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Weekly Guide：2022-2023 Week 72
May 21, 2023
Week 72 Day 1: Pleading to God ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why did Amos plead repeatedly for the Israelites to God?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- The Lord was preparing swarms of locusts to strip the land clean. Amos cried out to the Lord so He relented.
- The Lord was calling for judgment by fire. Amos begged to the Lord so He relented.
- The Lord was setting a plumb line among His people and He will spare them no longer.
- Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: Amos is raising a conspiracy against you.
- Amos answered Amaziah, I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but the Lord called me to prophesy to people of Israel.
- Amos prophesied against Amaziah that he would be punished.
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity - Why did Amaziah sent a message to Jeroboam that Amos was raising a conspiracy? What can I learn from this when facing false claims against me?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 72 Day 2: The End Comes ⇧ ⇩
Question
How will Israel end?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- Amos saw a basket of ripe fruit. The Lord said, the time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
- Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land.
- I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight. I will turn your religious festivals into mourning and all your singing into weeping.
- I will send a famine through the land-a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
- The Lord standing by the altar, and he said: Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Bring them down on the heads of all the people; those who are left I will kill with the sword.
- The Lord will restore David’s fallen shelter, so that they may possess all the nations that bear His name.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - After judgment, the Lord will restore David’s fallen shelter, repair its broken walls, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as it used to be. God’s love to Israel is fully displayed here. It is not a hopeless destruction but a measured discipline. How does this promise help me to have total faith in Him?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 72 Day 3: Rod of Anger ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did God make the Assyrian His whip and rod of anger?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor Galilee of the nations.
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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given.
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Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria are with pride and arrogance of heart. But the Lord has strengthened Rezin’s foes against them.
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The people have not returned to Him who struck them. By the wrath of the Lord Almighty the land will be scorched, disaster will come from afar.
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The Lord makes the Assyrian, the rod of His anger, the club of His wrath. The Lord Almighty, will send a wasting disease upon the sturdy Assyrian warriors.
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The survivors of Jacob will truly rely on the Lord. The burden of the Assyrians will be lifted from their shoulders.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity – God disciplines the Israelites by His love. How do I understand His discipline? Do I truly know my identity as His child, as His beloved, and must be disciplined by Him?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 72 Day 4: God Reaching Out ⇧ ⇩
Question
How would the Lord reach out to reclaim His people?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse, the Spirit of the Lord will rest on him.
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The Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the people, the nations will rally to him.
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The Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people.
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The Israelites will give praise to the Lord for He is their salvation.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity – The savior raised from the Lord will delight in the fear of the Lord. How do I understand what is the meaning of delight in the fear of the Lord? Do I delight in the fear of the Lord?
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The remnant of Israel will give praise to the Lord on the day of salvation. All of us are saved by the Lord. How am I giving praises to Him each day?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 72 Day 5: Warnings for All ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why did Judah and Samaria receive the same warnings?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The word of the Lord came to Micah concerning Samaria and Jerusalem that the Lord may bear witness against them from His holy temple.
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Because of this, the prophet will weep and wail; will go barefoot and naked. For Samaria’s plague is incurable; it has spread to Judah.
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Woe to those who plot evil on their beds. They covet fields, houses, defraud people, and rob them of their inheritance.
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Therefore, the Lord is planning disaster against this people. Others will taunt them with mournful song.
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The Lord will surely gather all of Jacob, bring together the remnant of Israel, like sheep in a pen.
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Warns the leaders of Jacob, rulers of Israel who hate good and love evil. Warns the prophets who lead the people astray and falsely proclaim peace.
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Warns the leaders of Jacob, rulers of Israel who despise justice and distort all that is right, Zion will be plowed, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble.
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity - Because the leaders of Jacob and rulers of Israel despised justice and distorted all that is right, Zion would be plowed and Jerusalem would become a heap of rubble. Our conducts may bring blessings for others but may also bring suffering. How am I behaving?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 72 Day 6: The Highest Mountain ⇧ ⇩
Question
What was the promise to Judah on the last day?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains.
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He will judge between many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
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The Lord will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.
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Many nations are gathered against them. But they don’t know the thoughts of the Lord. Rise and thresh, daughter Zion, break to pieces many nations.
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Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel.
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He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.
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The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times. It is by His calling that we may have the eternal life.