Amos 9:1-15, NIV
Israel to Be Destroyed
Pretty horrific scenes…”Cut off the heads of all people-those who are left I will kill with the sword. No one will get away with the sword…climb to heavens…bring them down. hide from me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.”-vs 1-4
Obs: rare glimpse of God’s other side (scary judgment, destruction) and descriptions of God and His power. Beheading His enemies at the command of the LORD in the name of judgment? vs 1.
“Surely the eyes of the Sovereign LORD are on the sinful kingdom. I will destroy it from the face of the earth-yet I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD-vs 8.
All the sinners among my people will die by the sword..vs 10.
…restore David’s fallen tent. .repair its broken places. restore its ruins. ..”….new wine will drip from the mountains…bring back my exiled people Israel…will planr Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the LORD your God-vs 11-15
Luke 6:35-42, NIV
…love your enemies vs 35…then your reward will be great. will be sons of the Most High….because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked…be merciful, just as your Father is merciful vs 36. “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn.. Forgive, and you will be forgiven…measure use blind man lead a blind man…student versus teacher..speck of sawdust in your brother ‘s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? vs 41-42.