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Title: HOSEA


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HOSEA
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AUTHOR DATE
  • Unkown but tells of Hosea
  • Tells of Assyrian Threat
  • Prophesied at least 38 years
  • Only writing prophet to come from Northern
    Kingdom
  • Written in Judah after the fall of Samaria (721
    BC)

3
BACKGROUND
  • Lived in tragic final days of the Northern Kingdom

4
THEOLOGICAL THEME AND MESSAGE Part 1 (Ch 1-3)
  • Family Life is used as symbol
  • Hosea ordered to marry Gomer (an adulterous wife)
  • Prophet continued to love her, and took her back
    (Chapter 3)
  • Details Gods continued love and desire for his
    wayward people

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THEOLOGICAL THEME AND MESSAGE Part 2 (Ch 4-12)
  • Calls Israel to forsake Canaanite idols and
    return to the Lord
  • Israels basic problem failure to acknowledge
    God
  • Disloyalty to God is spiritual adultery
  • Baal worship included prostitutes (414) and
    worshipping images (85)
  • But Hosea proclaims Gods covenant love
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