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)

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BACKGROUND

• Lived in tragic final days of the Northern Kingdom

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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