Series: The Whole Counsel of God
Speaker: Tobin Mattackal Scripture: Hosea
Notes: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AtZn-btopJYtjAuI8O5YOWj5isVr?e=7Pn0hw
Hosea wrote the book and it was written While Isaiah and Micah were prophesying to the Southern Kingdom, Hosea was prophesying to the Northern Kingdom, to Israel, which is also called Ephraim. This was about 200 years after they had broken off from southern Judah(1 Kings). Hosea was also called to speak to God’s people during the reign of one of Israel’s worst Kings, Jeroboam the second.
So it is believed that the time period was around 760 to 722 B.C. We know clearly that the message was to God’s chosen people Israel and the reason why this book was written was to call out their unfaithfulness towards God. Under Jeroboam the nation was descending into chaos. And in the year 722 it is believed that the Assyrian empire swooped in and destroyed Israel (Story in 2 Kings).
This unfaithfulness of Israelites are explained as various sins in this book and two of the themes that stand out are material prosperity and spiritual bankruptcy.
