The Divine Romance

• God’s Faithful Love Seen in Hosea
• THE MESSAGE OF HOSEA
• Marriage
• Children
• Separation
• Reunion
• Sins of the people
• Nation is guilty
• Nation needs judgment
• Nation has hope
• Hosea’s Marriage Chapter 1-3
• Hosea 1:2 When the LORD began to speak by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea: "Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the LORD."
• Hosea’s Marriage Chapter 1-3
• Hosea 1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son…
– Son Jezreel (“God scatters”)
– Daughter Lo-Ruhamah (“no mercy”)
– Son Lo-Ammi (“not my people”)
• Hosea’s Marriage Chapter 1-3
• Hosea 1:10 'Yet the number of the children of Israel Shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not My people,' there it shall be said to them, 'You are sons of the living God.‘
• Hosea 2:1 Say to your brethren,'My people,'And to your sisters,'Mercy is shown.'
• Hosea’s Marriage Chapter 1-3
• Hosea 2:2-13 rebukes Israel’s unfaithfulness
– 2:2 "Bring charges against your mother, bring charges; For she is not My wife, nor I her husband..
– 2:5 For their mother has played the harlot; .. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, ..
– 2:9 "Therefore I will return and take away My grain in its time and My new wine in its season,

• Hosea’s Marriage Chapter 1-3
• Hosea 2:19-20 "I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy; 20 I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the LORD.
• Hosea’s Marriage Chapter 1-3
• Hosea 3:1-2 Then the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by a lover and is committing adultery, just like the love of the LORD for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans."
• Hosea’s Marriage Chapter 1-3
• Hosea 3:2-3 So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley.3 And I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days; you shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man -- so, too, will I be toward you."

• Hosea’s Marriage Chapter 1-3
• Hosea 3:4-5 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or teraphim.5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They shall fear the LORD and His goodness in the latter days.
• God’s Case Against Israel
Chapter 4-6
• Hosea 4:1-6 1 Hear the word of the LORD, You children of Israel, For the LORD brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "There is no truth or mercy Or knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed. 3 Therefore the land will mourn…

• God’s Case Against Israel
Chapter 4-6
• Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
• God’s Case Against Israel
Chapter 4-6
• Hosea 5:15 I will return again to My place till they acknowledge their offense. Then they will seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me."

• Repentance Ignored
Chapters 6-8
• Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return to the LORD; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
• Hosea 6:4 "O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud, And like the early dew it goes away.
• Repentance Ignored
Chapters 6-8
• Hosea 7:2 They do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness; Now their own deeds have surrounded them; They are before My face.
• Hosea 7:8 "Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake unturned.
• Repentance Ignored
Chapters 6-8
• Hosea 8:1 "Set the trumpet to your mouth! He shall come like an eagle against the house of the LORD, Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law.
• Hosea 8:7 "They sow the wind, And reap the whirlwind.
• Certainty of Judgment
Chapters 9-10
• Hosea 9:7 The days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, The spiritual man is insane, Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
• Certainty of Judgment
Chapters 9-10
• Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.
• God Still Loves and Gives Hope Chapters 11-14
• Hosea 11:1 "When Israel was a child, I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son.

• God Still Loves and Gives Hope Chapters 11-14
• Hosea 11:8-11 "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I set you like Zeboiim? My heart churns within Me; My sympathy is stirred. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of My anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim. For I am God, and not man, The Holy one in your midst; And I will not come with terror.
• God Still Loves and Gives Hope Chapters 11-14
• Hosea 14:4-8 "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him. 5 I will be like the dew to Israel; He shall grow like the lily, And lengthen his roots like Lebanon. 6 His branches shall spread; His beauty shall be like an olive tree, And his fragrance like Lebanon. 7 Those who dwell under his shadow shall return; They shall be revived like grain, And grow like a vine.
• God Still Loves and Gives Hope Chapters 11-14
• Hosea 14:9 Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right; The righteous walk in them, But transgressors stumble in them.