Today: [Hosea 9] When New Wine Fails. Hosea 9 is a rebuke from heaven given during the time of the feast of Tabernacles. This was a season when rejoicing and solemn high and holy days were to be observed, but instead the nation is in upheaval and the people are suffering under the threat of Assyrian invasion. For all their cry to heaven for deliverance, the prophet Hosea declares that this scourge of suffering is brought about by the idolatrous ways of an unfaithful people, for all their protestations of fidelity to God.
