HOSEA REDEEMS HIS WIFE

INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA

God’s Love for His Apostate People

How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I cast thee off, Israel? Hos_11:8

I. GOMER, UNFAITHFUL BUT BELOVED, A SYMBOL OF ISRAEL, Hosea 1-3

3. The Return of the Prophet’s Wife, Hos_3:1-3 and the Return of Israel, Hos_3:4-5

HOSEA REDEEMS HIS WIFE

Hosea 3:1-5

Then the LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman (Gomer) who is beloved by her husband and yet is an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love the raisin cakes [used in the feasts in pagan worship].”

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley [the price of a common slave].

And I said to her, “You shall stay with me for many days. You shall not play the prostitute nor shall you have a man; so I will also be toward you [until you have proved your faithfulness].”

For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or [idolatrous] pillar, and without ephod or teraphim (household idols).

Afterward the sons of Israel will return [in deep repentance] and seek the LORD their God and [seek from the line of] David their king [the King of kings–the Messiah]; and they will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness and blessing in the last days. [Jer_30:9; Eze_34:24]

By Philippus Schutte

New Covenant Israelite! "And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;  Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee."  Rom 11:17 -18

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