The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders from Tekoa, which he saw in visions concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. (Amos 1:1)

Amos was from Judah but was sent to the Northern Israel to announce judgements of God. Although he was sent to the Northern Israel, his prophecies are against both Judah and Israel as well as other nations. His contemporaries are believed to be Micah and Hosea. Each of them speaks of similar prophecies and yet, they are not exactly the same. Amos was a farmer and a shepherd. And we read in many places in the Bible that God is like a farmer who plants, grows and harvests. God also refers Himself as a shepherd, a landowner or a potter.

When I first started to understand the Bible back in 2017, I realized that God is practical, logical, and rational. I don’t know how I can describe my understandings of God. Only the words of God accurately describe God. Many ministers describe God as a sentimental and emotional being who cries and sympathizes. This view of God is common in Evangelical and/or Pentecostal churches. Many Christians think that the presence of the Spirit is like fire, meaning some kind of emotional outburst. Some think they experience the presence of the Holy Spirit if they cry or show erratic behaviors. Music can encourage such experiences. Therefore, music is important during an assembly in those churches. Some may say that the Holy Spirit has many faces and characters. They often quote Revelation 3:15-16. But the verses refer to how we keep water or food fresh. We either put water/food in the fridge or heat them so that bacteria won’t grow. The verses are not about God having multiple personalities. The Holy Spirit does not speak against the words of God. No matter how many people are physically cured by a minister, if he does not hold the sound doctrines, he has not received the Holy Spirit and thus, is a false Christian. An anti-Christ carefully mixes truths with lies like the devil.

Amos 1 and 2 tells us that God knows every sin of a person. Everyone on the earth must show the glory of God because He is the Creator. However, many refuse to worship Him. They refuse to love Him and their neighbors. Even His chosen people of Israel in the OT were no different from those who followed idols. Can anyone escape from God’s judgements? God knows who, when, where, what, and how one has sinned. And every sin is recorded so that no one can argue with Him.

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. (Revelation 20:12)

Is there any difference between people who call themselves Christians and those who are not Christians? According to Amos 1 and 2, they are the same. Even those who have received the Holy Spirit can be evil. Ministers and theologians encourage people to believe that they have the Holy Spirit because they do good works such as going to church every Sunday, participating in church activities, helping the poor, etc. But the saints know that there is nothing good in us. We live the life of Romans 7.

For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold into bondage to sin. For I do not understand what I am doing; for I am not practicing what I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate. However, if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, that the Law is good. But now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. But if I do the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me. I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully agree with the law of God in the inner person, but I see a different law in the parts of my body waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin, the law which is in my body’s parts. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. (Romans 7:14-25)

What does going to a church every Sunday do to God? Should God thank people for worshiping Him? Christians think they are doing some kind of favor to God by going to church on Sundays and participating in church activities. The truth is that they are happy to listen to lies about God and sing men-made songs on Sundays. They contribute some money to their churches and boast that they help God build the kingdom. These people are full of excrement inside, but they wash only their body and say they are clean. I saw in my dream that many people went to a spa place to relax and heal, and they looked satisfied and happy. But the place did not have a toilet even though they were full of dung and urine.   

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. (Matthew 23:27)