What is the main message of the book of amos!
Summary of the Minor Prophet Amos
Historical Setting:
The year is around BC.
Israel is under the Kingship of Jeroboam 11 who died BC.
Judah’s King at this time is Uzziah.
Amos is a contemporary of the prophet Hosea and so the social and religious problems that Hosea faced were the same.
As with Hosea, Amos preached against the social and moral decline of Israel.
The worship of Assyrian deities and the huge gulf that had emerged between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have not’s ’
Assyria and Damascus had been at one another’s throats for some years now and so Israel was ‘allowed’ to prosper in a material sense.
How did amos die
They had winter houses and summer houses, houses of Ivory (Amos ). Houses of ‘hewn stone’ () and they reclined on “Beds of Ivory” ()
They were “at ease in Zion” ()
As in the book of Hosea “Religion” was prospering but Faith in the one true God YHWH was on the decline.
Along comes a farmer called Amos!
Not one of the recognized prophets of Israel, nor was he a priest, not even a nati