FIRST POINT: The Warning before It Is Too Late (v.11) A warning always comes before the danger fully happens! Throughout the Scripture this is how God Works: before judgment or destruction, God speaks. This is God’s mercy. This is exactly what is happening in verse 11. That’s why the first point of my sermon is: the warning before it’s too late based on the verse 11. Look at verse 11 : 11“The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land, not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. This is not only a prediction about the future, but a certain judgment from God given as a warning. This is really a frightening warning! To understand how serious this warning is we must look at it carefully! The verse 11 begins with these words, “the days are coming.”This is a serious expression of a warning. It points to a day that lies ahead, a day that God Himself has already appointed. But Amos does not tell us when that day will arrive? So the emphasis here is not when it will happened, but on the certainty that it will happen. Why? Because the next phrase says, “declares the Sovereign Lord.” This means that this warning comes from God Himself, not from the prophet Amos. And when God speaks His Word is certain. But what exactly is God warning them about? The answer is found in the next phase of the verse 11 in which God said, “I will send a famine on the land...” Notice carefully, God said “I will send”. This means the warning of famine that God is speaking is not accidental. It is not natural disaster. It is an act of divine judgment. But God also described the characteristics of this famine: this is “not a famine of bread or a thirst for water” which means this is not going to be a physical famine, but spiritual famine. What then makes this famine spiritual rather than physical? The answer is found in the last phrase of verse 11: a famine of hearing the Words of the Lord. This is the heart of the warning. During Amos’ time the “Word of the Lord” means God’s covenant given in his law and the prophetic words. The word “Hearing” in this verse means more than simply listening to sounds. In scripture the word “hearing” means: Receiving, Understanding and Responding to God’s Word. Therefore this famine describes a condition in which God’s word is no longer truly heard. This idea can be understood in two ways: firstly, it may mean when God would withdraw His Word, leaving the Israel during that time without clear guidance and corrections. Secondly, it may mean people had become so spiritually hard that even if God’s Word was spoken, they could no longer truly received it. In both ways, the result is same: God’s Word is no longer truly heard. And that is why verse 11 stands as the warning before it’s too late. And also therefore, this warning demands a serious response to God’s Word while the opportunity is still remains.

Amos 7:14 - "¶ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:"

Amos 7:11 - "For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land."

Amos 7:12 - "Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:"

Amos 1:1

Introduction Of The Book Of Amos

AMOS PASTOREANDO OVEJAS

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Amos 7:10 - "¶ Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words."

Amos 1:1 - "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake."

Amos 7:8 - "And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:"

Amos 5:21-27

Amos means strong and courageous.

Amos 8:2 - "And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more."

Amos 7:3 - "The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD."

Amos 3:3 - "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?"

"¶ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:" - Amos 7:14

Amos 7:6 - "The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD."

"For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land." - Amos 7:11

Amos 5:24 - "But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream."

Amos 5:13 - "Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time."

Amos 8:13 - "In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst."

Amos 5:10 - "They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly."

Amos 5:20 - "Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?"

Amos 6:5 - "That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;"

"Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:" - Amos 7:12

Amos 2:12 - "But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not."

Amos 5:7 - "Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,"

Amos 2:5 - "But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."

Amos 1:15 - "And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD."

Amos 6:6 - "That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph."