Would you believe that God told a prophet to go and marry a prostitute? What a thing to say!!! And God said it, yet!
It seems like God would want to avoid that kind of association. Are you sure that's what it said? I have heard a very good teacher say that wasn't really what it said. But I have to disagree with her. In my Bible God told Hosea to go marry a prostitute.
Surely he reformed her first. No, that's not what it said. There is a problem here the Bible doesn't address: Her name was Gomer. I get visions of Jim Nabors in drag. In a more rational frame of mind, I think she was young and beautiful and foolish. She represented the Nation of Israel. God wanted to show this prophet Hosea a truth that he could grasp through his relationship with a beautiful, voluptuous woman.
Click here or read the first three chapter of the Book of Hosea in the Old Testament. Maybe God has a message for you in the Bible, too.
It seems like God would want to avoid that kind of association. Are you sure that's what it said? I have heard a very good teacher say that wasn't really what it said. But I have to disagree with her. In my Bible God told Hosea to go marry a prostitute.
Surely he reformed her first. No, that's not what it said. There is a problem here the Bible doesn't address: Her name was Gomer. I get visions of Jim Nabors in drag. In a more rational frame of mind, I think she was young and beautiful and foolish. She represented the Nation of Israel. God wanted to show this prophet Hosea a truth that he could grasp through his relationship with a beautiful, voluptuous woman.
Click here or read the first three chapter of the Book of Hosea in the Old Testament. Maybe God has a message for you in the Bible, too.
I intend to marry a whore my self. I don't see what's wrong with that? I mean you do want to get saved and judged according to your future potential, not your current state of affairs ... right?
ReplyDeleteHosea expected that she would be faithful to him and abandon her profession. I think the judgment thing has other criteria.
ReplyDeleteHello Brothers and Sisters,
DeleteYes God did tell Hosea to marry a prostitute but did you read the full story? Did u see the true glory and beauty of God's love through this action? if not, then bear with me while i explain it to you as shortly as i can. This story in its true essence demonstrates how Christ treats his church, you will see how shortly.
Hosea married a prostitute as God commanded and helped her out of her shameful and fallen state, gave her everything she desired, stability, love, food, money, kids, a husband, a roof over her head. But since she was so infused with sin and so intwined with the world's corruption, she abandoned this heaven that she lived and went back to her old ways of prostitution. Hosea prayed for her and searched for her and waited for her to return for a long time but she never returned.. when one day Hosea while shopping in the market sees a salesman selling slaves and to his surprise he spots his wife as one of them. Now at that time you could not sell a married woman as a slave, or man for that matter, so Hosea could have easily exclaimed She is my wife! how dare you sell her! return her to me at once!. or he could have presented them the marriage certificate and requested that they release her... but instead he chose to pull money out of his pocket ask for her price and buy her back... and that struck her like a load of bricks.. not only was she filled with shame but was overjoyed and content as he saved her.
Similarly Christ gave us everything we desired yet we, his church,decided to abandon him and infuse ourselves with the wickedness of the world. Yet he never once left us but remained faithful to us and did the impossible to try and bring us back, as you see in the old testament they disobey him and he forgives, they disobey again and he forgives.. an endless outpouring of his loving grace. He then says u have fallen so deep and you cant save yourselves as you have enslaved yourselves to this world, and to redeem us he purchased us with his blood by dying on the cross and taking the punishment that we deserve.
Love such as this is unfathomable. Dont focus on the command to marry a prostitute, hear the beautiful story as God wanted to portray something extremely valuable through it.
Glory be to God forever Amen
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