Bobservations Column: The Day of the Lord

“Hypocrites!” Jesus called out. He called them whited seplkers, only half-heartedly living the Law; blind guides they were, unclean, and engaged in building great tombs to the prophets that their forefathers had killed, and they themselves garnishing the tombs of the righteous. Jesus described them as straining at a gnat yet swallowing a camel. He called them serpents, and a generation of vipers in Matthew 23:13-36! This is how He spoke of the Religious Leaders of His day. “There is nothing new under the sun.”In Amos 5 today, we read that God will neither accommodate hypocrites in the congregation, nor accept their offerings of praise, peace, or meat offerings at the altar.