Amos 4:12

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Summary

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

Prepare

Bible References

Prepare

Be quick to come to terms with your opponent while you are on the road to court with him, so that he may not turn you over to the judge and the judge turn you over to the officer, and you be put in prison.

So you, too, must continue to be ready, for at an hour you are not expecting Him the Son of Man will come.

"Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

But about that day or hour not a single one knows -- not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son; not a single one but the Father.

"Or what king, when he is going to make an attack on another king, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand soldiers to meet the other king who is coming against him with twenty thousand?

And He said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has dropped in more than all of them;

for you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord is coming like a thief in the night.

What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.

So remember what you have received and heard, and continue to obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know the hour when I come upon you.