The book of Lamentations
Most people have never read Lamentations.
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Most people have never read Lamentations.
When God isn’t making sense to you, what do you do?
“The weeping prophet” laments the captivity of his people.
Zephaniah introduces us to a ‘day of the Lord’.
Unlike Jonah, Nahum tells Nineveh and Assyria of their certain fall and doom with no chance to repent.
Most people know Hosea as the guy who the Lord commanded to marry a prostitute (Gomer). It is a rich and deep story. If there was fire in Amos’ eyes then there is sorrow and tears in Hosea’s just ten years later.
Amos gives us insight into God’s judgement and mercy.
The book of Micah shows us how we return to the Lord.
As you embark on reading Isaiah you are about to read through arguably the most magisterial and beautiful of all the Old Testament books.
God didn’t let Jonah go. Through a series of circumstances Jonah finds himself preaching in the streets of Nineveh. The common people turn first and then the nobles. It is like Johannesburg turning to God because of the preaching of one person!