Judgment Is Coming!

Amos chapters one and two delineate the crimes of the nations and vindicate God’s judgment against them. It is a heavy dose of judgment. Some would say, “How could a God of love be a God of judgment?” Doesn’t God love all those people who were abused and exploited and murdered? He loves them too, and their deaths must be avenged.

But this is not the point. God’s treatment of those nations in the past is a blueprint for God’s dealings in the future. If God judged Moab for her injustice and Edom for her cruelty to His people, should we not expect Him to avenge His people murdered in China, Russia and Africa? Of course! As someone said, “If God does not judge America He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.”

God will judge. Give Him time. And don’t be in His way!