Daily Devotions
Amos
"The eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom"
Text: Amos 9:8
ISRAEL’S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
Israel’s relationship with the Lord is well portrayed in the Pentateuch. They were the descendants of Abraham. They were gloriously redeemed by the Lord from Egypt and then established in the land of Canaan. Sadly, Israel abused the privileges and blessings bestowed on them. God had to re-visit His relationship with Israel in the following text.
“‘Are you not like the people of Ethiopia to Me,
O children of Israel?’ says the LORD.
‘Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
The Philistines from Caphtor,
And the Syrians from Kir?
Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom,
And I will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,’
says the LORD.”
Amos 9:7-8