Category: Amos

Be wary. Winking at injustice will hinder your worship.

Not a single transgression, not a single action involves their own items. It was someone else’s young girl prostituted, someone else’s coat strung out, someone else’s wine giving way to debauchery. They worship and sin and make sure it is at no cost to themselves. This may be a warning sign: if your religion does not cost you anything, then might you be worshiping yourself?

Ultimately it is not Amos’ message at all; it is Yahweh’s. So Amos must go, and Israel ought listen.