Isaiah 54:6-8
Israel is no longer a widow, but a wife who is greatly loved
by her husband who is God. But she is
unfaithful, she seeks other lovers and her Husband gives her a divorce, and now
she is without protection of her Husband, and she soon finds out that her lovers
are users and when she has been used, she no longer holds any mystery or
intrigue for her lovers.
As we read the account of Hosea, I know of no one who would
ask God to give them this assignment.
Beginning in the first chapter and the second and third verses: “When the LORD first
spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of
whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by
forsaking the LORD.” So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and
she conceived and bore him a son.”
(Hosea 1:2-3 ESV)
God gave names to the children of Hosea and Gomer, the first
was a son and he was named Jezreel, for in a little while God will punish the
house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and God would put an end to the kingdom
of the house of Israel. If you go to (2
Kings 10:1-11) you will find the actions of Jehu and how he not only had the
men of Jezreel kill the seventy sons of Ahab, but then Jehu struck down all who
remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close
friends and his priests.
Gomer and Hosea had a daughter and God named her No Mercy
for I will have no mercy on the house of Israel. God told Hosea He would have mercy on Judah,
and I will save them by the LORD their God.
After weaning No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son. “And the LORD said his name is to be Not My People, for you
are not my people, and I am not your God.”
A wise person will open their Bible to Hosea chapter 2, and
see how God deals with whoredom.
The third chapter of Hosea is descriptive of what God is
going to do with Israel, how He is going to take her back with an everlasting
covenant of love. Hosea Chapter 3; “And the LORD said
to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an
adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to
other gods and love cakes of raisins.” So I bought her for fifteen shekels of
silver and a homer and a lethech of barley. And I said to her, “You must dwell
as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man;
so will I also be to you.” For the children of Israel shall dwell many days
without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household
gods. Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their
God, and David their king, and
they shall come in fear to the LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.” Could it be that our eyes will see
Israel returning and seeking the LORD?
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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