Unraveling Revelation: Oracles Against Tyre and Gaza
2024-09-30
WITH THE WAR between Israel and Hamas approaching the one-year mark, things have escalated along Israel’s northern border with Hezbollah in Lebanon.Continue Reading
Unraveling Revelation: Amos and the Day of the Lord
2021-06-21
The “shepherd prophet” Amos had a warning for the northern kingdom of Israel: Be careful of what you wish for, especially when it’s God’s judgment.
The shepherd prophet
2017-04-09
HE HADN’T intended to be a prophet, but that’s the work to which the Lord called him. Amos, a contemporary of Isaiah, was a shepherd from south of Jerusalem in the kingdom of Judah. However, he devoted most of the nine chapters of his book to warning the northern kingdom of Israel about its imminent doom — a judgment decreed by God.Continue Reading