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🗓️ 12 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 finished our 19th book of the Bible. |
0:16.3 | Congratulations! |
0:17.3 | Alright, let's wrap up the back half of Amos. |
0:20.4 | He starts by calling out the leaders of the land who relax into lives of luxury and |
0:25.1 | pay no mind to the needy and poor and who fail to notice that they've gotten so far |
0:29.7 | off track in their relationship with God. |
0:32.5 | He promises destruction for all the ways they forsaken God. |
0:36.6 | In chapter 7, God shows Amos three different images and they all foretell destruction. |
0:42.2 | Twice Amos pleads with God to relent and he does. |
0:46.5 | Remember how the Prophet Jonah didn't want the people of Nineveh to repent and God pointed |
0:50.4 | out how ridiculous that was? |
0:53.0 | Amos is the opposite of Jonah. |
0:55.0 | He begs God to stay his hand. |
0:57.2 | But when the third vision appears, Amos starts to get the point that this is inevitable, |
1:02.4 | a necessary part of God's process to turn his people's hearts back to himself. |
1:07.8 | The first vision was of locust eating a field and devouring all the farmer had to live |
1:12.1 | on after he'd paid the king with the first portion of growth. |
1:16.2 | The second was of a fire devouring everything. |
1:19.4 | And while both of those visions involved land, the third vision is a construction image. |
1:25.1 | Amos sees a plum line, which is a tool used to make sure a wall is straight. |
1:30.1 | It's like a level but vertical instead of horizontal. |
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