UNHEARD OF!

THERE WAS THIS  MAN WHO TOOK CARE OF SYCAMORE/FIG TREES AND A BUNCH OF SHEEP.

HE LIVED IN TEKOA, ISRAEL, ABOUT FIVE MILES FROM BETHLEHEM AND TEN MILES FROM JERUSALEM.

HE WAS NOT A SEMINARY GRADUATE, A POPE, OR A PASTOR.  BUT EVERYTHING HE PREDICTED CAME TRUE!



THE PREACHERS, PASTORS, AND PRIESTS  OF HIS DAY HATED HIM.  HIS NAME WAS AMOS.

AMAZIAH, THE PRIEST OF BETHEL, TOLD AMOS, "GET OUT OF HERE!  YOU ARE JUST TRYING TO MAKE MONEY BY PROPHECYING LIES.  DON'T BOTHER  US.  YOU DON'T BELONG HERE.  THIS IS THE KING'S SANCTUARY AND THE NATIONAL PLACE OF WORSHIP."

PRETTY STRONG LANGUAGE!
 
AMOS DID NOT SEEM TO BE INTIMIDATED BY BIG-SHOT "PRIEST" AMAZIAH ONE BIT.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THE MAIN RELIGIOUS LEADER AND CLOSE FRIEND OF THE PRESIDENT SPOKE TO YOU LIKE THIS?

IT DID NOT BOTHER AMOS AT ALL.

HE LOOKED AMAZIAH RIGHT IN THE EYE AND PUBLICLY TOLD HIM, "YOUR WIFE WILL BECOME A PROSTITUTE IN THIS CITY!"

NOBODY . . . I MEAN NOBODY . . . TALKS TO THE MAIN POPULAR PREACHER LIKE THIS.

BUT AMOS WAS NOT FINISHED.

HE ALSO PREDICTED: "THE CHURCH ROOF WILL FALL DOWN ON THE HEADS OF THE PEOPLE BELOW!"

NOT THE WAY TO WIN A POPULARITY CONTEST.

BUT AMOS WAS NOT TRYING TO BECOME POPULAR.

HIS MAIN DESIRE WAS TO SPEAK THE WORDS GOD TOLD HIM TO SAY.

TWO YEARS AFTER HE GAVE HIS MESSAGES AN 8.2 EARTHQUAKE ROCKED THE NATION!

"BRING DOWN THE ROOF ON THE HEADS OF THE PEOPLE BELOW" (AMOS 9:1).

WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE TODAY WHO ARE ACTUALLY HEARING FROM GOD . . . AND THEN SPEAKING WHAT HE TELLS THEM?

HERE'S THE CHALLENGE: 

IF GOD CALLED YOU TO SPEAK HIS TRUE WORDS, WOULD YOU DO IT?

OH . . . BY THE WAY . . . FOR ALL YOU AMERICAN CHRISTIANS WHO WANT TO  VERIFY THAT WHAT I WROTE IS ACTUALLY IN THE BIBLE . . .

AND I KNOW YOU WOULD NOT READ THE ENTIRE BOOK OF AMOS  . . . IT WOULD INTERFERE WITH YOUR TELEVISION PROGRAMS . . .

JUST READ CHAPTERS 7 and 9!

OH, YES . . . THE BOOK OF AMOS IS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT OF THE BIBLE.  :)