1. 歐瑟亞先知 "Deliverance."

2. 歐瑟亞先知 Israel has forsaken YHWH to take up the cult of other gods. The love of God has been betrayed.

3. 歐瑟亞先知 Hosea has married a woman whom he loves but who deserts him; in the same way, Israel had forsaken its true lover to give herself to the Baals

4. 歐瑟亞先知 Hos 3:1-5

5. 歐瑟亞先知 His own experience of the marriage union, characterized by a tender, understanding love and an unshakeable fidelity provides the insight to understand the love of YHWH

6. 歐瑟亞先知 For Hosea, his own painful experience becomes a symbol and a condition for his ministry as a prophet. He is the first to use the symbol of marriage to express YHWH-Israel relationship.

7. 歐瑟亞先知 Faithful love: –Friendship, union, loyalty.. –Faithfulness to his covenant and kindness to his people (2:22; 6:6; 10:12; Knowledge of God –Not intellectual but through the experience love and covenant (2:22; 4:6; 6:3;

8. 歐瑟亞先知 Reconciliation: –“I am going to seduce her and lead her into the desert and speak to her heart” (Hos 2:16)

9. 歐瑟亞先知 Our response –Hos 6:6…For faithful love is what pleases me, not sacrifice; knowledge of God, not burn offerings.

10. 歐瑟亞先知 Hos. 14:2-9 –I shall fall like dew on Israel, he will bloom like the lily…