0:27.6 | The timeline hasn't really moved ahead for us in a few days. |
0:30.7 | We're just reading things from various people written in the same era. |
0:34.9 | So a lot of what Amos says is doubling down on what we read from Isaiah yesterday. |
0:39.4 | Lately, the people of Israel have been doing really well financially and they think it's |
0:43.8 | a sign of God's blessing. |
0:45.6 | They keep offering up meaningless sacrifices to him because they think it keeps them in |
0:49.5 | good standing with him. |
0:51.0 | And they anticipate the day when he will rain down judgment on their enemies. |
0:55.1 | However, God is about to flip everything they think on its head as per Amos. |
1:01.8 | The book opens with eight separate statements from God. |
1:04.8 | Here's how those break down. |
1:06.3 | The first seven statements are against the nations surrounding the Northern Kingdom of |
1:10.3 | Israel. |
1:11.7 | Of those seven, the first six speaks specifically to the nations that don't know Yahweh as their |
1:17.1 | God. |
1:18.1 | Despite not being in relationship with Yahweh, they're still held to his baseline moral |
1:22.8 | standard. |
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