From a message the Lord God
revealed to Amos the prophet:
Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.-Amos 4:4-11***King Uzziah (Azariah) was the 9th king to rule Judah, the southern nation in the Promised Land. King Joash (Jehoash) was the 12th king to rule over all of the Israelites in the northern nation of Israel in the Promised Land. Joash's son Jeroboam was the 13th king to reign. Amos was a shepherd and fruit tree worker. While Uzziah and Joash were reigning, the Lord God gave Amos words to speak to the Israelites in the northern nation of Israel. The Israelites living under Jeroboam's rulership were submitting sacrifices, playing melodies, and bringing tithes and offerings to the Lord God. Meanwhile, however, the Israelites in the northern nation were also worshiping idols, and disobeying the commandments the Lord God gave regarding the Sabbath day, and engaging in sexually immoral acts, and buying, selling and cheating the poor. Amos spoke to the Israelites as commanded by the Lord God and revealed the visions that the Lord God showed him. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that the kings who ruled the northern nation before and after Jeroboam indulged in and sponsored wickedness among the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. The 1st king to rule the northern nation of Israel was Jeroboam, the son born to Nebat and Zeruah. During his reign, Jeroboam built golden calves and shrines for idolatrous worship, and appointed random men to serve as priests. Over 500 years earlier, Moses and his older brother Aaron led the Israelites away from Egyptian slavery, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur, according to the commands of the Lord God. In the desert wilderness of Sinai, in the region of Mount Sinai, the Israelites heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim the Ten Commandments to them, and the Lord God began giving Moses judgments, statutes and laws for the Israelites. When Moses was upon Mount Sinai with the Lord God for 40 days and nights, the Lord God told Moses that only Aaron and Aaron sons and the sons born to their descendants were to serve the Lord God as priests. King Pekah was the 18th king to rule over all of the Israelites in the northern nation of Israel. During Pekah's reign, the Assyrians invaded the kingdom and King Tiglath-pileser, ruler of Assyria, began taking Israelites to Assyria. During the reign of King Hoshea, the 19th king to rule the northern nation, the Assyrians conquered the royal city, Samaria, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. During the reign of Uzziah's great-great-great-great-great-grandson Jehoiakim (Eliakim), the 17th king to rule Judah, the Babylonians (Chaldeans) invaded Judah and Jerusalem, the royal city, and King Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of Babylon, began looting the temple of the Lord. During the reign of Jehoiakim's son King Jehoiachin (Jeconiah/Coniah), the 18th king to rule Judah, the Babylonians took more prominent Israelites to Babylon. During the reign of Jehoiakim's brother King Zedekiah (Mattaniah), the 19th king to rule Judah, the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. Over 500 years after Israelites began returning to Judah and Jerusalem, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah, the birth tribe of Judah's kings, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Leviticus 18:1-19:37, 26:1-46, Numbers 3:6-13, 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 12:1-32, 18:15-22, 23:19-25, 24:10-22, 28:1-68, 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Amos, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
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