The wages of Israel's sin
Hosea describes the spiraling downfall of the nation of Israel. Once dedicated to God and fear by other nations, Israel was now adopting the foriegn practices of other nations (idol worship) and had become weak to the point of death. The result of Israel's sin and continual sin was the death of a nation. Israel would soon be defeated by Assyria and exhiled. This makes me think how careful we need to be as Christians not to adopt worldy practices or worldly thinking. We already see the declining influence the church has in the US today mostly because we as Christians has stopped worshiping God and have started worshiping "idols" as well - money, fame, music, sports, politics, sex, TV, etc. Israel could have prevented their "death" by repentence and turning back to God. We can too.
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