Prophets, Caring for the Poor, and All Your Clothes: the Major Messages of Amos (week of Nov. 14, third to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Kerry and Lamar discuss the several times Amos teaches about prophets and why they are important and what we should do about them. They discuss the false prophets we all have in our lives without even realizing that we are accepting false prophets. They explore what it really means to be a prophet. They also look at what Amos teaches about the obligation to take care of those who are in need. They analyze how often we are the oppressors of the poor that prophets talk about, even though we think we are not. They try to bring this message home for each of us, and hope that it will help us all to do better at keeping covenant the way God has asked us to.
We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, for Alexia Muhlestein who edited this episode, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Scriptures Are Real. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm your host, Lamar, and this is Carrie, my co-host. |
| 0:14.7 | Hi. |
| 0:15.5 | And regular host, other times. |
| 0:18.1 | So, hey, we've got a streak going on here. |
| 0:20.3 | We've done Jose, Joel, and now we're doing Amos together. |
| 0:24.4 | Yeah. Yeah. It's just good, fun stuff. |
| 0:27.0 | Very good. So we've been listening to some comments and some people talking to us. And one of the things that was requested is people said, hey, at the front of the show, give us a little breakdown of what you're going to go over so we know what to expect. So let's do that now. How about that? And here in Amos, we're going to talk about there's lots of different things we're going to hit. But what we plan to hit today, and we'll see what the conversation takes us. But let's talk today about the background of Amos, where he comes from, why he's an important |
| 0:54.1 | profit, why he makes it into this canon. |
| 0:57.1 | What does it mean to have a profit in apostasy? |
| 0:59.5 | We'll talk about that specifically in Amos three and also in eight. |
| 1:04.5 | Why do we have profits? |
| 1:05.9 | And there are more than one profit in this time period. |
| 1:09.4 | So we're going to hit that. |
| 1:10.7 | And then again at the end, throughout this, not just the end, |
| 1:14.0 | but it does happen in the end of the chapters in chapter eight. |
| 1:17.8 | Amos particularly makes a theme about taking care of the four. |
| 1:20.9 | And particularly, he castigates Israel there for not taking care of the foreign need. |
| 1:28.4 | Would you agree with that? |
| 1:33.4 | Yeah, absolutely. So let's hit those. Those will be our highlights. Who knows where else it takes us? But I am going to make a prediction that as we talk about what he says about not taking care of the poor, |
| 1:40.0 | that that will be some of the least popular things I will have ever said, because we'll talk about things that I think each of us will say, |
| 1:47.4 | oh, dang, that might be me. |
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