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The Lord’s Anger Against Israel (Hos.13:1-16)
God talks of Israel as dead(v.1). God is talking about their death in spirit, by worshipping that which is not God.
What will follow is the death of the physical nation. The nation will be taken over by their enemies and will be
destroyed.
And where does this destruction come from? Hosea graphically portrays how the one who previously has preserved
the nation now brings judgment on it. God is the ultimate destroyer!.
- They are reminded of the deliverance from Egypt by God’s hand. God cares
for them (v.5-6).
- Nevertheless the people forgot God. Now, He who has been their deliverer
will become their destroyer(v.9).
- The next message represents the invasion that was to come. (v.15-16). It is
from the Lord that destruction comes.
Repentance To Bring Blessing (Hos.14:1-9)
The book of Hosea ends with God’s appeal to Israel to return to Him. In a sense it is God’s last word. God appeal for
confession and true repentance.
Repentance also involves depending on God’s grace(v.2). Having called on the people genuinely to repent of their
sins, God now promises a full measure of restoration. God promises three things:
- He will heal their waywardness (v.4).
- He will love them (v.4).
- And He will cause His people to prosper again (v.5-7).
Does the scope of this promise of God surprise us? In Him we have beauty, strength, value, delight and abundance.
Hosea ends with an appeal to those who have wisdom to discern the truthfulness of God’s words. Sin brings death
but obedience is the path of life, this is true even today. The ways of the Lord are always right, the righteous walk in
them, but the rebellious stumble in them!
Application :
List out some of the blessings you have recieved from God since you became a Christian?
Ephesians 1:3-6
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every
spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his
sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and
will--to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
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