Understanding the metaphorical meaning of words like grasshoppers, plumbline, and Amaziah by the poet Amos makes his book urgently meaningful for today.
by Gregory Williams
Air Date: July 24, 2021
Show Notes
Paul’s Notes
Minor prophets – how it relates to us today; We make mistakes!; Learn or suffer; Two kingdoms divided; Kingdoms today; Early American freedoms; “grasshoppers”; Fire(wood) stories; Ebb and flow of disaster; Nature’s compensation for dearth; God’s interaction via creation; Swarms of offices; Pelosi on abortion; (No) Poverty in the kingdom; Necessities of a free people; Our reaction to plagues; Depending on Pharaoh?; Who to believe?; Volunteerism in action; “Decimation”; Free societies work together; Why people came to America; White Pine confederation; Amos’ symbolic poetic idioms; gimel-vav-beit; grasshopper symbolism; Teachers’ unions – not kingdom solution; Governments won’t change until men change; Rationalizing rioting and looting; Minding nature’s rules; Plumb line of righteousness; “The Way”; Where’s your share?; “Permitting”; “cash”; Amos 7:2; Kings and officers not leaving much for the people; 1 Sam 8; God’s repentance; Aiding one another; “The Way” of Christ; Prophecy for our time; Blaming Amos; Who is Amaziah?; Farm-flocked sheep; Weakened (conquered) people; Lady Godiva’s “way”; Standing with your neighbor; Who is “Israel”?; Have you gone into captivity?; Senseless abortion; Being prepared; Examine your sources of information; Amos waking up people; Israel’s cancel culture; The Saul Syndrome; How you are rejecting God; Social atheists; Guaranteed spoils; Problems with your thinking; Creeping evolution of permits (tyranny); The solution: Loving your neighbor; Recognizing the harlot; Preaching repentance; Imaginary righteousness; Amos 7:17 – detailed scrutiny; “polluted”; “forth of his land”; “sanctuaries of Israel”; “high places”; “desolate”; Deadly vaccinations; Going under the sword; Cancelling seers; Repeating historical mistakes; Care for your neighbors; Pelosi, your high priestess; Are you following Christ?; Sacrificing to save others; Legalizing sin; Repent!
Segments
[00:03:13] Problem started before division of Israel and Judah
*[00:04:18] British troops sent to defend American republic back in the 1600s
*[00:07:23] Grasshoppers, locusts, and palm worms
[00:08:18] Firewood harvesting permits; Bootleg fire
*[00:10:53] More grasshoppers; Desert transforms in drought; Greasewood (gregbio)
[00:18:45] Archbishop, Pelosi, abortion, poor people
[00:19:58] Attitude of Portland firefighters
[00:24:01] Cattle of one ranch were burned up
[00:26:27] LA Times article excluded mention volunteer fire dept.
*[00:27:50] Meaning of “Decimation”
*[00:32:40] More on early American republic
[00:36:34] Begin Amos 7
[00:39:28] Religion in ancient Israel; Burning of black-owned businesses
[00:43:44] “Mowing” by the king, then by the grasshopper; debt
[00:46:57] Amos 7:2; Plumbline
[00:50:48] Grandmother’s well (gregbio)
[00:55:20] Amaziah
[00:57:27] Rural fire dept created by donations
[00:59:12] Blackface sheep
*[01:00:43] Brother of Marie Antionette, Lady Godiva and government encroachment
*[01:04:53] King’s chapel, not God’s. Today’s priests are swarms of bureaucrats
[01:06:40] Meaning of “Israel”
[01:09:57] Frontline Doctors suing HHS due to COVIC vax deaths; VEARS
*[01:13:25] Samuel, his sons, and rejection of God
[01:17:50] Encroachment of firewood harvesting permits
*[01:21:00] How churches became harlots, daughters of harlots; land divided by line; Adamah
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