Amos 2 Amos 2 I The sins of

Amos 2

Amos 2 I. The sins of Judah (2: 4 -5) A. Rejecting Yahweh’s law The judgment against the nations were due to their crimes against humanity. Judah’s crimes are against God.

Amos 2 I. The sins of Judah (2: 4 -5) A. Rejecting Yahweh’s law What is the meaning of covenant disobedience?

Amos 2 I. The sins of Judah (2: 4 -5) B. To follow “lies” (v. 4) What lies?

Amos 2 I. The sins of Judah (2: 4 -5) C. Judah’s judgment (v. 5) Does Judah’s judgment differ from the judgment of the other nations?

Amos 2 I. The sins of Judah (2: 4 -5) C. Judah’s judgment (v. 5) What does this tell us about how God views covenant disobedience?

Amos 2 I. The sins of Judah (2: 4 -5) C. Judah’s judgment (v. 5) What lessons do we learn about how God wants us to live?

Amos 2 I. The sins of Judah (2: 4 -5) C. Judah’s judgment (v. 5) How was this prophecy against Judah fulfilled?

Amos 2 I. The sins of Judah (2: 4 -5) C. Judah’s judgment (v. 5) Amos was from Judah! How hard a prophesy this must have been to deliver about his own home!

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12)

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) Imagine the shock as the noose tightens. V. 6: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment. ”

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) A. Selling the righteous and poor (v. 6 -7 a) The Hebrew word for righteous means ‘innocent’. The righteous is not guilty of owing a debt, but is sold into slavery as though he is guilty.

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) A. Selling the righteous and poor (v. 6 -7 a) The Hebrew word for poor means ‘one in need of help’. For the small debt of the value of a pair of sandals, he too is sold into slavery.

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) A. Selling the righteous and poor (v. 6 -7 a) v. 7 a: The rich trample the head of the poor as upon dust on the ground. (NIV)

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) A. Selling the righteous and poor (v. 6 -7 a) How does God feel about how the poor should be treated?

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) A. Selling the righteous and poor (v. 6 -7 a) Proverbs 22: Do not rob the poor because he is poor, not oppress the afflicted at the gate.

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) B. Sexual Immorality (v. 7 b-8) Probably refers to fathers and sins visiting the same prostitutes of Baal

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) B. Sexual Immorality (v. 7 b-8) Offering clothes taken as a pledge to Baal in the temple. What does God say about clothes taken as a pledge?

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) B. Sexual Immorality (v. 7 b-8) Ex. 22: 26 -27: If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun sets, for that is his only covering; it is his cloak for his body. What else shall he sleep in? And it shall come about that when he cries out to Me, I will hear him, for I am gracious.

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) B. Sexual Immorality (v. 7 b-8) v. 8: Probably the fines are those ordered by judges to be paid to the (temple) community, and this money was used for drunken parties and orgies in the sacred places instead of for those who received damage!

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) B. Sexual Immorality (v. 7 b-8) What does today’s society say about sexual immorality?

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) B. Sexual Immorality (v. 7 b-8) What does God say about sexual immorality?

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) C. They rejected God who saved them from the Amorites (v. 9 -10) What does the Bible tell us about the Amorites? (Num. 13: 32 -33)

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) C. They rejected God who saved them from the Amorites (v. 9 -10) How did God give Israel victory over the Amorites? (Joshua 10: 6 -14)

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) C. They rejected God who saved them from the Amorites (v. 9 -10) Why do you think God chose the Amorites and Egypt as his examples?

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) D. They rejected God’s prophets (v. 11 a & 12 b) Including Amos! Why did they want to quiet the prophets?

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) D. They rejected God’s prophets (v. 11 a & 12 b) Including Amos! Has anything changed in our day?

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) E. They corrupted the Nazarites (v. 11 b & 12 a) What is a Nazarite? (Num. 6: 1 -21)

Amos 2 II. The sins of Israel (2: 6 -12) E. They corrupted the Nazarites (v. 11 b & 12 a) How does God feel about corruption of the righteous? Does this translate to how God views corruption of our kids?

Amos 2 III. The judgment (2: 13 -16) v. 13: Translators have had a hard time with this verse b/c the verb translated ‘crush’ or ‘weighted down’ can be either active or passive and is only used here in the Bible.

Amos 2 III. The judgment (2: 13 -16) v. 13: The NASB has a passive translation “I am weighted down beneath you as a wagon is weighted down when filled with sheaves. ” The NIV has an active translation, “I will crush you as a cart crushes when loaded with grain. ”

Amos 2 III. The judgment (2: 13 -16) v. 14 -16: Neither strength, speed or bravery will save Israel in the day of judgment.

Amos 2 III. The judgment (2: 13 -16) How did God fulfill this prophecy against Israel?

Amos 2 IV. Questions to ponder What is the ‘fourth sin’ of our society?

Amos 2 IV. Questions to ponder Do we harbor a personal ‘fourth sin’ that God might need to correct?

Amos 2 IV. Questions to ponder Does God’s judgment delayed mean God’s judgment rescinded?

Amos 2 IV. Questions to ponder How can the U. S. avoid the judgment of Judah and Israel?