Amos 4:4-5
"Go to Bethel and sin;
go to Gilgal and sin yet more.
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three years.
Burn leavened bread as a thank offering
and brag about your freewill offerings—
boast about them, you Israelites,
for this is what you love to do,"
declares the Sovereign LORD.
When I read this, I was struck by how it can be read with sarcasm. Did God say it sarcastically or is that just me reading it that way?
God was being sarcastic.
ReplyDeleteThe Northern Israelites worshipped two golden calves at Bethel and Dan which they called YAHWEH.
Russell Earl Kelly, PHD
Author of Should the Church Teach Tithing?