Amos 3:7 and The Lord’s Council

Amos 3:7 and The Lord’s Council

Amos 3:7 -- Certainly the Sovereign Lord does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets. [NET]

Genesis 6:5-14, especially 13-14 -- So God said to Noah, “I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth. Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood.”

Genesis 18, especially 17-19 -- Then the Lord said, “Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him. I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Then the Lord will give to Abraham what he promised him.”

Genesis 40 & 41 - God enables Joseph to interpret the meaning of dreams in Egypt.

1 Kings 22:19-22, especially 19 -- [The prophet] Micaiah said, “… I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the heavenly assembly standing beside him on his right and on his left.”

Job 15:8 -- Do you listen in on God’s secret council?

Jeremiah 23:18 & 22 -- Which of them has ever stood in the Lord’s inner circle so they could see and hear what he has to say? … If they had stood in my inner circle, they would have proclaimed my message to my people. They would have caused my people to turn from their wicked ways and stop doing the evil things they are doing.

Daniel 9:20-27 - [The Archangel Gabriel to Daniel a prophecy of 70 weeks.]

Daniel 10-11-12 -- [Daniel has a vision of “a man clothed in linen.”]

John 15:15 -- I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

Romans 11:34 -- For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?

1 Corinthians 2:11 -- For who among men knows the things of a man except the man’s spirit within him? So too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

2 Corinthians 12:2-4 -- [Paul was “caught up into paradise and heard things.”]

Revelation 10:7 -- In the days when the seventh angel is about to blow his trumpet, the mystery of God is completed, just as he has proclaimed to his servants the prophets.