Context
What is Amos' original vocation?
What is a shepherd?
Amos had a vision of a basket filled with this
What is summer fruit?
A neighboring country that was rebuked
What is Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, Moab?
God promises to punish the northern kingdom of Israel for their sins by destroying these, specifically mentioning the ones at Bethel
What are the altars?
The first vision
What is locusts?
Although he prophesied against the Northern Kingdom, Amos was originally from this town in Judah
In the second vision, Amos saw the Lord calling for a "judgment by" this element, which devoured the great deep and the land.
What is fire?
Amos told the people to let this flow like a river
What is justice?
What will happen if an evil person seeks the Lord?
What is 'Ye shall live'?
The longest section of Amos
What is Israel’s punishment?
Amos preached during the reigns of Uzziah in Judah and this king in Israel
Who is Jeroboam II?
In Amos 7, God shows the prophet this tool, used to show that Israel does not measure up to standard
What is a plumb line?
Israelites sold these for a pair of sandals
What are the poor?
This amount of Israel will be destroyed
What is almost all of it
One of the themes we discussed.
What is ‘God’s anger rests upon sinners’
Or what is is ‘privilege comes with responsibility’
Or what is ‘God saves a remnant of his people’
Amos calls for this pair of virtues to "roll on like a river" and "like a never-failing stream". MLK quoted this in 'I have a dream'.
What are justice and righteousness?
The final vision
What is restoration
Amos spoke against this many nations in total
What is 8?
Number of years after Amos' ministry Israel was captured
What is 40?
This natural disaster happened two years after Amos’ ministry
What is an earthquake?