Amos 4:12

The Israelites should prepare to meet their God because they had failed to repent (cf. Exodus 19:10-19; 2 Corinthians 5:10). He would confront them with even greater punishments (cf. Amos 3:11-15). They should prepare to meet Him, not in a face-to-face sense, but as they would encounter a powerful enemy in battle. The prophet’s call was a summons to judgment for covenant unfaithfulness, not a call to repentance or an invitation to covenant renewal. [Note: Paul, p. 151.] The absence of a stated punishment makes the summons even more foreboding.