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Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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
Hosea do something that is a picture of Israel. And so Hosea ends up having to marry someone who is going to be unfaithful.
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.
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.
The whole imagery is there because God wants to show Israel that through their idolatry they have been unfaithful.
They have sold themselves to another, to a Gentile God, to a false
God. And Gomer is there to represent the nation of Israel. Hosea represents
God and what you end up seeing is that here God is doing everything for Israel.
As they're giving themselves over to idolatry, here is God taking care of them, providing for them.
And then when there's nothing left and they've given themselves over to idols, here is God taking them back in.
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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