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Pattern and Poetry
Acts 17:11 note
There is something in literature called chiastic structure.
I don’t want to go too far down the rabbit hole here but we need to be aware of it or we’re going to start missing things.
We’ve already skipped past the first use of this structure because we were focusing on the names and their meanings but let’s take a step back and look at how the information is presented.
I’ll give you an examples that get progressively more complicated
A The Sabbath
B was made for man
B’ not man
A’ for the Sabbath
We can also see an emphasis on a point, or the turning point in a story if it doesn’t get mirrored but ends up in the center.
A The first will be last and last will be first
B beginning of the day hires laborers for 1 denarius and later more workers are hired
C 11th hour workers hired
D Workers are called up to the master for payment from the last to the first
C’ 11th hour workers paid 1 denarius
B’ Other workers paid 1 denarius and complain
A’ The last will be first and the first will be last
This is just a really easy one to see and we can follow along and see the structure and how things invert as we head back to A The way we identify these are usually keywords to let us know the author made this structure.
Let’s look back at what we’ve already covered in Hosea
A take a wife of whoredom
B A son named Jezreel -Judgment on house of Israel
C A daughter named No Mercy - I will have no mercy on Israel I will have mercy on Judah
D A son named Not My People - You are not my people I am not your God
X Children of Israel will flourish
D’ Not My People called Children
C’ Judah and Israel gathered together
B’ Go up from the land - Great is the day of Jezreel
D’ Say you are my people
C’ Say You have received mercy
A:Wife B:Jezreel C:No Mercy D:Not My People X:The point of emphasis
Then Hosea 2:2 picks up and completes our A’ theme again the wife of whoredom and we can see this is actually an opposite as we would expect from the chiastic structure
We also start a new structure here and some of these are also nested within bigger picture structures.
Things in the Bible absolutely amaze me.
Has everyone seen a fractal?
As you zoom in to the edge of a fractal you get more clarity and see more and more of the pattern emerge.
It never ends.
We’ll look at the next chunk in a different way.
A Find fault with the mother
B No longer wife
A’ Wife should repent, turn away from her sin of adultery
B’ She will be punished and rejected
B’’ Her children will be rejected
A’’ Mother has conceived them in shame
A:Tells the childrend to - Rebuke, denounce, find fault, don’t side with, etc. the mother
A’: What the mother should do in response
A’’: Children are told they’re conceived in shame
B: Consequences
Do you see why this is helpful?
This could just be a “cool story bro..” moment and everyone leaves tonight going… I do not get it and I’m more confused than ever.
That would make all my prep time a waste and the work I’ve put in for tonight a complete failure.
If this doesn’t make sense, why am I talking?
These structures help us to start understanding the patterns God uses in the Bible.
We should be picking up on these eventually.
It’s a slow process to have our minds transformed.
Here we have the A pattern which is cyclical.
The mother is at fault and the children should acknowledge her sin both so they do not end up in it and participate and also so that the mother cannot continue thinking nothing is wrong.
The next step is repentance.
The last step is the children learning just how connected they are to this sin, which should take them back to the beginning and reject the sin of their mother.
The B pattern just gives us the consequences that are connected to our A cycle.
Next we pick up with that last half of vs 5 through 13
Hosea 2:5b (ESV)
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
who give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
I grabbed this outline from The New American Commentary.
A Sin = going after lovers for agricultural bounty (2:5b)
B Punishment = walling her in (2:6–7a)
C Anticipated redemption = she will seek her husband (2:7b)
A′ Sin = refusal to acknowledge Yahweh as source of bounty and fertility (2:8)
B″ Punishment = she will be destitute (2:9–12)
A″ Summary of sin = devotion to Baal and to decadence (2:13)
C′ Redemption = Yahweh will draw her back and restore her (2:14–23)
Can you see yourself, or others in this same place as Israel, or as Gomer?
This is a very familiar pattern for many many people who have finally come to know the Lord.
Going after other things to have material blessing or pleasure.
For those that belong to God he will make those times miserable and thorny, but we’ll not be able to really run off with that other lover sin.
We will turn back to God in that time.
We might reject the idea that God has provided all the requirements of salvation we don’t have anything to offer, in fact we’re destitute with nothing to contribute.
We might devote ourselves to sinful things.
God draws his people back and God restores them.
Okay… we can quite literally continue for the rest of these verses… frankly the rest of the book of Hosea and chart these things out.
From the big picture chapter size chunks down to line by line pieces.
I am not going to do that to you every week we’re in the minor prophets… probably, but no promises...
I do think it’s worth while for yourself to search the scriptures and find these things.
My second favorite verse is Pr 25.2 “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.”
We are kings and priests in the Kingdom of God so glory is searching out the hidden things of God.
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