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I Taught Ephraim to Walk: A Vine of Thorns, Sown Righteousness, and Jacob's Struggle | Hosea 10–12
Episode Overview
Today we read Hosea chapters 10 through 12. Israel is described as a spreading vine that brought forth fruit for itself—prosperous, and the prosperity went straight into more altars and better sacred stones. The more it flourished, the more it invested in exactly what was destroying it. Hosea's counsel is agricultural and urgent: break up your unplowed ground, sow righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, for it is time to seek the Lord.
Then chapter 11 changes register entirely. God speaks as a parent remembering a small child—when Israel was a child I loved him, I…
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