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Not like (the peoples) your relatives
Do you remember from many weeks ago what they expected as wages from prostituting themselves out?
It was the prosperity of their land.
We get a long list of things and it ends in Hos 2.12 ...of which she said, ‘These are my wages, which my lovers have given me.’
” this looks back a little bit where it’s summarized by God Hos 2.8 “And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.”
But it’s those things she things she’s earning for herself, that the nation, the people are acquiring this wealth and prosperity because of their worship of false gods.
To complete the wrongness of this thought we keep reading.
This famine is another pattern that leads them into captivity.
If they read their Bible which, clearly they hadn’t been they might have recognized this pattern from back in Deut 28.38-41
It’s the last punishment from God before they are finally handed over to captivity.
And we get the picture of how they don’t want the divorce but they do want to stay in their whoredom.
They didn’t reject God but wanted to add in their own worship of Baal.
You see they kept up the rituals, they kept their connection to Yahweh because they thought they could treat him like a vending machine like all the other religions treat their God.
Instead their rejection will start with famine and end up with them going to Egypt of all places for help.
That worked before in famine with Joseph right? but now the opposite of salvation in God’s sovereignty is happening we have the judgment of God’s wrath for their disobedience in view instead.
So instead of life and growth in Egypt during famine it will be death and burial.
This short poem here has a very patterned manner and it’s judgment and lament.
As a prophet he’s not being heard, punishment is coming and they can only blame themselves they are the ones who have deeply corrupted themselves.
God will remember their sin a phrase to mean their sins have not been forgiven.
They have no repentance here and so He shall deal with them and punish their sins.
In the next verse, verse 10 we can see the disappointment from God.
Grapes in the wilderness? that word is for dry land like a desert not a wilderness like a jungle.
So grapes in a desert would be an amazing find and a wonderful treat.
Like the first fig to come into season when you’ve had to wait almost a year for the fig season to come again is great.
It’s hard to connect to some of these personally when we can get an orange all year long at the store, we can get exotic fruits almost anytime we want.
They never got a pineapple, they just got what was local.
You can’t transport that on a donkey cart a thousand miles away, you just can’t.
Then we get to the but… you know what a but means in a sentance?
It means all that other stuff before it doesn’t really matter like what’s coming next.
They went off and defiled themselves.
There is actually part of a psalm about this but the whole Psalm is a good quick history lesson Psalm 106:28-30
God always remembers his covenant and preserves a remnant of his people.
It is the death of a nation not to have children this would be a terrible curse for no one to even get pregnant or if they did for their children to still be taken away.
Then a weird verse gets dropped in with 13.
young palm can also be the place Tyre, and really that makes a lot more sense in this context.
Ephraim was like Tyre (that city that was destroyed by God [through babylon] for their Baal worship) a city that started in prosperity but after time is sent out into the slaughter.
The next verse sees to be darker than total city destruction.
The subject seems even worse that just being destroyed.
Hos 9.14
I don’t think Hosea is the one desiring the judgment there though it kind of reads that way but I think we can also read this as a rhetorical question from God that God answers and not the desire of Hosea.
Why such a terrible judgment?
Because they’re in rebellion especially Gilgal where every single problem Hosea has mentioned so far is practiced.
The doom and gloom continues, and their fertility and prosperity is at and end.
The fertility of the country is vital to it’s survival this judgment is a national death sentance.
China has the lowest fertility rate in the world and it’s going to be a massive crisis.
Christian fertility is not just Christ centered families having kids… although I obviously think that’s pretty important myself… The reality is our fertility is the going out and sharing our faith.
We cannot rely on others to do that for us, like Assyria or Egypt to rescue us.
We need to spread the Godspel and have God grow our people.
Something God will not do if we are actively rejecting him and stringing him along as if he were the vending machine to fix this or that problem in our life.
Or that He was just one of several other things that are most important to us that we just need to maintain our rituals with.
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