{"id":77485,"date":"2020-07-15T15:31:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T12:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=77485"},"modified":"2020-07-15T15:31:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T12:31:44","slug":"a-riddle-of-threes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-riddle-of-threes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Riddle of Threes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"77485","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":57331,"related_cahpter":"525","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Here, too, God applies the \u2018three-strikes\u2019 rule\r\n\r\n\u00a0","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in Amos chapter 5:18-19, the prophet provides a fascinating image of an individual running from various calamities. The individual first runs from a charging lion, and just as he escapes the beast, a bear comes barreling towards him. The individual then barely makes it to the safety of his home. Exhausted, and most likely panting from his escape, the individual places his hand on the wall for a moment of respite only to be bitten by a snake hanging on the wall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This detailed image seems to hang mysteriously in this chapter. Why the three levels? In 7:1-2 God begins to create a swarm of locusts. Amos intervenes in this destruction, and God relents. Just as the individual in chapter 5 first escapes the lion, Amos has saved the people from locusts. Then in 7:4-6 God summons his fiery angels to attack the people. Here too Amos intercedes on the people&#8217;s behalf to save them. The bear has been subdued. Now, safe in their walled cities in verse 7-9, God shows Amos a horde scaling the walls.ready to strike the house of Jeroboam. 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