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A Famine of Hearing: Those at Ease, a Plumb Line, and Warnings That Run Out | Amos 6–8
Episode Overview
Today we read Amos chapters 6 through 8. Chapter 6 opens with a phrase worth sitting with: woe to you who are at ease in Zion. What follows is not a list of crimes but a description of a lifestyle—lying on beds inlaid with ivory, dining on choice lambs, strumming instruments, drinking wine by the bowlful, using the finest lotions. The indictment is the last line: but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph. The problem is not the comfort itself. It is comfort that has made them unable to notice what is falling apart around them.
Then come the visions, and they show…
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