Sermons on Judgment
Plead With Your Mother (Hosea 2:2-13)
Plead With Your Mother (Hosea 2:2-13)We come to another abrupt transition (cf. 1:10). Promise of reversal of children’snames returns to the theme of an unfaithful wife. But is this section referring toGomer or Israel? We have anticipated the analogy, but now Hosea makes itexplicit that he is speaking to an unfaithful Israel.Pray and Read Hosea 2:2-13 .In Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë provides us with a picture of obsessiveidolatry. She graphically depicts sin’s inability to provide what we ultimatelyseek.As Heathcliff is…
Children of Whoredom (Hosea 1:3b-9)
God warns the unfaithful nation of Israel through Hosea’s marriage, children, andmessage.Pray and Read Hosea 1:2-9.Introductions of the family would have been super awkward: “This is my wifeGomer, you’ve probably seen her around town…anyways. This is our sonBloodshed, he’s just turned 7 and we can’t get him to stop playing with knives!The little tyrant. This is Unloved, honestly, we hardly notice her really. What isshe now…5? Last (and certainly least—wink, wink) is our son, Rejected. He’sjust entering the terrible twos—you…