Category: The journey

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. ‘What do you see, Amos?’ he asked. ‘A basket of ripe fruit,’ I answered. Then the Lord said to me, ‘The...

Amos 7 is a chapter packed with doom and gloom. Amos sees a vision of a devastating swarm of locusts and begs for mercy. I cried out, ‘Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive?...

Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come! Go to Kalneh...

Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you long for the day of the Lord? That day will be darkness, not light. It will be as though a...

In Amos 5, the prophet Amos looks around him and grieves for what this nation has become. This was God’s chosen people, delivered out of slavery in Egypt and led to the Promised Land....

Listen. Hear this word, for it is God’s word for you. His people. This is what Amos was saying to the people of God in His time, but it is what God has been...

Looking at the first two chapters of the book of Amos, there’s an repeated motif that gives these chapters a poetic quality. A formulaic structure that’s repeated seven times to create a dramatic effect....

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine. The...

I approached writing this blog this morning with dread in my heart. The nations judged. Really? I have to talk about this again? How many times have we covered the judgement of Israel’s surrounding...

So far in Joel Chapter 2, we’ve seen how Joel has prophesied about an epic invasion of locusts, an invincible army with God at its head. There’s a call to repent on a personal...