Hosea's Love Story

Love Stories in Culture

Everyone loves a good love-story, don’t they?

You have many iconic couples that have been of interest for many years—some centuries, even!

Romeo & Juliet; Rose and Jack (Titanic); Popeye & Olive Oyl; Johnny Cash & June Carter.

Even if you’re watching some sort of movie or television show which is NOT a Romantic theme, there’s still often traces of romance found throughout…

The Office has Jim & Pam; Friends has Ross & Rachel; Star Wars has Han & Leia; The Flintstones has Fred & Wilma.

For whatever reason it might be, the human race has an obsession with love stories.

Love Stories in the Bible

Believe it or not, there are even such love stories in the Bible!

You have Abraham and Sarah; Isaac and Rebekah; Ruth and Boaz; Joseph and Mary…

There’s one love story, though, that is often neglected—the love story of Hosea and Gomer.

You don’t hear much about this story, the love story of Hosea and Gomer.

Not too many couples will say that their love is like that of Hosea and Gomer, or that Hosea and Gomer are their romantic role-models.

And that’s probably because the story of Hosea and Gomer reads a lot more like a tragedy than it does a romance…

Hosea and Gomer

You see, Hosea was a prophet from the Old Testament…

Hosea’s life and work as prophet took place in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, the king of Israel (Hosea 1:1).

This was roughly about 3,000 years ago, when Hosea would have been alive.

As prophets were, Hosea was called and commissioned by God.

But Hosea was called to do more than just prophecy…

Listen to God’s call in Hosea 1:2: “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom...”

Odd call—isn’t it?

Hosea does as the Lord instructs—he takes Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim as his wife, and she conceives and bears Hosea several children.