Hosea split into two different yet complementary sections
Claim that the Old Testament had come true in Jesus Christ. (Luke 4:18-21, Psalms, Ephesians). There are 300 prophecies from theh Old Testament pointing to Christ.
- A Faithless bride and a Faithful bridegroom
- Gomer continually pursues her adulterous lovers rather than her faithful prophet husband
- Gomer’s unfaithfulness mirrors the unfaithfulness of Israel
- Hosea’s actions throughout the book enact the Amazing Grace of the LORD (1 Peter 1:18)
- The actions of Gomer should remind us of our own salvation (John 15; Matthew 22) and where our sin places us
- The actions of Hosea should help us see what Christ does for us
- The dangers of unrepented sin
- The irrationality of sin in the nation of Israel and life of Gomer (raisin cakes / lovers)
- Sin never provides a good companion and just serves to dull the heart and mind
- Thomas Brooks: Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices
- Continued and unrepentant sin leads us further than we ever planned or imagined
- Gomer’s sin has enslaved her
- The cost of Redemption
- Hosea willingly gives everything he has to redeem Gomer
- What Christ gives for his people / what our redemption costs him
- Gomer is fully redeemed, Christ fully redeems his people (Daniel 7; Revelation 20; Galatians 3; Romans 1; Hebrews 10)