Episode for Wednesday April 30th Hosea: Chapters 10-11

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

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Hosea, a contemporary of Isaiah (for most of his ministry) and Amos (in his earlier years) was the Jeremiah of the Northern Kingdom. His main target was the Northern Kingdom, yet his message was for the people of God. When Solomon died, Jeroboam rebelled and plunged the Northern Kingdom into a prosperous but idolatrous separation. After two centuries of abandoning their heritage, God sent Hosea to present His indictment and declare that He would use their enemies as His judgment. Amos was sent to Israel at a time when the nation feels militarily secure and prosperous, yet is turning to idolatry and abandoning their heritage. Misplaced confidence; false sense of security; abandonment of the greatness of their nation... (Sounds familiar, doesn't it?) In many ways a complement to Hosea, this perspective on the plight of Israel parallels the predicament of our country today. This study contains 13 hours of verse by verse teachings. Copyright © 11-01-2010

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0:00.0	66.6640. Your future lies in 6640. Sixty-six books by 40 authors, and yet we now discover it's an integrated message system from outside our time domain.
0:17.6	Welcome to 6640, the ministry outreach of Koinania House and Koinnea Institute.
0:23.4	Today's Bible teacher is Chuck Missler, connecting the Bible to your life and the world around you.
0:28.9	In today's study, Chuck continues his teaching on the book of Hosea, chapters 10 and 11.
0:33.4	Thank you. Continue, verse 10, it is in my desire that I should chastise them, and the people shall be gathered against them when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
0:54.8	The Hebrew here is a little difficult, we'll try to get through it.
0:57.0	I should chastise them.
0:59.2	See, at the time of the Lord's choosing, he would punish Israel by gathering the nations against her.
1:05.6	Now, the translation and meaning of the last line here is a little uncertain.
1:10.2	Probably a better translation is when they are harnessed to their double sin rather than double furrows.
1:16.9	The imagery here used is that of plowing, as you'll see in the next verse,
1:22.0	and Israel is pictured as being yoked to her sin like a heifer.
1:27.7	Okay?
1:32.2	And is she following two calves?
1:34.7	Is one hint behind the grammar here?
1:37.5	Because there are two calves being worshipped, the golden calves.
1:41.4	So the term heifer is being used idiomatically through here for the nation.
1:46.6	As Ephra is as an heifer that is taught and loveth to tread out the corn, but I passed over her fair neck and I will make Ephraim to ride. Judah will plow
1:52.9	and Jacob shall break his claws. Now, there's an agricultural metaphor being used here. We've got to get
1:59.2	into a little bit. The comparison of Israel here to a cow is continued from verse 10, of course. Israel, Ephraim now is it used here as an idiom for the Northern Kingdom, was like a trained huffer who loves to thrash. Now you and I don't understand that because we're not used to doing that. A threshing heifer would like to thrash because while thrashing, it was a,
2:19.4	for her, it was comparatively light task. And it was made pleasant by the fact that the creature
2:25.3	was unmuscled and free to eat as it pulled the thrashing floor over the gathered corn.
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