TCP 11: Amos - Malachi Flashcards
THEME of Amos
Judgment for Injustice
GOD SOVEREIGN OVER CALAMITY
Amos 3:6b
Does disaster come to a city,
unless the LORD has done it?
PERVERTED JUSTICE
Amos 5:10-12
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth. 11 Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him…
GOD DESIRES JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
Amos 5:24
But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
HOPE OF ISRAEL’S FUTURE RESTORATION
Amos 9:11-15
“In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old…
THEME of Obadiah
Judgment on Edom
JUDGMENT BASED ON REAPING WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN
Obadiah 1:15
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
THEME of Jonah
God’s Mercy
SALVATION BELONGS TO THE LORD
Jonah 2:9
But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the LORD!
GOD RELENTS WHEN SINNERS REPENT
Jonah 3:10
When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
PREJUDICE PREVENTS PROCLAMATION
Jonah 4:2
And he prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.
THEME of Micah
God’s Justice
ETERNAL CHRIST FROM BETHLEHEM
Micah 5:2
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me
one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
GOD REQUIRES JUSTICE, WALK HUMBLY
Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
A GOD WHO FORGIVES
Micah 7:18-20
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance?…
THEME of Nahum
Judgment on Ninevah
GOD’S GOODNESS AMIDST JUDGMENT
Nahum 1:2-8
The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. 3 The LORD is slow to anger and great in power…
THEME of Habakkuk
Judgment on Judah
THE RIGHTEOUS LIVE BY FAITH
Habbakkuk 2:4
“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
I WILL REJOICE IN THE LORD
Habbakkuk 3:17-19
Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, 18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD;…
THEME of Zephaniah
Future Global Judgment
COMPLACENT IN HEART
Zephaniah 1:12
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, ‘The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.’
GOD’S WRATH ON THE DAY OF THE LORD
Zephaniah 1:14-18
The great day of the LORD is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the LORD is bitter; the mighty man cries aloud there…
SEEK THE LORD IN HUMILITY
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.
