091 Influencers_Hosea 13

Are you an influencer? What is your personal brand?  What does it say about you. In Today’s study we would be looking at Hosea 13,

In this study, the tools we would use for this study are

Who, What, When, Where, and How tool
What does it mean?
How does it apply to me today?

So let's dig in and turn the bible to Hosea 13

Who, What, When, Where, and How tool

Ephraim was a powerful  and influential tribe within Israel. Then they too became guilty of Baal worship (idol worshiping) and died.

They  increased their making of idols from any materials of their choice and increased their idol worshipping which invariably led to an increase in their sin. And because they offered human sacrifices, Ephraim will disappear like the early dew, like the smoke escaping through a window.

The Lord declares He has been Ephraim God since its infancy when He brought them out of the land of slavery in Egypt. God is stating He is the only God that Israel should acknowledge and their only savior. God reminded  Israel of how He cared for and preserved them through when they were vulnerable in the wilderness. He protected and fed them.

Now Israel is satisfied, proud and has forgotten God.

Israel is about to experience God as a God of judgement. The verse says "like a lion I will devour them".

You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your helper.

The kings, princes and rulers, Israel had put her confidence in are no match to the God of the whole universe. He gave them their king and He removed them too.

An unborn child knows that when the labour pains start, it's time to exit the womb of its mother. The unborn child knows what to do but Israel does not know what to do.

But God will deliver Israel from the power of the grave.

In Israel's judgement, she will experience:

her spring  & well will  dried up
all her treasures would be plundered
they will fall by the sword, the men, women and their little ones.

They will bear the guilt of their sin