Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Today we finished our 19th book of the Bible.

Congratulations!

Alright, let's wrap up the back half of Amos.

He starts by calling out the leaders of the land who relax into lives of luxury and

pay no mind to the needy and poor and who fail to notice that they've gotten so far off

track in their relationship with God.

He promises destruction for all the ways they forsaken God.

In chapter 7, God shows Amos three different images and they all foretell destruction.

Twice Amos pleads with God to relent and He does.

Remember how the Prophet Jonah didn't want the people of Nineveh to repent and God pointed

out how ridiculous that was?

Amos is the opposite of Jonah.

He begs God to stay his hand.

But when the third vision appears, Amos starts to get the point that this is inevitable,

a necessary part of God's process to turn his people's hearts back to himself.

The first vision was of locust eating a field and devouring all the farmer had to live

on after he'd paid the king with the first portion of growth.

The second was of a fire devouring everything.

And while both of those visions involved land, the third vision is a construction image.

Amos sees a plum line, which is a tool used to make sure a wall is straight.

It's like a level but vertical instead of horizontal.

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