Chuck Missler - Prophets Of The Northern Kingdom - Amos - Part 1.avi
Amos was different from the other prophets. He came from Tekoa, which is in the wilderness of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem, where David sought refuge from Saul. He was a layman, a man of the fields; he wasn’t a professional priest or prophet, but he was called to go up to Bethel, the center of calf worship. His theme to them was "the ultimate rule of David," strangely enough. His eight "burdens" are against Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, Moab, Judah and Israel. He delivers three sermons and has five visions. He says something interesting in 3:7, "Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets." That would imply that everything that God is going to do is some-where tucked away in the Scriptures. But there’s another mystery Amos solves that may surprise many. We refer to Gog and Magog in our study of Ezekiel 38; from the context Gog is clearly the leader of Magog in that famous prophecy. But who is he? Where is he from? Amos 7:1 reads in English, "Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings." What does that mean? I have no idea, because that’s from the Masoretic text, which is written circa 900 AD But the Septuagint has some information that the Masoretic doesn’t. Amos 7:1 in the Greek translation reads a little differently: "The Lord hath shewn me and behold a ...
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