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Prepare to Meet Thy God
Amos 4:1-13
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This song belongs to the Amos collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.
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Named in this songBethel
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Amos 4: Five warnings, and still no return
Amos begins with Samaria’s cultivated comfort and immediately names the poor people crushed beneath it. He then turns to Bethel and Gilgal with an invitation so sharp it becomes accusation: come, worship, and multiply transgression. Sacrifices, tithes, thanksgiving, and free offerings are plentiful, but the people’s enjoyment of the activity cannot make it acceptable. The center of the chapter is a fivefold record of famine, drought, crop destruction, pestilence, war, and overthrow. Each movement ends with the same line, “yet have ye not returned unto me.” The disasters change, the response does not. That repetition gives the final command its force. “Prepare to meet thy God” is not another festival announcement. It follows warnings already resisted and is backed by a description of the One who forms mountains, creates wind, changes light, and treads the earth’s heights.
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