Hosea 1:1-9
When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, "go, take to yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the Lord."
Hosea's great themes are love - God's covenant-relationship with his people judgment and hope.
What Israel's unfaithfulness meant to God - How he continued to love his covenant people and long for their return to him - the prophet learnt through bitter personal experience, as the wife he loved betrayed and deserted him.
His message comes straight from the heart. That is what makes his book so moving, so universal and so special.
God instructs Hosea to marry Gomer, a woman God knows will prove unfaithful. This seems to be the meaning of verse 2, which reads, literally,' Marry a woman of harlotry,'
'Harlotry in Hosea has a double meaning, describing both illicit sexual relations and religious acts of unfaithfulness.
Jezreel: I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jereel
Lo_Ruhamah: I will no longer show love to the house of Israel.
Lo-Ammi: ou are not my people, and I am not your God.
How?
If do not turn back to the Lord in spiritual life, God will take back the blessing from us. Be faithful to the Lord Almighty.
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