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- The Book of Amos is written roughly in 760
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- BC and Amos was a prophet to the northern tribes. The overarching theme is one of judgment and it is one that shows that God is the sovereign ruler of the universe.
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- He's in charge of everything. Even though all the nations rebel against him and his authority, yet he is still in sovereign control.
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- There's nothing that he is not in control of. And so even though it was a time of prosperity politically under the secure reign of Jeroboam II, we end up seeing that Amos has two primary focuses.
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- One is because of the sin of Israel in their lack of worship to the true
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- God. And the second sin that it addresses is the lack of justice with their people.
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- So you end up seeing both vertically and horizontally, they lack the worship of God and the justice with one another.
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- And this is the themes that we end up seeing throughout this book. Now as we look at the
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- Book of Amos, we realize that God's promise is a divine justice.
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- That there is divine justice coming. But God still has a covenant people that he will restore fully one day.
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