Friday, November 4, 2016

"THE DAYS OF PUNISHMENT ARE COMING



2 Kings 16; Titus 2; <Hosea 9>; Psalms 126-128

The days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this” (9:7). This chapter (Hosea 9) spells out some of the connections between sin and judgment. 
(1) The language of prostitution continues: “For you have been unfaithful to your God; you love the wages of a prostitute at every threshing floor” (9:1). Both politically and religiously, Israel flirted continuously with alien gods and foreign powers. All the ceremony of religion she dearly loved. But the days are coming when she will be scattered, forced to abandon “the LORD’s land” (9:3, 17)....See more

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