From Handbook to Scripture, Day 190

READING: AMOS 1

Although Amos lived in Judah (Tekoa was 12 miles south of Jerusalem), he was sent by God as a prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel. “I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and grower of sycamore figs. But the Lord took me from following the flock and the Lord said to me,