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Verse Amos 3:7. _SURELY THE LORD GOD WILL DO NOTHING_] In reference to
the punishment, correction, or blessing of his people-
_BUT HE REVEALETH HIS SECRET UNTO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS._] They
are...
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SURELY THE LORD GOD WILL DO - For the Lord God “doeth”
NOTHING, BUT HE REVEALETH HIS SECRET UNTO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS -
So our Lord saith, “And now I have told you before it come to pass,
that, w...
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II. THE PROPHETIC MESSAGES UNCOVERING
THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
CHAPTER 3
The First Discourse
_ 1. There is cause for judgment (Amos 3:1) _
2. The coming judgment visitation (Amos 3:9)
Amos 3:1...
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ISRAEL'S RESPONSIBILITY AND THE PROPHET'S OBLIGATION. Amos, after
addressing the children of Israel, includes Judah by adding the whole
family, unless this is a gloss, as it may be, since the inclusio...
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SURELY. [No:] for. Compare Job 31:18; Micah 6:4. The reason follows
and is explained.
THE LORD GOD. See note on Amos 1:7.
WILL DO. doeth. Hebrew. _'asah =_ work, execute ...
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Such a severe rebuke might provoke contradiction among the prophet's
hearers: he therefore proceeds to indicate the authority upon which it
rests, arguing by means of a series of illustrations drawn f...
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Similarly the horn is a signal of danger; calamity is a sign that
Jehovah has willed it; and the appearance of a prophet is an
indication that Jehovah has sent him....
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_Surely_ FOR, the reason, however, following not in Amos 3:7 but in
Amos 3:8 (to which Amos 3:7 is subordinate): -I give all these
examples of events and occurrences in nature being due regularly to
t...
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_THE LORD HAS SPOKEN -- AMOS 3:7-11:_ Whatever God intended to do He
revealed through His prophet. It was not just talk. It would happen
just as He revealed through His messenger. When God's prophets...
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CAN TWO WALK, &C.— The similies in these verses have the same
meaning, and they all tend to shew that calamities happen according to
the appointing, permissive, or suffering will of God; and that
prop...
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PENITENCE PROMOTEDREASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE THE LORD DOES NOT ROAR
WITHOUT CAUSE
TEXT: Amos 3:1-8
1
Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O children of
Israel against the whole fam...
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THE FIRST ADDRESS
1-8. A call to attention.
9, 10. The oppressions practised by the powerful.
11-15. The disasters which should overtake them, their sanctuary and
their palaces.
1. 'Race' would be...
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HIS SECRET is the purpose He has formed: cp. Genesis 18:17.
8. Luther said, at the Diet of Worms: 'Here I stand: I can do no
other.'...
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THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD
AMOS
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 3
GOD WARNS ISRAEL’S PEOPLE
V1 People in Israel, listen to this message. The *Lord has spoken
against you.
This message...
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SURELY THE LORD... — In this, and the preceding verse, the future
tense should be replaced by a present. Render _doeth nothing,_ and in
Amos 3:6 _is a trumpet sounded_... _are not afraid_... _is there...
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כִּ֣י לֹ֧א יַעֲשֶׂ֛ה אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִ֖ה
דָּבָ֑ר...
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CIVILIZATION AND JUDGMENT
Amos 3:1 - Amos 4:3
WE now enter the Second Section of the Book of Amos: Chapter s 3-6. It
is a collection of various oracles of denunciation, grouped partly by
the recurren...
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Amos 3:3, Amos 7:14
THE MAN AND THE PROPHET
THE Book of Amos opens one of the greatest stages in the religious
development of mankind. Its originality is due to a few simple ideas,
which it propels...
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THE LORD'S WORD MUST COME TRUE
Amos 3:1-15
The closer our relationship with God, the more searching His scrutiny
and chastening. The sins of God's children which may seem of slight
consequence are ri...
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Having thus uttered the declamations of Jehovah's judgment on all the
nations, the prophet delivered his special message to Israel in a
series of three discourses. In each the introductory word is, "H...
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Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he (h) revealeth his secret
unto his servants the prophets.
(h) God does not deal with the Israelites as he does with other
people: for he always warns them b...
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_Prophets. In vain then would you silence them, chap. ii. 12, and vii.
12. He always tends to the conclusion, ver. 8. (Calmet)_...
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The Lord is going on in his expostulations. He first shews, that by
Israel's revolt that sweet communion between the Lord and his people
was interrupted. Ca n two walk together except they be agreed?...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
"The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw
concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days
of Jeroboam the...
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But he had before spoken of the sound of the trumpet; for every excuse
was thereby taken away from the Israelites, as God had not only
recalled them to the right way by his scourges but also preceded...
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After having specified each one of the nations that were found on the
territory promised to Abraham, God addresses Judah and Israel
together-the whole family whom He had brought up from Egypt. These
o...
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SURELY THE LORD GOD WILL DO NOTHING,.... In the world, in a nation or
city; no remarkable event has happened, or shall happen, to the sons
of men:
BUT HE REVEALETH HIS SECRET UNTO HIS SERVANTS THE PR...
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Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto
his servants the prophets.
Ver. 7. _Surely the Lord God will do nothing_] _i.e._ hardly
anything. He loveth to foresignify, to wa...
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_The Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth_, &c. As if he had said,
You cannot complain of your not being forewarned of these calamities
coming upon you, for God hath not done, nor will do any thing,...
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Surely the Lord God will do nothing but He revealeth His secret unto
His servants, the prophets, that is, Jehovah does not send His
judgments without warning, but gives the people knowledge of His
cou...
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THE LORD READY TO PUNISH...
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1-8 The distinguishing favours of God to us, if they do not restrain
from sin, shall not exempt from punishment. They could not expect
communion with God, unless they first sought peace with him. Whe...
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SURELY, since that, or, forasmuch as, the Lord God will do nothing;
usually the Lord doth no great tiring for or against his people,
neither brings great judgments upon them for sin, nor bestows great...
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Amos 3:7 Lord H136 GOD H3069 does H6213 (H8799) nothing H1697 reveals
H1540 (H8804) secret H5475 servants...
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THE INEVITABILITY OF JUDGMENT, BOTH BECAUSE OF WHAT YHWH IS, AND
BECAUSE HE WILL ACT (AMOS 3:1).
Following up on the idea in Amos 2:9 Amos commences this section of
his prophecy (introduced by ‘hear t...
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THE COVENANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YHWH AND HIS PEOPLE (AMOS 3:1).
The covenant relationship between YHWH and His people is revealed in
this carefully constructed passage in which there is constant
re...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's controversy with Israel.
CHARACTERS: God, Amos.
CONCLUSION: Judgment begins at the house of God. The nearer men are to
God in profession, and the kinder notice God has taken of t...
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Amos 3:1. _Against the whole family_ of the twelve tribes, _which I
brought up from Egypt._ It was a laborious work to make them hear. The
prophets did not confine their labours to local districts.
Am...
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_Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto
His servants the prophets._
PROPHECY: A DISCLOSURE OF GOD’S SECRETS
I. God and the prophet (or God’s revelations to the prophet)...
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_You only have I known of all the families of the earth._
SIN IN THE HIGHLY-FAVOURED
This is shameful ingratitude. The honour and blessing conferred on the
Israelites gave the stain of ingratitude to...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 3:3 With a series of questions, Amos shows that
disaster is coming for Israel. In nature, certain sequences of events
lead to predictable outcomes. If a LION roars (vv....
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
AMOS 3:3. TWO] The prophet and the Spirit of God. Israel did not
believe that _God_ threatened such denunciations by the prophets (ch.
Amos 6:1; Amos 1:7). Amos spoke because God com...
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EXPOSITION
VERSE 1-CH. 6:14
Part II. THREE ADDRESSES PARTICULARIZING THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND
ANNOUNCING IMMINENT JUDGMENT.
AMOS 3:1
§ 1.
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Hear this word [Amos said] that the LORD hath spoken against you, O
children of Israel, and against the whole family (Amos 3:1)
So that would include Judah also.
which I brought up from the land of...
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1 Kings 22:19; 2 Kings 22:13; 2 Kings 22:20; 2 Kings 3:17; 2
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Will do nothing — Usually the Lord doth no great thing for or
against his people, without giving warning of it before it comes....