4/27/25

Israel, the Unfaithful Wife of the Lord

Hosea 2:1-13

 1. Her punishment – chapter 2:1-13

(a) Five prophesies concerning Israel

 i. Israel will experience a great increase in population – 1:10

 ii. Many will turn to the Lord – 1:10

 iii. The Northern and Southern Tribes will reunite into one nation – 1:11

 iv. The Messiah will become their Head – 1:11

 v. God will once again identify with them as His people – 2:1,14

(b) Ammi means my people – v.1

(c) Ruhamah means pitied – v.1

 2. Israel like Gomer was unfaithful and went back to her prostitution

Hosea had three children with Gomer and yet she returned to prostitution but he still loved her 

Possibly the greatest sin is to be unfaithful to the One Who has redeemed us and loves us

(a) Hosea instructed to plead with God's people that had received His pity to come back. - v.2

Their marriage relationship had been broken  

(b) God's only option is punishment if she will not repent – v.3

This is surely a reminder of Egypt and the wilderness wanderings 

(c) Israel had raised a generation that committed whoredom against the Lord – v.4

John 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. 

(d) They had forsaken God for money – v.5

Perhaps Hosea was not able to provide the kind of loving Gomer desired

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 

Matthew 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 

Titus 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. 

(e) God will make her way hard – v.6

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. 

(f) Israel will never find the peace and success she seeks until she returns – v.7

(g) Israel forgot where her blessings came from – v.8

(h) God will remove His blessings to judge her – v.9

(i) She shall be exposed – v.10

(j) Her celebrations will cease – v.11

(k) She will lose what she has gone whoring after – v.12

(l) God will chastise her in proportion to the time she went after Baal – v.13