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3506 — Evil in a City. Amos 3:6

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 11, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 27.

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3506 — Evil in a City. Amos 3:6

Please explain "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Amos 3:6. J. W. M.
"Evil" is not used in the sense of sin, but of judgment, such as fell upon Sodom, Babylon, Tyre, Jerusalem, and other cities. God sends or suffers to come upon cities calamity. The American Revised Version reads better—"Shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it?" God was then warning Jerusalem and Samaria of coming judgments; they were not to take those judgments as mere happenings. It is also a truth for this time.