TCP 11: Amos - Malachi w Text Flashcards
THEME of Amos
Judgment for Injustice
GOD SOVEREIGN OVER CALAMITY
Amos 3:6b
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?
PERVERTED JUSTICE
Amos 5:10-12
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth. Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine. For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins- you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
GOD DESIRES JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
Amos 5:24
But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
HOPE OF ISRAEL’S FUTURE RESTORATION
Amos 9:11-15
“In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old, that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” declares the LORD who does this. “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it. I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.
THEME of Obadiah
Judgment on Edom
JUDGMENT BASED ON REAPING WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN
Obadiah 1:15
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
THEME of Jonah
God’s Mercy
SALVATION BELONGS TO THE LORD
Jonah 2:9
But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the LORD!”
GOD RELENTS WHEN SINNERS REPENT
Jonah 3:10
When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
PREJUDICE PREVENTS PROCLAMATION
Jonah 4:2
And he prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.
THEME of Micah
God’s Justice
ETERNAL CHRIST FROM BETHLEHEM
Micah 5:2
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.
GOD REQUIRES JUSTICE, WALK HUMBLY
Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
A GOD WHO FORGIVES
Micah 7:18-20
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.