Hosea

• At God's direction, Hosea married an unfaithful wife and had 3 children by her:
• Jezreel = God Plants
• Lo-Ruhamah = Not Pitied
• Lo-Ammi - Not My People
• Israel will grow and be numerous and great again
• Israel has been unfaithful, will be punished and brought back to God
• Hosea had to buy back his wife after she'd had relations with other then abstain from sex for a time - this is like God's love, he loves even when people worship idols and turn away and Israel will go a time without rules, sacrifices and idols and they will return to God
• Evil is abundant in Israel
• The priests like sin because they live off sin offerings
• People are wrong, evil and unfaithful in Israel, including the priests
• Israel's pride will be their defeat
• Israel has trusted themselves and their soldiers, not God
• Built alters to remove sin, but they became alters of sinning
• Israel's sin will be punished
• God loved and care for Israel, but they sinned and went against God
• God will bring punishment
• Israel does return to God