6So seek GOD and live! You don''t want to end up with nothing to show for your life But a pile of ashes, a house burned to the ground. For God will send just such a fire, and the firefighters will show up too late.
Amos 5 is a funeral dirge for Israel, a summons to seek God rather than religious performance, and a courtroom indictment of the nation's hollow worship and systemic injustice. The chapter pivots on a devastating lament: the virgin Israel has fallen, never to rise again. Yet with
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