Day 192 (Amos 1-5) - Year 8

Tara-Leigh Cobble· Host0:00

[upbeat music] Hey, Bible readers. I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble, and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. Today we drop in on a sheep-herding fig farmer named Amos, who happens to be a minor prophet in his spare time, and one of my favorites at that. Not only do I like wool and figs, but Amos is also a brilliant writer. The timeline hasn't really moved ahead for us in a few days. We're just reading things from various people written in the same era. So a lot of what Amos says is doubling down on what we read from Isaiah yesterday. Lately, the people of Israel have been doing really well financially, and they think it's a sign of God's blessing. They keep offering up meaningless sacrifices to Him because they think it keeps them in good standing with Him, and they anticipate the day when He will rain down judgment on their enemies. However, God is about to flip everything they think on its head, as per Amos. The book opens with eight separate statements from God. Here's how those break down. The first seven statements are against the nations surrounding the northern kingdom of Israel. Of those seven, the first six speak specifically to the nations that don't know Yahweh as their God. Despite not being in relationship with Yahweh, they're still held to His baseline moral standard. But when it comes to the seventh nation, it's the southern kingdom of Judah, and they do know Yahweh as their God. They've seen what