Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The Prophet Hosea
The Prophet Hosea
The Prophet Hosea
Prophet
Hosea
Hosea
Date: 760-720 B.C.
Prophesied To: Israel (Northern Kingdom)
Purpose:
1. To Demonstrate God's Loving
Relationship With His People
2. To Call Israel To Repentance
Contemporaries: Amos, Isaiah, Micah
Introduction
Hosea 1:1
Jezreel, saying,
"I will punish
Their first child
the house of
was a son and
Jehu for the
God told Hosea
blood of
to name him
Jezreel.”
(Hosea 1:4)
2nd Child- Girl
(vii) The third child, a son was named Lo-ammi meaning ‘Not
my people' symbolizing that God had dissolved the covenant and
rejected the Israelites - they were not longer His people.