Amos (the shephard turned prophet)

Now we finally move to Amos (whose name means borne; a burden.)

Amos i have noticed focuses on the social injustice across the land.  This provides a look that God doesn't just care about our relationship with him but our relationship with other humans as well. Take a cross their is a vertical and horizontal you have to have both or its not a cross its just a stick.

In the Gospel of Matthew a scribe asked Jesus what the greatest commandment was Jesus answered in chapter 22

³⁴ But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. ³⁵ And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ³⁶"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" ³⁷And he said to him,  "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ³⁸This is the great and first commandment. ³⁹And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ⁴⁰ On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."

Look at the ten commandments in Exodus 20  the first 4 is about the vertical,  the remaining 6 are about horizontal.  So what do we take from this,  I think we should remember we should show justice and mercy to others especially if we profess Jesus Christ as savior we should act like him showing mercy and justice to others