The Bible's got more tea than Bridgerton 🫖

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And if you haven't read the first thousand pages of the Bible or so, let me catch you up. The Israelites have already been freed from slavery. They made a covenant with God and they entered into the promised land where they were divided into the 12 tribes of Israel that some of us are familiar with. From there, they go through this repetitive downward spiral of whoring themselves out to the corrupt practices of the surrounding nations. Then, they become oppressed by a foreign enemy. Then, they cry out to the Lord for help and then he sweeps in to rescue them. Again and again, they trot around this vicious cycle until finally something truly heartbreaking happens. Instead of a foreign enemy oppressing them, it is their own king that inflicts the oppression. And it gets to be so bad that the country breaks out into civil war and the country is divided into two. So now, it's 10 tribes of Israel to the north and two tribes of Judah to the south. After the split, King Jeroboam makes a decision that is so bad the Bible refers back to it almost two dozen times. He was the king of the north, but the place where they're supposed to be going to church is in the south in Jerusalem. And he can't have his people traveling south into enemy territory just to go to church. So to solve for this problem, he builds two fake temples in the north, each with a golden calf. And I know what you're thinking. Didn't this just happen with Moses up on the mountain talking to God for 5 minutes and the people are already worshipping a calf? Yes, that did just happen. Like I said, vicious cycle. So this is the setting we find ourselves in when we open to the book of Amos. One or 200 years have passed now and there's another king, his name is also Jeroboam the second, who has continued down the path of his namesake. And now, Israel is full of people who claim to love God, but they are treating his people very badly. And God has had enough. Betrayal, slavery, murder, it's all in there, friends. The Bible's got more tea than Bridgerton.