scribe to the readers, Recently we requested some help from you and we are grateful to announce that you provided some. As we stated there are so many ways you could help us which in turn improves your learning experience. For instance, some have taken the challenge of the one year Bible reading plan. A brother suggested that we improve …

The name Hosea means salvation. In this final chapter, we must ask ourselves if we understand the things spoken in this book to attain it. Hosea 14:9 “Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors …

Countless times I have heard “I don’t worship this!” as they point to the jewelry hanging on their neck. Hosea 13:2 “And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that …

The prosperity of our people is in the Heavenly Father. Job 36:11 “If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.” An example of this is our father Jacob. After being blessed by his father Isaac, he fled from his brother Esau (whom he battled from the womb). This caused him …

When we began recording the Bible Readings we chose the book of Hosea because it coincided with the one year plan. Hopefully you read fully the book and are keeping up with the plan. It would have been nice to have the audio out at the same time as those reading. Nevertheless this book addresses a grave topic, idolatry (images, …

At times our people ask why they suffer oppression or injustice. One of the reasons explained in this chapter is because they “willing walked after the commandment” of men while rejecting those of God. Christ explains this in detail in Mark 7:6-8. Since the whoredom of Israel was to go and worship false gods; such as stocks meaning a tree …