Life-Study of Hosea

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An Introductory Word Concerning the Minor Prophets _{msg. 1}

I. The composition
II. The contents
A. God’s economy in His loving chastisement of Israel
B. Christ as the centrality and universality of God’s economy
1. In His eternal origin
2. In His human birth in Bethlehem
3. In His first coming as the Messenger of God
4. In His union with Israel as the Son of God loved by God and called out of Egypt by God
5. In His death and resurrection for the salvation of God to sinners
6. In His being the Desire of all the nations
7. In Elijah’s being sent before Him to prepare the way for His coming back
8. In His being sent by God the second time with His overcomers
9. In His arising as the Sun of righteousness with healing in His wings
10. In His going forth as the dawn and coming as the rain, as the latter rain which waters the earth
11. In His second coming as the Angel of the covenant, whom Israel desires
12. In His coming as the mighty One with His overcomers to defeat Antichrist and his army
13. In His judgment of the nations
14. In His dwelling in the holy mountain of Zion within Jerusalem to reign among Israel
15. In His reigning in Zion as David their King, as Ruler in Israel, in the millennium
16. In His shepherding of Israel, becoming great and being their peace
C. Some crucial points
1. Being prepared to meet our God
2. God pardoning our iniquity and passing over our transgression
3. The outpouring of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost
4. The righteous one living by his faith
5. God being light to us and bringing us into the light
III. The central thought

The introductory word and the symbol of a wife of harlotries (1) _{msg. 2}

I. The introductory word
A. The meaning of the name Hosea
B. The time of Hosea’s ministry
C. The object of His ministry
D. The place of His ministry
E. The subject
F. The central thought
G. The revelation concerning Christ
1. In His first coming
2. In His second coming
H. The sections
II. The symbol of a wife of harlotries
A. The prophet Hosea taking Gomer, a wife of harlotries
1. Gomer bearing Hosea a son named by God Jezreel
2. Gomer bearing Hosea a daughter named by God Lo-ruhamah
3. Gomer bearing a son named by God Lo-ammi
4. Promise of restoration
a. The number of the children of Israel being like the sand of the sea
b. Being called sons of the living God
c. The children of Judah and the children of Israel being gathered together and appointing for themselves one head
d. God charging them to say to their brothers, “Ammi,” and to their sisters, “Ruhamah”

The symbol of a wife of harlotries (2) _{msg. 3}

B. The harlotries of Gomer as the wife to the prophet Hosea
1. Jehovah wanting the returned Israelites to contend with the adulterous people of Israel
2. Jehovah denying that Israel is the wife and that he is her husband
3. Jehovah warning Israel
4. Israel having gone about as a harlot and acting shamefully
5. Jehovah hedging up her way with thorns and building up a wall against her
6. Israel pursuing her lovers but not overtaking them
7. Israel not knowing that it was Jehovah who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the fresh oil
8. Jehovah taking back His grain in its time and His new wine in its appointed season
9. Jehovah uncovering her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one delivering her from His hand
C. Jehovah’s restoration of the adulterous and apostate Israel
1. Jehovah luring Israel, bringing her into the wilderness, and speaking to her heart
2. Jehovah giving Israel her vineyards and the valley of Achor as a door of hope
3. In that day Israel calling Jehovah her Husband
4. Jehovah making a covenant for Israel
5. Jehovah betrothing Israel to Himself forever
6. Jehovah answering the heavens, and the heavens answering the earth
7. Jehovah sowing Israel for Himself in the land
D. The confirmation of God’s faithful restoration of Israel
1. Jehovah telling Hosea to love Gomer, a woman of adulteries, again
2. Hosea loving Gomer and telling her to abide with him many days
3. The children of Israel returning and seeking Jehovah and David their king (Christ in the millennium)

The sins of the apostate people, the punishments of Jehovah, and the return of the apostate people _{msg. 4}

I. The sins of the apostate people and the punishments of Jehovah
A. The sins of Israel and the punishments of Jehovah — concerning the people in general
1. No faithfulness, no kindness, and no knowledge of God
2. False swearing, deceiving, murder, stealing, and adultery
3. The people being violent
4. The land mourning, and the inhabitants of the land languishing
B. The sins of the people and the punishments of Jehovah — concerning the priests
1. The people contending with the priest
2. The priest stumbling in the day, and the prophet stumbling with the priest in the night
3. God’s people — the priests — being destroyed because of a lack of the knowledge of God
4. God rejecting the priest
5. God forgetting the priest’s children
6. God changing the glory of the priests in their multiplication into shame
7. The priests feeding on the sin offering of God’s people
8. The priests eating but not being filled
C. The sins of Israel and the punishment of Jehovah — concerning fornication, wine, and harlotries
1. Fornication, wine, and new wine taking away their heart
2. God’s people inquiring at their wooden post
3. Offering sacrifices upon the tops of the mountains and burning incense upon the hills
4. The people who had no understanding being cast down
D. The sins of Israel and the punishments of Jehovah — concerning Israel’s stubbornness
1. Israel going about as a harlot
2. Israel being stubborn, like a stubborn heifer
3. Jehovah limiting Israel in a narrow field
4. Ephraim being joined to idols
5. Ephraim being left alone
6. Their liquor having ended, and they having given themselves up to harlotry
7. The wind having wrapped her up in its wings
E. The sins of Israel and the punishments of Jehovah — mainly concerning the priests, the house of the king, and the princes
1. Jehovah’s judgment coming upon the priests, upon the house of Israel, and upon the house of the king
2. Ephraim having gone about as a harlot, and Israel being defiled
3. The pride of Israel testifying to his face
4. Going to seek Jehovah but not finding Him
5. Acting treacherously against Jehovah
6. Ephraim being a desolation in the day of correction
7. The princes of Judah becoming like those who move a boundary mark
8. Ephraim being oppressed, crushed by judgment
9. Jehovah being like a moth to Ephraim
10. Ephraim going to Assyria
11. Jehovah being like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah
12. The lovingkindness of Ephraim and Judah being like a morning cloud and like dew that departs early
13. They like Adam having transgressed the covenant
14. Gilead being a city of those who commit iniquity
15. In the house of Israel Jehovah having seen a horrid thing
II. The return of the apostate people
A. Jehovah going away and returning to His place, until the apostate people acknowledge their offense anu His face
B. The return of the apostate people
1. A word concerning coming and returning to Jehovah, who will heal them and bind them up
2. Jehovah enlivening them after two days
3. A word concerning knowing Jehovah and concerning Christ’s going forth as the dawn and His coming as the rain
C. Jehovah’s promise to Judah in the return of the apostate people

The sins of Israel in forsaking Jehovah and Jehovah’s punishments on Israel because of their forsaking of Him _{msg. 5}

I. The sins of Israel in forsaking Jehovah
A. Sins in their social life among the people and the rulers
1. Falsehood, theft, raids, evils, lies, intoxication, and scorn
2. Adultery practiced by all of the people
B. Evils in their relationship with Jehovah
1. Wandering from Jehovah
2. Ephraim being likened to three things
a. An unturned cake
b. A silly dove
c. A deceitful bow
II. Jehovah’s punishments on Israel because of their forsaking of Him
A. Like an eagle the enemy coming against the house of Jehovah
B. Israel having cast off what is good
C. They having set up kings but not by Jehovah
D. With their silver and gold making idols for themselves
1. Samaria’s calf having cast Israel off
2. The calf of Samaria being shattered to pieces
3. In making idols having sown wind and reaping a whirlwind
4. Israel becoming among the nations like a vessel in which no one takes pleasure
E. Ephraim having multiplied altars
1. Jehovah writing for Ephraim the ten thousand things of His law
2. They sacrificing flesh and eating it, but Jehovah having no delight in them
F. Israel having forgotten his Maker and having built palaces, and Judah having multiplied fortified cities

The idolatry of Israel against Jehovah and the punishments of Jehovah upon Israel _{msg. 6}

I. The idolatry of Israel against Jehovah being like a wife’s harlotries against her husband
II. Israel having gone as a harlot away from her God
III. The threshing floor and the winepress not feeding them
IV. They not dwelling in the land of Jehovah
V. They not pouring out offerings of wine to Jehovah, and their sacrifices not being pleasing to Him
VI. They not participating in the day of assembly and in the day of the feast of Jehovah
VII. They escaping from destruction, but Egypt gathering them, and Moph burying them
VIII. The days of visitation having come
IX. Ephraim having been a watchman with God
X. Jehovah finding Israel like grapes in the wilderness, and seeing their fathers as the first ripe fruit on the fig tree at its beginning
XI. The glory of Ephraim flying away like a bird
XII. Israel being a luxuriant vine bringing forth fruit for himself
XIII. They speaking mere words, swearing falsely while making a covenant
XIV. Israel having sinned since the days of Gibeah
XV. Ephraim being a trained heifer that loves to tread the grain, but Jehovah having passed the yoke over her fair neck
XVI. The charge to sow unto righteousness for themselves, to reap according to lovingkindness, and to break up their fallow ground

Jehovah’s unchanging love versus Israel’s stubborn unchastity (1) _{msg. 7}

I. Israel’s stubborn unchastity
A. God’s prophets calling them
B. They refusing to return to Jehovah
C. Ephraim encompassing Jehovah with lies
D. Ephraim feeding on wind and following the east wind continually
E. Jehovah having also a controversy with Judah and punishing Jacob according to his ways
F. Ephraim being a merchant
G. Gilead being iniquity
H. Ephraim provoking Jehovah to bitter anger
I. Being like a morning cloud and like dew that departs early, like chaff driven by a storm wind, and like smoke from a window vent
J. Their heart being exalted, and they having forgotten Jehovah
K. It being their destruction that Israel was against Jehovah
L. The iniquity of Ephraim being bound up
M. A wind of Jehovah coming from the wilderness
N. Israel having fallen by his iniquity

Jehovah’s unchanging love versus Israel’s stubborn unchastity (2) _{msg. 8}

II. Jehovah’s unchanging love
A. Jehovah loving Israel when Israel was a child, and out of Egypt Jehovah calling His son
B. Jehovah calling Israel by His prophets
C. Jehovah teaching Ephraim to walk
D. Jehovah drawing the children of Israel with cords of a man, with bands of love
E. Jehovah not giving Ephraim up
F. The children of Israel walking after Jehovah, and Jehovah causing them to dwell in their houses
G. At Bethel Jacob finding Jehovah, and there Jehovah speaking with the children of Israel
H. Since the land of Egypt Jehovah having been the God of the children of Israel
I. Israel knowing that there is no God except Jehovah
J. Jehovah ransoming them from the power of Sheol
K. Jehovah through His prophet calling Israel to return to Him their God
L. Israel in the restoration
III. The prophet’s word being wise

Three implications concerning Christ _{msg. 9}

Christ, the Son of God, being called out of egypt by God
The only begotten Son and the firstborn Son
The many sons
Cords of a man, bands of love
God gently causing us to eat

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