Obstinate Rebellion

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Obstinate Rebellion

• Hosea 6-7

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Reversal with Repentance
Retribution Restoration
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a great lion to Judah. I will tear them to pieces and go away I will carry them off, with no one to rescue them (5.14). He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. After two days he will revive us on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence (6.1b-2).
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Reversal with Repentance
Chastening Contrition
Then I will go back to my place until they admit their guilt. And they will seek my face in their misery they will earnestly seek me (5.15). Come, let us return to the LORD. Let us acknowledge the LORD let us press on to acknowledge him (6.1a, 3a).
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Reversal with Repentance
Drought Drizzle
Because of this the land mourns, and all who live in it waste away the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying (4.3). As surely as the sun rises, he will appear he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth (6.3b-c).
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Judgment upon Priesthood

• As marauders lie in ambush for a man, so do
  bands of priests they murder on the road to
  Shechem, committing shameful crimes (6.9).

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Judgment upon Royalty

• Indictment
• They delight the king with their wickedness, the
  princes with their lies (7.3).
• Metaphor
• They are all adulterers, burning like an oven
  whose fire the baker need not stir from the
  kneading of the dough till it rises (7.4).

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Judgment upon Royalty

• Indictment
• On the day of the festival of our king the
  princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins
  hands with the mockers (7.5).
• Metaphor
• Their hearts are like an oven they approach him
  with intrigue. Their passion smolders all night
  in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire All
  of them are hot as an oven they devour their
  rulers (7.6-7a).

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Judgment upon Royalty

• Indictment
• All their kings fall, and none of them calls on
  me (7.7b).
• Metaphor
• Ephraim mixes with the nations Ephraim is a
  flat cake not turned over (7.8).

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Poetic Justice
Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen, O royal house! This judgment is against you You have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor (5.1). Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived and senselessnow calling to Egypt, now turning to Assyria. When they go, I will throw my net over them I will pull them down like birds of the air. When I hear them flocking together, I will catch them (7.11-12).
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Exile covenant punishment

• Just as Yahweh purified Israel during the forty
  years in the wilderness (Num 1427-35), he will
  eventually purify Israel (Hos 610) via
  destruction and exile (cf. Deut 427 Amos
  98-10). Then an obedient remnant, forcibly but
  happily conformed to the covenant (cf. Deut 30
  6-8) will reap the blessings of the restoration
  age (Stuart 1987 112-113).

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Return to the Lord
Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God (5.4a).
Come, let us return to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds (6.1).
Israels arrogance testifies against him, but despite all this he does not return to the LORD his God or search for him (7.10).
They gather together for grain and new wine but turn away from me. They do not turn to the Most High they are like a faulty bow (7.14b, 16a).
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Acknowledge the Lord
There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgement of God in the land (4.1).
A spirit of prostitution is in their heart they do not acknowledge the LORD (5.4b).
Let us acknowledge the LORD let us press on to acknowledge him (6.3a).
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings (6.6).
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• Projecting
• into
• the New Testament

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A Contrite Heart

• Matthew 9.10-13
• While Jesus was having dinner at Matthews
  house, many tax collectors and sinners came and
  ate with him and his disciples. When the
  Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples,
  Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors
  and sinners? On hearing this, Jesus said, It
  is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the
  sick. But go and learn what this means I
  desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have not
  come to call the righteous, but sinners

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Resurrection of the Messiah

• 1 Corinthians 15.3-4
• For what I received I passed on to you as of
  first importance that Christ died for our sins
  according to the Scriptures, that he was buried,
  that he was raised on the third day according to
  the Scriptures
• Hosea 6.2
• After two days he will revive us on the third
  day he will restore us, that we may live in his
  presence.

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A Contrite Heart

• Hebrews 10.26-27
• If we deliberately keep on sinning after we
  have received the knowledge of the truth, no
  sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful
  expectation of judgment and of raging fire that
  will consume the enemies of God.