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In the Bible room today, we’re concluding the summary of the book of Amos. Here is Session 3, chapters 7 through 9.

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Amos

Session 3 of 3

Chapter 7. Visions

The Lord gives the prophet some special visions of the future:

• He sees a swarm of locusts coming to destroy the crops;
• Amos prays, the Lord relents and stops the locusts;
• Then the prophet envisions a great fire coming;
• Again, he prays, and the Lord spares Israel;
• In another vision the Lord asks Amos what he sees;
• The prophet responds that he sees a plumb line;
• The Lord says He is not going to spare Israel again;
• He is going to punish them, and punish King Jeroboam;
• Amaziah, the priest, tells the king Amos is talking about him;
• Amos is saying the king is going to be killed;
• And Israel is going to be taken away from their own land;
• Amaziah tells Amos to get away, go prophecy back in Judah;
• Amos says he was not a prophet, he was a farmer;
• But he was called by the Lord to prophecy to Israel;
• The Lord gives Amos some words to say to Amaziah;
• His wife will become a prostitute; his children will be killed;
• And his land will be parceled out;
• Israel will become captives, taken out of their own land.

Chapter 8. End

The Lord shows Amos the end is coming for Israel:

• He shows Amos a basket of summer fruit,
• Asks him what he sees; Amos says it’s a basket of fruit;
• The Lord says this is the end of my people, Israel;
• He says He is not going to spare them anymore;
• The Lord says there are going to be dead bodies everywhere;
• Israel has been cheating, selling contaminated grain;
• All kinds of evil behavior; the Lord says the end is coming;
• It’s going to be bad, they will be in mourning over their losses;
• The sun is going to go dark, every head will become bald;
• The Lord will send a famine, not of bread or water;
• It will be a famine of hearing the word of the Lord;
• People will be looking everywhere, but not hearing;
• Israel will fall to never rise again.

Chapter 9. Rebuilt

The Lord says the days are coming when the house of David will be rebuilt:

• But not so for the nation of Israel;
• The Lord will destroy with the sword every last man of Israel;
• He says no one will be able to hide from His punishment;
• The Lord created the earth and knows all things;
• He saved Israel from a life of slavery in Egypt;
• But they have become a sinful people, and He will destroy them;
• However, He will not destroy all the people of Jacob;
• He intends to see the house of David rebuilt;
• He will raise it from the ruins and have it rebuilt as in old times;
• He will free His people who are captives and bring them home;
• Along with all the Gentiles who are serving the Lord;
• His people will prosper, and live in their own land forever.

End of Session 3 of 3 of the book of Amos.

This concludes the summary of the book of Amos.