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
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
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?
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
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