John 3:16 God SO Love
- God is love. It isn’t just a characteristic, an idea or a feeling, but He personifies this
Hosea was prophesying to Israel, the Northern Kingdom. They had three philosophies on love at this time:
- Love could be purchased
- Love is a pursuit of self gratification
- Love can be found in things
Hosea and Gomer story:
God gives Hosea instructions to marry an unfaithful woman and he obeys.
- Homer leaves Hosea
- Hosea is faithful
- Hosea looks for Gomer & finds her
- Hosea redeems Gomer
- Hosea says to Gomer ” You shall stay with me for many days. You shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man; so I will also be toward you.”
Hosea is a prophet
- He was Holy, a good man
- His peers were Holy people
- What God asked him to do was scandalous
Hosea finds himself at an auction having to buy his wife back with 15 pieces of sliver and 5 bushels of barley
- The number 15 = diving energy of God
- The number 5 = Grace
- Silver = divinity
- Barley = humanity
Eleazar
- I Chornicles 11:12, battle for a field of barley
- Gomer means perfect or complete
- Jesus is the true Hosea
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
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