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Healing exposes us.
Let’s start by reading out the first section here.
Hos 6.11b “...When I restore the fortunes of my people,”
This first section can be misread and I think looking over some notes from scholars that many translations have implied something the text doesn’t say.
When I restore and When I heal are not gramatical maybe statements.
They are certain and definite statements.
They are a declaration that despite what we see next God’s going to fulfill His promise.
In fact part of the healing may reveal the sin.
So despite some translations saying “When I would”, “Whenever I would have”, or “Whenever I would” there is no indication that God wanted to heal but was prevented in someway by what followed.
The LXX gets this right.
The deeper look we see three names for the same place Israel, Ephraim, and Samaria.
The descendants here are the ones who we know as the Samaritans in the new testament.
Then 3 deal falsey, thieving, raiding.
Then 2 responses Don’t consider God remembers, and their deeds surround them.
You know when your commentary starts out saying “This is without question among the most vexing texts in the Hebrew Bible.”
It’s a bit obscure there isn’t an obvious point.
It does have a Chiastic structure that highlights in verse 7 not one calls on God.
It certainly is descriptive and we have to just take it at face value that we are emphasizing in metaphor how bad things are.
Our metaphors continue and we don’t just look at the oven but what it’s baking… I kind of wanted to change this to Ephraim is a pancake not flipped.
That just rings clearer with my personal experience as far as metaphors go.
Then we look at all the things that are corrupting Ephraim.
Yes their leadership is at a high fault like we’ve mentioned in past chapters but there is also this mixing that has always been forbidden to Israel they’ve mixed themselves with strangers.
It reminds me of Pergamum.
Pergamum has a similar warning to them.
They’ve mixed themselves with several anti doctrinal ideas in their ranks.
They’ve become mixed with heresy.
The resolution outside of repentance is the same resolution Israel faces here.
“I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth.”
God will bring in destruction to break those who lead his people astray and destroy everything ungodly.
Do not be mixed with people who are strange to Christianity.
I hope you get what I mean.
We must mingle with those who are not Christians and those who have rejected Christianity.
We cannot retreat to our ivory towers and study and meditate on this book alone as Christians.
We must be in the world to shine the light of God for the people OF the world to see it and come to it.
What we need to be cautious about is who we mix with who we are connected to deeply in the religious, political, and cultural levels across our lives.
Israel has done that, Ephraim has done that very deeply, and eventually it’s forced on them even more and Assyria scatters them forcibly to all over the world to be mixed with other people groups.
This mixing is a violation of the sacred law and why they are considered half jews by the Southern Kingdom after it’s restored.
They’re worse than someone who was just a pagan.
And now we get in our last four verses a Lament from God that begins about the spiritual failure in paganism and apostasy.
Then we continue the lament around the political failure of this kingdom.
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