Although every word of God is inspired and profitable, each book of the Bible has, as we might call them, key texts. These are passages that illuminate the rest of the text. Identifying these texts is a crucial aspect of any study of Scripture because it shapes your whole approach to the book. What then …
Continue reading Out of Egypt I Called My Son | Hosea 11:1-11
Let me sing for my belovedmy love song concerning his vineyard:My beloved had a vineyardon a very fertile hill.He dug it and cleared it of stones,and planted it with choice vines;he built a watchtower in the midst of it,and hewed out a wine vat in it;and he looked for it to yield grapes,but it yielded …
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will take it to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart his made glad. The heart of the wise is …
I have obeyed the voice of the LORD. I have gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to …
Continue reading False Worship: My God, We Know You | Hosea 8
"There is one text in the Bible that, as God is my witness, I never read without trembling" (Morgan, Hosea, 72). That text is found in Judges 16. In that chapter, Samson is asked multiple times by Delilah to reveal the secret of his strength. Finally, after giving her false answers, verse 16 tells us …
Continue reading Let Us Press On to Know the LORD | Hosea 6-7
https://youtu.be/xa9Zw5l4ugU Gram loquitur, Dia verba docet, Rhet verba colorat,Mus canit, Ar numerat, Geo ponderat, Ast colit astra. Few have encountered that Latin couplet today, but Lewis introduces it by saying: Everyone knows that the Arts are Grammar, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy. And almost everyone has met the mnemonic couplet" (The Discarded Image, …
As we have established, the two big sections of Hosea are chapters 1-3 and 4-14. The first three chapters give us the summary and the picture of Hosea and Gomer. Hosea 2 is the summary of Yahweh's plan of Israel. He will discipline them severely but ultimately bring them back to Himself. Chapter 1 and …
So far in the book of Hosea, the first three chapters gave us Hosea's marriage to Gomer, which represented Yahweh's covenant with Israel. Chapter 2 gave us God's plan for Israel in a nutshell: He would severely discipline her but ultimately bring her back to Himself. Chapter 3 gave us a picture of that predicted …
Continue reading My People Are Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge | Hosea 4
https://youtu.be/i1DgrZgC64M Every education has a telos, whether it is explicitly stated or not. The point of our first study was to establish what is the telos of education according to Scripture. We then ended by distinguishing between education and schooling, which served as our bridge into today's topic, which shifts from the great governing idea …
Continue reading The Tenets of Education: Paideia According to Scripture
In Hosea 1, God gave the prophet Hosea the assignment to marry a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom. This was to be a sign, a kind of living parable, of Israel's whoring after other gods. Hosea takes Gomer to be his wife and has three children: Jezreel, No Mercy, and Not My …
