Amos: Justice, Righteousness, Judgment, and Restoration

Amos: Justice, Righteousness, Judgment, and Restoration is a 15-lesson study of Amos 1-9. Students examine the prophet's challenge to prosperous but unjust Israel, including oppression of the poor, corrupt justice, empty worship, false security, the Day of the Lord, prophetic visions, opposition to God's messenger, and the final promise to restore David's fallen shelter.

Learning Objectives

• Understand Amos's historical setting during the reigns of Uzziah and Jeroboam II.
• Explain the relationship between covenant privilege and moral responsibility.
• Identify Amos's condemnation of oppression, dishonest commerce, corrupt courts, luxury, and exploitation.
• Explain why worship without justice and righteousness is unacceptable to God.
• Understand Amos's teaching concerning the Day of the Lord.
• Interpret the locust, fire, plumb line, summer fruit, and altar visions in context.
• Examine Amos's confrontation with Amaziah as an example of prophetic courage.
• Explain the warning concerning a famine of hearing God's word.
• Trace the movement from judgment to the restoration promise of Amos 9.
• Recognize the New Testament use of Amos 9 in Acts 15 while respecting Amos's original context.

Course Content

Fifteen substantial self-study lessons cover Amos 1-9: Amos's calling, judgment on the nations, Israel's covenant accountability, oppression of the poor, true worship, seeking the Lord, justice and righteousness, the Day of the Lord, complacent luxury, visions of locusts and fire, the plumb line, Amos and Amaziah, the basket of summer fruit, famine of hearing God's word, sovereign judgment, and restoration of David's fallen shelter. Each lesson includes substantial teaching, a plain-text assignment, and four multiple-choice review questions.