Friday, November 22, 2013

Portions: Amos 8 - 9; Obadiah 1

"The days are coming," declares the Sovereign Lord,
"when I will send a famine through the land -
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
Men will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it."
(Amos 8:11-12)

"In that day I will restore David's fallen tent.
I will repair its broken places,
restore its ruins,
and build it as it used to be,
so that they may possess the remnant of Edom
and all the nations that bear My name,"
declares the Lord, Who will do all these things.
(Amos 9:11-12)

The vision of Obadiah.
This is what the Sovereign Lord says about Edom -
We have heard a message from the Lord:
An envoy was sent to the nations to say,
"Rise, and let us go against her for battle" -
Though you soar like the eagle
and make your nest among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,"
declares the Lord.
(Obadiah 1:1,4)

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