Hosea 10?É¬Ø v. 5 The people who live in Samaria fear for the calf-idol of Beth Aven. here Hosea shows that God has renamed Bethel (House of God) to the House of Wickedness. The people are worried about their god being taken away by the Assyrians. Can you imagine their fear? “Oh, I hope they don’t find our god in here....
read moreIdol worship in Hosea 8?É¬Ø v.5 ‘Throw out your calf-idol, O Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?’ Israel’s idolatry has made righteousness impossible for them. They can go to the temple and have their feasts and sacrifices, but it does no good-the idols are still in...
read moreThis study started in Hosea 8Jeremiah 11:13 You have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem. Israel was turned so far from the Lord. He was about to bring affliction on them so they would either turn to their idols and...
read moreHosea 6.6 | word study For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings. * desire: to find pleasue in, to choose, strong attraction to* mercy: hesed, mercy, compassion, what Rahab showed the spies, to treat someone as if a previous relationship existed in which they were close friends,...
read moreHosea 4-5?É¬Ø 4:6 “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.” The same things is happening today, but it need not be God doing some kind of spiritual cleansing. By simply not knowing Him and disobeying Him, people are pouring judgement on themselves through disease, criminal suffering, starvation as a result of...
read more7/31/04 2:34 pm the boys are having their afternoon nap and I’m on the couch typing. Yesterday I read a great thing, but I haven’t been able to write it down until today.I read 2 cor 4:8 “We are …perplexed, but not in despair…” Since I had just heard from work that my reign of error is continuing...
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