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[[Hosea]] (active 750-722 B.C.) was the first of the twelve Minor Prophets of the kingdom of Israel. He called on the people to [[repent]] its sins of apostasy and warned of the judgment to come from God around the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. His writings form the first of the Old Testament books of these Minor Prophets. | [[Hosea]] (active 750-722 B.C.) was the first of the twelve Minor Prophets of the kingdom of Israel. He called on the people to [[repent]] its sins of apostasy and warned of the judgment to come from God around the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. His writings form the first of the Old Testament books of these Minor Prophets. | ||
Revision as of 00:44, 26 May 2020
Hosea (active 750-722 B.C.) was the first of the twelve Minor Prophets of the kingdom of Israel. He called on the people to repent its sins of apostasy and warned of the judgment to come from God around the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. His writings form the first of the Old Testament books of these Minor Prophets.
Hosea was the son of Beeri and apparently belonged to the upper classes whom God uses to portray a message of repentance to his people.
Hosea denounces the worship of gods other than Jehovah, metaphorically comparing Israel's abandonment of Jehovah to a woman being unfaithful to her husband. Most references in the Bible to adultery are about this type of national adultery.
Hosea's unfaithful wife Gomer becomes a metaphor for the relationship of Yahweh and his unfaithful people, Israel, and the eventual reconciliation of Hosea and Gomer is treated as a prophecy for the eventual reconciliation between Yahweh and Israel. The apostasy of the people, having turned away from God, and served both the calves of Jeroboam (Hosea 8:4-6) and Baal(Hosea 2), which would then include becoming subject to a Canaanite god who loved to oppress the people.[1]
To understand these ideas of serving calves you need to understand what the golden calf was and how it would bring in the nature of a Canaanite god relationship. The Asuras of northern India centuries before and the Canaanite are of the same ilk, for the words both mean merchants, traffickers e.g. commerce. The tav was a door to Abraham but the Asuras and and Canaanite type social systems, like the Corban of the Pharisees, blocked the way of faith and makes the word of God to none effect. The traveling merchants of the earth in Revelation 18 includes "slaves, and souls of men". Their tactics and systems makes men merchandise according to Peter and even curse children making them a surety for debt. The New Testament gives us many warnings about being again entangle in a yoke of bondage.[2]
Outline of the Book of Hosea
- Chapters 1–2; Account of Hosea's marriage with Gomer biographically which is a metaphor for the relationship with YHWH and Israel.
- Chapter 3; Account of Hosea's marriage autobiographically. This is possibly a marriage to different women
- Chapters 4–14:9/14:10; Oracle judging Israel, Ephraim in particular, for not living up to the covenant.
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- ↑ Hosea 12:7 ¶ [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
- ↑ Galatians 5:1 ¶ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.