1. Quinn River Baptist Fellowship
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3. Hosea
Hosea wrote to the Northern Nation of Israel. He was a contemporary of Isaiah, Amos, and Micah.
Hosea was prophesying to the Northern Kingdom, and warning them of God’s impending judgment, to the House of Judah about their impending judgment, then to a group called “Israel” that is promised return to the land and restoration unto God. The prophesies of coming judgment extend not only to the immediate situation then, but also all the way to the end times scenario. Promises of the restoration also extend to the end times scenario.
We have seen the following groups/places talked about:
Ephraim – Technically the majority of the ‘land’ on which The Northern Kingdom resides, it is used idiomatically to refer to that portion of the Northern Kingdom that followed idolatry. It is also used idiomatically to refer to that group that follows ‘The Assyrian’ (or the Antichrist) at the end times.
Samaria – The capital of the Northern Kingdom, and seat of enforced idolatry, bad politics, foreign intrigues, and the seat of poor leadership and bribed judgment. Used as a synonym for the ‘politically correct elite’ of the people, and the ruling class (from the king on down to the local judges).
Bethaven – Technically a suburb of Bethel, God uses the name Bethaven to refer to the location of the temple of Baal at Bethel (so He doesn’t have to use His name in association with Baal), and it is used as a synonym for the false prophets and priests who refuse God’s knowledge. The name Bethaven means ‘House of Vanity’, ‘House of Iniquity’, or ‘House of Trouble’ depending on how your pronounce it.
Judah – The capital of the Southern Kingdom is mentioned, as well as warning no to follow the Northern Kingdom’s examples, or the same judgment will be handed down to Judah
Israel – A group that is promised judgment, but then restoration as a group, then a promise to be driven into the wilderness at the same time that Ephraim runs to ‘The Assyrian’ and while in the wilderness, God says He will return to them at their petition, and restore them. From then on, they will be His people.

4. So, which nation are we talking about??
The Formal Indictments against Israel
Gone after other Gods, Gave credit to them for God’s blessing, Forgot God
The Specific Charges
No Truth in the Land, No Mercy, No knowledge of God, Swearing, Lying, Killing, Stealing, Committing Adultery, Violence, Violence Among Family Members, Pollution of the Land, Beasts, Birds, and Fish diminish, No one stands up for right, No one reproves another, Argue with Priests, The common people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, Forgotten the law of God, They are all liars – there is no truth in their government or pulpits, franchised theft endorsed by the government, and no justice against common thieves, Morality by majority rule (everyone’s doing it), Their rulers enjoyed and even endorsed the evil being done, Justice and judgment was coerced by political correctness and bribery, political assassinations, Funding of foreign projects and foreign intrigues at the expense of their own people, They follow pagan worship practices – cutting themselves and marring the image of God (man), They rage with their tongues against God, When problems strike they run to God and claim to be His people but ignore Him the rest of the time (religious hypocrisy), They pretend to follow God but their actions speak otherwise
The General Charges
social injustice, violent crime, religious hypocrisy, political rebellion, dependence upon foreign alliances, selfish arrogance, spiritual ingratitude
So, which nation are
we talking about??

5. Hos 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Hos 8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

6. Hos 8:9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
Hos 8:10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
The inference here is that they were pursuing international relations on the sole basis of money. Greed. Monetary gain. The primary neighbor they were dealing with in the majority of their transactions was Assyria. Ironically, it was Assyria that conquered them.
Hos 8:11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
What you sow, that you will reap. If you build alters in your life, you will become like your alters.
Num 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Psa 115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psa 115:5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
Psa 115:6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
Psa 115:7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
Psa 115:8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
<also in Psalm 135:18> Covetousness and greed, also called idolatry (Colossians 3:5)
The worse thing man has ever invented? Religion. How many lives, how much tragedy, how much destruction has been carried out at the hand of man based upon religion! All actions, offerings, hymns, bible studies, conferences, etc., are an offense to God is not done with the proper whole-hearted devotion.
1Sa 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
1Sa 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.

7. Hos 8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Hos 8:13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
Hos 8:14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
Frogotten: Shakach = To Ignore.
(Egypt here is being used as an idiom for slavery.)
They were going through the motions, attending church on Sunday like a good little Christian, but their heart was not in it, it was just something they did. Tradition. It was expected of them.
Alexis de Tocqueville: “America is great because America is good. If America ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.” (Democracy in America, 1815, ISBN: )
Amo 1:4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
Amo 1:7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
Amo 1:10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
Amo 1:12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
Amo 2:2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth:
Amo 2:5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Eze 39:1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
Eze 39:2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
Eze 39:3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
Eze 39:4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
Eze 39:5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 39:6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

8. They have forsaken God, so God will forsake them
Chapters 9 and 10 focus on the “whirlwind” that Israel will inherit from their works of sin and ingratitude
They have forsaken God, so God will forsake them
1) Death of joy/lack of food 1, 2
2) Exile from their land 3-6
3) Loss of spiritual discernment 7-9
4) Declining birth rate
5) Cast out 17
In this chapter
1) God threatens to deprive this degenerate seed of Israel of all their worldly enjoyments, because by sin they had forfeited their title to them; so that they should have no comfort either in receiving them themselves or in offering them to God (v. 1-5)
2) He dooms them to utter ruin, for their own sins and the sins of their prophets (v. 6-8)
3) He upbraids them with the wickedness of their fathers before them, whose steps they trod in (v. 9, 10)
4) He threatens them with the destruction of their children and the rooting out of their posterity (v. 11–17)
Hos 9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
Hos 9:2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
The top 20 world food producing countries per capita… what was really interesting about that chart?
The United States wasn’t on the chart.
In fact, we weren’t in the top 30 either, nor the top 50, nor the top 70, nor 80!!!
We are 81st on the list, below Papua New Guinea. We have gone from position #1 in 1961 to 81st position by 2009, just 50 years.
What year did we officially abandon God? 1963.

9. Hos 9:3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
Hos 9:4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
Hos 9:5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
Hos 9:6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
In exile, opportunity for legitimate worship to the Lord would end. In order for Israel to worship, they have to have a temple, and the temple must be in Jerusalem. We saw last week how they have corrupted the form of worship in order to try to worship God by not following his rules about worship while outside of the land (the white chicken, for example).
The punishment fitted the crime. It was highly appropriate since Israel’s Levitical worship had been corrupted by hypocrisy. A nation that refused to conduct its formal worship in the proper spirit would be denied its privilege of worship. Sacrifices offered in a foreign land are not acceptable to God. (Deut. 16, 17) They would have the same effect on a worshiper as bread eaten by mourners, who made everything they touched ceremonially unclean because they had contacted a dead body. (Num 19:14-15, 22)
The reference to Egypt is a reference again to slavery, and the reference to Memphis is a reference to death. Memphis was known as the ‘death city’, it was where the dead bodies were taken to be mummified.
Who is he talking too? (hint: verse 3)
Ephraim. Symbolically those who were following after idol worship and willingly ignore God’s truth, or actively promote the corruption of God’s truth – and the kings who took pleasure in that!

10. Hos 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
They viewed the prophets as insane, mad fools and had great hatred towards them.
Amos: Amos 7:10-13; Jeremiah: Jeremiah 29:26; etc. Even our Lord Jesus was called ‘demon possessed’ in John 7:20
‘mad’: “Shaga” = Maniac. Maniac refers to one who is insane and acts upon that insanity (1 Sam 21:13-15). The term is used elsewhere by godless men who ridiculed true prophets (2 Kgs 9:11, Jer 29:26-27).
Hos 9:8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
The irony of the situation is that Israel tried to ensnare the prophets God had placed as watchmen over the nation. A watchman was responsible for warning a city of an approaching enemy (Ezek 33:6). In the same way God’s prophets were to warn the people of coming judgment on sin (Jer 6:17, Ezek 3:17, 33:7-9)
Hos 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
God is saying that the conditions in the Northern Kingdom were as bad as the days of Gibeah in the time of the judges!! That story is in Judges It was probably the darkest day in Israel’s spiritual history.
The text is so graphic relating to their sin, the response to their sin by the priest, and the response by the rest of Israel to that action, that several Jewish groups have proposed removing it from their scriptures.

11. Gibeah was a town occupied by the tribe of Benjamin and it had become a symbol of depravity, and the low value of human life as a result of the terrible deeds done there as a result of the events in Judges
During the days of the Judges, a Levite was traveling with his concubine, and was unable to reach home before nightfall, and sought shelter for himself and his concubine in Gibeah. A band of depraved men gathered outside his host’s house and desired homosexual relations with his guest (Similar to the situation with the angelic visitors in Sodom in Genesis 19). The host at first offered his daughter and the Levite’s concubine instead. The crowd refused and started to become belligerent. The concubine was delivered to the crowd instead.
She was used all night long and left on the doorstep dead. The Levite took her body home the next day, cut her body into twelve pieces, and sent the parts to each of the tribes of Israel. The shock succeeded: all Israel rallied and attacked the people of Benjamin and almost wiped them all out (all but 600!) (Judges 19-21)
The atrocities, and the near wipe out of the Tribe of Benjamin, were indicative of the low point in the morality of the people of the times. On that occasion it was said, “Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt” (Judges 19:30).
Hosea announces that that benchmark of history was now rivaled by Israel’s blatant sins against the Lord.

12. Hos 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
Hos 9:11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
Hos 9:12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Hos 9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
Children are a blessing from God. Yet the Northern Kingdom was murdering their children, in all three situations which God considered to be life: Conception, the Womb, and Birth. So, God would cause them to have miscarriages, and still born children, and even if a child was born, they will die before the become of age.
We also murder babies for convenience. Since 1973, over 43 million LEGAL, RECORDED abortions have been done in the United States.
Hos 9:14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Hos 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
Hos 9:16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
Hos 9:17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

13. In chapter 10 we are going to see a review of the charges:
1) Gross corruptions in the worship of God and Israel is threatened with the destruction of their images and altars (v. 1, 2, 5, 6, 8)
2) Corruptions in the administration of the civil government and they are threatened with the ruin of that (v. 3, 4, 7)
3) Imitating the sins of their fathers, and with security in their own sins, and they are threatened with smarting humbling judgments (v. 9–11)
4) They are then earnestly invited to repent and reform, and are threatened with ruin if they did not (v. 12–15)
Hos 10:1 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
God uses the idiom of Israel being “planted” in the land as someone plants a vineyard. But as they increased and the land produced, they gave credit to images they created.
Isa 5:1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
Isa 5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Isa 5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
Isa 5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
Isa 5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
Isa 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Isa 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

14. Hos 10:2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
Hos 10:3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
Hos 10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
They have swore falsely in making a covenant. They made treaties, then broke them. They allied with Assyria, then broke that covenant and made one with Egypt. When they got what they wanted and realized the threat from Assyria, the broke the one with Egypt, and made another with Assyria. When they didn’t like that one, they broke it and went back to Egypt. That’s when Assyria had had enough, and attacked. The Northern Kingdom had abandon the sanctity of a commitment.
Hos 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
Hos 10:6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
Hos 10:7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
Hos 10:8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
In verse six, it mentions that the golden calf would be carried off and presented to the king of Assyria. That was a common practice of the Assyrians to show that they were mightier than the gods of their conquered foes.
It says the ‘high places of Aven’, that’s a play on words. Bethaven means ‘House of Vanity’, Aven by itself means ‘iniquity’.

15. Hos 10:9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
Even the remnant that was saved from the horrible incident in Judges didn’t repent from their actions. They have continued in that lifestyle and way of sin ever since! This was 800+ years later!!
Hos 10:10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
The term ‘people’ there is generically ‘the nations’.
Question: When did Israel ‘bind’ herself into ‘two furrows’ or more properly ‘double canyons’ and have all the nations of the earth attack her?
Answer: She never has. In fact, the only time in prophetic history we see this is when she is driven into the wilderness to a location known as Bozrah, which is made up of two canyons known as Petra. This is prophetic of the ‘end time’ scenario.
Hos 10:11 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
Hos 10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
God never pronounces judgment without then possibility of redemption, or avoidance of the judgment. This is a call to the individuals to repent and return. The nation’s fate had been determined, but the individual’s fate was still in their own hands.
Mic 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

16. Hos 10:13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
Hos 10:14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
Hos 10:15 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
Jer 17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Beth Arbel = “House of the ambush of God.”
‘Shall be utterly cut off’. Completely obliterated. Removed from history. The branch of the royal line that ran through the Northern Kingdom was completely destroyed, as was the Northern Kingdom itself.
The accusations by God are over, the proclamations of judgment (for the most part) are over, and the last four chapters are on the Love of God.