Amos

							      Hosea

God’s Unfaithful Bride
      Hosea 1:1
The word of the LORD which
came to Hosea the son of
Beeri, during the days of
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah,
and during the days of
Jeroboam the son of Joash,
king of Israel.
During the Reign of Jeroboam II
        Hosea: Called to act out
         relationship between Yahweh and
         Israel
         Emphasis on Spiritual unfaithfulness

    Amos: Shepherd-prophet
         Emphasis on Social Injustice
               Outline of Hosea
      Hosea 1-3                 Hosea 4-13          Hosea 14

 Hosea’s Marriage                Hosea’s Message
 Gomer’s Unfaithfulness The case of God's         Ultimate
 Gomer’s Discipline     covenant lawsuit is set   restoration
 Gomer’s Restoration    forth, showing how Israel
                         has been an unfaithful
                         bride
     Hosea 1:2-3
When the LORD first spoke
through Hosea, the LORD said
to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself
a wife of harlotry, and have
children of harlotry; for the land
commits flagrant harlotry,
forsaking the LORD.” 3 So he
went and took Gomer the
daughter of Diblaim, and she
conceived and bore him a son.
(Hosea 1:2-3).
           Hosea’s Children
   Jezreel: The Hebrew word “Jezreel”
    means “God sows” or “God scatters”
    and is taken from the word [r;z<, “to
  scatter seed.”
 Lo-Ruhamah: The Hebrew word aOl

  means “no.” Thus Lo-ruhamah means
  “no compassion.”
 Lo-Ammi: The Hebrew word am refers
  to “people.”
         Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the sons of Israel
Will be like the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or
numbered;
And it will come about that, in the
place
Where it is said to them, “You are not
My people,”
It will be said to them, “You are the
sons of the living God.”
     Hosea 1:11
And the sons of Judah and the sons
of Israel will be gathered together,
And they will appoint for themselves
one leader,
And they will go up from the land,
For great will be the day of Jezreel
   Romans 9:22-24
What if God, although willing to
demonstrate His wrath and to make
His power known, endured with much
patience vessels of wrath prepared for
destruction? 23 And He did so in order
that He might make known the riches
of His glory upon vessels of mercy,
which He prepared beforehand for
glory, 24 even us, whom He also called,
not from among Jews only, but also
from among Gentiles.
   Romans 9:25-26
As He says also in Hosea, “I will call
those who were not My people, „My
people,‟ And her who was not
beloved, „beloved.‟ 26 And it shall be
that in the place where it was said to
them, 'you are not My people,' There
they shall be called sons of the living
God.”
        Hosea 3:1-3
Then the LORD said to me, “Go again,
love a woman who is loved by her
husband, yet an adulteress, even as the
LORD loves the sons of Israel, though
they turn to other gods and love raisin
cakes.” 2 So I bought her for myself for
fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and
a half of barley. 3 Then I said to her, “You
shall stay with me for many days. You
shall not play the harlot, nor shall you
have a man; so I will also be toward you.”
       Hosea 3:4-5
For the sons of Israel will remain for
many days without king or prince,
without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and
without ephod or household idols. 5
Afterward the sons of Israel will return
and seek the LORD their God and
David their king; and they will come
trembling to the LORD and to His
goodness in the last days.
Statement of God‟s Covenant Lawsuit
(4:1)

  You have rejected knowledge (4:2-10)
    Spiritual prostitution (4:11 - 5:15).
    Note the use of the term “harlotry.”
       Warning against insincere
       Repentance (6).
          Case against Kings and Leaders (7).
       Warning against insincere
       Repentance (8).
    Spiritual prostitution (9-10).
    Israel has “played the harlot.”
  God‟s love and compassion rejected
  (11).
God‟s Covenant Lawsuit (12-13).
         Hosea 4:1
Listen to the word of the LORD, O sons
of Israel,
For the LORD has a case against the
inhabitants of the land,
Because there is no faithfulness or
kindness
Or knowledge of God in the land.
       Hosea 6:6-7
6 For I delight in loyalty rather than
sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God rather than
burnt offerings.
7 But like Adam they have transgressed

the covenant;
There they have dealt treacherously
against Me.
       Hosea 14:1-2
1 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God,
For you have stumbled because of your
iniquity.
2 Take words with you and return to the

LORD.
Say to Him, “Take away all iniquity,
And receive us graciously,
That we may present the fruit of our lips.”
        Hosea 14:4-7
4 I will heal their apostasy,
I will love them freely,
For My anger has turned away from them.
5 I will be like the dew to Israel;
He will blossom like the lily,
And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
6 His shoots will sprout,
And his beauty will be like the olive tree,
And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
7 Those who live in his shadow
Will again raise grain,
And they will blossom like the vine.
His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
     Lessons from Hosea
   The Problem of Insincere
    Repentance.
   The Problem of Social Injustice.
      What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
      What shall I do with you, O Judah?
       A merchant, in is like a morning cloud,
      For your loyaltywhose hands are false
       balances,
      And like the dew which goes away early.
       He loves to
      (Hosea 6:4). oppress. (Hosea 12:7).