Hosea 4:1-19
The Lord charge against Israel. There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery.
My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.
God won't punish their daughter when they turn to prostitution, because the men themselves consort with harlots and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes- a people without understanding will come to ruin!
From now on there is no further mention of Hosea's family.
Why?
Real faith in God finds expression in loving obedience, delight in his laws. The prostitution of Israel;s religion let to literal prostitution.
Pagan religion with its temple prostitutes brought in its wake sexual degradation and the breakdown of law and order in society.
The priests, who failed to make God's laws known and feathered their own nests into the bargain and the men of Israel are responsible for what has happened. God holds them accountable.
The people of Israel rejected the Lord and did what they want, ignore the warning of the Lord, so the Lord let them be destroyed for their lack of knowledge.
How horrible when man without understanding. all will come to ruin.
Ignore and reject are the problem of people living in darkness. Lost their direction.
How?
Reading the words of the Lord and do what the Lord says, it is the basic exercise to gain knowledge of God and walk on the right way. Do it like sacrifice in the morning before the Lord.
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