834 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 2 Book 70 - Adulterous Israel to be Restored - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 70 ADULTEROUS ISRAEL TO BE RESTORED – PART 2 Hosea 2:14 – 4:14 This is our 16th anniversary of tapings. We started in October of 1990, so it’s been sixteen full years of tremendous blessings. Who would have ever dreamed? I just shared with my brother on the way up this morning; we can remember almost the place on the Muskogee Turnpike when Iris and I said, well, surely this won’t last more than six months. That’s what we really thought it would be, about six months and it would die a natural death, and then our television experience would be over. But here it is – sixteen years and the Lord just keeps on blessing. Again, for all of you out in television, we want to welcome you to a simple Bible study. We try to keep it simple and yet hit some of the things that you normally don’t see and hear in Sunday school. Now, back to our study in Hosea; we’ll start in verse 1. Hosea 3:1a “Then said the LORD unto me,…” Now remember, when the word LORD is capitalized like this, it’s really Jehovah. I read a good article again the other day by a gentleman that I respect highly. He had all the reasons why the word LORD is Jehovah and Jehovah is Jesus Christ. He’s God the Son. All right, back to the text. Hosea 3:1a “Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend,…” Now you remember back in chapter 1, He said to go and get a woman. So, what we have here are two different attitudes. Instead of just simply claiming a girl for his wife, now he’s going to go back and win the wife that had left him to go back to her lovers. All right, so He says: Hosea 3:1b “…Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.” Now, I want you to go back to Jeremiah 44. You’ll see what I’m talking about. I might come back here again even later, before we get through Hosea. But Jeremiah 44 and let’s use verse 19, because I’m going to use some of the other verses later on. Now, this again is the response of idolatrous Israel. Jeremiah 44:19a “And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, (Now, that’s the female goddess, usually Astarte.) and poured out drink-offerings unto her, did we make her (What?) cakes…” Now, the better translation for flagons of wine would have been grape cakes. In other words, they actually took a grape-flavored cake and offered it on their altars to this female goddess. So, here’s where we get the comparison of Scripture, “did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offerings unto her,…” All right, back to Hosea once again, chapter 3. These Israelites – now you’ve got to remember that when we speak of Israel, it’s the Ten Tribes to the North, but the prophet also includes Judah and Benjamin, so the whole Twelve Tribes come under these prophecies. All right, back to chapter 3 verse 1, again. Hosea 3:1b “…according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.” Grape cakes that were made of wine to be offered to these goddesses - verse 2. Hosea 3:2-3 “So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: 3. And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; (Now remember, he’s talking to that who had once been his and had been lost, and he’s bringing her back.) thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I be also for thee.’” Now of course, I think what’s implied here is that Israel was so steeped in idolatry all the way up until the Babylonian captivity. That cured her. I don’t think there’s any evidence that the Jews practiced idolatry after the Babylonian captivity. Now, they had a lot of other wicked acts and so forth, but not idolatry. For some reason or other, it cured them of idolatry! All right, this is what he’s referring to. That she would come back for a time, and she’s going to completely be removed from idolatry, because that’s her return after she’s been out in that Babylonian captivity of 70 years. Now she comes back and is at least cured of the adulterous, spiritual adultery. Now God says, “And I will be also for thee.” All right, now here we come to verse 4, and this is prophecy in a veiled form. For the children of Israel (the Nation) shall abide many days (Now watch this carefully or you’re going to miss it.) the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:” The casual reader is going to miss all that. What are we talking about? They’re going to be bereft of all their Temple worship. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible