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Hosea edition
Ephraim was like the state where Samaria and Bethel were. Ephraim is the main territory for the northern tribes. Hosea speaks against Ephraim.
Hosea’s ministry predicts the disintegration of the north, the failure of the state, and the removal of the throne out of Israel in the north. He points to the true king who is the LORD and a new marital covenant the LORD will establish.
Ch 1-3 Hosea’s marriage illustrates God’s relationship to the Israel
- He marries Gomer.
- Their first child belongs to Hosea. He is named Jezreel because Jehu’s line will end in the 4th generation according to 2 Kings 10:30. The first child represents the will of God. He’s conceived according to God’s will and he represents God’s will.
- Her second child (possibly not his) is Loruhamah because God will not have mercy on Israel anymore, but he will have mercy on Judah.
- Her third child (possibly not his) is Loammi because Israel is not God’s people and God is not their God.
- Israel and Judah will be gathered under one head one day.
- There is a new, better marriage covenant made
- Israel thought the world fed her, but didn’t acknowledge God fed her.
- The LORD will stop providing for her.
- The LORD will offer a new covenant (vss 14-23)
- Hosea buys back his unfaithful wife
- Purchase of the harlot
- No king, no priests, no leadership in Israel.
- Regathering will be toward Jerusalem to Christ (vs 5)
Ch 4-6 Israel has no knowledge of God
- Hear children of Israel
- Here you priests
- Israel is destroyed because they have no knowledge of God.
- Ephraim is married to idols.
- Their positive outlook is useless
- Unrepentant redeemed are destroyed
- Verse 6:6 is key
Ch 7-11 Israel will be sent back to bondage in Egypt and Assyria
- Blow the trumpet, sound the alarm
- You sought help from Egypt and Assyria instead of God, so the LORD will send you back
- No fruit was brought forth to God. (Time to sow in righteousness vss 10:12-13)
- Hosea predicts the end of the throne in Israel. The state will fail and the nation will die.
- They will be gathered back by the Son, the Holy One in the midst of them (chapter 11).
Ch 12-14 No king but the LORD
- There is a controversy with Judah too.
- Ephraim is dead.
- There is no king but the LORD (13:4,9)
- 13:14 is 1 Corinthians 15:55
- Restoration by a new covenant that will begin at the cross
