Amos L

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/amoslmp3/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><p><strong>The book concludes with good news (9:11-15)</strong>.</p><ul><li>"The words of Amos burst upon the landscape of the Northern kingdom, Israel, with all the terror and surprise of a lion’s roar. Though their main targets were the palaces of Samaria and the shrines at Bethel and Gilgal, the prophet’s words were to resound throughout Israel’s entire landscape leaving no part nor person unscathed" (Tyndale commentary, p.87).</li><li>But the message of doom is followed by a message of hope.</li><li>Gospel! "[Yahweh] committed himself to Jacob’s descendants long before they committed themselves to him” (Hubbard 236).</li><li>Most books of prophecy alternate judgment and restoration oracles, but not Amos.</li></ul><p><strong>The people will return.</strong></p><ul><li><i>Reversals </i>are a major theme of Amos<ul><li>Days are coming (v. that day – 2:16, 5:18ff, 8:3,9,13).</li><li>Falling/rising (5:2, 8:14).</li><li>Walls closed up/open.</li><li>Hunger/harvest.</li><li>People of God under grace > under judgment.</li><li><i>See how many more you can find...</i></li></ul></li><li>The return would take place in the Persian Period.<ul><li>Assyrian exile -- from 722 BC.</li><li>Babylonian exile -- 605, 597 BC, and fall of Jerusalem in 587/586 BC.</li><li>Persian period -- Babylon falls 539 BC. Cyrus decrees return of Jews, 539/538. See Isaiah 44, 45, 2 Chronicles 36, and Ezra 1.</li><li>Greek period -- Persia falls in the 300s. By 333 Persian rules the land of Israel.</li><li>Roman period -- in 63 BC the Romans march into Israel.</li></ul></li><li>The punishment comes to an end. God is good!</li></ul><p><strong>The fallen tent will be rebuilt.</strong></p><ul><li>This vision was <i>not</i> fulfilled in 1948, but in 49 AD. Amos 9:11 is fulfilled in the church of Christ, particularly through its Gentile mission, according to Acts 15:16. In Joshua 21:43 the land pro