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Who ate the wind?
Hosea 12:1 (ESV)
Ephraim feeds on the wind
and pursues the east wind all day long;
they multiply falsehood and violence;
they make a covenant with Assyria,
and oil is carried to Egypt.
Right away we went from last week being fairly clear text to a what the heck version.
This first line can be translated shepherd instead of feeds on.
So it could also say Ephraim shepherds the wind and and pursues the east wind all day long.
now to understand this knowing to the east is desert and the winds coming from there aren’t good you might start to get the picture of a pointless attempt to shepherd wind and chase after a wind that isn’t helpful.
The rest of the verse is fairly straight forward about falsehood and violence or the alliances outside of Israel that we’ve talked about before.
First we know that Judah is mentioned many times but now Jacob what could that mean?
Jacob is the birth name of the man who later is known as Israel.
His story is important here so we’ll review it.
Gen 25:19-26
Now the story goes on and Jacob contrives to get Esau’s birthright and to take the blessing Abraham meant for Esau.
This really ticks off Esau and the boys split ways with Jacob fearing for his life.
Much later when Jacob is going back he knows he will encounter his brother again and is very afraid aof what’s going to happen here.
He sends forth gifts and messengers.
We pick up in Gen 32:21-31
Now if you’re comparing storyline in Hosea to the order of events in Genesis you start to say “Hey.... what’s with the funny business here.”
The story has been re-arranged.
In verse 4 the mention of Bethel comes up but that happened between these events.
Why is Hosea telling us his version of this story out of order?
It’s because his main point here is the transformation of Jacob.
He is born fighting, trying to take blessings.
But God is the one who accomplishes God’s goals.
So in the retelling the contrast is between the Jacob who contends with everyone including God and the one who is then named Israel part of the promise to all humanity for redemption.
This admonition pairs up to our story, don’t go off “accomplishing” things that God seems to be having trouble with in your view.
Stick to the basics.
Love, Justice, and faith - or waiting on God.
The rest of this phrase gives us the clues about the people who think too highly of themselves.
I am rich - because they are rich they can’t be found guilty - they plan on getting away with their iniquity because of hteir wealth.
What’s clear from Hosea all over is that they may indeed get away with that in the courts of Israel but they won’t get away with it in the Court of Yahweh.
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