Old Testament -> Amos
“I have sent among you the pestilence ... your young men have I slain with the sword ... I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils, yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.”—Amos 4:10
Amos for Skeptics
Most people don’t know this, but God is a pyromaniac. In the first two chapters of Amos alone, he sets, or threatens to set, seven cities on fire. He seems quite proud of it too, saying, “shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it?” (Amos 3:6)
Other highlights:
• The divine pyromaniac threatens to “send fire unto” Hazel, Gaza, Tyrus, Teman, Rabbah, Moab, and Judah. 1:4 - 2:5
• God will “slay all the princes” of Moab. 2:3
• All evil comes from God. 3:6
• God sends the pestilence, kills young men with the sword, and makes the “stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils.” 4:10
• God stands on a wall holding a plumb line while he talks to Amos. 7:7
• Amos sees God standing on the altar. 9:1
• God will kill “the last of them with the sword,” and any that try to escape by diving to the bottom of the sea will be bitten, at God’s command, by a serpent. God will set his “eyes upon them for evil, not for good.” 9:1-4
