The only hope for us all … Amos 9:11,12 is quoted in Acts 15!
– We are now living in the glorious future age prophesied by Amos!
– Will we take advantage of it? Will we listen and obey?
– Don’t be like Israel in the time of Amos!
After all, millions of others in the world do so today, and have done so down through the centuries!
One of the reasons why we should follow Jesus, rather than Confucius or Buddha or Muhammad, is our lesson for today:
Some of the many prophecies concerning Jesus in contrast to no prophecies concerning others.
Jesus Himself taught … 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
And the apostles taught the same … Acts 4:11-12 “He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone. 12 “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”
e., Salvation is only in Jesus – and not in Confucius, or Buddha, or Muhammad, or anyone else!
The prophet Jeremiah lived before and through the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586 B.C.
One of Jeremiah’s many prophecies before that disaster is as follows:
31:31-34 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. 33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 “They will not teach again, each man his neighbour and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
1. The promise of the new covenant (vv. 31, 32)
2. Some of the provisions of the new covenant (vv. 33, 34)