Posts with the category “noisy-gongs-amp-clanging-cymbals-amos-5-18-27”

“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god, your images that you made for yourselves, and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus, says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.”— Amos 5:25-27 (ESV) Amos concludes this section by exposing what had been hiding beneath Israel’s r...  Read More

"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might ...  Read More

“But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”— Amos 5:24 (ESV) After rejecting Israel’s empty worship, God revealed what He desired. He wanted justice to roll down like waters and righteousness to flow like a stream that never runs dry. God was not asking for another ceremony. He was calling for a transformed life.Biblical justice is more than supporting a...  Read More

“I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.”— Amos 5:21-23 (ESV)“If I speak in the tongues of men and of ...  Read More

“Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why would you have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light, as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him. Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?”— Amos 5:18-20 (ESV) The people of Israel eagerly anticipated “...  Read More