Nov 30, 2025
AMOS 5-6:
One device that
Amos used in yesterday’s reading was rhetorical questions. He asked
a whole series of them like this one:
3:4 GNT Does a lion roar in the forest unless he has found a victim?
All of his rhetorical questions expect the unspoken answer, No. And they all led up to this one:
Amo. 3:8 NLT The lion...
Nov 30, 2025
AMOS 3-4:
As I said about Amos yesterday, he was wise in his methods. He
condemned Syria, the Philistines, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, and Moab
before coming around to Judah and finally the northern kingdom,
Israel. We also heard some of the wonderful word pictures Amos
used.
ISAIAH 45:22-46.
Remember that in the last chapter...
Nov 30, 2025
AMOS 1-2:
If you are new to reading the Bible, I hope that you will remember
the events and expressions that Joel used. One or two ideas were
repeated by Jesus in the Gospels, and we will soon see how
important Joel’s predictions are in Revelation.
We turn now to Amos, whose name means ‘burden bearer’....
Nov 30, 2025
JOEL 2:28-3:
An attack by an army of locusts must be so frightening! What
descriptions! And even worse when God is bringing the attack as an
act of judgement. Yet Joel offers hope. He encourages the people to
come back to God and beg for the Lord’s help. We will pick up today
re-reading the famous part of Joel...
Nov 30, 2025
JOEL 1:
I feel the need to comment about
chapter 9 of Esther and how the Jews “got rid” of their enemies.
Remember that those Jews were not Christians. (I know how silly
that sounds, but it is actually a common supposition among naive
Christians.) The revelation of God’s will did not come all at once,
and the Jews...