Wed, Jan 25 - Amos

Next Quiz/Test: Friday is Memory Quiz 7a: Hosea 6:1, 3, & 6 (NIV, 1984)
- Students have until Friday, Jan 27 to make up Memory Quiz 6b

Handouts: None given

Reminders:
- Service Hours: There are three things to turn in for this on April 16: Essay, Record Form, Comm. Service Evaluation Form

Instructional Time: Unit 7: 2 Kings 1-10 and...
Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Nahum, Habakkuk, & Zephaniah
Journal 7-3: Read Amos 7:10-17
- Who is the priest? Amaziah
- What city is he and Amos in? Bethel
- Who is the king of Israel? Jeroboam (the second)
- What does the priest accuse Amos of? Raising a conspiracy against the king!
- Why doesn’t the priest want Amos speaking in this city? Various answers... He sees Bethel & the temple in it as a 'sanctuary for the king'
- Where did God take Amos from? Tending the flock (as a shepherd), & raising sycamore fig trees
- When the priest kicks Amos out of the city, what penalties will fall on his own family? His wife will become a prostitute; his sons & daughters fall to the sword; he will die in a pagan country
- What confident statement is made about Israel? Israel will certainly go into exile

The Pre-Exilic Prophet Table: Amos (pg. 647)
- From: Judah (He was a sheepherder)
- To: Israel
- Approx. Time: 760-750
- Major Theme: God’s Call for Justice & Righteousness
- Key Verse: Amos 5:18, 24
- Other Notes: Amos means, ‘Burdensome’
- - The ‘Day of the Lord’
- - - Jews thought this was when God would help them,
- - - But they disobeyed God & weren’t just to needy
- - - Instead it was a time of judgment!
- - An ‘Oracle Against the Nations’:Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, Moab, Judah, & Israel!
- - Ending with hope after judgment! (9:11-15)