Friday, March 8, 2019

Today's Favorite Verse: Hosea 4:6

Today's Favorite Verse: Hosea 4:6
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."

This may have happened in the past, but I pondered on how it does not need to happen now. For there is much access to wonderful gospel materials. We have more scriptures that clarify what was lost to humankind for ages. If parents follow the prophet and use the Come, Follow Me manual not only will they gain knowledge of God, but their children will also. It is only through willful disobedience to the council that has been given, and rejecting knowledge that people and their families will face what God has said. I would not want God to forget my children in the days ahead.

Sadly, I would have to say the world in general is more ignorant of the word of God then at any time. Families used to come together at the end of a day and read the scriptures. Now the entertainment of choice is Netflix. The moral compass that guided us for generations is no longer there. It has come by choice, willful contempt, or totally apathy, for the value of the word of God is gone.

So maybe we are back to where Hosea prophesied. But, it doesn't have to be. This is probably where we see the separation of the sheep and the goats.



Day 1441


Thursday, March 7, 2019

Today's Favorite Verse: Hosea 3:5

Today's Favorite Verse: Hosea 3:5
"Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.'

After a period of falling away the gospel of Jesus Christ will be restored in the latter days. I pondered on the name of the church and how fitting it is, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It can't get much clearer than that.



Day 1440


Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Today's Favorite Verse: Hosea 2:2

Today's Favorite Verse: Hosea 2:2
"Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;"

I have long since decided that when the scriptures speak of marriage, divorce, and adultery it is speaking about the church and its people's relationship with God. In this verse, if I continued to see it speaking of adultery and apostasy as being the same, it made the whole chapter understandable. When people go after other gods they divorce themselves from the true and living God. He is no longer written in their hearts and cherished by them. For that severe judgment comes upon them. In the end of this chapter there is a restoration, that is where we are right now. 



Day 1439


Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Today's Favorite Verse: Hosea 1:10-11

Today's Favorite Verse: Hosea 1:10-11
"Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel."

The chapter headers says: "Hosea and his family are a sign unto Israel - In the day of gathering, the people of Israel will become the sons of the living God."

I wasn't really sure about what this chapter was talking about so I felt impressed to make notes of the points that stood out to me and what I thought they meant.

Departing from the Lord = apostasy
Marriage = covenant with the Lord
Jezreel = God will sow, or scatter abroad
Lo-ruhamah = not having obtained mercy
Lo-ammi = not my people

I think when it comes to not my people, that he is talking about the gentiles and the restoration. They will covenant with the Lord and be adopted as his children, sons of the living God.

Then the children of Judah and the covenant children of Israel will gather together and the Lord will be at the head.



Day 1438


Posted 5 Mar 2019