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Amos 3:13

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Listen and warn the family of Jacob! The sovereign Lord, the God who commands armies, is speaking!

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The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.”

They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the Lord. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command.

The Lord sent prophets among them to lead them back to him. They warned the people, but they would not pay attention.

Therefore, the sovereign Lord who commands armies, the powerful ruler of Israel, says this: “Ah, I will seek vengeance against my adversaries, I will take revenge against my enemies.

You must speak my words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.

“Certainly when I punish Israel for their covenant transgressions, I will destroy Bethel’s altars. The horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

and I will drive you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord. He is called the God who commands armies!

With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”

testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

Now if you forget the Lord your God at all and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.

In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.

“El, God, the Lord! El, God, the Lord! He knows the truth! Israel must also know! If we have rebelled or disobeyed the Lord, don’t spare us today!




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