Tag: amos
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Amos the Seer: “I told you so (5x) – GOD showed me
I told you so! Don’t we hate to hear it? While occupied in our own daily trespasses we stop up our ears to any who would warn of our sins: “Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold…” And to make things worse, in the day of our demise the seer such as Amos could…
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Amos – For those who turn justice into wormwood
Whatever is wormwood? Sometimes when we read the Bible, especially the Old Testament and specifically the true Prophets of Scripture, we fail in the imagery of the language of centuries and millennia long past. Amos uses a word “לַעֲנָה” we translate into English as wormwood and most of us naturally ask, “whatever is wormwood?” Truly,…
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Jude -3- Apostates
Why did Jude write to the churches about apostasy? What is apostasy and how do we recognize apostates? As we learned previously in the study of Jude’s reason for exhortation, certain intruders have joined the churches to which he writes. Jude describes them as ungodly people who pervert God’s grace. He accuses these apostates of…