INTRO SESSION - FILL INS

Today's focal passage: Amos 8:11-12
not to prophesy
hard as flint and they would not listen
stopped talking.

1. Alexander the III
2. Latin for seventy
3. obedience to the Jewish law
4. King of the Jews

a famine of hearing the words of the Lord

1. their identity was cast
what set them apart

2. provoke a hunger
* pleroo meaning make full. The time wasn't full until their spiritual stomachs were empty.
*The time didn't go. It came!

He used a famine to
until the fullness of time
He used the withholding of His words to prepare for the revealing of The Word