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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The book of Hosea, this is written by Hosea the prophet, and most notably known for those opening few chapters where God has
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- Hosea do something that is a picture of Israel. And so Hosea ends up having to marry someone who is going to be unfaithful.
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- In fact, she's so unfaithful she becomes a harlot, she becomes a prostitute. She ends up being destitute and yet throughout that Hosea is still caring for her and taking care of her.
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- He's buying food for her and putting it out for her. When she's on a slave block and being sold as a slave because she's no value to anyone other than as a slave now and Hosea is commanded by God to buy her back and take her in.
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- The whole imagery is there because God wants to show Israel that through their idolatry they have been unfaithful.
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- They have sold themselves to another, to a Gentile God, to a false
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- God. And Gomer is there to represent the nation of Israel. Hosea represents
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- God and what you end up seeing is that here God is doing everything for Israel.
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- As they're giving themselves over to idolatry, here is God taking care of them, providing for them.
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- And then when there's nothing left and they've given themselves over to idols, here is God taking them back in.
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- So what you end up seeing is that this book deals with three main topics and those are sin, judgment and salvation.
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- This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.
