This is the THIRD in a series of FOUR on the Minor Prophets. Click for online sermon:The Prophet HOSEA: In Defense of God's Love.
Here is a brief introduction to the man:
Hosea prophesied during dark days of
All of that is interesting. But here is the bizarre thing: Hosea has the dubious honor of being the only prophet told to marry a prostitute...!
Find out why by doing some reading.
Read Hosea 1.
- Why is Hosea told to marry a prostitute?
- What is God communicating about Israel?
- Why is Hosea told to go and 'love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress'?
- How does he 'win her back'?
- What is God communicating about himself?
- Describe the heart of God.
- What do you think it means when God says: "My heart recoils within me"?
- What kind of response does this kind of love evoke?
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Pic is of the Hosea Commentary Scroll, from the Dead Sea Scrolls, and includes the text of Hosea 2:8-12.
2 comments:
The beauty of the covenant. God loves us no matter what we are. There is no way we can be perfect this side of heaven; hopefully, we are not prostitutes, but other sin is just as bad. However, we are seen through Christ and His perfection by God. We are His. Hosea is a beatiful picture of God loving Isreal, even though she has "whored" herself to other nations. She must now repent.
Hosea 3 is a great picture of redemption. There is a cost to our sin. God, Christ paid that cost for us.
Thanks for making us think about Hosea.
Thanks finite rex
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