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
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
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 …
"The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself" (1689 Baptist Confession, I.9). Scripture illuminates Scripture, and one portion of the Bible must be interpreted through other portions. The full sense of Scripture is not manifold but one, just as Author Himself is one. I always have that principle in mind as I …
Author Verse 1 blatantly identifies Nahum as the author. Only modern, anti-supernatural scholars argue for a post-exilic author, but this theory has no grounding outside of secularist biases. Theme God will bring judgment upon Nineveh (and the Assyrian Empire) because of the wickedness that they have committed. Background Nothing is known of Nahum outside of …
The Scriptures clearly and repeatedly command parents to teach our children the discipline and instruction of the Lord. That is to teach them the Scriptures. And thankfully today there are a multitude of books and resources to help us do just that. So here you can find some of my favorites that I think that …
