In Hosea 11, we went over God’s love letter to His people.  In it, God was wistful, remembering when faithfulness was more a part of His people.  Yet, looking forward, […]

It has only been a few months since Yahweh rescued Israel from their slavery in Egypt.  In Exodus 3:12, He had promised to bring Israel to Mt. Sinai and again […]

Still looking into God’s Ten Words (Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 10:4) to His people, we continue to understand what to means to live as God’s people toward those around us.   Read […]

God and Hosea have both, almost exhaustively, called Israel to repent.  But Israel’s response has been only outward at best with still an unchanged heart.  And so, both God and […]

We have learned that Israel half-heartedly repented.  The repentance was not real repentance but only of outward show—and even the outward show of repentance was not convincing.  And so the […]

Still looking into God’s Ten Words (Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 10:4) to His people, we continue to understand what to means to live as God’s people toward those around us.   Read […]

In the last lesson, we made our way through Hosea chapter 5.  Through poetry, Hosea described what would happen to the Northern Kingdom if they did not “return to [God’s] […]

After the people of Israel agreed to do all that God had spoken, God gave to Moses His Ten Words.  We went through God’s first word, which declared who He […]

Hosea had to buy back his wife (as if he were paying for her services as a prostitute).  Hosea provides us a picture of what God does: He buys us […]