1. Amos comes after this book in the Old Testament.
ANSWER: Joel
2. Amos was a...
ANSWER: A minor prophet
3. Prophet Amos was called by God while he was a...
ANSWER: Herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs
Amos 7:14 ESV
"Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs."
4. Prophet Amos makes a prediction and it comes true; what was it?
ANSWER: An earthquake
Amos 1:1 KJV
"The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake."
5. What does it say the people of Israel sold for silver?
Answer: the righteous
Amos 2:6 KJV
"Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes"
6. Amos was from the...
ANSWER: Southern Kingdom
NOTE: Amos was from the southern Kingdom of Judah but preached in the northern Kingdom of Israel.
7. Where was prophet Amos from?
ANSWER: Tekoa
Amos 1:1
"...words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake."
8. What things was God going to use to punish the Israelites?
ANSWER: Fire and Locusts
Amos 7:1-4 ESV
"This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. 2 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
“O Lord God, please forgive!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”
3 The Lord relented concerning this:
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.
4 This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land."
9. What is the point of the plumb line?
ANSWER: To show Israel's failure to measure up with the covenant
Amos 7:7-9 esv
"This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8 And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,
“Behold, I am setting a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them;
9 the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
10. How does the book of Amos end?
ANSWER: With five promises
1. The rebuilding of the nation
2. Victory over old enemies
3. The fruitfulness of the land
4. work not in vain
5. A long lasting inheritance
AMOS 9:11-15 esv
“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,
12 that they may possess the remnant of Edom
and all the nations who are called by my name,”[c]
declares the Lord who does this.
13 “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.
14 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.
15 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.
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