Amos 4 - You Have Not Returned to Me!

 

Amos 4 – You Have Not Returned to Me!

 

God’s disciplines are for the purpose of restoration, to bring people to true repentance.

 

God used several means of discipline; drought, famine, crop diseases, locusts, plagues, war, and local catastrophes, and the people did not get the message. They had met with God’s disciplines, but the next step was to meet God Himself. He was personally coming to judge them.

 

What a tragedy that the people kept living in luxury and carrying out their religious duties while ignoring the call of God. It took courage for Amos to call the wealthy women “cows” and to picture them being led away to slaughter. In their comfort and prosperity, the people thought they were immune from judgment, but it came just the same.

 

The husbands of Samaria met their wives’ demands for luxury by denying the poor justice and taking their land through taxation and usury. The wealthy women were in turn using their wealth to enrich themselves rather than to help the needy, unaware that they were fattening themselves for the slaughter of God’s judgment.

 

The people had put up a shrine in Bethel so they would not have to travel to the temple in Jerusalem for worship. So, God told Israel to continue their Hypocritical worship.

 

Are you prepared to meet God?

 

 

 

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