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I Will Spare Them No Longer

Date: Aug. 23, 2019

Passage

Amos 7:1-9 (ESV)

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings. When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,

  “O Lord GOD, please forgive!
    How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”
  The LORD relented concerning this:
    “It shall not be,” said the LORD.

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. Then I said,

  “O Lord GOD, please cease!
    How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”
  The LORD relented concerning this:
    “This also shall not be,” said the Lord GOD.

This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

  “Behold, I am setting a plumb line
    in the midst of my people Israel;
    I will never again pass by them;
  the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
    and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
    and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

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Key Verse: 7:8b

And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

  “Behold, I am setting a plumb line
    in the midst of my people Israel;
    I will never again pass by them;

1. This will not happen either (1-6)

The LORD gave Amos three visions. In the first, Amos saw a swarm of locusts strip the land clean after the king's harvest. Knowing the suffering this would cause the people, Amos begged the LORD for forgiveness. God relented. In the second vision, Amos saw the LORD bring terrible fire that dried up the sea and burned up the land. Amos cried out for mercy again and again, God relented.

2. A vision of a plumb line (7-9)

Amos had a third vision of the LORD standing by a wall. The wall had been built straight and true. The LORD measured it with a plumb line. The wall symbolized Israel who had once followed God's word and standard. But when God measured them in the present, they were far from plumb. Time for repentance had run out. God would spare them no longer. God would destroy the kingdom of Israel.

Prayer: Prayer: Lord, thank you for your mercy and giving us opportunities to repent. Help me to follow your ways.

One Word: Live by God's standards

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Revelation 17:1-18

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