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Weekly Guide：2024-2025 Week 68
April 20, 2025
Week 68 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 68 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 68 Day 3: Judgment against Edom ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why does God judge Edom?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- The vision came to Obadiah from the Lord about Edom, I will make you small among the nations; you will be utterly despised.
- Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.
- The day of the Lord is near for all nations. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
- But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and Jacob will possess his inheritance.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’ Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord. Am I deceived by my pride? How does God’s judgment to Edom alert me?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 68 Day 4: The Prophet Jonah ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why did Jonah run to Tarshish to hide from the Lord?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- The word of the Lord came to Jonah to go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it.
- But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish.
- Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea. The sailor threw Jonah overboard, and the raging sea grew calm.
- Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
- From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God and the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
- Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, commanded him to go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message the Lord gave him. Jonah obeyed.
- Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming: Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.
- The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth. When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.
- But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. The Lord used a leafy plant as parable of His love for His people.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - The Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, the Lord relents and does not bring on His people the disaster. This is such a comforting truth because when we repent to the Lord, we have already pleased Him. Thank you Lord!
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 68 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 68 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.