Amos 4:6-12

For thou must meet him. The only uncertainty relates to the time; and even that uncertainty does not exist in the mind of God. It is not more true that God is, than that thou shalt stand before him. Thou art flurried and agitated at the thought of going into the presence of some fellow-man clothed with authority; and wilt thou make no preparation to meet thy God? The companion with whom thou wert feasting yesterday, received his summons in the night. Inquiring for another this morning thou...

Amos 4:4-13

Amos probably was a Judean. He was a small farmer and shepherd. He cultivated a few sycamore trees whose fruit was lightly esteemed. He owned a little flock of sheep, sheep of a peculiar breed which yielded an excellent kind of wool. He pastured his sheep in the wilderness of Judea.

Bethel, the ecclesiastical capital of the Northern Kingdom, was the principal scene of his preaching. "Go to Bethel and sin!" cried the...

The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has seized the hypocrites: “Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?” § We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us. § The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our...