June 14, 2011 – Hosea 8-9

Here we have the continued to prophesy about what is going to happen to Israel. What I thought was interesting was in 8:12, that there were at ordnances that God had wrote for them. This goes back to the whole understanding that we don't need rules or authority to have a relationship God. It is not something that is Biblical to not follow God's rules or authority.

9:10 it talks about finding Israel like grapes in a desert and developing them into something that he could be proud of. He took them, from all the other nations and peoples, and chose them to develop his kingdom on earth. And with all the care and love that a person takes in growing something they're proud of, they turned away from him in the end and would not follow what he taught, and so we see this understanding of the vine and the branches and the root in the imagery that Paul uses about the Gentiles been fastened on as new branches to replace the Jews who were cut off.