Truth:
1. God used Hosea's marriage to Gomer and his family to demonstrate how Israel as a wife to Jehovah had become unfaithful to her Husband.
2. God's everlasting love is not a love in affection, like the love of a husband toward a wife, but a love in life, like the love of a father toward a son.
3. God loves us with His divine love, not on the level of His divinity but on the level of His humanity. He has come down to the human level in order to reach us.
4. The yoke in Hosea 11:4 is Pharoh's yoke and eating was the eating of manna in the wilderness.
5. God's love for Israel is everlasting, and He will never repent of this love.
6. God will love Israel freely, for His anger will have turned away from them.
Life experience/Application:
1. Love in affection does not transform, but love in life transforms people. A husband who loves his wife in affection may spoil her, but a father who loves his son in life never spoils his son.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
Minor #7
Truth:
Life experience/Application:
1. A wife may be very good in every respect, but if she is not chaste, she is still not a proper wife.
2. If we all, the young ones and the old ones, prophesy one by one, how rich, how high, how fresh, how living, and how powerful that would be!
Life experience/Application:
1. A wife may be very good in every respect, but if she is not chaste, she is still not a proper wife.
2. If we all, the young ones and the old ones, prophesy one by one, how rich, how high, how fresh, how living, and how powerful that would be!
Monday, October 22, 2012
Minor #6
Truth:
1. Israel worshipped idols in the place where they earned their living.
2. Israel considered a man of the spirit, or an inspired one, as mad. This indicates that they did not care for God's interests.
3. Israel had committed two evils: forsaking Jehovah and turning to idols.
Life experience/Application:
1. The fruit of the vine should have been offered to God as a drink offering, but they used the vines to bring forth fruit for themselves, not for God.
2. When the church is proper, the church has the headship, the leadership, representing God as His authority.
3. To seek Jehovah rightly is to sow rightly. thus, Hosea charged the children of Israel to sow unto righteousness. If they did this, they would reap according to lovingkindness.
4. Fallow ground is ground that has been plowed but has not been sown with anything. The children of Israel were the fallow ground. They had been plowed by God, but had not been sown with righteousness.
1. Israel worshipped idols in the place where they earned their living.
2. Israel considered a man of the spirit, or an inspired one, as mad. This indicates that they did not care for God's interests.
3. Israel had committed two evils: forsaking Jehovah and turning to idols.
Life experience/Application:
1. The fruit of the vine should have been offered to God as a drink offering, but they used the vines to bring forth fruit for themselves, not for God.
2. When the church is proper, the church has the headship, the leadership, representing God as His authority.
3. To seek Jehovah rightly is to sow rightly. thus, Hosea charged the children of Israel to sow unto righteousness. If they did this, they would reap according to lovingkindness.
4. Fallow ground is ground that has been plowed but has not been sown with anything. The children of Israel were the fallow ground. They had been plowed by God, but had not been sown with righteousness.
Minor #5
Truth:
Life experience/Application:
1. Human beings may not be capable of understanding the Bible or of knowing God, but they are very capable in making many things their idols.
Life experience/Application:
1. Human beings may not be capable of understanding the Bible or of knowing God, but they are very capable in making many things their idols.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Minor #4
Truth:
1. Hosea 4-6 covers the sins of the apostate people, the punishment of Jehovah, and the return of the apostate people.
2. The two days in Hosea 6:2 might signify the first 2 periods of a thousand years each, counting from A.D. 70, when the Roman prince Titus destroyed Jerusalem and the temple, cruelly killed thousands of Jews, and scattered the Jews among the nations.
3. The third day in 6:2 might signify the third period of a thousand years, that is, the millennium, the age of restoration, in the reality of Christ's resurrection.
4. From the time Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded Israel in 606 B.C., three things have been taking place on earth. The first is God's loving chastisement over His dear elect Israel, and the second is God's punishment on all the nations. These two things bring in the third thing -- the manifestation of Christ, which will bring in a fourth thing, the age of restoration.
5. Christ's goings forth are His coming.
Life experience/Application:
1. Christ's goings forth, His coming, have not ceased. Even today He is still coming.
1. Hosea 4-6 covers the sins of the apostate people, the punishment of Jehovah, and the return of the apostate people.
2. The two days in Hosea 6:2 might signify the first 2 periods of a thousand years each, counting from A.D. 70, when the Roman prince Titus destroyed Jerusalem and the temple, cruelly killed thousands of Jews, and scattered the Jews among the nations.
3. The third day in 6:2 might signify the third period of a thousand years, that is, the millennium, the age of restoration, in the reality of Christ's resurrection.
4. From the time Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded Israel in 606 B.C., three things have been taking place on earth. The first is God's loving chastisement over His dear elect Israel, and the second is God's punishment on all the nations. These two things bring in the third thing -- the manifestation of Christ, which will bring in a fourth thing, the age of restoration.
5. Christ's goings forth are His coming.
Life experience/Application:
1. Christ's goings forth, His coming, have not ceased. Even today He is still coming.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Minor #3
Truth:
1. God's divorcing Israel was based upon His strong determination to receive her back again.
2. Even though God will hedge Israel up and build up a wall against her, blocking her way, she will not return to Him but instead will pursue her lovers, her idols.
3. Jehovah will lure Israel, He will bring her into the wilderness, and He will speak to her heart.
4. The restoration will be a result of the manifestation of Christ.
Life experience/Application:
1. All of us have had this kind of experience. First, we struggled persistently against God to a point, but later we returned to God to be with Him. We said, "I will return to God, for it was better then than now."
2. God does such negative things in order to correct us, to adjust us, to perfect us, and to make us according to His intention.
3. Quite often in our human life we enter into a situation which may be likened to a wilderness. Sometimes God will cause our environment to be a wilderness so that He may speak to us, to our heart.
1. God's divorcing Israel was based upon His strong determination to receive her back again.
2. Even though God will hedge Israel up and build up a wall against her, blocking her way, she will not return to Him but instead will pursue her lovers, her idols.
3. Jehovah will lure Israel, He will bring her into the wilderness, and He will speak to her heart.
4. The restoration will be a result of the manifestation of Christ.
Life experience/Application:
1. All of us have had this kind of experience. First, we struggled persistently against God to a point, but later we returned to God to be with Him. We said, "I will return to God, for it was better then than now."
2. God does such negative things in order to correct us, to adjust us, to perfect us, and to make us according to His intention.
3. Quite often in our human life we enter into a situation which may be likened to a wilderness. Sometimes God will cause our environment to be a wilderness so that He may speak to us, to our heart.
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