EXAMINATION CONSIDERATIONS 1. Was Hosea's marriage actual or symbolic? 2. Did God command Hosea to do something immoral in marrying a woman of harlotry? 3. Why did God command Hosea to marry and live with such a woman? ASSOCIATIONS Associate the persons or events of column one with the corr... [ Continue Reading ]
LOVE REBUKING Hosea 9:1, Hosea 13:16 REPROVINGISRAEL FORSOOK GOD TEXT: Hosea 9:1-9 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, departing from thy God; thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor. 2 The threshing-floor and the wine-press shall not feed t... [ Continue Reading ]
REPROVINGISRAEL FOLLOWED BAAL TEXT: Hosea 9:10-17 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-figs in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated unto the shameful thing, and become abominable like that which they loved. 11... [ Continue Reading ]