Sinful Kingdom

Amos 9:8-12 - “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign LORD are on the sinful kingdom. I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not totally destroy the descendants of Jacob,” declares the LORD. “For I will give the command, and I will shake the people of Israel among all the nations as grain is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble will reach the ground. All the sinners among my people will die by the sword, all those who say, ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’ “In that day “I will restore David’s fallen shelter—I will repair its broken walls and restore its ruins—and will rebuild it as it used to be, so that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear my name,” declares the LORD, who will do these things.

Amos 3:2 - “You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”

Luke 22:31 - “Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat.

Isaiah 49:8-9 - This is what the LORD says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances, to say to the captives, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’ “They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill.

Genesis 3:15 - And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Application:

· Has my strength and prosperity given rise to complacency?
· Does Satan want to test me? Is Satan hoping to bring me to spiritual ruin?
· Will God bless me after He judges me?
· Does God answer me? Does God help me? Does God keep me?
· Will I someday share in the victory of crushing Satan's head?

All Scripture verses taken from NIV