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The message of Amos is pre-eminently a message of new life. The message, however, comes in the context of a nation under judgment. Israel hid the emptiness and godliness of a corrupt society behind an apathetic and nominal outward religion, like so many today. God’s view of our society is revealed in Amos in no uncertain terms. While no refuge is offered for those who reject or disregard God’s...

themselves of any wrongdoing before God and men. Amos shows people who think they are going to heaven, when in fact they are going to hell, that God is neither fooled nor mocked by their self-deceptions. It is the Lord Jesus Christ who will certainly be the Judge of the living and the dead when he returns at the end of the age (2 Timothy 4:1). Yet many will say to him on that day, ‘ “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?” ’ And
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