Hosea marriage to prostitute reflects God's relationship with Israel. An honorable, loving husband paried with an unfatihful wife.
When Gomer returns to her life of sin, Hosea again picturing God's faithfulness bu her back from the slave market. God's warnsfor disobediences but also His promises of blessing for Repentence.
God is faith, even when His people aren't and He's always ready to fogive. God said through Hosea; " I will love them frelly. Hosea 14:4
In the Word of YHWH there are many names,all of which have meaning and significanse.
Hosea:
H1954
הושׁע
hôshêa‛
BDB Definition:
Hosea or Hoshea or Oshea = �salvation�
1) family name of Joshua, the son of Nun
2) the 19th and last king of the northern kingdom of Israel
3) son of Beeri, and the first of the minor prophets; prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel in the reign of Jeroboam II
4) a son of Azaziah, a chief of Ephraim in the time of David
5) an Israelite chief who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong�s Number: from H3467
H3467
ישׁע
yâsha‛
BDB Definition:
1) to save, be saved, be delivered
1a) (Niphal)
1a1) to be liberated, be saved, be delivered
1a2) to be saved (in battle), be victorious
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to save, deliver
1b2) to save from moral troubles
1b3) to give victory to
Part of Speech: verb
Gomer:
H1586
גּמר
gômer
BDB Definition:
Gomer = �complete�
1) the eldest son of Japheth and grandson of Noah; the progenitor of the early Cimmerians and other branches of the Celtic family (noun proper masculine)
2) the unfaithful wife of the prophet Hosea; Hosea�s relationship with her was symbolic of God�s relationship with wayward Israel (noun proper feminine)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
A Related Word by BDB/Strong�s Number: from H1584
H1584
גּמר
gâmar
BDB Definition:
1) to end, come to an end, complete, cease
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to come to an end, be no more
1a2) to bring to an end, complete
2) (TWOT) to fail, perfect, perform
Part of Speech: verb
Hosea,and Gomer are an Old Covenant type of relationship that YHWH has with Israel.
Yet is this not the same with Yeshua and His bride.
Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Hosea is about Israel's adultous reationship with God a is a reflection of our spiritual aldutous relationship with Jesus Christ. And it shows how no matter what we do as sin in God's face, He still stands with open arms to receivs us back when we repent of our sins of Idolatry:worshipping self and our desires rather than Him alone, by not giving of ourselves totally and completely to Him, placing other people, places or things before worshipping and serving HIM in spirit and in truth.
He stands with open arms willing to take us back when we commit spiritual Adultery against Him; making the choice to love other stuff, self, people, places and things more than we love Him; in love with the world and have succumbed to its charms and pleasures. Accepting what the world says more than what God says in His Holy Word, trying to have it both ways. Having a FORM OF godliness...
As one writer says ... as a Spiritual adultrous person: You have accepted the world's standards. You have accepted its position on spiritual things instaed of God's standards of being holy. You relate to the world's philosophy, instead of God's Word of Truth. You believe the lies of the world mpre that believeing the word of God, all the while you are waving a banner and saying, "I'm a Christian."
But God has made a way out for all of us through His dearling Son Jesus Christ ... the time has come for TRUE REPENTANCE OF SINS BEFORE A HOLY JEALOUS GOD!!!
The book of Hosea is God calling the nation of Israel out of her sins unto repentance, and God is calling us who are the spiritual Israel out of our sins unto repentance with this same word of truth!
REPENT OF YOUR SINS FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NEARER THAN YOU THINK!
God said: "I am your husband. Return unfaithful wife!
I am married to you."
We should abandon our sins and live a holy life in Faith in God Jesus.
Return......I am married to you
(Posted by me on Jun 28, 2011 10:58 AM)
�Thus says the LORD:
� I remember you,
The kindness of your youth,
The love of your betrothal,
When you went after Me in the wilderness,
In a land not sown.
Israel was holiness to the LORD,
The firstfruits of His increase.
All that devour him will offend;
Disaster will come upon them,� says the LORD.��
�
� What injustice have your fathers found in Me,
That they have gone far from Me,
Have followed idols,
And have become idolaters?
�
Has a nation changed its gods,
Which are not gods?
But My people have changed their Glory
For what does not profit.
�
� For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns�broken cisterns that can hold no water.
�
� How shall I pardon you for this?
Your children have forsaken Me
And sworn by those that are not gods.
When I had fed them to the full,
Then they committed adultery
And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots� houses.
�
I have seen your adulteries
And your lustful neighings,
The lewdness of your harlotry,
Your abominations on the hills in the fields.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
Will you still not be made clean?�
�
Have you not brought this on yourself,
In that you have forsaken the LORD your God
When He led you in the way?
�
Your own wickedness will correct you,
And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing
That you have forsaken the LORD your God,
And the fear of Me is not in you,�
Says the Lord GOD of hosts.
�
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.
How then have you turned before Me
Into the degenerate plant of an alien vine?
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is marked before Me,� says the Lord GOD.
�
Yet you say, �Because I am innocent,
Surely His anger shall turn from me.�
Behold, I will plead My case against you,
Because you say, �I have not sinned.�
Why do you gad about so much to change your way?
Also you shall be ashamed of Egypt as you were ashamed of Assyria.
�
You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger.
�
You are an adulterous wife,
who takes strangers instead of her husband.
Men make payment to all harlots,
but you made your payments to all your lovers,
and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.
You are the opposite of other women in your harlotry,
because no one solicited you to be a harlot.
In that you gave payment but no payment was given you, therefore you are the opposite.�
�
Also My food which I gave you�the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you�you set it before them as sweet incense; and so it was,� says the Lord GOD.
�
�But you trusted in your own beauty, played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it.
�
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
�
�They say, �If a man divorces his wife,
And she goes from him
And becomes another man�s,
May he return to her again?�
Would not that land be greatly polluted?
But you have played the harlot with many lovers;
Yet return to Me,�
says the LORD.
�
And I will establish My covenant with you.
Then you shall know that I am the LORD,
that you may remember and be ashamed,
and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame,
when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,� says the Lord GOD.��
�
Will you not from this time cry to Me,
� My Father, You are the guide of my youth?
�
� Return, backsliding Israel,� says the LORD;
� I will not cause My anger to fall on you.
For I am merciful,�
says the LORD;
� I will not remain angry forever.
Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the LORD your God,
And have scattered your charms
To alien deities under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,�
says the LORD.
�
Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband,
So have you dealt treacherously with Me,
O house of Israel,� says the LORD.
�
�Return, O backsliding children,�
says the LORD;
�for I am married to you.
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
�
�When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine,� says the Lord GOD.
�Then I washed you in water; yes, I thoroughly washed off your blood, and I anointed you with oil.
�
� Return,
you backsliding children,
And I will heal your backslidings.�
�
Jeremiah 3: 2-3, 5. Ezekiel 23:16, 23
Brothers, God said these words you all Christians.
RETURN backsliding children, wash your hands from the blood of your you sins. God is married you. You like His wife who is making Him great pain.
He is LONG-SUFFERING!
He SUFFERS LONG!
Why?
Because He NEEDS you!
There is no greater LOVE!
God made an ATONEMENT for your sins!
And I will establish My covenant with you.
Then you shall know that I am the LORD,
that you may remember and be ashamed,
and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame,
when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,�
says the Lord GOD.��
This Atonement is the DEATH of His Son on the cross instead of you. He took all your sins to make you FREE of them and CLEANSED of your sins and blood once and forever.
That�s why your name will be
HOLY SONS of God!
Are you holy? If not. Repent and turn your heart to God to get forgiveness of your sins through your FAITH in God Jesus.
