NOTES for Amo 8:1-14

“And it shall be in that day, says the Lord...” That day, the day of the Lord, is the day when God intervenes in this life. As a rule, when we encounter evil and injustice, we all complain: why does God not intervene and make everything right? But God has no double standard in His dealings with people, and if He begins to “settle accounts” with those who live without regard for Him, that “reckoning” will affect us as well! And yet there is hope: God gives us thirst for His word, and the prophet Amos declares, “Seek the Lord and live” (Amos 5:6, 14-15).