Amos 3:6

People do not tremble at the news of some coming danger unless someone blows a trumpet to warn them. Calamities do not occur in cities unless God has either initiated or permitted them. [Note: See Robert B. Chisholm Jr., "How a Hermeneutical Virus Can Corrupt Theological Systems," Bibliotheca Sacra 166:663 (July-September 2009):264-66.]

"The seven examples of related events began innocuously, but become increasingly foreboding. The first example (Amos 3:3) had no element of force or disaster about it. The next two (Amos 3:4), however, concerned the overpowering of one animal by another, and the two after that (Amos 3:5) pictured man as the vanquisher of animal prey. In the final two examples (Amos 3:6), people themselves were overwhelmed, first by other human instruments, then by God Himself. This ominous progression, to the point where God Himself is seen as the initiator of human calamity, brought Amos to a climactic statement (Amos 3:7-8)." [Note: Sunukjian, p. 1433.]