Today: [Hosea 13] Does God Collude with His Last Enemy. In 1 Cor. 15:26 we read that the last enemy to be overcome is death. In Hosea 13 the Father declares that the rebellious northern kingdom will suffer and die not because it is His will, but because they have refused to turn away from their external dependencies and to trust wholly in the living God. Many times, we read of calamity coming upon the Old Testament peoples and somehow think this was all according to what God planned, but in this chapter, we see that even though problems come and even devastation, that God’s first choice is always to redeem, and any other outcome is because of disobedience and not His purposes at all.
