O. Addison Gethers
e-mail address [email protected] [email protected] twitter URL http//:twitter.com/OAddisonGethers Messenger contact window live/msn messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS rs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:09 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Friday September 25 > Day 268 > > Amos 7-9 (The Message) > > Amos 7 > To Die Homeless and Friendless > 1-2 G od, my Master, showed me this vision: He was preparing a locust > swarm. The first cutting, > which went to the king, was complete, and the second crop was just > sprouting. The locusts ate > everything green. Not even a blade of grass was left. > I called out, "God, my Master! Excuse me, but what's going to come of > Jacob? He's so small." > > 3 God gave in. > > "It won't happen," he said. > > 4 God showed me this vision: Oh! God, my Master God was calling up a > firestorm. It burned up the > ocean. Then it burned up the Promised Land. > > 5 I said, "God, my Master! Hold it-please! What's going to come of Jacob? > He's so small." > > 6 God gave in. > > "All right, this won't happen either," God, my Master, said. > > 7 God showed me this vision: My Master was standing beside a wall. In his > hand he held a plumb > line. > > 8-9 God said to me, "What do you see, Amos?" > > I said, "A plumb line." > > Then my Master said, "Look what I've done. I've hung a plumb line in > the midst of my people > Israel. I've spared them for the last time. This is it! > > "Isaac's sex-and-religion shrines will be smashed, > Israel's unholy shrines will be knocked to pieces. > I'm raising my sword against the royal family of Jeroboam." > > 10 Amaziah, priest at the shrine at Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, > king of Israel: > > "Amos is plotting to get rid of you; and he's doing it as an insider, > working from within > Israel. His talk will destroy the country. He's got to be silenced. Do you > know what Amos is saying? > > 11'Jeroboam will be killed. > Israel is headed for exile.' > > 12-13 Then Amaziah confronted Amos: "Seer, be on your way! Get out of here > and go back to Judah > where you came from! Hang out there. Do your preaching there. But no more > preaching at Bethel! Don't > show your face here again. This is the king's chapel. This is a royal > shrine." > > 14-15 But Amos stood up to Amaziah: "I never set up to be a preacher, > never had plans to be a > preacher. I raised cattle and I pruned trees. Then God took me off the > farm and said, 'Go preach to > my people Israel.' > > 16-17 "So listen to God's Word. You tell me, 'Don't preach to Israel. > Don't say anything against > the family of Isaac.' But here's what God is telling you: > > Your wife will become a whore in town. > Your children will get killed. > Your land will be auctioned off. > You will die homeless and friendless. > And Israel will be hauled off to exile, far from home." > > Amos 8 > You Who Give Little and Take Much > 1 My Master God showed me this vision: A bowl of fresh fruit. 2He said, > "What do you see, Amos?" I > said, "A bowl of fresh, ripe fruit." God said, "Right. So, I'm calling it > quits with my people > Israel. I'm no longer acting as if everything is just fine." > 3"The royal singers will wail when it happens." > My Master God said so. > "Corpses will be strewn here, there, and everywhere. > Hush!" > > 4-6Listen to this, you who walk all over the weak, > you who treat poor people as less than nothing, > Who say, "When's my next paycheck coming > so I can go out and live it up? > How long till the weekend > when I can go out and have a good time?" > Who give little and take much, > and never do an honest day's work. > You exploit the poor, using them- > and then, when they're used up, you discard them. > > 7-8God swears against the arrogance of Jacob: > "I'm keeping track of their every last sin." > God's oath will shake earth's foundations, > dissolve the whole world into tears. > God's oath will sweep in like a river that rises, > flooding houses and lands, > And then recedes, > leaving behind a sea of mud. > > 9-10"On Judgment Day, watch out!" > These are the words of God, my Master. > "I'll turn off the sun at noon. > In the middle of the day the earth will go black. > I'll turn your parties into funerals > and make every song you sing a dirge. > Everyone will walk around in rags, > with sunken eyes and bald heads. > Think of the worst that could happen > -your only son, say, murdered. > That's a hint of Judgment Day > -that and much more. > > 11-12"Oh yes, Judgment Day is coming!" > These are the words of my Master God. > "I'll send a famine through the whole country. > It won't be food or water that's lacking, but my Word. > People will drift from one end of the country to the other, > roam to the north, wander to the east. > They'll go anywhere, listen to anyone, > hoping to hear God's Word-but they won't hear it. > > 13-14"On Judgment Day, > lovely young girls will faint of Word-thirst, > robust young men will faint of God-thirst, > Along with those who take oaths at the Samaria Sin-and-Sex Center, > saying, 'As the lord god of Dan is my witness!' > and 'The lady goddess of Beer-sheba bless you!' > Their lives will fall to pieces. > They'll never put it together again." > > Amos 9 > Israel Thrown into a Sieve > 1-4 I saw my Master standing beside the altar at the shrine. He said: "Hit > the tops of the shrine's > pillars, > make the floor shake. > The roof's about to fall on the heads of the people, > and whoever's still alive, I'll kill. > No one will get away, > no runaways will make it. > If they dig their way down into the underworld, > I'll find them and bring them up. > If they climb to the stars, > I'll find them and bring them down. > If they hide out at the top of Mount Carmel, > I'll find them and bring them back. > If they dive to the bottom of the ocean, > I'll send Dragon to swallow them up. > If they're captured alive by their enemies, > I'll send Sword to kill them. > I've made up my mind > to hurt them, not help them." > 5-6My Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, > touches the earth, a mere touch, and it trembles. > The whole world goes into mourning. > Earth swells like the Nile at flood stage; > then the water subsides, like the great Nile of Egypt. > God builds his palace-towers soaring high in the skies, > foundations set on the rock-firm earth. > He calls ocean waters and they come, > then he ladles them out on the earth. > God, your God, does all this. > > 7-8 "Do you Israelites think you're any better than the far-off Cushites?" > God's Decree. > > "Am I not involved with all nations? Didn't I bring Israel up from > Egypt, the Philistines from > Caphtor, the Arameans from Qir? But you can be sure that I, God, the > Master, have my eye on the > Kingdom of Sin. I'm going to wipe it off the face of the earth. Still, I > won't totally destroy the > family of Jacob." God's Decree. > > 9-10 "I'm still giving the orders around here. I'm throwing Israel into a > sieve among all the > nations and shaking them good, shaking out all the sin, all the sinners. > No real grain will be lost, > but all the sinners will be sifted out and thrown away, the people who > say, 'Nothing bad will ever > happen in our lifetime. It won't even come close.' > > Blessings Like Wine Pouring off the Mountains > 11-12 "But also on that Judgment Day I will restore David's house that has > fallen to pieces. I'll > repair the holes in the roof, replace the broken windows, fix it up like > new. David's people will be > strong again and seize what's left of enemy Edom, plus everyone else under > my sovereign judgment." > God's Decree. He will do this. > 13-15 "Yes indeed, it won't be long now." God's Decree. > > "Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast > on the heels of the > other. You won't be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at > once-and everywhere you look, > blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills. I'll > make everything right again > for my people Israel: > > "They'll rebuild their ruined cities. > They'll plant vineyards and drink good wine. > They'll work their gardens and eat fresh vegetables. > And I'll plant them, plant them on their own land. > They'll never again be uprooted from the land I've given them." > > God, your God, says so. > > > > > > > ~~~~~ > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > Also, follow my tweets on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/Donnie1261 > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. 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