SEPTEMBER 14 READING…HOSEA 1-2 & ROMANS 9
Hosea is an Old Testament minor prophet who served the Lord in a very spiritually corrupt time for Israel. The names Hosea, Joshua, and Jesus, are all the same names…the names mean salvation in the Hebrew. The Lord used Hosea in a very unique way. He commanded him to do something incredible…to go take a wife who was a harlot…so Hosea marries Gomer the harlot . The Lord wanted Hosea to know what Israel was doing to Him... they were committing spiritual harlotry. Gomer gives Hosea a first son, and God commands he be named, Jezreel…as a prophecy of the end of Israel. There second child, a daughter, was to be named, Lo-Ruhamah….meaning God would no longer have mercy on Israel. Then Gomer has another son who is to be called Lo-Ammi, meaning the people are not God’s people, nor is He their God. Though God is a God of mercy, He will not allow His people to go into spiritual adultery…not then and not now. In Romans Paul, laments that Israel will not believe in Messiah Jesus…their rejection of Jesus is a rejection of God. So they will wander from God until they trust in Jesus as Messiah. Jesus is the ONLY Way to salvation for bothering the Jew and the Gentile. There is no other way…none!
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TOMORROW’S READING…HOSEA 3-6 & ROMANS 10
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