# Amos 07 📖: Visions and Opposition [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Amos Overview]] | [[Amos 06]] | [[Amos 08]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Symbolic Visions of Judgment [[#Verse 01.]] The Sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw him making locusts just as the crops planted late were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest.)  [[#Verse 02.]] When they had completely consumed the earth’s vegetation, I said, “Sovereign Lord, forgive Israel! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!” [[#Verse 03.]] The Lord decided not to do this. “It will not happen,” the Lord said. [[#Verse 04.]] The Sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw the Sovereign Lord summoning a shower of fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the fields.  [[#Verse 05.]] I said, “Sovereign Lord, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!” [[#Verse 06.]] The Lord decided not to do this. The Sovereign Lord said, “This will not happen either.” [[#Verse 07.]] He showed me this: I saw the Lord standing by a tin wall holding tin in his hand.  [[#Verse 08.]] The Lord said to me, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “Tin.” The Lord then said, “Look, I am about to place tin among my people Israel. I will no longer overlook their sin. [[#Verse 09.]] Isaac’s centers of worship will become desolate; Israel’s holy places will be in ruins. I will attack Jeroboam’s dynasty with the sword.” ### Amos Confronts a Priest [[#Verse 10.]] Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent this message to King Jeroboam of Israel: “Amos is conspiring against you in the very heart of the kingdom of Israel! The land cannot endure all his prophecies.  [[#Verse 11.]] As a matter of fact, Amos is saying this: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly be carried into exile away from its land.’” [[#Verse 12.]] Amaziah then said to Amos, “Leave, you visionary! Run away to the land of Judah. Earn your living and prophesy there!  [[#Verse 13.]] Don’t prophesy at Bethel any longer, for a royal temple and palace are here.” [[#Verse 14.]] Amos replied to Amaziah, “I was not a prophet by profession. No, I was a herdsman who also took care of sycamore fig trees.  [[#Verse 15.]] Then the Lord took me from tending flocks and gave me this commission, ‘Go! Prophesy to my people Israel.’  [[#Verse 16.]] So now listen to the Lord’s message! You say, ‘Don’t prophesy against Israel! Don’t preach against the family of Isaac!’ [[#Verse 17.]] “Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets and your sons and daughters will die violently. Your land will be given to others and you will die in a foreign land. Israel will certainly be carried into exile away from its land.’” ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Amos sees five visions in the book: locusts, fire, a plumb line (chapter 7), summer fruit (chapter 8), and the Lord by the altar (chapter 9). 2. "The king's mowings" (7:1) likely refers to the first harvest taken for the king, so the locusts would devour the people's share. 3. The fire that devoured the great deep (7:4) pictures a judgment so intense it dries up the waters. 4. The Hebrew word often translated "plumb line" (*anak*) appears only in 7:7-8, and some scholars think it means tin. 5. Amaziah was the priest of Bethel, the king's sanctuary (7:10, 13). 6. Amaziah reported that Amos said Jeroboam would die by the sword (7:11), but Amos had said this of Jeroboam's house (7:9). 7. Jeroboam II died naturally (2 Kings 14:29), but his son Zechariah was assassinated (2 Kings 15:10), fulfilling 7:9. 8. Sycamore figs had to be slit or punctured so they would ripen, and Amos did this work (7:14). 9. "Prophet's son" (7:14) likely means a member of a prophetic guild, like the "sons of the prophets" in 2 Kings 2. 10. Amaziah told Amos to go back to Judah and earn his bread there (7:12), implying he prophesied for money. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is our perfect Intercessor. Amos pleaded for Jacob and the Lord relented (7:2-3, 5-6). Jesus always lives to intercede for us (Hebrews 7:25). ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. Amos interceded twice and God relented (7:2-6). What does this teach about the power of prayer? 2. God measured Israel with a plumb line (7:7-8). What is God's standard, and how do we measure up? 3. Amos said he was not a professional prophet, but a herdsman whom God called (7:14-15). How should we respond when people dismiss God's message because of the messenger? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verses 2-3: Amos prays, "How can Jacob survive? He is so small," and the Lord relents. - 📖 verses 7-8: The Lord stands with a plumb line to measure His people. - 📖 verses 14-15: Amos was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore figs when the Lord called him. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[Hebrews 07#Verse 25.|Hebrews 7:25]] - Jesus always lives to intercede. - 🔗 [[Exodus 32#Verse 11.|Exodus 32:11-14]] - Moses intercedes and the Lord relents. - 🔗 [[Isaiah 28#Verse 17.|Isaiah 28:17]] - Justice as the measuring line. - 🔗 [[1 Kings 13#Verse 01.|1 Kings 13:1-5]] - A man of God confronts the altar at Bethel. - 🔗 [[Acts 04#Verse 18.|Acts 4:18-20]] - We cannot stop speaking what we have seen and heard. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Amos 07 - SOAP|Remember Who Is In Charge]] ## 📂 Internal Notes