Posts with the category “a-nation-undone-amos-2”

“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”— 1 Peter 2:9-10 (ESV) Amos ends in judgment, but the gospel does not end the...  Read More

“And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel? declares the LORD. But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’”— Amos 2:11-12 (ESV)“For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the LORD; who say to the seers,...  Read More

“Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his root beneath. Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.”— Amos 2:9-10 (ESV)“And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did ...  Read More

“Thus says the LORD: ‘…because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals— those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and push the afflicted out of the way…’”— Amos 2:6-7a (ESV)“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”— Micah 6:8 (ESV) G...  Read More

“Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals— those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and push the afflicted out of the way; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my name is profaned; they lay themselves down beside ev...  Read More