Amos 7:1-9:15

Memory Verse: Amos 9:11

Commentary

Introduction

Outline

I. Judgment Relented (7:1-6)

1. What was the Lord going to do? (1) What did Amos pray? (2)

2. What was the next thing the Lord was going to do? (4) What did Amos pray? (3) What can be learned about intercessory prayer? (Phil. 4:6; Eph. 1:15-19a)

II. The Plumb Line (7:7-17)

3. What kind of plumb line was the Lord using? (7-8) What was the final verdict for unrepentant Israel? (9)

4. What did the false priest at Bethel say to Israel's king? (10-11) To Amos? (12-13) What did Amos point out about himself to show he was not a professional prophet? (14-16) What awaited the false prophet and his family? What are some ways we tell true prophets from false? (1 John 4:1-3; and 2 Tim. 3:1-7, 4:3-4)

III. The Basket of Ripe Fruit (8:1-14)

5. 5. What did Amos see and what did it mean? (1-2) What will that day be like? (3) Will they repent at that time? (5-6)

6. What else will happen in the day of the Lord's wrath? (7-8) What will happen to the sun? (9-10) What kind of famine will happen? (11-12) Why? (13-14)

IV. The Lord by the Altar (9:1-10)

7. Will people be able to hide from the Lord? (1-4) What can be learned about the Lord from verses 5-6? What did the Lord do with the nations mentioned in verse 7?

8. Will the Lord totally destroy his sinful people? (8) How has verse 9 been fulfilled in our time? What error had Israel and Judah made and why? (10)

V. Israel Restored (9:11-15)

9. Has verses 11-12 been fulfilled; if not when? What will this mean?

10. What does verse 13 mean? Has verse 14 been fulfilled? And verse 14?