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Amos 7:1–3 – Vision of locusts withheld

What happens: Amos sees locusts devouring late crops after the king’s mowing. He pleads, and the Lord relents.

What it means: Intercession matters. God is merciful and listens when His servants pray.

Amos 7:4–6 – Vision of consuming fire withheld

What happens: A fire consumes the deep and the land. Amos prays again, and the Lord relents.

What it means: God’s judgments are measured and compassionate. He delights to show mercy when asked.

Amos 7:7–9 – Vision of the plumb line

What happens: The Lord stands with a plumb line and measures Israel. He will no longer pass by; high places and the house of Jeroboam fall.

What it means: God’s standard is righteousness. When a people lean from the true line, judgment comes.

Amos 7:10–17 – Clash at Bethel

What happens: Amaziah, priest of Bethel, accuses Amos and tells him to flee to Judah. Amos answers that he is a shepherd called by God, and he announces judgment on Amaziah’s house and Israel’s exile.

What it means: Authority apart from truth cannot silence God’s call. God uses ordinary servants to speak His word, and resisting it brings loss.

Application

  • Pray for your city; ask God to relent and heal.
  • Align life with God’s plumb line in Scripture.
  • Stand firm when opposed; speak truth in love without fear.

Bible

1Thus 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.

2And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

3The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

4Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

5Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

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

7Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

8And 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:

9And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel 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.

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

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

13But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.

14Then 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:

15And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

16Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.

17Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

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