Amos warned the Northern kingdom of its imminent destruction. It was oppressing the poor and defiling its worship due to its pleasure-seeking life-style. Amos prophesied that almost all of the nation would be destroyed for its sins, although a remnant would be spared.

Key word    JUSTICE
 
Key verse    "So now I will deal with you in My own way, O Israel!" —4:12
 
Command verse    "But if you would offer Me holocausts, then let justice surge like water, and goodness like an unfailing stream." —5:23-24
 
Promise verse    "Indeed, the Lord God does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants, the prophets." —3:7
 
Difficult verse    "Then the Lord said to me: 'The time is ripe to have done with My people Israel; I will forgive them no longer. The temple songs shall become wailings on that day, says the Lord God. Many shall be the corpses, strewn everywhere. Silence!' " —8:2-3
 
Surprise verse    "Yes, days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send famine upon the land: not a famine of bread, or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the Lord. Then shall they wander from sea to sea and rove from the north to the east in search of the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it." —8:11-12
 
Prayer: Father, may I not oppress the poor. I repent of my pleasure-seeking life-style.