Chapter 26 The Book of Hosea

The Book of Hosea Hosea's Prophecy Hosea was the prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel. He lived in the time when Uzziah, Jordan, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judea.At that time, Israel had the Syrians in the north, the Ammonites in the east, the Moabites in the southeast, the kingdom of Judah in the south, the sea in the west, and the Phorikites in the northwest. When Jeroboam was king of Israel, the country was not stable, and there were many internal and external troubles.According to the "Bible", this is because the Israelites broke the covenant with the Lord and ignored the law since Moses, thus losing the favor of the Lord.

Hosea received a revelation from Jehovah at this time.God said to him, "Go and marry an adulteress, and take in the children of fornication, because the land has committed fornication and forsaken the Lord." God's intention was to warn the Israelites. So Hosea married the harlot Gomer, and she bore him a son.Yahweh said that he should be named Jezreel, which means that God will soon avenge Jehu's family for the crime of bloodshed in Jezreel.God said that he would destroy the kingdom of the house of Israel, and that in due time he would break the bow of Israel in the plain of Jezreel.

Then Gomi gave birth to another daughter.The LORD said to Hosea, "Call her name Loruhamah."Loruhamah means "no mercy".God declares that he will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, and will not forgive them, but will have mercy on the house of Judah, so that they will draw closer to God and be saved. When Gomer gave birth to his second son, the Lord told Hosea to name him "Roammi", which means "not my people". But these were the angry words of the LORD, and Hosea went on to declare, "The number of Israel will be like the sand on the seashore, immeasurable and uncountable. Wherever it was said that you were not my people, there it will be said that you are not my people." the Son of the living God."

The Book of Hosea uses symbols to denounce the Israelites' abandonment of religious morality as immorality and immorality, and attributes the disasters of the country and society at that time to moral depravity.Hosea's own behavior was both an obedience to God and a condemnation of Israel.He said to the Israelites, "Argument with your mother and wife, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband, tell her to take off the adulterous image on her face and the adulterous position on her breast...I will not Have mercy on her children, for they are born of fornication. . . Then Hosea's prophecy condemned the "fornication" of his day--the priests forgot the law, the people worshiped idols, indulged in adultery and wine, consulted puppets, lived with prostitutes, and sacrificed with prostitutes... …

He warned that the priests and common people and royal family of Israel would fall because of their iniquity, and that even Judah would fall with them.They took their flocks and flocks to seek the Lord, but they could not find him. Ephraim will find himself sick, and Judah will find himself wounded.They cried out to the king of Assyria, but God still threw them to lions to tear them apart.The glory of Israel will pass away, "They will be like the morning mist, and they will be like the morning dew, and like the chaff from the field, they will be blown away by the wind, and like smoke from the window."

Hosea's prophecy repeatedly condemned the Israelites and repeatedly reiterated God's mercy. Its intention was to make them cleanse their sins, accept good deeds, repent their sins and turn to the Lord, and still be saved.For "the way of the LORD is upright, in which the righteous walk, but sinners stumble."