Sarcasm in Spades (30 of 66)
Series: Route 66: A Road Trip Through the Bible
Tony Thomas
Amos
In 1974, Alexander Solzhenitsyn published a book titled, Gulag Archipelago. Gulag is a Russian acronym meaning, ''forced-labor.'' And archipelago means, ''chain.'' His book details the atrocities he suffered in the Soviet Union labor camps.
Four years later, he was invited to be the commencement speaker at Harvard University, and Harvard conferred on him a Doctorate degree. Harvard's motto is veritas (Veritas was the Roman goddess of truth). That he, Solzhenitsyn pledged to tell the truth, reminding the graduates that ''truth is almost always bitter.''
The audience was primed to hear a denunciation of the excesses of communistic aggression. Instead, however, he offended Harvard with the truth. He spoke out against civic cowardice. He chastised a licentious and irresponsible press. He ripped the administration for their Godless humanism.
TIME magazine wrote a story about his commencement address and they compared Solzhenitsyn to Amos. The headline read, ''Solzhenitsyn flays the West.'' Instead of thanking them for the honorary Doctor's degree, he exposed the audience for their hypocrisy.
2,800 years earlier, another prophet insulted his audience, too, but his name was not Alexander - and he wasn't a Russian. His name was Amos and he was a Jewish farmer. It was a time of unchallenged luxury and undisturbed peace. Israel was proud, financially secure, but spiritually bankrupt!
We're in a series called Route 66, and we're taking a Roadtrip Through the Bible. This is week No. 30 and today's prophet is Amos. Amos is the third of twe;ve Minor Prophets.
Maybe Paul had Amos in mind when he wrote the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 1):
26 Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.
27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame th ...
Series: Route 66: A Road Trip Through the Bible
Tony Thomas
Amos
In 1974, Alexander Solzhenitsyn published a book titled, Gulag Archipelago. Gulag is a Russian acronym meaning, ''forced-labor.'' And archipelago means, ''chain.'' His book details the atrocities he suffered in the Soviet Union labor camps.
Four years later, he was invited to be the commencement speaker at Harvard University, and Harvard conferred on him a Doctorate degree. Harvard's motto is veritas (Veritas was the Roman goddess of truth). That he, Solzhenitsyn pledged to tell the truth, reminding the graduates that ''truth is almost always bitter.''
The audience was primed to hear a denunciation of the excesses of communistic aggression. Instead, however, he offended Harvard with the truth. He spoke out against civic cowardice. He chastised a licentious and irresponsible press. He ripped the administration for their Godless humanism.
TIME magazine wrote a story about his commencement address and they compared Solzhenitsyn to Amos. The headline read, ''Solzhenitsyn flays the West.'' Instead of thanking them for the honorary Doctor's degree, he exposed the audience for their hypocrisy.
2,800 years earlier, another prophet insulted his audience, too, but his name was not Alexander - and he wasn't a Russian. His name was Amos and he was a Jewish farmer. It was a time of unchallenged luxury and undisturbed peace. Israel was proud, financially secure, but spiritually bankrupt!
We're in a series called Route 66, and we're taking a Roadtrip Through the Bible. This is week No. 30 and today's prophet is Amos. Amos is the third of twe;ve Minor Prophets.
Maybe Paul had Amos in mind when he wrote the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 1):
26 Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.
27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame th ...
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