Review of Jonah & Amos

A small, small picture of the most important event of all time. 3 days & 3 nights entombed and then comes out alive

so he can save undeserving sinners!

A clarification of the message of Ecclesiastes. Enjoy God as you carry the good news to the world.

A reminder of how privilege & responsibility only come in pairs. Because you are my special children you should take

my desires more seriously.

Why David was a poor camping buddy. The tent kept falling down! But God will put it back up .

. . promise!

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Preview of Hosea

Get the theologyDon’t miss the heart

The Basic message: Bad news then Good

newsGod will break off his

relationship with the nation due to their unfaithfulness (ala Deuteronomy 28)

But will renew it in the future because of his faithfulness (ala Deuteronomy 30)

5A The Address of Moses

2B A Vision of Ultimate Realization of ...

Deut 30:1-6 When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all our soul according to everything I command you today

Deut 30:1-6 3 then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. 4 Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens . . .

Deut 30:1-6 6 The Lord will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.

Communicated 3 ways:

1. Through the children’s names Jezreel, Lo-Ruhamah, Lo-Ammi

2. Through the Couple’s marriage Marriage F Divorce F

Remarriage

3. Through the Nation’s future Old Covenant F Exile F New

Covenant

1A Hosea’s Marital Experience 1-3 1B Hosea’s Marriage & Family: Symbols of Covenant and Judgment, 1:1-9 Jezreel

1A Hosea’s Marital Experience 1-3 1B Hosea’s Marriage & Family: Symbols of Covenant and Judgment, 1:1-9 Jezreel

Jezreel = to scatter or throw

in the positive sense of scattering seed, i.e., planting

in the negative sense of scattering or throwing away

Because of the sin of Israel as exemplified by the murders which happened in the valley of Jezreel, God will “Jezreel” the 10 tribes away into exile

1A Hosea’s Marital Experience 1-3 1B Hosea’s Marriage & Family: Symbols of

Covenant and Judgment, 1:1-9Jezreel: Scatter in terms of “scattering from

the land” Lo-Ruhamah: Not my loved one Lo-Ammi: Not my people 2B Covenant Renewal, 1:10--2:1 Jezreel: “Jezreel” in terms of “planting her

back in the land” Ruhammah: My loved one Ammi: My people

3B Israel’s Idolatry, 2:2-4 “Rebuke your mother” “She is not my wife...” 4B Indictment & Judgment, 2:5-8 “I will go after my lovers who give me food and water...” 6B Covenant Renewal, 2:14-23 2:14-15 “I will allure her. . . lead her into the desert . . . she will sing as in the days of her youth 2:16 “You’ll call me ‘my husband’ not ‘my master’ (my baal) 2:19 It will be a marriage which lasts!Matthew 3:1-2 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness, saying, “Repent”

2:23 The “Good News”

I will PLANT her for myself in the land;

I will show MY LOVE to the one called “not my loved one”

I will say to those called ‘not my people’ “You are MY PEOPLE”

The couple re-marries 7B Hosea’s Marital Reconciliation:

symbol of Covenant Renewal, 3:1-5 1 The LORD said to me, “Go, show

your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”

2 So I bought her . . . 3 Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will live with you.”

HOSEA

Initial Marriage

Years together

of unfaith-fulness

Divorce Years apart

Remarriage

ISRAEL

SinaiLaw

Suzerain / Vassal

Covenant

Judges & many

periods of the kings

722 for Israel,586 for Judah

586 to the present time

2nd Coming

3:1-3 The LORD said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress.2 So I bought her . . . . 3 Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man and I will live with you.

Hos 3:4 For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol.

5 Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days.