Post Nine, Hosea Chapter Two

Monday 22 July 2013

Let's start with a worship song, shall we?

Brokenness Aside by All Sons and Daughters.

This is something the Lord allowed me to see a little while back. It is so very sweet I wanted to share it with you.

Hosea chapter two:

In chapter one, verse 2 - The LORD tells Hosea to "Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry, and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the LORD."

Verse 3 - "So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim..."
They had three children, two sons and a daughter.

But, Gomer became discontent and decided she could do better for herself and that her lovers had provided better for her.

Hosea 2:5 - "For their mother has played the harlot;
She who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, 'I will go after my lovers,
Who give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'

Verse 2:6 - "Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns,
And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.

Verse 2:7 - "And she will pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them;
And she will seek them, but will not find them.
Then she will say, 'I will go back to my first husband,
For it was better for me then than now!'

Verse 2:8 - "For she does not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
And lavished on her silver and gold,
Which they used for Baal.

Verse 2:9 - "Therefore, I will take back My grain at harvest time
And My new wine in its season.
I will also take away My wool and My flax.
Given to cover her nakedness.

Verse 2:10 - "And then I will uncover her lewdness
In the sight of her lovers,
And no one will rescue her out of My hand.

Verse 2:11 - "I will also put an end to all her gaiety,
Her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths,
And all her festal assemblies.

Verse 2:12 - "And I will destroy her vines and fig trees,
Of which she said, 'These are my wages
Which my lovers have given me.'
And I will make them a forest,
And the beasts of the field will devour them.

Verse 2:13 - "And I will punish her for the days of the Baals
When she used to offer sacrifices to them
And adorn herself with her earrings and jewelry,
And follow her lovers, so that she forgot Me," declares the LORD.

Gomer did not realize that everything she had had been given to her from the LORD. He had even covered her lewdness and nakedness.

This does not sound like a very sweet story at this point does it; but, there is another page, the next page... and God willing, we will cover it tomorrow. I am hoping to not have such long posts in the future, easier for you to read, easier for me to write.