Amos 7-9

I spent about 11 minutes reading the last passage from God’s prophet named Amos.  In 8:10 God describes the coming judgment day for Israel in terms that the people could understand.  He describes it like having your only son murdered.  To a people whose name was passed through their sons, to loose your only son was tragic.  But God understands exactly what the sorrow of losing an only son to murder is like.  The day of judgment of Israel would come just a few years after Amos spoke; they would be carried into captivity.  The day of judgment for all mankind came one Friday a few hundred years after Amos spoke God’s word.  On that day sin was judged.  The son of God was cut down in the prime of life by a jealous crowd with murder on the hears.  But that day of judgment was not the end, but rather the beginning of something wonderful.

Stuart