Love while following the title (Ho 03:1-5)
Description Hosea's wife Gomer betrayed her husband's love and followed another man, but Hosea did not abandon her, but continued to follow her and love her. It is a wonderful lesson of love that God loves the people of Israel who betrayed God by serving idols while receiving God's love.
1. Continuing Love of God 1-3 "If the world says, 'If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes someone else's wife, will the headquarters take her back?' But says the Lord. Return, little children, for I am your husband” (Jeremiah 3:1, 14-). Hosea loved God as he was, chasing after those who should be hated in the right way because of this love of God.
Here, it is said that he bought me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley. Fifteen pieces of silver were half the price of a slave (Ex. 21:32, Zechariah 11:12). Such a low price is considered to be only half the price of a slave because the woman has now become like a concubine, and her status is very low, even as a prostitute (娼妓). Barley was the food of the slaves or the poor (usually wheat and barley are lower than that). By this, we can see how much she was in a desperate situation. Abandoning her husband and running to the government, she eventually degenerates into a prostitute.
However, Hosea, like Hosea, had left her husband and had fallen to the bottom of the prostitute, and returned to love a woman who had been given a ransom.
Even though we too were abandoned early, the Lord treated us with love.
2. Separated Israel 4 It is said that Israel was in a state of absence for many days.
A king is a political ruler, a military is a prince, a sacrifice means an offering, and a column means a pole associated with an idol (Leviticus 26:1). , the ephod is the garment worn by the priests (1 Samuel 23:9, 30:7), and the teraphim is an instrument used to know the will of God (Judges 17:5, 18:5).
Based on the above statement, it is clear that the people of Israel will not worship God in the traditional way, but they will not worship idols either. After the fall of the kingdom of Israel, it actually became like this prophecy.
They experienced that idols could not save them from their captive stems, and they hated it.
3. Prophecy of future restoration 5 Here it means that the people of Israel will repent in the future and return to the Messiah (David here means Meiah, who will be born out of his descendants).
“I will go forth with grace” means all natural things that God gives, such as grain, oil, or grapes. In the Old Testament times, these things were a sign of God's favor. This is actually a parable of the spiritual grace that will be in the last days (末 日), that is, the New Testament Age (Heb 1:1-2).
Conclusion: "In this way all Israel will be saved. It is written, The Savior will come from Zion, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob" (Romans 11:26-).