Hosea 9 Commentary
“You have loved the corn you thought Baal he paid you with.” Verse 1. Then the LORD promises to withdraw the blessings. So the LORD punishes Israel by withdrawing His blessings. Will Israel wake up and begin to see things differently?
The people will not remain in the LORD’s land. They will go back to Egypt. Egypt becomes a symbol of slavery. Wickedness is slavery. Israel shall not remain in Eden, the Garden of God. It is the same picture! It is the same process.
Hosea’s messages of God’s wrath make him an enemy of the public. Servants of the LORD shouldn’t expect a red carpet for delivering the oracles of the LORD!
“Soon, they became as disgusting as the gods they loved.” Verse 10. Sin isn’t a shop you visit for a couple of necessities. You buy and are out of it in a moment. You repent and may go back if another need or feeling shows up. Wickedness sticks to you. You become as disgusting as the sin shop itself. You are never the same.
Won’t the opposite be truer? Visitors to the LORD’s house shine like the LORD Himself. Their lives are never the same! Hosea has labored to underline this point. Israel can return to the LORD and become beautiful again.
The purpose of this book can be summarized as follows: It is a problem statement. Israel appears hopelessly wicked. Our own world isn’t different at all. Even in these pages, you have hints of possible restoration. Israel can be restored. But this hope is for Hosea’s distant future when the Son or Immanuel shows up. Immanuel’s government of righteousness will know no end.
What a blessed hope for the world!
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