Jonah and Amos

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Jonah and Amos
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Chronology
Judah Prophets Israel
931 BC Rehoboam Jeroboam
Abijah Nadab
900 BC Asa Baasha
850 BC Jehoshaphat Elijah Zimri, Omri, Ahab, Ahaziah, Joram
800 BC Jehoram, Ahaziah, Queen Athaliah, Joash Elisha Jonah Amos Johoahaz, Johoash, Jeroboam II
750 BC Amaziah, Uzziah, Ahaz Hosea Micah Isaiah Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah
722 BC Hezekiah Isaiah Pekah, Hoshea
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Jonah

• Prophet to the enemy
• Go to Nineveh, that great city, and speak out
  against it I am aware of how wicked its people
  are. Jonah, however, set out in the opposite
  direction in order to get away from the LORD.
  (Jonah 12,3 GN)

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Jonah

• I am a Hebrew, Jonah answered. I worship the
  LORD, the God of heaven, who made land and sea.
  Jonah went on to tell them that he was running
  away from the LORD. The sailors were terrified,
  and said to him, That was an awful thing to do!
  The storm was getting worse all the time, so the
  sailors asked him, What should we do to you to
  stop the storm? Jonah answered, Throw me into
  the sea, and it will calm down. I know it is my
  fault that you are caught in this violent
  storm. (Jonah 19-12 GN)

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Jonah

• At the LORDs command a large fish swallowed
  Jonah, and he was inside the fish for three days
  and three nights. (Jonah 117 GN)
• In the same way that Jonah spent three days and
  nights in the big fish, so will the Son of Man
  spend three days and nights in the depths of the
  earth. (Matthew 1240 GN)
• Inclusive reckoning of time
• Jesus answered them, Go and tell that fox 'I
  am driving out demons and performing cures today
  and tomorrow, and on the third day I shall finish
  my work. (Luke 1332 GN)

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• Then the LORD ordered the fish to spit Jonah up
  on the beach, and it did. (Jonah 210 GN)
• Once again the LORD spoke to Jonah. He said, Go
  to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to the
  people the message I have given you. So Jonah
  obeyed the LORD and went to Nineveh, a city so
  large that it took three days to walk through it.
  Jonah started through the city, and after walking
  a whole day, he proclaimed, In forty days
  Nineveh will be destroyed! The people of Nineveh
  believed Gods message. So they decided that
  everyone should fast, and all the people, from
  the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth to
  show that they had repented. (Jonah 31-4 GN)

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Jonah

• When the king of Nineveh heard about it, he got
  up from his throne, took off his robe, put on
  sackcloth, and sat down in ashes. He sent out a
  proclamation to the people of Nineveh This is
  an order from the king and his officials No one
  is to eat anything all persons, cattle, and
  sheep are forbidden to eat or drink. All persons
  and animals must wear sackcloth. Everyone must
  pray earnestly to God and must give up their
  wicked behavior and their evil actions. Perhaps
  God will change his mind perhaps he will stop
  being angry, and we will not die! God saw what
  they did he saw that they had given up their
  wicked behavior. So he changed his mind and did
  not punish them as he had said he would. (Jonah
  36-10 GN)

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God changes his mind?

• God is not like people, who lie He is not a
  human who changes his mind. Whatever he promises,
  he does He speaks, and it is done. (Numbers
  2319 GN)
• Israels majestic God does not lie or change
  his mind. He is not a human being---he does not
  change his mind. (1 Samuel 1529 GN)
• Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and
  forever (Hebrews 138 GN)
• All generous giving and every perfect gift is
  from above, coming down from the Father of
  lights, with whom there is no variation or the
  slightest hint of change. (James 117 NET)
• For I am the LORD, I change not (Malachi 36
  KJV)

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God changes his mind?

• God doesnt know everything?
• Adam and Eve where are you?
• The rainbow
• Towel of Babel and Sodom and Gomorrah
• Child sacrifice it did not even enter my mind
  (Jeremiah 731 GN)
• He changes his mind?
• Worship of the golden calf So the LORD changed
  his mind and did not bring on his people the
  disaster he had threatened (Exodus 3214 GN)
• Jonah So he changed his mind

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God changes his mind?

• Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and
  forever (Hebrews 138 GN)
• All generous giving and every perfect gift is
  from above, coming down from the Father of
  lights, with whom there is no variation or the
  slightest hint of change. (James 117 NET)
• For I am the LORD, I change not (Malachi 36
  KJV)
• Gods character is a constant that never changes

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God changes his mind?

• Adam and Eve where are you?
• The rainbow
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• Worship of the golden calf So the LORD changed
  his mind and did not bring on his people the
  disaster he had threatened (Exodus 3214 GN)
• Child sacrifice it did not even enter my mind
  (Jeremiah 731 GN)
• Jonah So he changed his mind

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Jonah

• Jonah was furious. He lost his temper. He yelled
  at God, God! I knew itwhen I was back home, I
  knew this was going to happen! Thats why I ran
  off to Tarshish! I knew you were sheer grace and
  mercy, not easily angered, rich in love, and
  ready at the drop of a hat to turn your plans of
  punishment into a program of forgiveness! So,
  God, if you wont kill them, kill me! Im better
  off dead! (Jonah 41-3 The Message)

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Jonah

• The LORD answered, What right do you have to be
  angry? Jonah went out east of the city and sat
  down. He made a shelter for himself and sat in
  its shade, waiting to see what would happen to
  Nineveh. Then the LORD God made a plant grow up
  over Jonah to give him some shade, so that he
  would be more comfortable. Jonah was extremely
  pleased with the plant. But at dawn the next day,
  at Gods command, a worm attacked the plant, and
  it died. After the sun had risen, God sent a hot
  east wind, and Jonah was about to faint from the
  heat of the sun beating down on his head. So he
  wished he were dead. I am better off dead than
  alive, he said.

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Jonah

• But God said to him, What right do you have to
  be angry about the plant? Jonah replied, I have
  every right to be angry---angry enough to die!
  The LORD said to him, This plant grew up in one
  night and disappeared the next you didnt do
  anything for it and you didnt make it grow---yet
  you feel sorry for it! How much more, then,
  should I have pity on Nineveh, that great city.
  After all, it has more than 120,000 innocent
  children in it, as well as many animals! (Jonah
  44-11 GN)

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• So, why can't I likewise change what I feel
  about Nineveh from anger to pleasure, this big
  city of more than a hundred and twenty thousand
  childlike people who don't yet know right from
  wrong, to say nothing of all the innocent
  animals? (Jonah 411 The Message)

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Jonah

• Large city, 120,000 children, animals
• had it been destroyed
• Great happiness for Jonah
• Small shade plant
• It was destroyed
• Great anger and depression for Jonah

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• Lord, do You wish us to command fire to come
  down from heaven and consume them, even as Elijah
  did?
• But He turned and rebuked and severely censured
  them. He said, You do not know of what sort of
  spirit you are, For the Son of Man did not come
  to destroy mens lives, but to save them. (Luke
  953-56 - Amplified)

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Amos

• These are the words of Amos, a shepherd...
  (Amos 11)

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Chronology
Judah Prophets Israel
931 BC Rehoboam Jeroboam
Abijah Nadab
900 BC Asa Baasha
850 BC Jehoshaphat Elijah Zimri, Omri, Ahab, Ahaziah, Joram
800 BC Jehoram, Ahaziah, Queen Athaliah, Joash Elisha Jonah Amos Johoahaz, Johoash, Jeroboam II
750 BC Amaziah, Uzziah, Ahaz Hosea Micah Isaiah Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah
722 BC Hezekiah Isaiah Pekah, Hoshea
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Amos

• Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, then sent a
  report to King Jeroboam of Israel Amos is
  plotting against you among the people. His
  speeches will destroy the country. This is what
  he says Jeroboam will die in battle, and the
  people of Israel will be taken away from their
  land into exile. Amaziah then said to Amos,
  Thats enough, prophet! Go on back to Judah and
  do your preaching there. Let them pay you for it.
  Dont prophesy here at Bethel any more. This is
  the kings place of worship, the national
  temple. Amos answered, I am not the kind of
  prophet who prophesies for pay. I am a herdsman,
  and I take care of fig trees. But the LORD took
  me from my work as a shepherd and ordered me to
  come and prophesy to his people Israel. So now
  listen to what the LORD says. (Amos 710-17
  GN)

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Amos 1

• Syria I will send fire upon the palace
• Philistia I will send fire upon the city
  walls
• Tyre I will send fire upon the city walls
• Edom I will send fire upon the city
• Ammon I will send fire upon the city walls
• Moab I will send fire upon the land
• Judah So I will send fire upon Judah and burn
  down the fortresses of Jerusalem

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• Virgin Israel has fallen, Never to rise again!
  She lies abandoned on the ground, And no one
  helps her up. (Amos 52 GN)

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Why so much attention to other nations?

• The LORD says, People of Israel, I think as
  much of the people of Ethiopia as I do of you. I
  brought the Philistines from Crete and the
  Syrians from Kir, just as I brought you from
  Egypt. (Amos 97 GN)

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We are all Gods children

• Rahab and Ruth
• Naaman
• Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus
• Roman officer
• I tell you, I have never found anyone in Israel
  with faith like this. I assure you that many will
  come from the east and the west and sit down with
  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the feast in the
  Kingdom of heaven. But those who should be in the
  Kingdom will be thrown out into the darkness,
  where they will cry and gnash their teeth.
  (Matthew 810-12 GN)
• Canaanite woman
• You are a woman of great faith! (Matthew 1528
  GN)

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Religious

• The Sovereign LORD says, People of Israel, go
  to the holy place in Bethel and sin, if you must!
  Go to Gilgal and sin with all your might! Go
  ahead and bring animals to be sacrificed morning
  after morning, and bring your tithes every third
  day. Go on and offer your bread in thanksgiving
  to God, and brag about the extra offerings you
  bring! This is the kind of thing you love to
  do. (Amos 44-5 GN)

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• The LORD says, I hate your religious festivals
  I cannot stand them! When you bring me burnt
  offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept
  them I will not accept the animals you have
  fattened to bring me as offerings. Stop your
  noisy songs I do not want to listen to your
  harps. Instead, let justice flow like a stream,
  and righteousness like a river that never goes
  dry. (Amos 521-24 GN)

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Disregard for the outcasts

• They sell into slavery honest people who cannot
  pay their debts, the poor who cannot repay even
  the price of a pair of sandals. They trample down
  the weak and helpless and push the poor out of
  the wayAt every place of worship people sleep on
  clothing that they have taken from the poor as
  security for debts. (Amos 26-8 GN)

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• The LORD says, These people fill their mansions
  with things taken by crime and violence. They
  dont even know how to be honestonly a few will
  survive of Samarias people who recline on
  couches. (Amos 310)

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• Listen to this, you women of Samaria, who grow
  fat like the well-fed cows of Bashan, who
  mistreat the weak, oppress the poor, and demand
  that your husbands keep you supplied with
  liquor! (Amos 41 GN)

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• You have oppressed the poor and robbed them of
  their grain. And so you will not live in the fine
  stone houses you build or drink wine from the
  beautiful vineyards you plant. I know how
  terrible your sins are and how many crimes you
  have committed. You persecute good people, take
  bribes, and prevent the poor from getting justice
  in the courts. (Amos 511-12 GN)

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• How terrible it will be for you that have such
  an easy life in Zion and for you that feel safe
  in Samaria How terrible it will be for you that
  stretch out on your luxurious couches, feasting
  on veal and lamb! You like to compose songs, as
  David did, and play them on harps. You drink wine
  by the bowlful and use the finest perfumes, but
  you do not mourn over the ruin of Israel. (Amos
  64-6 GN)

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• Your feasts and banquets will come to an end.
  The Sovereign LORD Almighty has given this solemn
  warning I hate the pride of the people of
  Israel I despise their luxurious mansions.
  (Amos 68,9 GN)

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• How terrible it will be for you who long for the
  day of the LORD! What good will that day do you?
  For you it will be a day of darkness and not of
  light. It will be like someone who runs from a
  lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes
  home and puts his hand on the wall---only to be
  bitten by a snake! The day of the LORD will bring
  darkness and not light it will be a day of
  gloom, without any brightness. (Amos 518-20
  GN)

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867 people aged 16-29

• 440 non-Christians and 305 active churchgoers
• 440 non-Christians perception of Christianity
• 91 percent anti-gay image
• 87 percent judgmental
• 85 percent hypocritical
• 305 churchgoers perception
• 80 percent anti-gay
• 52 percent judgmental
• 47 percent hypocritical

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• Kinnaman said one of the biggest surprises for
  researchers was the extent to which
  respondentssaid that modern-day Christianity was
  no longer like Jesus.
• some Christians preferred to call themselves
  followers of Jesus or apprentices of Christ
  because the word Christian could limit their
  ability to relate to people.

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• Anti-gay
• Anti-abortion
• Stem cells
• Pledge of allegiance
• War in Iraq
• Politics
• 10 commandments in buildings

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• A man suffering from a dreaded skin disease came
  to Jesus, knelt down, and begged him for help.
  If you want to, he said, you can make me
  clean.
• Jesus was filled with pity, and reached out and
  touched him. I do want to, he answered. Be
  clean! (Mark 140-41 GN)

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• When the Pharisees saw him keeping this kind of
  company, they had a fit, and lit into Jesus
  followers. What kind of example is this from
  your Teacher, acting cozy with crooks and
  riff-raff? (Matthew 911 The Message)
• When the Son of Man came, he ate and drank, and
  everyone said, Look at this man! He is a glutton
  and wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and
  other outcasts! (Matthew 1119 GN)

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• I do not condemn you. (John 811)

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• Jesus went everywhere, doing good and healing
  all who were under the power of the Devil, for
  God was with him. (Acts 1038)
• Value faithfulness gt effectiveness
• Value service gt success