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Weekly Guide：Week 92
October 27, 2019
Week 92 Day 1: Punish Their Sins ⇧ ⇩
Foreword
We continue to read the books of the Minor Prophets this week. The prophecy of God’s judgment and restoration of Israel and Judah are recorded in these books. While reading these books, I could not stop but thanking God for His grace that we are free because of Jesus’ salvation, the heavenly light that shines on us, the incomparable mercy and love that surround us, the justification of Jesus’ blood, and the shroud of the Lord God Almighty. Let’s be grateful and alert from studying these books and make them the source of the energy that enables us to run the race on path to heaven. May you all be renewed each day from God’s word!
Question
Why God punishes Israelites of their sins?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- God had chosen only Israel of all the families of the earth; therefore He will punish them for all their sins.
- The Sovereign Lord has spoken-who can but prophesy?
- The Lord warns the descendants of Jacob. On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.
- You cows of Bashan, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy. The time will sure come when you will be taken away with hooks.
- Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more.
- God punished Israel with heavy penalties, and they still don’t turn back to Him.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Because God’s had chosen only Israel from all the families of the earth; He would punish them for all their sins. God loves His people so much that He put heavy emphasis on their cleanliness and holiness. How does this fact encourage and alert me?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 92 Day 2: Of Exorbitant Indulgence ⇧ ⇩
Question
What were Israel’s sins?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up.
- This is what the Lord says to Israel: Seek me and live.
- I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me. Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them.
- Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!
- You will be among the first to go into exile; your feasting and lounging will end.
- You rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar and say: Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?
- The Lord God Almighty declares, I will stir up a nation against you.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Israelites rejoiced in the conquest of Lo Debar and said: Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength? God hates the proud but is graceful to the humble. Am I leaning on my own strength over God’s?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 92 Day 3: 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 92 Day 4: 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 92 Day 5: 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 92 Day 6: 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!