Friday, June 22, 2012

Cry Against Injustice, Thursday, June 21, 2012

Today's reading is Amos chapters 5-9.   The images of the prophecy suggest the false security felt by the Israelites (Judah and Israel).  God is not willing to accept their empty sacrifices and offerings because they make them on the way to defraud and cheat their brothers and oppress the poor and needy.
Amos 6:12  ". . . .But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness--"

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