This is Daniel Whyte III, president of Gospel Light Society International, with The Scripture & The Sense Podcast #404, where I read the Word of God and give the sense of it based on an authoritative commentary source such as the Bible Knowledge Commentary and the Matthew Henry Commentary. This podcast is based upon Nehemiah 8:8 where it says Ezra and the Levites “read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.” The aim of this podcast is that through the simple reading of the Word of God and the giving of the sense of it, the church would be revived and the world would be awakened.
Today we are reading Amos 1:2.
2 And he said, The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
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That was Amos 1:2. Now here is the sense of it.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary reads:
The Lord’s roar was first against seven nations surrounding Israel, then against Israel herself. A murmur of approval might have rippled among Amos’ hearers as they heard the denunciation of Aram and Philistia, Israel’s historic and bitter enemies. But when the focus shifted to Tyre, a sometime ally, then in turn to Edom, Ammon, and Moab, blood relatives of Israel, the encircling review might have seemed “a noose of judgment about to tighten round their throats”. With the mention finally of Judah, Israel’s own “brother,” the conclusion was inescapable—God’s judgment would be impartial. For the locations of these and other places in Amos see the map “Israel and Surrounding Nations in the Days of the Prophets,” between Song of Songs and Isaiah.
For each nation the pronouncement of doom follows the same pattern: (a) a general declaration of irrevocable judgment, (b) a naming of the specific violation which caused the judgment, and (c) a description of God’s direct and thorough punishment.
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