More “LION” scripture references can be found in the warnings of Amos – a prophet trying to tell the Israelites who have disobeyed the Lord, not followed Him, to realize that not only does the Lord mean business, but that He will give them the business. A Lion as a fierce animal and the Lord as the Law. The Lord as the power and the might. The Lord who is jealous for His Own people.

In our Lion scripture of Amos 3, first we are told to remember that the Lion does not roar for nothing – and it is not easy to tear anything from a Lion’s mouth. As for the Lord – He WILL roar as He DOES have something to roar about – He told His prophets to tell His people of all His plans and He did and does roar for their attention and for their commitment to listen. 

To the folks who are not paying attention to the Lord, Amos reminds: He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and who reveals his thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth – the Lord God Almighty is his name.

Let us pay attention to the Lord leading and let us remember that as the Lions roar, the Lord Almighty surely roars for us!!!

AMEN

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AMOS 3 NIV

Witnesses Summoned Against Israel
Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the Lord has spoken against you—against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt:

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

Do two walk together
    unless they have agreed to do so?
Does a lion roar in the thicket
    when it has no prey?
Does it growl in its den
    when it has caught nothing?
Does a bird swoop down to a trap on the ground
    when no bait is there?
Does a trap spring up from the ground
    if it has not caught anything?
When a trumpet sounds in a city,
    do not the people tremble?
When disaster comes to a city,
    has not the Lord caused it?

Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing
    without revealing his plan
    to his servants the prophets.

The lion has roared—
    who will not fear?
The Sovereign Lord has spoken—
    who can but prophesy?

Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashdod
    and to the fortresses of Egypt:
“Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria;
    see the great unrest within her
    and the oppression among her people.”

“They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,
    “who store up in their fortresses
    what they have plundered and looted.”

Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“An enemy will overrun your land,
    pull down your strongholds
    and plunder your fortresses.”

This is what the Lord says:
“As a shepherd rescues from the lion’s mouth
    only two leg bones or a piece of an ear,
so will the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued,
    with only the head of a bed
    and a piece of fabric from a couch.”

“Hear this and testify against the descendants of Jacob,” declares the Lord, the Lord God Almighty.

“On the day I punish Israel for her sins,
    I will destroy the altars of Bethel;
the horns of the altar will be cut off
    and fall to the ground.
I will tear down the winter house
    along with the summer house;
the houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed
    and the mansions will be demolished,”
declares the Lord.

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AMOS 4:11-13 NIV

You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire,
    yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord.

“Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel,
    and because I will do this to you, Israel,
    prepare to meet your God.”

He who forms the mountains,
    who creates the wind,
    and who reveals his thoughts to mankind,
who turns dawn to darkness,
    and treads on the heights of the earth –
    the Lord God Almighty is his name.