Amos 4:12 Cross References
Amos 4:12
12: "Therefore, I will bring upon you all these further disasters I have announced. Prepare to meet your God as he comes in judgment, you people of Israel!"
1 Thessalonians 5:2
- For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night.
- When people are saying, "All is well; everything is peaceful and secure," then disaster will fall upon them as suddenly as a woman's birth pains begin when her child is about to be born. And there will be no escape.
- But you aren't in the dark about these things, dear brothers and sisters, and you won't be surprised when the day of the Lord comes like a thief.
James 4:1
- What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Isn't it the whole army of evil desires at war within you?
- You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous for what others have, and you can't possess it, so you fight and quarrel to take it away from them. And yet the reason you don't have what you want is that you don't ask God for it.
- And even when you do ask, you don't get it because your whole motive is wrong--you want only what will give you pleasure.
- You adulterers! Don't you realize that friendship with this world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again, that if your aim is to enjoy this world, you can't be a friend of God.
- What do you think the Scriptures mean when they say that the Holy Spirit, whom God has placed within us, jealously longs for us to be faithful?
Amos 9:1
- Then I saw a vision of the Lord standing beside the altar. He said, "Strike the tops of the Temple columns so hard that the foundation will shake. Smash the columns so the roof will crash down on the people below. Then those who survive will be slaughtered in battle. No one will escape!
- "Even if they dig down to the place of the dead, I will reach down and pull them up. Even if they climb up into the heavens, I will bring them down.
- Even if they hide at the very top of Mount Carmel, I will search them out and capture them. Even if they hide at the bottom of the ocean, I will send the great sea serpent after them to bite and destroy them.
- Even if they are driven into exile, I will command the sword to kill them there. I am determined to bring disaster upon them and not to help them."
Mark 13:32
- "However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.
- And since you don't know when they will happen, stay alert and keep watch.
- "The coming of the Son of Man can be compared with that of a man who left home to go on a trip. He gave each of his employees instructions about the work they were to do, and he told the gatekeeper to watch for his return.
- So keep a sharp lookout! For you do not know when the homeowner will return--at evening, midnight, early dawn, or late daybreak.
- Don't let him find you sleeping when he arrives without warning.
Ezekiel 13:5
- They have done nothing to strengthen the breaks in the walls around the nation. They have not helped it to stand firm in battle on the day of the LORD.
Ezekiel 22:30
- "I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn't have to destroy the land, but I found no one.
Isaiah 47:3
- You will be naked and burdened with shame. I will take vengeance against you and will not negotiate."
Amos 4:2
- The Sovereign LORD has sworn this by his holiness: "The time will come when you will be led away with hooks in your noses. Every last one of you will be dragged away like a fish on a hook!
- You will leave by going straight through the breaks in the wall; you will be thrown from your fortresses. I, the LORD, have spoken!
Hosea 13:8
- I will rip you to pieces like a bear whose cubs have been taken away. I will tear you apart and devour you like a hungry lion.
Luke 21:3
- "I assure you," he said, "this poor widow has given more than all the rest of them.
- For they have given a tiny part of their surplus, but she, poor as she is, has given everything she has."
- Some of his disciples began talking about the beautiful stonework of the Temple and the memorial decorations on the walls. But Jesus said,
- "The time is coming when all these things will be so completely demolished that not one stone will be left on top of another."
- "Teacher," they asked, "when will all this take place? And will there be any sign ahead of time?"
Amos 5:4
- Now this is what the LORD says to the family of Israel: "Come back to me and live!
- Don't go to worship the idols of Bethel, Gilgal, or Beersheba. For the people of Gilgal will be dragged off into exile, and the people of Bethel will come to nothing."
- Come back to the LORD and live! If you don't, he will roar through Israel like a fire, devouring you completely. Your gods in Bethel certainly won't be able to quench the flames!
- You wicked people! You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the poor and oppressed. Righteousness and fair play are meaningless fictions to you.
- It is the LORD who created the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. It is he who turns darkness into morning and day into night. It is he who draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. The LORD is his name!
Luke 14:31
- "Or what king would ever dream of going to war without first sitting down with his counselors and discussing whether his army of ten thousand is strong enough to defeat the twenty thousand soldiers who are marching against him?
- If he is not able, then while the enemy is still far away, he will send a delegation to discuss terms of peace.
Amos 2:14
- Your fastest runners will not get away. The strongest among you will become weak. Even the mightiest warriors will be unable to save themselves.
Matthew 24:44
- You also must be ready all the time. For the Son of Man will come when least expected.
- "Who is a faithful, sensible servant, to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his household and feeding his family?
- If the master returns and finds that the servant has done a good job, there will be a reward.
- I assure you, the master will put that servant in charge of all he owns.
- But if the servant is evil and thinks, 'My master won't be back for a while,'
Matthew 5:25
- Come to terms quickly with your enemy before it is too late and you are dragged into court, handed over to an officer, and thrown in jail.
Revelation 3:3
- Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly and turn to me again. Unless you do, I will come upon you suddenly, as unexpected as a thief.