831 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 3 Book 70 - Lo-ammi, Not My People - Part 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 70 LO-AMMI - NOT MY PEOPLE – PART 3 Hosea 1:1–2:18 Okay, it is good to see all ready to go again. We are on program number three this afternoon in book 70. So, we’ve been here a long time. My, we just can’t believe we’ve been doing this for sixteen years in October. Unbelievable! How we appreciate all you folks across the country out there in TV-land. Again, we want to thank you for your kind letters about how the Word is impacting. Okay, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover, so we’ll dispense with any other comments and get right back into Hosea. Hosea, for those of you here in the studio audience, we’re in chapter 1. Let’s jump back in at verse 7. Hosea 1:7a “But I will have mercy…” Now you see, whenever God expresses His wrath and His vengeance and His judgment, He also shows the other side, which is His mercy. Here we have it again. That even though He’s going to have to bring chastisement upon the Nation and He will utterly take them away, yet He says: Hosea 1:7 “But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, (that’s the Southern two tribes, remember, where Hosea is ministering.) and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.” But rather by His own intrinsic Sovereign power. Now, let’s be reminded that the Southern Kingdom lasted about a hundred years longer than the Northern Kingdom. Israel, the Ten Tribes, will be overrun by the Syrians about a hundred years before Judah goes under the hand of the Babylonians. Now I don’t think, if I’m remembering correctly, I did not really finish our verses back there in II Kings. I’m going to bring you back here again, if I may, so that you see why God’s patience ran out with the Ten Tribes that we are now calling Israel. For some reason or another I digressed. I guess that’s when I jumped up to the New Testament, wasn’t it? All right, come back with me to II Kings. I want you to see why God’s hand of chastisement came upon these Ten Tribes of the North. All right, we were in verse 7 of II Kings 17. II Kings 17:7-8 “For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8. And walked in the statutes (or the religious rituals and systems) of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.” Now, I made comment in the last program that as the leadership goes, so goes the Nation. It’s the same way today. If you have a corrupt leadership, the nation is going to go right down with it. All right, now verse 9. Here we get to the crux of the problem. II Kings 17:9a “And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right…” We covered that in the last lesson - verse 10. II Kings 17:10-12a “And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 11. And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: 12. For they served idols,…” I think that’s where I jumped up to the New Testament. All right, now let’s jump in to verse 13. II Kings 17:13a “Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets,…” Now, I had a thought as I was studying this. Where’s the priesthood? Well, they’re not much better than the rank and file. So, who does God have to use to preach to Israel, common ordinary men, the Prophets. Have you ever thought of that before - that none of the Prophets were priests? I never had. They were totally separate from the priesthood. Now, the priests were religious. They carried out all the Temple worship, but in heart and mind they were just as idolatrous as the people. But here we have that little remnant of Prophets that God raises up to warn the people that if they do not change, if they don’t repent of their idolatry, this is what’s coming. All right, go back into verse 13. II Kings 17:13 “Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye (Now that’s repentance.) from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants (not the priests) the prophets.” Amazing, isn’t it? II Kings 17:14-15a “Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. 15. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies… #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible