Amos

Memory Verse: Amos 5:15

The Old in the New:
5:24-27 = Acts 7:42-43
9:8-15 = Acts 15:16-18

• Amos’s Biography

• His name means “Burden-bearer”

• 762 B.C. – see 2 Kings 14:23-15:7

• Amos’s Audience

• His hearers = Israel, N. Kingdom

• His contemporaries = Jonah, Hosea, Isaiah

• His nation = 40 years from destruction – but doing “pretty good”

• Amos’s Message =

• The Roar – 8 prophecies (1-2)

• The Reasons – 3 Sermons (3-6)

• The Results – 5 Visions (7-9)

Next steps in our journey:

• Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Prov. 16:18

• God will bring and use people and events in your life to alert you to the truth. Are we listening?