Ch 4 / 9~2 min
Amos

Chapter 4

Prepare to Meet Your Elohim, Israel

'Prepare to meet your Elohim, Israel' — the summons Yeshua extends in every generation, calling people to face the living Elohim before judgement comes and grace is withdrawn.

  1. Woe to the Complacent Women

    The wealthy women of Samaria are called 'cows of Bashan.' Their luxury was built on the backs of the poor.

  2. 1Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
  3. 2Adonai YHWH has sworn by his holiness, “Behold, the days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.
  4. 3You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says YHWH.
  5. 4“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,
  6. 5offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them; for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says Adonai YHWH.
  7. Yet You Did Not Return to Me

    Five times Elohim sent warnings — famine, drought, blight, plague, destruction — yet they did not return to Him.

  8. 6“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says YHWH.
  9. 7“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One field was rained on, and the field where it didn’t rain withered.
  10. 8So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says YHWH.
  11. 9“I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards, and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says YHWH.
  12. 10“I sent plagues amongst you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me,” says YHWH.
  13. 11“I have overthrown some of you, as when Elohim overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says YHWH.
  14. Prepare to Meet Your Elohim

    Prepare to meet your Elohim, O Israel. This is not a greeting — it's a summons to judgement.

  15. 12“Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your Elohim, Israel.
  16. 13For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: YHWH, the God of Armies, is his name.”
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