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Injustice in Amos

  1. The divine pyromaniac threatens to "send fire unto" Hazael, Gaza, Tyrus, Teman, Rabbah, Moab, and Judah. 1:4, 7, 10, 12, 14; 2:2, 5

  2. God says there are three or four reasons for him to punish Moab. But he only mentions one: "because he burned the bones of the king of Edom." So God burned Moab because they burned some bones. 2:1

  3. God will "slay all the princes" of Moab. 2:3

  4. God destroyed the Amorites who were a race of giants as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks. 2:9

  5. God explains that he punishes the Israelites because he knows them so well. 3:2

  6. All evil comes from God. 3:6

  7. God afflicts the Israelites with "cleanness of teeth" (famine) and drought. And then he wonders why they don't turn to him. 4:6-9

  8. God sends the pestilence, kills young men with the sword, and makes the "stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils," and nearly destroys them (ala Sodom & Gomorrah). 4:10

  9. "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel."
    God promises to kill all the Israelites. 4:12

  10. God tells the Israelites to seek him or he'll kill 90% of them. 5:3-4

  11. Seek God or he'll burn you to death. 5:6

  12. When there is wailing and mourning, you'll know God's been there. 5:16-17

  13. God rejects the Israelites prayers, songs, and sacrifices because they worshipped other gods and didn't offer enough sacrifices during the Exodus (many centuries ago). To punish them he'll make them all slaves. 5:21-27

  14. "The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself ... I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city." God swears to himself that he hates Jacob's palaces, so he will deliver up the city (and kill everyone in it). 6:8

  15. God says, "If there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die." 6:9

  16. "The LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts."
    (God will destroy people's houses.) 6:11

  17. "I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you." 6:14

  18. In the first of Amos' visions, God makes some grasshoppers and sends them to devour the peoples' crops. 7:1-2

  19. Next God sends a fire that consumes both land and sea. 7:4

  20. God will kill the house of Jeroboam with the sword, and force the Israelites into captivity. 7:9-11

  21. Amos tells Amaziah that his wife will become a whore, his children will be killed, and he'll die in a pagan country. 7:17

  22. God tells Amos that the end has come for the people of Israel. He won't wait any longer to kill them all. 8:2

  23. God will kill so many people that dead bodies will lay everywhere. 8:3-14

  24. "They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it." 8:12

  25. God will "slay the last of them with the sword." Any that try to escape by diving to the bottom of the sea will be bitten, at God's command, by a serpent. God will set his "eyes upon them for evil, not for good." 9:1-4

  26. God will destroy the "the sinful kingdom" and "all the sinners" among his people. 9:8-10