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Scripture is the word commonly used for the Written Word of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible.

TalkofJESUS.com would like to hear from you via your comments and questions on a NEW Series of brief posts in A.D. 2022.

Short Takes on Scripture – Tell us your thoughts about this brief quote from the Bible.

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Wailing in all the Public Squares (Social Media?)
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:

“There will be wailing in all the public squares
and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets.
Amos 5:16a – Berean Study Bible

and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets.

The Public Square and our Platforms of Wailing

WE THE PEOPLE do NOT like to be told what WE have done wrong.

You may claim in the public square that your ‘ONE NATION’ is ‘under god,’ but what if its leaders never listen to the Lord God, let alone obey?

Prophets, false prophets, anti-Christs and demagogues all deliberate in the public square. Yet like nations before, WE THE PEOPLE will wail at our destruction while stopping up our ears to Truth.
Roger@TalkofJESUS.COM

WE tend to avoid the PROPHETIC BOOKS of the #Bible, God’s Holy Word.

The prophets were extremely nationalistic. They rebuked sin in high as well as low places. They warned the nation. They pleaded with a proud people to humble themselves and return to God.
J. Vernon McGee

Amos
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Amos’ name means “burden” or “burden-bearer.” 
A “sheepbreeder” (1:1; cf. 2 Kin. 3:4) and a “tender of sycamore fruit” .. Politically, it was a time of prosperity
Amos addresses Israel’s two primary sins: 1) an absence of true worship, and 2) a lack of justice.
Source: Commentary of John Macarthur
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Amos – Not immune from judgment

(As you can see, I shared a brief series from Amos as recently as March 2020.) Did you Comment on it in the ‘public square’ of your Social Media?

Stephen commented on Amos in the public square of his trial in Jerusalem eight centuries later!

ACTS of a first century Martyr (who also quotes Amos)

Did you have any thoughts to SHARE your witness for the Lord in the public square of #twitter or Facebook for any Scripture from this series in ACTS of the Apostles?

The Testimony of Christ by Stephen

Today’s Short Take from Amos 5:
- A Lamentation against Israel
- A Call to Repentance
  - “Seek Me and live!
There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
Amos 5:10 BSB
- Woe to Rebellious Israel
  - Also from Stephen’s speech in (Acts 7:39–43)
The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

There will be wailing in all the vineyards,

for I will pass through your midst,”

5:23 הָסֵר מֵעָלַי הֲמוֹן שִׁרֶיךָ וְזִמְרַת נְבָלֶיךָ לֹא אֶשְׁמָֽע׃

But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

From the footstool of one shot on 15 April, 1865, to the steps of a Nation yet divided seven score and sixteen years hence, WE neither remember nor proclaim the Lord WE claim.
Roger@TalkofJESUS.com

But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amos 5:24 BSB

What’s your Short Take in the ‘public square?’
January 20, 2022
Understand today the discipline of the LORD your God
- Do YOU, (children) claiming God as your Father and Jesus Christ as YOUR Lord know this one?
11:1 וְאָהַבְתָּ אֵת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וְשָׁמַרְתָּ מִשְׁמַרְתּוֹ וְחֻקֹּתָיו וּמִשְׁפָּטָיו וּמִצְוֺתָיו כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11 :: Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC)

Keep in mind that I am not talking now to your children, who have never experienced the discipline of the LORD your God or seen his greatness and his strong hand and powerful arm.
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:2

What is the difference between Discipline of the LORD & the Punishment of God?

Water covers the earth!

The LORD GOD wipes the slate clean! No more creatures on earth EXCEPT Noah.

And that was not even punishment, but pure judgment of the created men and women, fallen deeply into sin.

God’s created world may have had a flood or two in this past year of our Lord, BUT not like the first flood.

Covenant of our Forefathers

After the LORD cleanses creation, He makes a covenant with Abraham and gives His LAW through Moses.

Moses also makes a covenant with the LORD on behalf of Israel:

24:3 וַיָּבֹא מֹשֶׁה וַיְסַפֵּר לָעָם אֵת כָּל־דִּבְרֵי יְהוָה וְאֵת כָּל־הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים וַיַּעַן כָּל־הָעָם קוֹל אֶחָד וַיֹּאמְרוּ כָּל־הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּר יְהוָה נַעֲשֶֽׂה׃
Exodus 24:3b KJV – .. and all the people answered with one voice, and said, ‘All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.’.

פָּקַד pâqad, paw-kad’; a primitive root; to visit (with friendly or hostile intent)
- to attend to, muster, number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after, care for
“But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless on the day when I punish^H6485, I will punish^H6485 them for their sin.”
Then the LORD struck the people with a plague, because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.
Exodus 32:34-35 NASB20 – Strong’s H6485 = number (119x), visit (59x), punish (31x),

This is punishment: that the Lord attends to His own and that our reckoning will be by the hand of our Creator and Heavenly Father, who must punish His children who break our promises and violate our covenant.

Discipline of the LORD – יָסַר
- to chasten, discipline, instruct, admonish
“Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline^H3256 you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. – Deuteronomy 4:36

“So you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining^H3256 you just as a man disciplines^H3256 his son. – Deuteronomy 8:5

“.. but your own eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which He did.

“You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today..
Deuteronomy 11:8a

Punishment of God – פָּקַד
- visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children..
  - עָוֹן — ʿāôn – perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity
‘You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, inflicting H6485 the punishment of the fathers on the children, even on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Beware that your hearts are not easily deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods, and worship them.

“Otherwise, the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the sky so that there will be no rain, and the ground will not yield its produce; then you will quickly perish from the good land which the LORD is giving you.
Deuteronomy 11:17 [11:16 quoted above]

‘You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children, even on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me..
Deuteronomy 5:9

Will you receive the Discipline of the LORD our Father OR Punishment for your Sins?

דברים 11

מוּסָר:: From יָסַר (H3256)

“Know this day that I am not speaking with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the discipline^H4148 of the LORD your God—His greatness, His mighty hand, His outstretched arm.. but your own eyes have seen all the great work of the Lord which He did.
Deuteronomy 11:2,7 on the discipline of the LORD. – NASB
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What is your Short Take on these Scriptures about Discipline and Punishment?

Please add your COMMENT at the bottom of this post. - RH
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January 11, 2022
a Year of Disaster & Death for the earth
January 6, in the year of our Lord, 2022: Remembering a Year of Disaster
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Note: Realizing that this 'quick take' includes several statistics, a quick scan of these will get you to the point of these few Scriptures and their implication for our future at the mercy of our Lord. 

(I also project some political opinion which may offend both sides of these issues in the U.S. & the world. 
Glad to hear your opinion IF it connects to Scripture. RH)
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“They have lied about the LORD
and said, ‘He won’t bother us!
No disasters will come upon us.
There will be no war or famine.
The Prophet Jeremiah 5:12 NLT

WORLD POPULATION = 7 [BILLION], 918 [MILLION},291,561 *Current – Source: worldometers.info

Considering the Disaster of A.D. 2021

These are the 10 deadliest natural disasters of 2021:
1. August 2021: Earthquake Kills 2,248 in Haiti
2. December 2021: Super Typhoon Rai Kills 375 in the Philippines
3. July 2021: Floods, Landslides in China Kill at Least 302
4. July 2021: Floods Kill More than 200 in Germany, Belgium
5. April 2021: Cyclone Seroja Kills at Least 222 Indonesia, East Timor, Australia
6. October 2021: Flash Floods, Landslides Kill 201 in India, Nepal
7. May 2021: Cyclone Tauktae Kills at Least 200 in India
8. August 2021: Hurricane Ida Kills 91 Across 9 U.S. States
9. December 2021: Tornado Kills 90 Across 5 U.S. States
10. December 2021: Volcano Eruption Kills 45 in Indonesia
Source: U.S. News & World Report

source:
- SARS‑CoV‑2 − (COVID-19)
  - 5.4–21.4 million total deaths (in ALL years) (as of December 2021)
- Deaths by #choice of unborn babies worldwide according to World ‘Health’ Organization:
  - 40-50 million abortions average per year
  - Approximately 125,000 abortion deaths of babies per day
More A.D. 2021 Disaster

FOOD
- 857,534,461 Undernourished people in the world
Refugees (migrants, illegal aliens, immigrants – Men, Women & Children without homes or a place to go)
- 281 million: The estimated number of international migrants in the world²
- 50.4 million: The number of internally displaced persons
- 26 million: Estimated number of refugees in the world
  - Source
Don’t let liars prosper here in our land.
Cause great disasters to fall on the violent.

Psalm 140:11 NLT

“So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and will never be found again.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John 18:21b

“Now behold, I Myself am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.
Genesis 6:17 – The word of the LORD to Noah.

Disaster and Death: Judgment of Sin and Wickedness!

Genesis 7
- 12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
- 20 The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
- 21 So all creatures that moved on the earth perished:
  - birds, livestock, animals, and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth,
  - and all mankind;
- 22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
So He wiped out [all existence] every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from mankind to animals, to crawling things, and the birds of the sky, and they were wiped out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.
Genesis 7:23 NASB20

The water prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
וַיִּגְבְּרוּ הַמַּיִם עַל־הָאָרֶץ חֲמִשִּׁים וּמְאַת יֹום׃

Surely righteous people are praising your name;
the godly will live in your presence.
Psalm 140: 13
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What is your short take on this look at violence from Genesis, Jeremiah, Psalm 140 & Revelation?
Which disaster from A.D. 2021 impacted you most. And what do you think God will do about it SOON?


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Roger@TalkofJESUS.COM 
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January 6, 2022