Hosea 1:1-11 ASV, Hosea 2:1 ASV, Hosea 2:2 ASV, Hosea 2:3-5 ASV, Hosea 2:6-19 ASV, Hosea 2:20 ASV, Hosea 2:21 ASV, Hosea 2:22-23 ASV and Hosea 3:1-5 ASV

‘Hosea’ means ‘salvation’. Married to ‘an adulterous wife’, Hosea spoke with great compassion to ‘the land’ which was ‘guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the Lord’(1:2). He brought God’s Word of love to the people: ‘I will show My love to the one I called, “Not My loved one”’. He spoke to them of the life-changing power of God’s love: ‘I will say to those called, “Not My people”, and they will say, “You are My God”’(2:23). He brought a Word of hopeto God’s people: ‘The Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God... They will come trembling to the Lord and to His blessings in the last days’(3:5). His words of hope point us to our Saviour, Jesus Christ - ‘In these last days, God has spoken to us by His Son’(Hebrews 1:2).