Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Hosea 5 - The Ripple Effect part II


v1-3
God is telling all the leaders, people, and royal family that they will be judged. They have done loads of evil and sin stuff/ They have been acting like a snare and a net, trapping and exploiting poorer people. What the people have done isn't hidden from God, and because Israel acts like a prostitute, it is unclean.


v4-7
These people won't repent, they won't be faithful, they don't know God. Their attitude was prideful, and they will stumble because of their sin. Judah in the south, followed the same example and they will fall too. although they worship false gods, they'll still try to worship and sacrifice God but he won't be there anymore, cause he's left them. They've not been true to God, they don't belong to him, their false worship will destroy them and their land. 


v8-12
Here, God is pronouncing this judgement. he says to blow the horn which i think is something to d with war or an attack. Israel will be ruined on the day of punishment. He compares the people in Judah to those who steal others land. God will pour out his punishment onto them. Israel is crushed by punishment because of their sins. They will consumed by troubles and disasters. 


v13-15
The sickness affecting Israeel and Judah, they tried to go to the King of Assyria for help, but he can#'t help or heal. God's a bit graphic here, saying how he is like a lion, and will attackl them and tear them to pieces and drag them off, and no one will save thenm. Then the people will turn to him. 


application
again, i don't really know.

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