Burden bearer.

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• "Burden bearer."

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• His career took place during a period of great
  material prosperity for Israel, but also a period
  of social and religious corruption.

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• His harsh words are directed against
• the king (710-11)
• Priest (716-17)
• The upper classes (41-361)

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• His vocation
• I am not a prophet, nor I belong to a prophetic
  brotherhood. I am merely a herdsman and a dresser
  of sycamore-figs (Am 714-15)

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• The sin of Judah Despised YHWHs Law and not
  kept his commandments.

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• The sin of Israel
• They have sold the upright for silver, and the
  poor for a pair of sandals(26-8)
• They forgot their history

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• The Lord does nothing without revealing his
  secret to his servants the prophets (37)
• He will visit his chosen people (32 14)
• The visit of God is seen as his intervention
  among men to bless or to punish.

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• The punishment of the Lord is a famine not hunger
  for food, nor thirst for water,but famine for
  hearing YHWHs word (811)

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• The way to survive is to seek out for the Lord
  (54614-15)

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• The Lord will take pity on the remnant of Joseph
  (515) and will rebuild the hut of David (911)

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• Doxology
• 413
• 58 (may be not in Chinese bible)
• 95