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The Event

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God shows Amos a basket of summer fruit, as a sign that the end has come for Israel

God says He is no longer going to put up with Israel's constant sinning

The songs in the temple will be replaced with wailing

The dead bodies will be many

The dead bodies will be thrown out in silence

God is upset over those who desire to swallow up the needy

God is upset with those who want the Sabbath to be over so they can sell their goods

God is upset with the businessmen who have cheating scales

God is upset with those who buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of shoes, and who sell the sweepings with the wheat

God has sworn by the pride of Jacob that He will not forget their works

The land of Israel will tremble and everyone will mourn

God will cause the sun to go down at noon and darkness will fall during the daytime

God is going to turn their feasts into mourning and their songs into lamentation

God will make the people wear sackcloth and every head will be bald

People will mourn like for the death of their own child and it will be a bitter day

God is going to send a famine in the land for the word of God

People will search all over for the word of God, but they won't find it

In that day the beautiful virgins and young men will faint from thirst

Those who swear by the sin of Samaria will fall, never to rise again