Recovering church history grad student. PCA layman. Psalm-sing appreciator. Aspiring minor writer. Bylines at @mereorthodoxy (long ago) and @Reformation21.
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Sunday Psalm: 60A from Book of Psalms for Worship
"O God, You have rejected us,
And broken us once more.
As You've been angry with us all;
O once again restore!"
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Also, see this interpretive paraphrase for further details:
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Sunday Psalm: 82B from Book of Psalms for Worship
"Gods you are, I have declared it,
You are sons of Him Most High;
Yet you'll fall like other princes,
And as common men you'll die."
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The prophets are a warning to the upright as well, because they are only upright through their repentance.
We should rejoice in the wrath of God against even the wickedness we tolerate.
We should rejoice in the patience of God, knowing his great patience with those who we like.
Their zeal was not itself utterly wrong, but their imagination was lacking as to how it may be best applied. Their Lord gained a greater victory by rejecting their petition, trading the fire of wrath now for the tongues of Pentecostal fire a few years later.
Amos 5 in summary: Oh, my people, repent! Due to your corrupt ways, you will soon be destroyed. Repent! The Day of the Lord is soon. You unrepentant, you say you want that day? Do you not see it will destroy you? You are corrupt, and soon the Day of the Lord will fall on you!
The most startling part of Jonah is the contrast between how willing Jonah is to be thrown overboard to save the others on the ship, and his eagerness to see Nineveh fall, to the point of getting angry when they are spared.
Even as his heart was soft for his companions on the ship, it was already hardened against the Ninevites. “Ah, LORD, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that…
The first time I remember hearing this passage was as part of the lectionary readings at an Episcopal chapel service back in div school. Followed by a great sermon by Bishop Harold Miller of Down and Dromore, an admirable evangelical churchman, since retired.
It is the difference between the repentant crying out for relief and for vindication, and the one doomed for destruction if they keep not repenting gloating over the vindication they wrongly expect.
Going through the minor prophets right now, mainly because I haven’t done so in a while.
At places they will make the hair on your arm to stiffen, and the hair on the back of your neck to stand up, and the hair of your to curl.
Highly recommended.
Amos 5:16-27
Therefore the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, says this: “There shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters to wailing. In all vineyards there shall bewailing,
And righteousness like a mighty stream. “Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? You also carried Sikkuth your king And Chiun, your idols, The star of your gods, Which you made for yourselves.