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American Terrorist Sleepers Aim to Wreck the USA
A few Muslims, the counterparts of the religious right in the US, held a protest about what they perceived as an insult to their Prophet Muhammad [PBUH]. I note that you are afraid that the London protesters - all British - will come to hurt you. I can assure you that they will not.
However, since you are open to warnings I will give you some warnings that are relevant to all Americans, because the terrorists groups that are intent on unleashing vile horrors, death, destruction, loss of liberty, and widespread war on American, by Americans, in any part of the world where someone looks askance at them. This is serious, because this large terrorist organisation that is seeking to disrupt American lives, the American economy, the American way of life, and deprive you of your liberties are already here!
They are called 'sleepers' because they do not attract attention to themselves until it is time for them to come out of their cells and set in place the vast conspiracy of evil and destruction that they have planned under cover of darkness. This sinister plot will leave millions of Americans in as bad a condition as the Allied Forces discovered when they liberated Belsen, Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other hell holes where unspeakable evils, torments, medical experiments, and a whole train of inhuman practices were carried out in a process determined to eradicate citizens of a certain 'type.'
These evil combinations arise from time to time and playing on the fears of people they invent baseless fears that are emotionally charged but logically bankrupt. Some of their lies are already circulating in the US, and some of the enemies of the USA have already spoken about what they will institute as the normality for America when they have stolen it from "We the People ... "
They are planting lies to foment unrest, one of the worst being that the US Government will:
~~ Establish DEATH PANELS.
~~ Deny medical aid to those citizens of a certain age.
~~ Kill grandmothers by turning off their life support systems
~~ 'Ration' access to healthcare
~~ Raise your taxes to pay for healthcare for undocumented workers
~~ Spend your taxes in abortions
~~ Bankrupt the nation
~~ Destroy the American Way of Life
~~ Place a bureaucrat between you and your doctor, and the bureaucrat will determine what - if any - treatment you can be given
~~ Force you to have end-of-life counselling whether you want it or not
What you MUST KNOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE is that every one of the 'frighteners' in the above list is a black-hearted lie, courtesy of the GOP and its supporters.
The Gauleiters and Quislings hiding in YOUR woodwork have overplayed their hands so that you can see what they will do once they seize power, by which time it will be too late to do anything about them. They will be in total control, and you, my friends, will be scavenging for old turnips, cabbage leaves, and rotting food so you can feed your family, because they will control thing and they will control what part of the American Pie you will be entitled to, and if you do not work for any reason, then you will be condemned as an undesirable that is not eligible for some of what they themselves have in their large houses, sumptuously furnished, with well stocked cupboards, cellars, and pantries.
Their dogs will eat better and more often that you and your dear ones.
Here is a list of recent statements by Quislings [Traitors]:
"Water boarding is not torture, it is nothing but having a little water on your face. I will volunteer to be water boarded, and I will do it FOR THE TROOPS!"
That was Sean Hannity boasting about what he would do for the troops, and telling his sycophants that nothing like torture was experienced during water boarding.
Hannity has lost respect for the American Military, because the lily-livered coward now refuses to be water boarded. By his own mouth he shows himself to be a liar and a coward.
"The Democrats will have the elderly up before a DEATH PANEL and that panel will decide whether they get treatment or not."
That monstrous and defamatory lie came from the maw of Sarah Palin.
You know Sarah; she of the 'family values' that permit lying, and blaming others for that which she has too small a character and too little integrity to accept as her very own responsibility.
Sarah the secessionist,
Sarah of "Alaska First!"
Sarah of "Me First"
Sarah of "I'll manipulate and exploit my family members whether they like it or not but if anyone except me even so much as mentions them, I will holler, shout, scream, cry, and then I still won't give back the $250,000,000.00 in clothes for me and my family that I bilked the GOP and RNC out of on the veep campaign trail."
Turncoat Grassli smiles into Obama's face, clasps his hands in token of friendship, and as soon as POTUS turns his back, Grassli thrusts the Kris in up to the hilt!
The moral: "Never turn your back when there is a patriot in the room!"
Glen Beck has finally been certified insane. Those that buy into his insanity are as dangerous as he is.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Crass Stupidity is a Constitutional Right
Examples of Crass Stupidity Include:
Ms. Teen South Carolina 2007:
"I personally believe, that US Americans are unable to do so, because some people out there, in our nation, don't have that, and, ah, I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here, in the US, should help the US, or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future... for our children."
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger:
“I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.”
Michele Bachmann:
"This is an earthquake issue. This will change our state forever. Because the immediate consequence, if gay marriage goes through, is that K-12 little children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal, natural and perhaps they should try it."
Britney Spears:
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
Britney Spears:
"I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa."
George W. Bush: OB-GYNS
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."
Glenn Beck
"Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization...And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did. That's what Al Gore, the U.N., and everybody on the global warming bandwagon [are doing]."
Jessica Simpson
"Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says chicken."
Sarah Palin:
"It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out." - announcing that she was quitting!
Rush Limbaugh
"Exercise freaks ... are the ones putting stress on the health care system."
Non-rushed, and non-limber Limbaugh is in hospital for a suspected condition he would likely not have if he was a fitness freak and laid off the illegal drugs.
George W. Bush:
"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
Christina Aguilera
"Where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
Kanye “Interrupter” West
“I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade. I will be the loudest voice.” Eh? Can you speak up?
Ted Stevens
"The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.” Like Spaghetti?
George W. Bush:
“They misunderestimated me” This is probably impossible!
Sarah Palin:
"All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." - unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric. She blames Couric for asking a ‘trick’ question.
Craig T. Nelson
"I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No."
Speaking on lack of fiscal responsibility. Perhaps the elves gave him the coupons and cash?
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That's all - FOR NOW - Folks, but you now there's plenty more where they came from!
:)
Ms. Teen South Carolina 2007:
"I personally believe, that US Americans are unable to do so, because some people out there, in our nation, don't have that, and, ah, I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here, in the US, should help the US, or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future... for our children."
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger:
“I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.”
Michele Bachmann:
"This is an earthquake issue. This will change our state forever. Because the immediate consequence, if gay marriage goes through, is that K-12 little children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal, natural and perhaps they should try it."
Britney Spears:
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
Britney Spears:
"I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa."
George W. Bush: OB-GYNS
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."
Glenn Beck
"Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization...And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did. That's what Al Gore, the U.N., and everybody on the global warming bandwagon [are doing]."
Jessica Simpson
"Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says chicken."
Sarah Palin:
"It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out." - announcing that she was quitting!
Rush Limbaugh
"Exercise freaks ... are the ones putting stress on the health care system."
Non-rushed, and non-limber Limbaugh is in hospital for a suspected condition he would likely not have if he was a fitness freak and laid off the illegal drugs.
George W. Bush:
"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
Christina Aguilera
"Where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
Kanye “Interrupter” West
“I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade. I will be the loudest voice.” Eh? Can you speak up?
Ted Stevens
"The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.” Like Spaghetti?
George W. Bush:
“They misunderestimated me” This is probably impossible!
Sarah Palin:
"All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." - unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric. She blames Couric for asking a ‘trick’ question.
Craig T. Nelson
"I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No."
Speaking on lack of fiscal responsibility. Perhaps the elves gave him the coupons and cash?
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That's all - FOR NOW - Folks, but you now there's plenty more where they came from!
:)
Behold Thy Mother
By Ronnie Bray
By Ronnie Bray
I watched the mothers, some young, some not so young, who had carried their fretful babies to the back of the auditorium at the conference. Though quite different women, each held their little ones close in roughly the same way, swaying gently, cooing softly into their ears, and enticing them to sleep.
The scene before my eyes misted over and changed. In my imagination I saw their babies grown to manhood and womanhood, and I knew what they would never know: that their mothers carried them, bore them, held them, sacrificed their time, comfort, and health to love them through bleak and cheerless days, troubled and tormented nights, and did whatever the moment demanded to make them well again and restore their sweet smiles of baby peace. Children grow up ignorant of every sweet or troubled moment so spent on them by their mothers.
Once assumed, motherhood can not lightly be laid down. It endures beyond the narrow confines of mortality into the far reaches of eternity, where the attributes of matriarchy are known for what they are – characteristics of deity.
The wages of motherhood are not paid in full during mortality. A mother’s labour does not stop when her heart beats its last, and her breath slips from her with a sigh. Mothers know this, but undertake the role with love and thanksgiving, accepting that ingratitude will often reward their efforts to render help or advice.
Each memory of the earliest months and years are imprinted into the mother’s heart, and burned into her brain, but the child often forgets, acting as if those days had never been, and that makes for the worst kind of pain.
Mothers are not perfect. There is no prior requirement for would-be mothers to be faultless or expert. Even so, most strive for perfection, and many get close enough to pass with honours. Children of any age who harbour the expectation that their mother should be perfect are labouring under a delusion whose identical twin is the idea that life will be fair. The best that can be said of any mother is that despite her imperfections, she tried always to do her best to raise her children well.
This upward striving, often against her intrinsic nature, is the willing sacrifice of a mother’s loving heart, swiftly turned from her own interests when the badge of “Mother” is pinned to her breast. She is always ‘mother’ although the direction and intensity of her role changes as her family grows.
Now a girl, little more than a child, nursing a newborn that demands all her devotion so that he can live, be healthy, increase in wisdom, and grow to adulthood.
Now a mature woman with three or more little ones tugging at her skirts, juggling her time, coping with the many calls and tasks that fly at her with the velocity of machine gun bullets, without diluting the love, care, and tenderness she imparts to each.
Now a matron, watching her teenaged children hover on the edge of maturity, but who still desperately need to hold her hand as they unfurl their wings before the wide blue arc of life.
Now a grandmother with smiling eyes, silver hair, and tears in her eyes cradling her grandchild and remembering.
Then a great-grandmother remembering little with clarity, her wrinkled face reverting to angelic gentleness when she is visited by sweet children whose parent’s names she has forgotten.
- - -
As Jesus hung on the Cross of Calvary, he made provision for his mother by commanding John the Beloved, Son, behold they mother. In these few words, Jesus defines our responsibilities to our mothers.
How appropriate, that even in the hour of his glory, as he made the perfect Atonement, he recognised the part his mother had played in his preparation to become the Saviour of the World, and he made provision for her to be comforted at the hour of his death, and for her continuing welfare, through the good offices of one whom he loved and trusted.
In the Fellowship of the Cross, Jesus teaches us about mothers, and the regard and esteem that he and his Father in Heaven have for them. Through this, we begin to realise the exalted station of motherhood. Someone said that mothers go down to the edge of the grave to bring their children into the world, and this is true. What is equally true is that mothers never stop loving their children, even when their children are ungrateful and, sometimes, unkind.
When I was young, I was disappointed that my mother had not made me better than I was. My feelings towards her changed when I realised that she had done her best, and I began to appreciate all that she had done for me, rather than count what I considered to be her failings. Since then, I have felt much better, and so has my mother.
Whatever our mothers may or may not have done for us, they gave us life, and nurtured us according to their imperfect best. To each of us, especially we who have not managed to be sufficiently grateful, the Voice from the Cross commands,
Are you listening?
The scene before my eyes misted over and changed. In my imagination I saw their babies grown to manhood and womanhood, and I knew what they would never know: that their mothers carried them, bore them, held them, sacrificed their time, comfort, and health to love them through bleak and cheerless days, troubled and tormented nights, and did whatever the moment demanded to make them well again and restore their sweet smiles of baby peace. Children grow up ignorant of every sweet or troubled moment so spent on them by their mothers.
Once assumed, motherhood can not lightly be laid down. It endures beyond the narrow confines of mortality into the far reaches of eternity, where the attributes of matriarchy are known for what they are – characteristics of deity.
The wages of motherhood are not paid in full during mortality. A mother’s labour does not stop when her heart beats its last, and her breath slips from her with a sigh. Mothers know this, but undertake the role with love and thanksgiving, accepting that ingratitude will often reward their efforts to render help or advice.
Each memory of the earliest months and years are imprinted into the mother’s heart, and burned into her brain, but the child often forgets, acting as if those days had never been, and that makes for the worst kind of pain.
Mothers are not perfect. There is no prior requirement for would-be mothers to be faultless or expert. Even so, most strive for perfection, and many get close enough to pass with honours. Children of any age who harbour the expectation that their mother should be perfect are labouring under a delusion whose identical twin is the idea that life will be fair. The best that can be said of any mother is that despite her imperfections, she tried always to do her best to raise her children well.
This upward striving, often against her intrinsic nature, is the willing sacrifice of a mother’s loving heart, swiftly turned from her own interests when the badge of “Mother” is pinned to her breast. She is always ‘mother’ although the direction and intensity of her role changes as her family grows.
Now a girl, little more than a child, nursing a newborn that demands all her devotion so that he can live, be healthy, increase in wisdom, and grow to adulthood.
Now a mature woman with three or more little ones tugging at her skirts, juggling her time, coping with the many calls and tasks that fly at her with the velocity of machine gun bullets, without diluting the love, care, and tenderness she imparts to each.
Now a matron, watching her teenaged children hover on the edge of maturity, but who still desperately need to hold her hand as they unfurl their wings before the wide blue arc of life.
Now a grandmother with smiling eyes, silver hair, and tears in her eyes cradling her grandchild and remembering.
Then a great-grandmother remembering little with clarity, her wrinkled face reverting to angelic gentleness when she is visited by sweet children whose parent’s names she has forgotten.
- - -
As Jesus hung on the Cross of Calvary, he made provision for his mother by commanding John the Beloved, Son, behold they mother. In these few words, Jesus defines our responsibilities to our mothers.
How appropriate, that even in the hour of his glory, as he made the perfect Atonement, he recognised the part his mother had played in his preparation to become the Saviour of the World, and he made provision for her to be comforted at the hour of his death, and for her continuing welfare, through the good offices of one whom he loved and trusted.
In the Fellowship of the Cross, Jesus teaches us about mothers, and the regard and esteem that he and his Father in Heaven have for them. Through this, we begin to realise the exalted station of motherhood. Someone said that mothers go down to the edge of the grave to bring their children into the world, and this is true. What is equally true is that mothers never stop loving their children, even when their children are ungrateful and, sometimes, unkind.
When I was young, I was disappointed that my mother had not made me better than I was. My feelings towards her changed when I realised that she had done her best, and I began to appreciate all that she had done for me, rather than count what I considered to be her failings. Since then, I have felt much better, and so has my mother.
Whatever our mothers may or may not have done for us, they gave us life, and nurtured us according to their imperfect best. To each of us, especially we who have not managed to be sufficiently grateful, the Voice from the Cross commands,
Behold thy mother.
Are you listening?
Copyright © Ronnie Bray - 14 May 2000 All Rights Reserved
Monday, February 1, 2010
Obama Gives the GOP a Lesson in Leadership - But did they listen?
To the victor the spoils!
President Obama has shown his mettle by accepting an invitation into the Great Obstructionist Party's Lions' Den, with the same amount of success as that Daniel come to justice in the Old Book to which Christians and others look to know to whom they must look to be safe.
From the tired old pachyderms in the pens on the right side of the Senate assembly hall, there was no change, except that their exploding veins to which the nation became attached during the Tea-Parties Madness has been transplanted by those with more elasticity.
That was a welcome change, and it is notable that they did not dent the armour of their enemy, mainly because when they charged at him with trunks flailing, tusks ready to gore, sounding all the beauty that is in the bellow of the blast, they set off in the wrong direction. Nothing is more conducive to getting nowhere than to be going nowhere, and that is where each and every one of them ended up.
The odds against Mr Obama were 100:1, despite which he played with them as a cat plays with a mouses. At last the US has a leader that can think on his feet in the great tradition of British Premiers, that face questions from all sides of the house in a weekly half-hour session.
Weere that to be adopted in the US, then not only the quality of the leaders would be hung out for all to see, but also the pusillanimity of the 'Don't Help Good Things to Happen When You Can Prevent Them' party would be exposed
Sensible people were not surprised that El Presidente - who does NOT walk on water - wrong-footed the big kids in the GOP's Kindergarten playgroup time after time and stood head and shoulders above his tormentors in dignity, communications, comprehension, and responses.
He needs to be seen against this kind of backdrop with regularity, taking on Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, to straighten out their distorted understanding of the main issues that face the nation and will do so for several years.
I marked the final score as 100 round to the man in the blue corner, and zero rounds for the red mob.
So, Barack Obama remains the Champion by a knockout from which the GOP might never recover.
Go America!
Next:
"Americans have a right to know why the GOP/RNC, hangers on, and fellow travellers hate America and Americans so vehemently that they believe that "We The People" are Gullible and Stupid enough to be lied to time and time again without finding out that liars deal in lies."
President Obama has shown his mettle by accepting an invitation into the Great Obstructionist Party's Lions' Den, with the same amount of success as that Daniel come to justice in the Old Book to which Christians and others look to know to whom they must look to be safe.
From the tired old pachyderms in the pens on the right side of the Senate assembly hall, there was no change, except that their exploding veins to which the nation became attached during the Tea-Parties Madness has been transplanted by those with more elasticity.
That was a welcome change, and it is notable that they did not dent the armour of their enemy, mainly because when they charged at him with trunks flailing, tusks ready to gore, sounding all the beauty that is in the bellow of the blast, they set off in the wrong direction. Nothing is more conducive to getting nowhere than to be going nowhere, and that is where each and every one of them ended up.
The odds against Mr Obama were 100:1, despite which he played with them as a cat plays with a mouses. At last the US has a leader that can think on his feet in the great tradition of British Premiers, that face questions from all sides of the house in a weekly half-hour session.
Weere that to be adopted in the US, then not only the quality of the leaders would be hung out for all to see, but also the pusillanimity of the 'Don't Help Good Things to Happen When You Can Prevent Them' party would be exposed
Sensible people were not surprised that El Presidente - who does NOT walk on water - wrong-footed the big kids in the GOP's Kindergarten playgroup time after time and stood head and shoulders above his tormentors in dignity, communications, comprehension, and responses.
He needs to be seen against this kind of backdrop with regularity, taking on Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, to straighten out their distorted understanding of the main issues that face the nation and will do so for several years.
I marked the final score as 100 round to the man in the blue corner, and zero rounds for the red mob.
So, Barack Obama remains the Champion by a knockout from which the GOP might never recover.
Go America!
Next:
"Americans have a right to know why the GOP/RNC, hangers on, and fellow travellers hate America and Americans so vehemently that they believe that "We The People" are Gullible and Stupid enough to be lied to time and time again without finding out that liars deal in lies."
Friday, December 4, 2009
Life at the Moment .............
Yesterday, Pete, my youngest son, asked me via Facebook how the 'old man' and his bride were getting on. This was my reply to him:
Friday, November 27, 2009
Amos – My Favourite Scriptural Prophet
Amos – My Favourite Scriptural Prophet
By Ronnie Bray
By Ronnie Bray
It seems a bit odd choosing a favourite from the long list of seers and revelators that inhabit the Old Testament, but it might seem even odder that I have had a favourite one for many years.
He was not from a family that had a tradition of prophets, but was the owner of the finest sheep in Palestine and also owned a fig plantation, both endeavours brought peace and happiness to him.
And then, out of the blue, the call came to him. Although he excuses himself at first, like many others who having been called feel that they do not measure up to the responsibility concomitant to the high calling of being God's oracle to the inhabitants of the earth.
He lived in Judea but was called, or commissioned if you will, to preach to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, a duty that he undertook with the attention and care that were his hallmarks and that he applied to his commercial businesses.
Apart from those circumstances, what I find remarkable is that his message was a departure from the ritualism of Israelite religion - almost mirroring a similar change in Isaiah's later message - and it is evident that Amos was inspired to tell Israel that going through the rituals mechanically was not pleasing to El Shaddai.
What God wanted from his people was internal religion, so that whatever they did in obedience to the Mosaic Law, they also did from the bottom of their hearts, and the internalising of their faith was the authenticator of their love of and commitment to the God of Israel.
The second reason this prophet is my best favourite is because he introduced a new understanding of the social responsibilities that were placed on they as the Community of Israel and the People of God.
He speaks in a refreshingly straightforward manner of the need for social and commercial justice: a model that is as relevant today as it was six centuries before the birth of the Saviour Jesus Christ.
His was no simple reminder of the duty they owed to the God that had released them from bondage and settled them on land that he gave unto them in perpetuity provided that they obeyed his Word and kept his commandments. Unfortunately, they failed to live up to the standard that God determined were appropriate for 'a peculiar people, a royal priesthood,' and they were stolen from off the land and subsumed into Assyria, whither they were led naked as slaves.
That's what happens when God's People cease from hearkening to his message as delivered by his divinely appointed prophets.
The name of this prophet is itself a prophecy, for it is Hebrew for “to bear,” “to place a load upon,” “burdened,” or “burden-bearer.”
The prophet’s name is Amos, and he was chosen by God to prophecy, [7:14-15], possibly because he was of the common people and not of the school of the prophets, who by this time were prone to speak what the people wanted to hear rather than speaking God’s message.
Amos prophesied during the reign of Uzziah, King of Judah (787-735 BC), and Jeroboam II, king of Israel (790-749 BC), 1:1.
It is thought by some that Amos had probably known both Jonah and Elisha, and that his work may have briefly overlapped the work of both. Isaiah and Micah are also thought to have begun their work about the time Amos was closing his work.
During the reign of Jeroboam, Israel enjoyed the greatest period of prosperity enjoyed during its 200 year history. Israel was, however, obsessed with brazen idolatry, gross immorality, swearing, stealing, injustice, oppression, robbery, adultery, and murder.
Amos held them to account for their wickedness and spiritual poverty “but unfortunately, though there was much wealth in the nation, there was little wisdom. Feasting and banquets took the place of religious endeavour. A spirit of greed ruled society. Corruption of justice was a common sin. Might became right. Land seizure was an everyday crime. The landlords had all the legal machinery at their command to oppress. The result was that the rich became richer and the poor became poorer.
With scornful indifference men lived “at ease in Zion” (6:1). Love of luxury prevailed, as prior to the downfall of Rome, and the breaking out of the French Revolution. Religion lost all its vitality, and morals were completely ignored.
Insincerity and dishonesty, corruption and licentiousness, criminal extravagance and blind assurance took such firm holds of the wealthy, arrogant voluptuaries, that they became heathen in everything but name.
Central messages of the prophecy of Amos included:
1. Israel’s apostasy and wickedness would bring certain destruction. 5:2
a. Amos was most probably the first of the prophets to declare the certain destruction of Israel.
2. The throne of David would be restored in a later time over a world on Nations. 9:8-15
a. This was fulfilled when Christ was raised up to sit on David’s Throne. Acts 2:29-37
b. David’s literal throne was typical of the spiritual throne where Christ would rule and reign at God’s right hand over a spiritual kingdom. John 18:36; Luke 17:20-21
c. Christ would sit and rule on his throne at the time he was to be a priest on the throne. Zechariah 6:12-13
Amos’ writing is pure, classical, vivid, rhetorical, grave, original, picturesque, simple, striking, rustic, bold, lyrical, and rhythmical. There are elements of repetition, questions, and exclamations, but his sentences are short, uninvolved, and always regular, well–balanced, and flowing.
His writing shows him to have been a man of affairs [not an untutored rustic], being full of first person accounts of his messages and visions (5:1; 7:1-9; 8:1; 9:1).
He marked a departure in spiritual attitudes that seem to put him on the road to the kind of religion that was to expected when the Messiah would come in person to restore what was going to be lost, and to prepare Israel for life outside the physical restrains imposed by the Mosaic Code, when having fulfilled its purpose, it would be laid aside in favour of the New and Everlasting Covenant as contained in the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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