Today, I am reading and commenting on  Amos 1-5.

But first, I want to wish happy anniversary to the love of my life, my beautiful wife.

Amos begins his prophecy by declaring God’s judgement on the nations surrounding Israel and Judah, before he gets to his prophecy against God’s people.  Most of those nations are condemned for selling people into slavery.  I get the impression that Amos is talking about more than just literal slavery, although that is part of it.  I think he refers to lands and peoples who profit from the sufferings of others.  Then as Amos gets into his prophecies against the peoples of Israel and Judah, his prophecies concerning God’s people, he tells us that God always reveals His plans through His prophets before He acts.  And just as in the time of Amos, God is speaking His word to us once more.  He calls us to seek Him and live.  He calls us to warn those who turn aside justice and who detest truth tellers.  God tells us to seek good and hate evil.  We may look at the evil around us and long for the day of the Lord, but Amos tells us that we should instead long for people to turn to the Lord.  The day shall come when God will judge the nations, but that will be a dark day, a day of suffering.  Instead of longing for that day, we should seek to delay its coming by calling people to serve God.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.