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Welcome to 6640, the ministry outreach of Koinania House and Koinnea Institute.

Today's Bible teacher is Chuck Misler, connecting the Bible to your life and the world around you.

In today's study, Chuck begins his teaching on the book of Amos, chapter 1 through chapter 2, verse 5.

Music 2, verse 5. Well, we're going to undertake an exploration and review of the book of Amos tonight.

Very, very provocative book in its day and also our own for

some surprising reasons. But whenever we enter the Word of God, we always want to do it with

the assistance of the Holy Spirit. So let's bow our hearts for a word of prayer. Father, we thank you for who you are.

We thank you that you've gone to such lengths to inform us about what you're doing, what you

would have of us in return. We thank you for your word, which became incarnate and dwelt

among us. And we thank you for the Holy Spirit,

Father, that we petition to be with us this evening as we commit this evening and ourselves

into your hands in the name of Yeshua, our coming king indeed. Amen.

The Book of Amos, and this is just the first chapter in the introduction,

and just to get a background here, if we look at you, as you all know,

when Solomon finally died, there was a civil war,

and the nation of Israel split into two houses. The southern kingdom called itself Judah.

The northern kingdom called itself Israel.

We'll try to avoid using the word Israel because that will confuse you with the term

for the total nation also.

It's used two different ways, connotatively and denotatively. But the top half of the

diagram there is in First Kings. To make the diagram a little more useful, I'll cut that off

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