The result was that the enemy had an open door to overtake them. Israel had been given the Law to become more like Christ, but they rejected it. When I first read this verse, I immediately thought of Romans 8:28: “God works all things together for the good of those who love him.” What is the good? The good is to become more like Christ. “Israel has spurned the good the enemy shall pursue him” (Hosea 8:3, ESV). Jump back to verse three for just a moment. The Old Testament is one giant foreshadowing of the coming Savior it helps us understand the enormity of sin and the depths to which Jesus went for us to pull us out of that sin. This is why it’s so important to look at Scripture through the lens of Jesus. But Jesus paid the price for your sin and brought you out of slavery. The Israelites had been warned and would have to pay the price by going back into slavery. Unlike the Israelites, you have been given the way out of destruction. They were stuck in the cycle of sin, and something needed to happen in order to break that cycle. They had become so familiar with their idolatry that God’s will was strange and foreign to them.
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“Were I to write for my laws by the by the ten thousand, they would be regarded as a strange thing.” (Hosea 8:12, ESV).īasically, it didn’t matter how many different ways God tried to tell them how to follow him they simply refused to do it. Verse 12 gives us a glimpse into God’s heart: It had become habitual to the point of exhaustion. It’s repetitive because their sin was repetitive. Over and over and over again, they were worshipping idols and pursuing the things of this world, and over and over again, God was merciful to give them warning after warning. If you’re exhausted reading through how many times these things must be said, then you’re on track to understanding the extent to which the Israelites were betraying God. We’ve officially made it over halfway through the book of Hosea! This is the part where readers usually feel a bit worn out with the amount of repetition…and I get it.
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