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To Tom and Arlene (Papa and Mamo), I love you both and thank God for you. Your selfless love is seen and admired and appreciated widely. Such love could only come from Christ. May God give you his richest blessings. – Tom I dedicate this book to my brother-in-law, Jim. Your love for the Lord is awesome and your obedience to His call in your life is an inspiration. I thoroughly enjoy having a brother-in-law who is also a brother-in-Christ! – Mark
About tHe Cover Creating a cover illustration for this study was an interesting challenge. Tom and I talked about it at length. What would be an appropriate cover for a study of the book of Hosea? What image captures the essence of this Old Testament story? Certain images immediately jump to mind—none of them very pleasant. Do we depict the wayward actions of Hosea’s wife, Gomer? Do we show her leaving her family for another man? Or selling herself for false love, food and money, or possibly show her being sold into slavery? Of course, there is the redemptive image of Hosea buying his wife back - which is truly symbolic of an adulterous people being bought back by God through the sacrifice of his son, Jesus. And that idea is what brought us to the final concept. While spiritual adultery is certainly a theme of the book, that isn’t the essence of this book. Rather, this book is about the cure for Israel’s spiritual adultery. We wanted to portray the cure rather than the problem. The cure is Jesus. (reflected here by the open tomb). This book, as you’ll see as you study its contents, has no meaning apart from the death and resurrection of Jesus. He is the hero of this story. This book, as with every book in the Bible, is meant to draw attention to him. As you study this book, our prayer is that you will be drawn to Jesus. A disciple of the living God, Mark Yaeger
Page 2 and 3: The Gospel in Hosea A study of Hose
Page 6 and 7: IntroduCtIon This study is about th
Page 8 and 9: Week One Introduction
Page 10 and 11: 7. How does the New Testament portr
Page 12 and 13: dAY FIve 14. Read Hosea chapters 8-
Page 14 and 15: And he said to them, “O foolish o
Page 16 and 17: theologians discussing minor issues
Page 18 and 19: To recap, here are the nine observa
Page 20 and 21: dAY one Read Hosea 1:1-9 through tw
Page 22 and 23: dAY Four 10. What was Hosea to name
Page 24 and 25: dAY SIX 23. Read the study notes an
Page 26 and 27: latter days, you will return to the
Page 28 and 29: “No Mercy” is a stunning name,
Page 30 and 31: Can you feel Israel’s plight? If
Page 32 and 33: dAY one Read Hosea 1:10-2:1 through
Page 34 and 35: 8. Luke, the writers of Acts, was g
Page 36 and 37: 17. The second sentence in verse 11
Page 38 and 39: HoSeA 1:10-2:1 Typically, good writ
Page 40 and 41: “Those who were not my people I w
Page 42 and 43: Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
Page 44 and 45: The stunning growth of the “child
Page 46 and 47: Week Four Hosea 2:2-13
Page 48 and 49: But they are doing it in vastly dif
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9. How should the church relate to
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“Plead with your mother, plead—
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Yahweh was a good husband. He met h
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We are, if we are Christians, marri
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dAY one Read and interact with Hose
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dAY tHree 6. How will Yahweh addres
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dAY FIve 16. Outline the promises G
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HoSeA 2:14-23 Hosea 2:2-13 was enti
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The promise to “remove the heart
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Yahweh had promised, remember, to u
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dAY one Read Hosea 3 through twice.
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Acts 2:22-36 Acts 4:23-31 (this inc
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Gomer is gone. 1 We are not told ho
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his kingdom forever. I will be to h
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After they finished speaking, James
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Week Seven Hosea 4-8
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This poem, it should be noted, is t
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11. Based on this poem, why is it i
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How can Paul take a reference to Is
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Picture #1—Hosea 4:1-6 1. Hear th
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Line 1 - Yahweh knows Ephraim (this
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the people to respond: “Let’s d
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Week Eight Hosea 9-14
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3. How is Israel described in this
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13. What happens in this poem? 14.
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HoSeA 9-14 This will be our last we
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to you. Abide in me, and I in you.
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7. they shall fall by the sword; th
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turned aside in him. God’s love i
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