Our sins demand punishment. When Israel turned from God in the times of the prophet Hosea, the nation faced divine punishment. Because of the Israelites’ unfaithfulness to the Lord—their spiritual adultery—God used Hosea to issue a poignant lesson to His people. He instructed Hosea to marry Gomer, a prostitute, who would bear children whose names indicated God’s anger and impending judgment on the unfaithful Israelites. Tune in to part 2 of our 4-part series on this prophetic book to learn what God was teaching the nation of Israel through Hosea’s family!
