{"id":1289,"date":"2021-08-22T13:09:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T18:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2023-02-20T10:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:24:53","slug":"lesson-7-amos-the-prophet-from-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/22\/lesson-7-amos-the-prophet-from-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 7: Amos: The Prophet from the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Key Verse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u2014Jeremiah 29:13<strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Verse Thought: <\/strong>Read today\u2019s key verse. Do you know what it is\nto seek for God? Use the following definitions to help you understand this\nverse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>seek:<\/strong> to search out \u2013 specifically in prayer or worship; to\nenquire, ask, beseech<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>search:<\/strong> to follow in pursuit; to search; to worship; make\ninquisition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>find:<\/strong> to find or acquire; to meet <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>heart:<\/strong> the mind; understanding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>God promises that if we will\nactively pursue Him in prayer or worship, we will meet Him. But only if we will\nfollow in pursuit until we find Him with our mind and understanding. It\nobviously takes work. In this lesson, we will see that the people of Israel\ndid not seek God \u2013 even when God told them to seek Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Emphasis:<\/strong> We should consider Amos\u2019 question. \u201cCan two walk together, except they be agreed?\u201d (Amos\n3:3). We cannot live as the Israelites lived, disregarding God\u2019s commands. We\nshould then heed Amos\u2019s warning to \u201cSeek the LORD,\nand ye shall live\u2026\u201d (Amos 5:6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lesson Summary: <\/strong>Amos was a contemporary of Jonah, whom we studied in\nour last lesson. Although they spoke around the same time, they spoke God\u2019s\nWord to different groups of people. If you remember, God sent Jonah to a city, Nineveh,\nin a Gentile nation, Assyria. Amos was from an area just\nsouth of Jerusalem, in Judah.\nBut God sent him to speak \u2013 mostly to Israel.\nHe spoke during the reign of King Jeroboam II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amos was known as a prophet from the country. He was only a herdsman, yet when God called him, he obeyed God (Amos 7:14\u201315). Amos told of the impending judgment on the nations around, ending with the judgment that would fall upon Israel for their sin against God. He asked a pertinent question. \u201cCan two walk together, except they be agreed?\u201d (Amos 3:3). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After many warnings to \u201c[s]eek the LORD, and ye shall live \u2026\u201d, Amos warned of the discipline God would allow upon the people of Israel if they refused to turn back to Him. When the people refused to heed correction, God showed Amos several things that revealed the judgment that would come to God\u2019s people. He saw: grasshoppers, a plumb line, a basket of summer fruit, and finally God standing at the altar. Nevertheless, even with the impending doom, God left His people with words of hope and restoration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Y2Q1-Lesson-7-Questions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Year Two Quarter One - Lesson 7 Questions (opens in a new tab)\">Year Two Quarter One &#8211; Lesson 7 Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Year Two Quarter One - Lesson 7 Children's Worksheets (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Y2Q1-Lesson-7-Childrens-Worksheets.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Year Two Quarter One &#8211; Lesson 7 Children&#8217;s Worksheets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>If you teach this to children, here is a craft idea:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Y2Q1-Lesson-7-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1293\" srcset=\"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Y2Q1-Lesson-7-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Y2Q1-Lesson-7-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Y2Q1-Lesson-7-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">You could have your students make a picture of a sheep to remember Amos was a herdsman. Have them glue cotton, draw a face on the sheep, and add the verse Amos 1:1a.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Verse And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. \u2014Jeremiah 29:13 Key Verse Thought: Read today\u2019s key verse. Do you know what it is to seek for God? Use the following definitions to help you understand this verse: God promises that if we will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729],"tags":[66,758,746,753],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year-two-quarter-one","tag-amos","tag-lesson-7","tag-quarter-one","tag-year-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}