Minor #8

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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