We began studying the minor profit Hosea. Israel had made the mistake of identifying the Lord with Baal, a Canaanite God. Baal means "master" so it was an easy mistake but before too long they were visiting shrine prostitutes and practicing magic. Hosea denounced these practices and God demonstrated his disappointment with Israel through Hosea in a very unusual way:
Hosea 1:2 When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.”
Hosea 1:3 So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
Hosea 1:4 Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
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