MY BEST RESPONSE
How does a person in this present age
guard his/her mind
so that evil and corrupt things
are not becoming
a part of his/her life?
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WEEKEND JOURNAL #7
 Left Column (must be completely filled):
What did you do this
weekend?
 Right Column (make comments concerning…)
When, where and how was
God involved in your
weekend?
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Adapted from the
Bible Study Institute’s
Presentation of
The Book of HOSEA
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Worksheet 1
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Author?
◦ Hosea (“Salvation”), son of Beeri
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Audience?
◦ Israel (the Northern Kingdom), and God’s people
everywhere
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Others?
◦ Gomer, Hosea and Gomer’s children
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When written?
◦ Approximately 715 BC
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The BIG Picture
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When it happens?
◦ Records events from about 753-715 BC
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Where it takes place?
◦ The Northern Kingdom of Israel, Samaria,
Ephraim
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The Writer’s Purpose?
◦ To illustrate God’s love for His sinful people
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Worksheet 2
I.
Hosea’s Wayward Wife (1:1-3:5)
II.
God’s Wayward People (4:1-14:9)
Summarize the book by tying together the main
headings of the Book Outline into one sentence.
In the Hosea’s case:
“Hosea parallels his relationship with his
wayward wife and God’s relationship with
His people, Israel.”
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Outline of Hosea
I.
Hosea’s Wayward Wife (1:1-3:5)
II.
God’s Wayward People (4:1-14:9)
To target a passage for study, tie together the
key words––the words that are different––in
each main heading of the book outline
In this case, the key words are:
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Hosea and wife, in the first main heading

God and people in the second
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Outline of Hosea
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Study Bibles normally give a brief outline of a
book in the main Introduction
In Hosea’s case, the outline divides a 14
chapter book into two parts:
The first part is 3 chapters in length
The second, 11 chapters in length
This outline helps you to see a Big Picture of the
book, but you need more detail to zoom in on
passages for a closer look
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Worksheet 2
1.
Hosea’s Wayward Wife (1:1-3:5)
A. Hosea’s Wife and Children (1)
B. Israel Punished and Restored (2)
C. Hosea’s Reconciliation with His Wife (3)
To target Chapter 1
• How does the book leads up to and prepares the
way for it?
•
How does Chapter 1 leads up to and prepares
the way for what comes after it?
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Target the Passage
A.
Hosea’s Wife and Children (Chapter 1)
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Starts the book. So, the circumstances behind writing the
book, in the Big Picture, leads up to and prepares the
way for it
Chapter 1 (Hosea’s Wife and Children) leads up
to and prepares the way for Chapter 2 (Israel
Punished and Restored)
Hosea primes us for Israel Punished and
Restored in Chapter 2, by telling us first, about his
Wife and Children in Chapter 1
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Worksheet 2
Who wrote or speaks in it?
___________________________________________
The Lord (through Hosea)
 Who does he talk to?
___________________________________________
Israel (Northern Kingdom), God’s people everywhere
 Who or what is he talking about?
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Hoseas highlights parallels between his relationship with his
wife
Gomer and God’s relationship with the nation of Israel
__________________________________________
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Anything special said about them?
•Israel made a covenant with God, yet went after false
other gods
•In the same way, Hosea married Gomer, knowing ahead
of time that she would leave him
___________________________________________
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MY BEST RESPONSE
Are you aware of your own personal
sins?
How do you deal with that awareness?
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A Snapshot of Chapter 1
Where it takes place?
The Northern Kingdom (Israel)
___________________________________
 When it happens?
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Around 753 BC, during the end of the prosperous but
morally declining reign of Jeroboam II of Israel
__________________________________
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What is its purpose?
To show that God was merciful toward the people
of Israel despite their sins, as Hosea dealt tenderly
with his wife in spite of her sin
_____________________________________
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Color-Tag the Text
As you read the text:
• Apply the Rule of Repetition
The Rule of Repetition
Writers usually repeat what is most
important to them
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Look for the same, similar, or parallel terms
Circle or highlight anything that HOSEA mentions
more than once in the text
Assign a different color to each set of terms
Assignment: Highlight/underline the word
“LORD” in Chapter 1 of Hosea
Highlight/underline the word “Hosea” in CH 1.
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Worksheet 3
Hosea mentions the LORD, _________in
Chapter 1
8x vs 4x
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He stands out from everything and every-one else in the
text.You can sum up what the Lord does in Chapter 1,
two ways:
◦ He tells Hosea to marry a prostitute and to love her no
matter what
◦ He also promises to love his unfaithful bride, Israel, no
matter what
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In a single sentence you might say: The Lord tells
Hosea to demonstrate toward his wife––the
same unshakable love He has for Israel
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Pre-Worksheets 3, 4
People learn by asking questions
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As you read the text:
◦ Questions will naturally come up as you struggle
to grasp what the passage means
 The text will answer some by itself
 The Text will need help from your Notes
(definitions and descriptions) to answer others
◦ This is when you put two-and-two together
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Worksheets 3, 4
Here are some of the questions that came up
as I read the text:
Why would God tell a godly man like Hosea
to marry an adulteress?
 Did Hosea’s wife have children with other
men while married to Hosea?
 Why did God call Israel, “Jezreel”?
 Why did God choose such odd names for
Hosea’s children?
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Worksheets 3, 4
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Why did God threaten to punish the house
of Jehu?
Wouldn’t a name like “unloved” harm a
child’s self-esteem?
What did God mean when He promised to
reunite Israel and Judah?
How could “Jezreel” mean something good?
Who is God referring to when He says that
Israel and Judah will appoint one leader?
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WEEKEND JOURNAL #8
 Left Column (must be completely filled):
What did you do this
weekend?
 Right Column (make comments concerning…)
When, where and how was
God involved in your
weekend?
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MY BEST RESPONSE
The warning goes this way:
“Be careful when you stand that
you do not fall.”
What does that mean?
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Worksheet 6
Bringing God’s Word to life is a process called
Application, in 6 steps…
Divide the passage into events, ideas, or arguments
2. Ask: Is the writer for or against what he says?
3. Ask: Does the writer inform, educate, or persuade?
4. Ask: Does the writer expect you to adopt, adapt, or
adjust to what he says?
5. Reexamine old thoughts on the subject in the new light
6. Develop an action plan to carry out the writer’s goals for
you
1.
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Lo-Ruhamah 1:6, 7
1. We have learned how to divided the passage into events. Now,
in vv.6, 7 talk about Lo-Ruhamah’s birth & naming
2. Hosea is obviously for what he says, because God told him
what to say
3. When writers:
◦ Report or describe events––they inform
◦ Instruct or explain ideas––they educate
◦ Reason, plead, or coax––they persuade
Hosea reports Lo-Ruhamah’s birth; so he informs
Hosea also explains the idea of her name; so he educates
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Worksheet 6
4. When writers:
◦ Inform, they expect you to adopt what they say
◦ Educate, they expect you to adapt to what they say
◦ Persuade, they expect you to adjust to what they say
When Hosea informs us of Lo-Ruhamah’s birth; he
expects us to adopt it as a fact, period!
When Hosea educates us about Lo-Ruhamah’s name,
he expects us to adapt to what he explains about it:
– To modify our views of God’s love based on what he says
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Worksheet 6
5. When I reexamine my old thoughts about God’s love
in the new light Hosea presents about it:
◦ I must adapt to the idea that I cannot earn His love
 Hosea still loves “Unloved” (probably an illegitimate child)
 Unloved (undeserving) Judah still gets loved, only because God
chooses to love them
◦ I must adapt to the idea that God shows love in a personal
way, not through force, circumstances, etc.
 He will personally rescue His undeserving people without help
from their armies or weapons
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Worksheet 6
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I must pray for divine guidance, support, and strength:
◦ To carry out this action plan
◦ To make Hosea’s goals for me––my dreams
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Hosea expects me to accept God’s love, unconditionally
But I am still trying to earn God’s love
I am a performer who has always lived by report cards
I must start accepting the fact that God loves me, in spite of
myself
I need to pray whenever I think I can make God love me and
spend more time with Christ as my Savior who loved me
before I was born, as my High Priest who loves me in spite of
my sins, and as my King who loves me enough to come back for
me
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Worksheet 6
6. Develop an action plan in 7 simple steps:
1) Always make prayer for divine guidance and support, a part
of your plan
2) Let the writer/Holy Spirit reset your goals; make his
expectations for you––your dreams
3) Plan the journey step-by-step, asking:
 Where does he want me to go?
(Spell out his goal for you)
 Where am I now?
(Be honest with yourself about how close you are to
reaching the goal: near or far from it)
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Worksheet 6
 How did I get here?
(Think about what you have done up to now, to get where
you are)
 How can I get where I should go?
(List course corrections [changes] you need to make in
order to reach the goal)
 Where do I go from here?
(Plot the moves you must make in order to pull off these
changes and reach the goal)
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Worksheet 6b
Bringing God’s Word to life is a process called
Application, in 6 steps…
1.
Divide verse 4 into an event, idea, or argument…
Hosea’s son being named JEZREEL..
“God Scatters”
2.
Ask: Is the writer for or against what he says?
3.
Ask: Does the writer inform, educate, or persuade?
4.
Ask: Does the writer expect you to adopt, adapt, or adjust to what he
says?
5.
Reexamine old thoughts on the subject in the new light
6.
Develop an action plan to carry out the writer’s goals for you
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Worksheet 6c
Bringing God’s Word to life is a process called
Application, in 6 steps…
1.
Divide verse 9 into an event, idea, or argument…
Hosea’s son being named Lo-Ammi..
“not my people”
2.
Ask: Is the writer for or against what he says?
3.
Ask: Does the writer inform, educate, or persuade?
4.
Ask: Does the writer expect you to adopt, adapt, or adjust to what he
says?
5.
Reexamine old thoughts on the subject in the new light
6.
Develop an action plan to carry out the writer’s goals for you
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MY BEST RESPONSE
Think about this carefully:
Can there be accuracy without
full truth?
Give an example how there can
or cannot be.
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Hosea – The Book formation
http://www.slideshare.net/chronicwriter/hosea
◦ The first 3 chapters is the foundation of the book
◦ How many times is the word “I” used in Chapters
4-14 of Hosea?
 84 times
◦ Who is “I”? Why is this important to me?
 The LORD YHWH.
 It is YHWH who works out our salvation
◦ Sins of Israel – 4,6,7,12
◦ Punishment – 5, 8 (famous proverb found here—
What is it?), 9, 10,12,13
◦ God’s Hope – 11 (Agape Love)
◦ Repentance brings blessings - 14
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http://www.slideshare.net/chronicwriter/hosea
Hosea – The Tragic Love
◦ When Gomer leaves Hosea and sleeps
around with other men of the city
 Hosea would be prophesying in the morning to the
people of Israel and in the evening he searches for
Gomer in the brothels
 He was ridiculed because he was attempting to
guide the nation with his prophecies but couldn’t
even control his wife
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http://www.slideshare.net/chronicwriter/hosea
Hosea – God’s Love
◦ When men started ridiculing Hosea because
of his wife by asking him the question, “ How
can a holy man like you, love an adulterous
woman like Gomer?”
◦ Hosea answered them by saying, “ I love my
wife, the same way God loves an adulterous
nation like us”
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http://www.slideshare.net/chronicwriter/hosea
Hosea – In brief
◦ Gomer, like Israel, was looking for love in all
the wrong places.
◦ Gomer had the love of her husband and Israel
the love of her God.
◦ Israel had begun to worship the pagan god
Ba’al ( ‫ )ּבעל‬which was a Phœnician diety
and also is the common word meaning
husband, master, owner(with a modification).
◦ Just as Hosea was Gomer’s husband, God was
Israel’s husband.
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http://www.slideshare.net/chronicwriter/hosea
Hosea – Why Israel?
◦ We might ask the question, “Why did God
choose Israel and why did he have such a
compassion towards the nation of Israel?”
◦ Why not Greece?- with great philosophers like
Aristotle and Plato.
◦ Why not Rome?- the majestic city of the Caesars.
◦ Why not Babylon? –The city of scientists.
◦ God chose a tiny nation Israel , because it was
mocked by Greece, Rebuked by Rome and
enslaved by Babylon. God cares for the meek and
Humble
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http://www.slideshare.net/chronicwriter/hosea
Hosea- God’s Love
◦ God takes his love to the undeserving little
nation of Israel and calls them, “You are the
apple of my eye.”
◦ The book of Hosea stresses on one thingThe one word that defines Christian faith is
the word Forgiveness.
◦ God gives us a chance to start again, start
afresh. We might have sinned big time. But
God is a forgiving God and he cleanses our
sins when we ask for forgiveness in complete
submission
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MY BEST RESPONSE
The Law of Non-Contradiction
means: a statement cannot be
true if that statement
contradicts something that is
true. Give an example of a
discovery that would help you
believe or not believe something
is true?
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