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Amos

AMOS 1-2

THE REVELATION OF GOD'S JUDGMENT (1:1-2):

THE RECIPIENTS OF GOD'S JUDGMENT (1:3-2:16)

Damascus (1:3-5)

Philistia (1:6-8)

Their sin (1:6):
Their sentence (1:7-8):

Tyre (1:9-10)

Their sin (1:9):
Their sentence (1:10):

Edom (1:11-12)

Their sin (1:11):
Their sentence (1:12):

Ammon (1:13-15)

Their sin (1:13):
Their sentence (1:14-15):

Moab (2:1-3)

Their sin (2:1):
Their sentence (2:2-3):

Judah (2:4-5)

Their sin (2:4):
Their sentence (2:5):

Israel (2:6-16)

Their sins (2:6-12)
Bribery (2:6):
Cruelty to the poor (2:7a):
Immorality (2:7b):
Hypocrisy (2:8):
Tempting the godly to sin (2:9-12):
Their sentence (2:13-16)
They will groan as an overloaded wagon (2:13)
Their enemies will defeat them (2:14-16):

AMOS 3-6

AMOS'S FIRST SERMON (3:1-15)

The privileges of Israel (3:1-3):

The perversions of Israel (3:10)

They do not know right from wrong (3:10a).
Their homes are full of loot they have stolen from others (3:10b).

The prophecy against Israel (3:4-9, 11-15)

God will roar out his wrath as a hungry lion (3:4-9):
Their enemies will devour them (3:11-14):
Their beautiful homes will be destroyed (3:15).

AMOS'S SECOND SERMON (4:1-13)

He denounces the Israel of God (4:1-5).

Their godless women (4:1-3):
Their hypocrisy (4:4-5):

He defends the God of Israel (4:6-13).

The past patience of God (4:6-11):
The future punishment from God (4:12-13):

AMOS'S THIRD SERMON (5:1-6:14)

God's invitation to Israel (5:4-9, 14-15):

Seek God and live (5:4, 7-9):
Renounce your idolatry (5:5-6):
Do what is good (5:14-15):

God's indictment of Israel (5:1-3, 10-13, 16-27; 6:1-14)

The nation's perversions (5:10-13, 25-26; 6:1-7, 12-13)
They hate the truth (5:10):
They oppose the good (5:11):
They are guilty of extortion and bribery (5:12-13):
They are lazy and complacent (6:1-3):
They are materialistic and indulgent (6:4-5):
They are a nation of drunkards (6:6-7):
They have turned justice into poison (6:12):
They are arrogant (6:13):
They worship idols (5:25-26):
The nation's punishment (5:1-3, 16-24, 27; 6:8-11, 14)
To be broken and deserted (5:1-2):
To lose 90 percent of her soldiers in battle (5:3)
To grieve (5:16-18):
To go from bad to worse (5:19-20):
To have hypocritical offerings rejected by God (5:21-22)
To have her songs rejected (5:23-24):
To lose their pride and glory (6:8-11):

AMOS 7-9

THE PLAGUES (7:1-9; 8:1-9:10):

Vision of the locusts (7:1-3)

God's intention (7:1):

Amos's intervention (7:2-3):

Vision of the fire (7:4-6)

God's intention (7:4):

Amos's intervention (7:5-6):

Vision of the plumb line (7:7-9)

The revelation (7:7):

The results (7:8-9):

Vision of the summer fruit (8:1-14)

The symbol (8:1-2):

The sin (8:4-6)

The rich are robbing and enslaving the poor, buying and selling them for a pair of sandals (8:4a, 6).
The needy in the land are being trampled on (8:4b).
Gross dishonesty can be witnessed everywhere (8:5).

The suffering (8:3, 7-14):

In regard to sinners (8:3, 10)
Dead bodies will be scattered everywhere (8:3):
Sheer misery will replace mirth (8:10):
In regard to the soil (8:7-8):
In regard to the skies (8:9):
In regard to the Scriptures (8:11-14)
The famine (8:11):
The fruitless search (8:12-14):

The vision of God at the altar (9:1-10):

THE PRIEST (7:10-17)

Amos's confrontation with Amaziah (7:10-13)

He slanders Amos (7:10-11):

He scorns Amos (7:12-13):

Amos's clarification to Amaziah (7:14-15):

He feels unworthy (7:14):

He knows God has called him to prophesy (7:15).

Amos's condemnation of Amaziah (7:16-17)

Amaziah's wife will become a prostitute (7:16-17a).

Amaziah's sons and daughters will be killed (7:17b).

Amaziah's land will be divided up (7:17c).

Amaziah will die as a slave in a pagan land (7:17d).

THE PROMISES (9:11-15)

Jerusalem will be rebuilt to its former glory (9:11-12):

Israel will be restored to her former land (9:13-15):