This will be a short post. My wife and I have a bible study class tomorrow morning, and I still have some reading to do. Last week we studied the book of Amos, who lived about 2700 or so years ago. The Lord asked him to be a prophet, to leave his sheep and fig trees, and to head up north to Israel and bring them some bad news. You see, the Lord knew that the Israelites had turned away from the ancient covenants, and had come up with a new and different set of rules to live by. The evil rich leaders had cheated and lied to the poor people of the land, and were living the life of luxury at the expense of the poor. The leaders countered that they couldn't see that they were doing anything wrong; after all, the general ecenomy was in good shape, the crops were bountiful and everybody (especially the leaders) seemed pretty happy. And as for all the immoral goings-on - a little debauchery kept the tensions loose. No big deal. "Not so," said Amos. "You have screwed up big time, and it is too late to escape the consequences." And he went on to decribe how they would suffer and become weak, and how the neighboring countries were going to come in with their armies and have them for lunch. Sure enough, it all came to pass. Normally, our church doesn't want us to get into political discussions, but we all saw the correlation to our present conditions, and our instructor let us spend some time delving into it.
Interesting!
By the way, whatever happened to Nancy Pelosi after she called the CIA a bunch of liars? I thought someone was going to find out if the CIA lied or if maybe Nancy just had a chip on her shoulder and made it all up. Inquiring minds like ours need to know!
See ya!
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