All right, my Bible in 365 brothers and sisters.

We are at the most amazing prophetic book of Amos.

And I have to say this, he is regarded as one of the minor prophets, but there is nothing minor about his work.

By the way, just so that you know, when we use the term minor prophets, what we're actually talking about is we're talking about the length of their writings.

It has nothing else to do with anything else.

It doesn't mean it's a lesser of a prophecy.

It just simply means it's a smaller body of work, but oftentimes those are the ones that pack

the greatest punches. Speaking of which, I'm only going to spend time focusing on one specific

passage in the book of Amos, and that is chapter 9. But before I do, there are facts about this book that you need to know

and facts about the prophet Amos that you need to know. And that actually starts with the fact that

he was not a professional prophet. Amos specifically says that he was not a profit by professional. That's a very important distinction

for us to be able to make here. He wasn't trained in a prophetic school. He was actually a

herdsman and a gatherer, also referred to as a dresser of a sycamore fruit. So God took an ordinary working man and sent him with an

absolutely extraordinary message. And that is critical that we understand that because of how

this applies to us with how God works. Look, Amos didn't choose

prophecy as a profession. God interrupted his profession and literally made him a prophet, and that

is remarkable. Now, the other thing we should know is that Amos came from Judah, but he was

actually sent to Israel, meaning he came from the southern kingdom of Judah,

but God sent him to speak to the northern kingdom of Israel.

Now, he was from Takaoa, which is a small town south of Jerusalem in the southern kingdom of Judah,

yet God sent him north to confront the very prosperous northern kingdom.

It wasn't prosperous for long, but it was at the time that he went to go confront them.

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