What does Amos 1:3-2:16 reveal about what God does in my place and on my behalf (the work of the Son)? God protects me from his judgment and anger against my sin by sending his Son to bear the penalty of sin on my behalf. Jesus Christ bore the burden of God’s wrath for all those who believe in him so that they will not be destroyed by God’s burning wrath.
3 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.