8/7/21: Amos 9

Notes on PreparingYou.com; Overlapping prophetic messages; Who is God?; "Yahweh"; God's opinion IS reality; Patterns of creation; Cause/effect universe; Inspiration; Presenting non-reality; Wrong answers?; Have you been listening to Christ?; Strong delusion; Allowing nonsense; False beliefs; Faith compels action; Do you act from revelation or vanity?; Spiritual drought; Portents; Reasons to help others; Amos' prophetic poem; Rejecting God; Levite ministers of government; Force or Freedom?; "Horns of the altar"; Jesus' humor; "Eye of the needle"; Charity study; Explaining Christian community; Legal charity; Daughters of the harlot; Understanding altars; kuf-resh-nun (horns); Ex 27:2 +tav-yod-vav; Can you hear the Holy Spirit?; Faith/sacrifice binds people together; Awakening your divine spark (yod); Systems of faith; Have you seen the truth?; Swarms of grasshoppers; Amos 9:1 altar - of force; Social Security has NEVER been solvent; Cutting yourself off from the Holy Spirit; Repent!; Act!; Consequential smiting of lintels of covetous altars; Mem-Lamed-Tet + yod; Inability to see truth; Digging into hell - are you?; First followers of Jesus were Jews; Council of Milan; Doing what Christ said; Carmel = fruitfulness; Being bitten by the serpent; Binding by faith, hope and charity; Where did YOU go wrong?; Why are you back in Egypt?; Paths of repentance; Sophistry locked in by pride; Sifting - trial by God; Days/ways of old; Free society; Melting mountains and hills; Having God prevail in your heart; Why Amos adds (Hebrew) letters; resh-aleph-hey + tav = seeing by faith/revelation; Are you living by faith?; Faith is a gift - which we often block; Family is instituted by God; Christ appointed kingdom to disciples (same as Levites); Saving others; Not dividing by the sword; Repenting together; Keeping His commandments; "city" = terror; Robbing widows and orphans; How Early America was great; Bible message consistent throughout; Cities of blood; Prov 1:10; One purse = socialism; Joint heirs; Don't forsake the gathering.