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MBS072 THE MESSAGE OF HOSEA’S MARRIAGE
By Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. THE FIRST COMMISSION TO HOSEA—HOSEA 1:2–2:1
A. Concerning the Wife and the Children—Hosea 1:2–9
1. Concerning the Wife—Hosea 1:2–3a
2. Concerning the Children—Hosea 1:3b–2:9
a. The First Child, Jezreel—Hosea 1:3b–5
b. The Second Child, Lo-ruhamah—Hosea 1:6–7
c. The Third Child, Lo-ammi—Hosea 1:8–9
B. The Future Reversal and Restoration—Hosea 1:10–2:1
II. THE APPLICATION TO ISRAEL, THE WIFE OF JEHOVAH—HOSEA 2:2–23
A. The Adultery of Israel—Hosea 2:2–5
B. The Punishment of Israel—Hosea 2:6–13
1. The Hedging of Israel—Hosea 2:6–8
2. The Description of the Punishment—Hosea 2:9–10
3. The Result of the Punishment—Hosea 2:11
4. The Removal of Israel’s Security—Hosea 2:12
5. The Judgment of the Days of the Baalim—Hosea 2:13
C. The Restoration of Israel—Hosea 2:14–23
1. The Courtship of the Wife of Jehovah—Hosea 2:14–15
2. The Result of Israel’s Return to Her God—Hosea 2:16–18
3. The Prediction of a New Betrothal—Hosea: 2:19–20
4. The Total Reversal of the Names of Hosea’s Children—Hosea 2:21–23
III. THE SECOND COMMISSION TO HOSEA—HOSEA 3:1–3
A. Concerning the Wife—Hosea 3:1
B. Hosea’s Obedience—Hosea: 3:2
C. The Deprivation of Gomer—Hosea 3:3
IV. THE APPLICATION TO ISRAEL, THE WIFE OF JEHOVAH—HOSEA 3:4–5
A. The Deprivation of Israel—Hosea 3:4
B. The Restoration of the Wife of Jehovah—Hosea 3:5
When Jehovah spoke at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said unto Hosea, Go, take unto you a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land does commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah.
Hosea 1:2