Do you recall the story of Hosea? Did you read the book, Redeeming Love?
What a heartfelt mix of prophetic poetry and a huge dramatic love story.
Not only between Hosea and his wife, Gomer, but between the Great I am and Israel.
God provided for Israel who in turn takes the provision and gives it to false idols (indulges in selfish behaviors) which leads straight to bondage (enslavement).
Yahweh allures us into His Great Love
Satan deceives (with fame, fortune, but much more)
These may initially look similar but the discernment of HolySpirit will lead us into the LORD who offers freedom filled with Love, Joy and Peace (and much more).
He desires you to willingly choose His relationship.
While Satan's lies lead us to permanent desolation.
Hosea and Yeshua
The last part of Hosea shows how God’s love once again restores His children as He forgets their misdeeds when they turn back to Him with a repentant heart. The prophetic message of Hosea foretells the coming of Israel’s Messiah 700 years in the future. Hosea is quoted often in the New Testament.
Foreshadowings: Hosea 2:23 is the wonderful prophetic message from God to include the Gentiles [non-Jews] as His children as recorded also in Romans 9:25 and 1 Peter 2:10. Gentiles are not originally “God’s people,” but through His mercy and grace, He has provided Yeshua the Christ (messiah), and by faith in Him (as the son of God, our REDEEMER) we are grafted into the tree of His people (Romans 11:11-18). This is an amazing truth about the Church (Church = The Body of Yeshua), one that is called a “mystery” because before Yeshua came, God’s people were considered to be the Jews alone. When Yeshua came, the Jews were temporarily blinded until the “full number of the Gentiles has come in” (Romans 11:25).
Practical Application: The Book of Hosea assures us of God’s unconditional love for His people. But it is also a picture of how God is dishonored and angered by the actions of His children. How can a child who is given an abundance of love, mercy, and grace treat a Father with so much disrespect? Yet, we have done just that for centuries. As we consider how the Israelites turned their backs on God, we need to look no further than the mirror in front of us to see a reflection of those same Israelites.
Only by remembering how much God has done for each of us will we be able to avoid rejecting the One (the One is Yeshua, our Messiah) who can give us eternal life in glory (as Yeshua is the Door, He is The Way to the Father, He is the Truth, and He is The Life) instead of the hell we deserve. It is essential that we learn to respect our Creator. Hosea has shown us God’s heart of loving commitment to us. When we do sin (sin = actions on our part that separate us from God), if we have a sorrowful heart filled with repentance (learn what this word means), then God will bring us back to Himself and show His never-ending love to us (see 1 John 1:9).
John 14
5 Thomas said to Him (Yeshua), “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
6 Yehsua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
7 (Yeshua speaking) “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
9 Yehsua said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip?
He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves
Repentance
Renewal
Revival
Let's get into His WORD and know who He is and who we are