Hosea 2

October 23, 2022

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Reading along with us in Hosea? Here’s today’s reading:

Hosea 2 (NIV)

1“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
Israel Punished and Restored
2“Rebuke your mother, rebuke her,
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the adulterous look from her face
and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
3 Otherwise I will strip her naked
and make her as bare as on the day she was born;
I will make her like a desert,
turn her into a parched land,
and slay her with thirst...........Continue Reading

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  1. God frequently uses the adulterous analogy for the people of Israel and ultimately all people and it is because it is such an accurate representation of what is happening. Our relationship with Him is intimate and when we walk away from His love and provision for something of short gain satisfaction it truly is a heartbreaking, hurtful experience for God and us.
    He talks of when the momentary gratification is gone and the wife returns to her husband realizing that was the true love and provision and how the rebuilding of that trust must happen but the beauty in true restoration of that relationship back to the first love where we should always be with Him.
    I love where he said in verse 6 “Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;
    I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.”
    Sometimes we experience hardships in life but they are actually God’s protection trying to keep us on the right path….just struck me as a different picture of His protection in a way I don’t typically think of it.

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  2. Hosea 2: God protects us in ways that we don’t understand and He brings us back to His fold. Bless you, Lord God!

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  3. Hosea’s situation is given expression in the prophecy he gives representing God before the people. God’s disfavor and judgement is upon them because of their unfaithfulness. Vivid pictures are given of the adulterous activity of the people seeking out other lovers, showing how God sees our disobedience. He also describes the practical ways that He will express his judgment in how He must take away His blessing and provision and make things hard for them. It is important to remember though as Hebrews tells us, that God’s discipline flows from His love for His people. And that love and care is also expressed in how He will restore His people to Himself. In the same way He takes away in discipline, He will restore in their obedience. How loving He is to take us out of our darkness and point us to the light. And He redeems what we were into what we will become. The valley of Achor becoming a place of hope is actually a reference to where we are in Joshua. The valley was named Achor in light of Achan’s sin. SO God will take this place of judgement and sin and make it a place of hope because of how He will restore them. Only our great God could be so good to a people who had been so unfaithful!

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  5. Israel is so, so unfaithful to God. Still God will make her His again.

    “I will betroth you to Me forever;
    Yes, I will betroth you to Me
    In righteousness and justice,
    In lovingkindness and mercy;
    I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness,
    And you shall know the Lord.”

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