Prepare to Meet Your God

 Amos 4:11 “I overthrew some of you,
    as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning;
yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.
12 “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
    because I will do this to you,
    prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”
13 For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,
    and declares to man what is his thought,
who makes the morning darkness,
    and treads on the heights of the earth—
    the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

God had been doing everything possible to get Israel's attention.  He had sent poverty, famine, drought, pestilence, and every imaginable wake-up call to confront their injustice, immorality, and idolatry, but they would not listen to Him.  He was about to show them Who He really is, how holy and powerful He is, and that as the God Who reveals Himself, expects to be heard.