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"Prepare to meet your God"

Text: Amos 4:12

THE INEVITABLE CONCLUSION

God had done so much for Israel to prevent the nation from slipping further into darkness. Every means was employed but there was hardly any response from recalcitrant Israel. The inevitable conclusion was reached!

“Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel;
Because I will do this to you,
Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
For behold, He who forms mountains,
And creates the wind,
Who declares to man what his thought is,
And makes the morning darkness,
Who treads the high places of the earth-
The LORD God of hosts is His name.”
Amos 4:12-13

1. “Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel”

a) Therefore

i) This is an inferential particle.

ii) This was the inevitable conclusion.

b) Israel had been warned many times and in various ways.

c) Since the nation had rebuffed all that God had sought to teach, therefore the Lord had to take the following action.

2. “Because I will do this to you”

a) The nation will be overthrown.

b) Destruction would be inevitable.

3. “Prepare to meet your God, O Israel”

a) These are ominous words.

b) Israel would meet God… in death!

4. Seeking to teach Israel who God is!

a) He is the Creator God.

i) He formed the mountains.

ii) He created the wind.

b) He is the omniscient God who knows the hidden thoughts of man.

c) He is the God who can make the morning darkness; He can reverse a blessing to a curse.

d) He who treads the mountain tops… His Name is the LORD God of hosts! He is to be feared!