Ralph West’s Weaving the Textual Web | Hosea 6:1–2

Introduction

author: Hosea - "Salvation" -

Hosea was called not to proclaim God’s Word, but to marry a woman of adultery and produce children of adultery. He married Gomer, who bore three children. His personal family struggles provided the images Hosea used to describe Israel and God. The struggles also taught him to share the divine emotions of deep, self-giving love and a powerful desire for justice and retribution.

Date: 755-710 B. C.

Place: The Northern Kingdom of Israel

Purpose: Hosea seeks to demonstrate the balance between God's "justice" & "Love"

Theme: God's redeeming love being illustrated. - returning to Yahweh -

that repentance necessarily precedes reception of divine favor.

The message in Hosea is centered on:

• Israel’s historical relationship with God;

• Israel’s love affair with the fertility rituals of Baal worship;

• Israel’s economic, military, and political practices and conditions;

• God’s expectations of Israel; and

• God’s ultimate love for His people.

Background: The prophet Hosea began his prophetic ministry near the end of Jeroboam's reign The Northern Kingdom. the people of God had encountered an apostasy, falling away. Hosea pleaded with his people to turn to God and be saved. Hosea heeded an unusual instruction from God. Hosea marries a prostitute by the name of Gomer. Gomer was unfaithful. by virtue of his infidelity and lessons learned from his own marriage, Hosea was able to minister to the people of God because of their unfaithfulness.

The major themes of Hosea’s message can be summarized in three words: sin, judgment, and salvation

Let us return

Psalm 51:12 KJV 1900

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with thy free spirit.

its been said as a preacher you know you cant get common with the people. I think we been focusing on the wrong thing cause some of us have become common with God and taking God for Granted. what you mean preacher? the people of Israel in the text have become common with God and was refusing to repent as if they didn't fear God or didn't need Him at all. which is why there's been a call to return to God.

see you never want to get to a place where you think you don't need God cause He’ll take His hands off you with a quickness and when God takes His hands off you everything is bound to crumble .... sounds familiar?

Hosea 5:15 “I will go and return to my place, Till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: In their affliction they will seek me early.”

So this just told us that not only did the people not want to repent or have fear of God, but that this was a time where God is attempting to get back in his place and return to us, but we the people of God are out of place. so now everybody is not in their perspective places. so that means nobody is lined up with the word of God, and nobody is lined up with the order that God has established for His people. Its a dangerous place to be outside the will out of God. never think you don't ever need God. you think cause you got a nice car, nice house, beautiful family , and you got everything taken care of that you got it together, don't ever think you can get so high to where God cant pull you down. cause he’ll teach you how to be humble and will remind you whose the real reason you are where you at and why you have what you have and who made the way when you working 3-4 jobs trying to make ends meet and living from pay check to paycheck and bumming rides just to get to where you had to go … Know your place, your place is not Gods place

you are not God and you far from God Jr. ... for He is God all by himself and he don't need your help.

Returning to God

People who have walked away from God because of church folk

church-folk who don't know how to be Christians which means Christ Like

Church-folk the ones that judge people all the time and act like they done forgot where they come from

what they did

who they did

where they used to go

what they used to drink

what they used to smoke

don't act like that !

what kills me with church folk is they always want God to cover they mess and nobody else

they don't have no repentance and no forgiveness in they heart But I’m so glad God aint like some of yall church folk

If the people of God would become more Kingdom like and develop a Kingdom mindest. They’ll have a better understanding of What that Means… Kingdoms mindset means It Aint About Me its about the Kingdom.

Kingdom folk know that I gotta share the good news of Jesus Christ and win souls for the Kingdom while doing it with the Love of Christ

Kingdom folk don't operate out of ignorance like some of us do.

we wonder why God is allowing certain things to happen in the world today and the nerve of us to get mad cause covid is coming back to a rise, and new diseases are showing up. Then the officials in the united states government … that's the people in the white house..... are acting a fool. you know why cause they don't have enough kingdom folk doing their jobs and they not in the right positions and they not living clean lives.

That doesn't mean he wont welcome you back home

one thing i love about God He aint gone treat you as your sins deserve its our job to persuade the world of this very God.

And if you go back in Chapter 5 you’ll see that's why God released his judgement on the people of Israel. not just because they wouldn't repent but they refuse to get it right and get in position.

Ho 5:13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah saw his wound, Then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, And sent to king Jareb: Yet could he not heal you, Nor cure you of your wound.”

We seen in the text where God had to remind them that Assyrian cant do what He Do ! and he had to remind them who they had put their trust in

you put your trust in yourself

your employer

your government

your pastor

let them Heal you

let them fix your problems

But we know who can fix it

psalms 20:7 “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”

i gotta move here

Importance of repentance

its the only way to escape God’s judgement

repentance involves turning from sin and turning to God

it prepares the way for God’s Kingdom

it brings forgiveness & restoration

repentance is a requirement for fellowship with God

repentance opens the way for blessings

moving down the verse

torn, and … heal. They ascribe their punishment not to fortune, or man, but to God, and acknowledge that none but God can heal their wound.(not the Assyrian, as they once vainly thought, Ho 5:13) They are at the same time persuaded of the mercy of God, which persuasion is the starting-point of true repentance, and without which men would not seek, but hate and flee from God. Though our wound be severe, it is not past hope of recovery; there is room for grace, and a hope of pardon. He hath smitten us, but not so badly that He cannot heal us.

so the big play here is given to returning to God and Knowing God . I know who God is!

He will heal … he never said he wasn't !

only after we confess it to God and ask for forgiveness, and get in position so things can line up accordingly

beginning the healing process there are necessary steps

Letting Go - how can you heal if you still holding onto stuff that God doesn't want you with, you holding up your own progress .. you done heard the song with leandria Johnson lord deliver me cause i seem to do is hurt me, you aint doing nothing hurting yourself… lord get me out my own way

i cant keep holding on to past hurt and pain and situations and traumas over the past years of my life and some point you gotta come to a point where you gotta let it go if not you will never get to where God wants you to go.

and whats bad some of us get content with that stuff and get content with where you are in life .. so now you walking around with a mask on being fake and lien to yourself and everybody

then you got some people who walking around and aint hiding the fact they mad at the world i mean you cant even say Good Morning to them and they turn into a Karen i don't want to have a good morning

self-evaluation - you gotta check yourself sometimes you might have to be like michael Jackson im talking about the man in the mirror im asking him to change his ways 1 Corinthians 11:28 “But let a man examine himself,

you ever thought about why you cant go higher in God

why haven't you reached your destiny or even your full potential

better yet why you cant get healed

why you cant be set free

why you cant be delieverd

why things keep going wrong in your life

its because you aint got it right with God !

its me im the problem

im not holding myself accountable

forgiveness - is another powerful tool

listen to just like we want God to forgive us there are somethings and some people in our lives that we just gotta forgive and this isnt just brushing it under the rug or anything like that this so you can be released from the bondage of the enemy cause he will use that stuff to keep playing over and over in your head til he can get to your heart then you have a hardened heart and now you locked up in turmoil everyday

blocking out the true people God have sent in your life

you lashing out and hurting them and hurting yourself

but i decree and declare we are coming forgiving them and we coming out of bondage and the devil cant hold us captive any more

lord forgive me

lord i forgive them

Revival -an improvement in the condition or strength of something.

refer to the script verse 2

Explains the 2 days: The wounding is unto death (v. 2). The duration mentioned is the period of time after which decomposition of the body sets in.... so the wounds that they have is now causing the bodies to decompose which means they are about to die and they are literally watching themselves die can you imagine watching yourself die

The verbs revive us, and raise us up are frequent expressions for resuscitation and resurrection. Such language anticipates and paints a clearer picture of national resurrection after death while in the midst of persecution

(cf. 1 Sam. 2:6)6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

Explains the 3 days:

Paul challenges the raise us up with the argument argument (1 Cor. 15:4): ‘that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures’, and If recovery from sickness not revival from death is the meaning, the time-frame seems trivial. A three-day illness, especially in ancient times, would have been no big thing. why? because He Jesus Got Up in 3 days. so what you thought was gone take years to fix and years of forgiveness and getting it right only gone take you 2-3 days

you dont have to stay there long

why cause in 2-3 days God can revive you

in 2-3 days he can raise you up

in 2-3 days he can cut the time of your healing process

in 2-3 days he cant turn things in your favor

you know what for the next 2-3 days you start speaking it

lord im lining up with your word and getting my life together

why cause

im coming out this thing

im coming out this toxic place

i shall live and not die

why cause too many ppl need to get in the kingdom

and i wanna be a living testimony that this what clean living looks like

cause holiness is still right

being righteous is still right

too many ppl are depending on me

too much is at stake

and we cant let the devil win

and if you dying speak life and live

live live live

revive me lord

that was the purpose of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ for believers

John 10:10 KJV 1900

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Live in His Presence

what happens after resurrection:

live in his sight—enjoy His countenance shining on us, as of old; in contrast to Ho 5:6, 15, “Withdrawn Himself from them.”

The consequence of the longed-for national resurrection is a life lived in Yahweh’s presence, where joy is available to the people and praise to Yahweh is their constant response (Ps. 16:11)Psalm 16:11

11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Yahweh: It expresses God’s quality of absolute being as the eternal, unchanging, dynamic presence, or it means “He who causes to be.”

i wanna be in his presence

i wanna be in the presence of the one who can cause me to be delivered

i wanna be in the presence of the one who can cause me to be healed

i wanna be in the presence of the one who can cause me to be set free

to be in his presence you have to be faithful

you have to be consistent in the things of God

you have to get your mind right

you have to be kingdom minded

doin kingdom work

taking care of kingdom business

always praying and talking to God

pray without ceasing

Matthew 17:21 “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”

the old saints use to sing a song lord send a revival and let it begin with me

lord send a revival

send a revival

in this world today

in the white house

in our schools

in our homes

you said in your word that if my people which are called by my name would humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then i will hear from heaven and heal their land

send a revival lord in the streets

cause we living in a world of confusion

mothers fighting daughters

fathers fighting sons

children going against their parents

children having children

children killing children

lord send a revival

lord we need you to move

move in our church

move in our homes

move like never before

we wanna experience you in a different way

lord send a revival

lord heal

heal our land

heal sickness

heal depression

heal anxiety

heal cancer

lupus

high blood pressure

aids

hatred

broken hearts

lord send a revival

deliver us from us

from the enemy

from your wrath and judgement

lord deliver us from evil for thine is kingdom the power and the glory

lord send a revival

save us lord

save the drug addict

save the alcoholic

save the church

save the loss

save families

lord we repent and we wanna get right so we can be in the right position

lord we know who to turn to and thats your son Jesus

alpha and omega

the beginning and the end

the peacemaker

kings of kings

lord of lords

bright and morning star

Lilly of the valley

Ezekiel wheel in the middle of a wheel

the one who turned water into wine

the one who told rose up and told the storm to cease and then walked on water

the one who went through the fiery furnace with the 3 Hebrews boys

the one who showed Daniel while in the lions den how to use the lions for a mattress and a pillow

but that same Jesus who they marched judgement hall and said crucify him

and then marched him up a hill call clavary

and place a crown of thorns on his head

nailed him in his and his feet

pierced him in his side

and hung his head in the locks of shoulders

and placed him in a borrow tombed

and he stay 3 days and early on Sunday morning he was revived and raise up outta the grave with all power in his hand

thank him ! for revival

you can get and don't have to stay there