Post on 13-Jan-2016
歐瑟亞先知
"Deliverance."
歐瑟亞先知
• Israel has forsaken YHWH to take up the cult of other gods.
• The love of God has
been betrayed.
歐瑟亞先知• Hosea has married a
woman whom he loves but who deserts him; in the same way, Israel had forsaken its true lover to give herself to the Baals
歐瑟亞先知
Hos 3:1-5
歐瑟亞先知• His own experience of
the marriage union, characterized by a tender, understanding love and an unshakeable fidelity provides the insight to understand the love of YHWH
歐瑟亞先知• For Hosea, his own painful experience
becomes a symbol and a condition for his ministry as a prophet.
• He is the first to use the symbol of marriage to express YHWH-Israel relationship.
歐瑟亞先知• Faithful love:
– Friendship, union, loyalty..– Faithfulness to his covenant and kindness to his
people (2:22; 6:6; 10:12;
• Knowledge of God– Not intellectual but through the experience love
and covenant (2:22; 4:6; 6:3;
歐瑟亞先知
• Reconciliation:–“I am going to seduce her and
lead her into the desert and speak to her heart” (Hos 2:16)
歐瑟亞先知
• Our response– Hos 6:6…For faithful love is what pleases me,
not sacrifice; knowledge of God, not burn offerings.
歐瑟亞先知• Hos. 14:2-9
– I shall fall like dew on Israel, he will bloom like the lily…