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NASB | Amos 7:14 ¶ Then Amos replied to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Amos 7:14 ¶ Then Amos replied to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet [by profession], nor am I a prophet's son; I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs. |
Bible Question: what is the meaning of the sycamore tree in Amos chapter 7:14? |
Bible Answer: We just finished studying Amos in Sunday School. In Amos 7:1-9 Amos witnessed 3 visions of judgment against Israel-locusts, fire and plumb line. He cried out for intercession and twice the Lord Spared the people. By the third vision, Amos learned that the people would not change and therefore would be judged by God. There is a conflict between Amaziah who is a priest at Bethel in Amos 7:10-17. Amaziah accused Amos of conspiracy against the king but did not address the problem of the spiritual corruption. The priest was more loyal to the king than God, in fact, he was an appointed priest, not even a Levite. What was going on was that Jeroboam was the Northern King but God said to worship in Jerusalem and gave them the instructions on how to worship properly. Uzziah was the king in Jerusalem so nat Jeroboam didn't want his people going there so they set up worship places in Bethel and other places that more or less worshipped God the way the pagans worshipped, even had temple prostitutes, they were def. not worshipping God as He commanded. Anyway, they didn't like what Amos was saying and ordered him to go. They didn't care what God wanted, only what they wanted. But they thought that Amos was a professional prophet, they seem to have had them at the time, seems there was even a prophet school or a prophetic order, nat these guys would only prophesy what was popular, maybe kinda like the psychics today, anyway, Amos didn't want to be associated with them. The only reason Amos was prophesying was God said to and it made him very unpopular, otherwise, he was just a poor farmer, scratching a living. That's what Amos meant when he said he was not a prophet or a prophet's son, but he was a herdsman and a gather of sycamore fruit. Amos was basically a poor intenerant farmer who followed the sycamore harvest, tended sheep, he was just basically a nobody that God used. Amas did not let them intimidate him, he kept on preaching what God said to preach. |
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