Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

I grew up in the hill country. I grew up in the mountains, and so I'm partial to them.

Let me just say that.

And if I had to choose one of the Old Testament prophets and say, I can identify with him,

I think it would be the prophet Amos.

We've come in our journey through Scripture to this interesting little book called Amos.

Who was Amos?

Well, Amos was from a place called Tocoa.

That was wild country.

It was the wilderness of Judea.

The same wilderness where David watched his flocks 300 years previous.

And that's interesting, but in this wild country, this man named Amos was not a preacher.

He was not trained in the school of the prophets. He was just a regular, ordinary fella. In fact, the Bible says that he was a herdsman.

This is a man who was a farmer or a rancher, if you will. It was a man that was keeping flocks and

herds. I imagine him as a man's man, a tough mountain-type man,

maybe a little rough around the edges. Isn't it wonderful that God uses all different kinds of people?

From so many different places, he will use anybody that will yield to him and obey him.

Well, Amos was such a man. He was a native of Judah, but he prophesies in Israel,

so he becomes a foreign missionary, essentially. His name means burden, and he was burdened. And what was

his burden? It's interesting, but so many of these prophets, they're literally preaching right on the

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