SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/21/2015
11:35 PM
My Worship Time Focus: The Nations
True Condition PT-2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Hosea 7:1-7
Message of the
verses: “1 When I would heal Israel,
The iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, And the evil deeds of Samaria, For they
deal falsely; The thief enters in, Bandits raid outside, 2 And they do not
consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds
are all around them; They are before My face. 3 With their wickedness they make
the king glad, And the princes with their lies. 4 They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire From the kneading of the dough until it is
leavened. 5 On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of
wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers, 6 For their hearts are like an oven As they
approach their plotting; Their anger smolders all night, In the morning it
burns like a flaming fire. 7 All of them are hot like an oven, And they consume their rulers; All
their kings have fallen. None of them calls on Me.”
We are looking at the nation of Israel’s true condition
by looking at several similes’ from chapters six and seven of Hosea. In today’s SD we will be looking at “Their
lust was like an overheated oven.”
Dr. Wiersbe states that it is probable that the last
statement from chapter six (6:11) should be joined with 7:1” Let us look at it in that light “11 Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed
for you, When I restore the fortunes of My people. 1 When I would heal Israel, The iniquity of
Ephraim is uncovered, And the evil deeds of Samaria, For they deal falsely; The
thief enters in, Bandits raid outside.” What
was it that prevented God from healing His people? We looked at this in an earlier SD, and the
answer is that Israel was trying to dictate how God was going to help them, and
God would not do that for it had to be in His way. God had made a covenant with them and it
would be through the terms of that covenant that He would act, by either
destroying them or healing them as both were in the covenant.
Israel had a great passion for sin as it was like an oven
which was overheating. The fuel for this fire was wine for we know that alcohol
and sin usually go together.
Dr. Wiersbe concludes “Hosea describes a places
celebration during which the king and his officers get drunk, and this gives
the king’s enemies opportunity to overthrow him and even kill him. Remember, Israel had five kings in thirteen
years, and four kings were assassinated in twenty years. From Jeroboam I, the fist king of Israel to
Hoshea, the last king, there were nine different dynasties! Because the leaders were far from the Lord,
the political situation was confused and corrupt.” Israel had as many kings in a shorter time
than Judah did.
6/21/2015 11:52 PM
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