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Called Not My People: A Prophet's Broken Marriage and a Love That Will Not Quit | Hosea 1–2
Episode Overview
Today we begin Hosea, one of the most personally costly assignments given to any prophet. God tells Hosea to marry a woman who will be unfaithful to him, and his marriage becomes the sermon. The pain is not a metaphor Hosea observes from a distance; it is his actual life, and his heartbreak is meant to show us God's.
The children are named as warnings—Jezreel for coming judgment, Lo-Ruhamah meaning not loved, Lo-Ammi meaning not my people. These are hard names to give a child and harder to say out loud. And yet even here the sentence does not end where it starts. In the very…
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