Hosea: Covenant Love, Unfaithfulness, Judgment, and Restoration

Hosea: Covenant Love, Unfaithfulness, Judgment, and Restoration is a comprehensive 20-lesson study of Hosea 1-14. Students examine Hosea's prophetic marriage and family signs, Israel's spiritual unfaithfulness, empty worship, political false security, God's righteous judgment, fatherly compassion, call to repentance, and promise to heal and restore His people.

Learning Objectives

• Understand Hosea's eighth-century BC setting and ministry to the northern kingdom of Israel.
• Interpret Hosea's marriage and family imagery within its prophetic covenant context.
• Explain the significance of Jezreel, Lo-Ruhamah, and Lo-Ammi and the later reversal of these judgments.
• Identify Hosea's critique of idolatry, political alliances, corrupt leadership, injustice, and empty worship.
• Explain the biblical relationship between knowledge of God, steadfast love, worship, and covenant faithfulness.
• Study God's fatherly compassion and holy love in Hosea 11.
• Trace the movement from judgment and exile toward repentance, healing, and restoration.
• Recognize important New Testament uses of Hosea while respecting the prophet's original context.
• Apply Hosea's teaching to worship, repentance, relationships, leadership, mercy, justice, and dependence on God.

Course Content

Twenty substantial self-study lessons cover Hosea 1-14, including Hosea's prophetic marriage, Gomer, Jezreel, Lo-Ruhamah, Lo-Ammi, covenant unfaithfulness, restoration, knowledge of God, priestly and royal failure, mercy rather than empty sacrifice, political alliances, reaping the whirlwind, God's fatherly love, the call to sow righteousness, judgment, repentance, healing, and the concluding wisdom of Hosea 14. Every lesson includes substantial teaching, a plain-text assignment, and four multiple-choice review questions.