A JEALOUS GOD
Put together by Bongie Kuzwayo
Expose’ of Hosea Chapter2
[Exodus34v12–17] Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where your are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. (13) But you shall destroy their altars, and break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images (14) “(for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), (15) lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods, and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of their sacrifice, (16) and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods. (17) You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.
The Nation of Israel (the then church) was the only nation who had a (covenant) relationship with the Living God, when every nation around them worshiped idols. Several times God warned the Nation of Israel never to enter into covenant with the nations and to destroy their sacred pillars that they were likely to find in the land they were entering to possess. In Hosea chapters1 up to 3 = Israel is depicted as Jehovah’s unfaithful wife. Hosea’s (harlot) wife, Gomer, models the role of the Nation of Israel.