Hosea 14

Hosea 14:1

ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED IN THE FUTUREChapter 14 is a wonderful chapter, for it speaks of the future salvation of Israel. The Lord tells the people that it is because of their sin that they will go into captivity.

Hosea 14:3

Imagine making something with your hands and then falling down and worshiping it! Many men today worship their own ability. They worship their brain, their intellect. They worship what they are doing and what they are able to do. You are nothing but a pagan and a heathen when you do that, my friend.

Hosea 14:4

“I will hear their backsliding.” God says, “The people have been backsliding, slipping away from Me, but I am going to heal them. I will love them freely, for Mine anger is turned away from them.”

Hosea 14:8

Verse Hos_14:8 is one of the most wonderful verses in the Bible. This is a victory song. “Ephraim shall say"this is future. God is finally going to win. Love is going to win the victory here. God has said to Ephraim, “Oh, Ephraim, how shall I give you up?” And He said, “Ephraimlet him alone because he has turned to idols.” Now God says, “But there is a day coming when Ephraim will see that he’s made a great blunder and mistake, and he will turn back to Me. He is going to say, ‘I don’t have anything more to do with idols.’” I cannot help but believe in the midst of this tragedy of sin, this drama of human life which is being enacted down here in this world today, that God is going to come out the victor. I believe that there are going to be more people saved than there will be lost. That was Spurgeon’s belief also; he said that many times. You and I have our noses pressed against the present hour. We look around at the world today, and all we see is the little flock the Lord Jesus talked aboutthat is, the church, the people whom He is calling out of this world. But there are many whom He has saved in the past.

For example, at one time He saved the entire population of Nineveh (although a hundred years later they reverted to sin, and He judged them). There have been other great revival movements in the past also, but the greatest turning to God is to take place in the future. That will occur, of all times, during the Great Tribulation period. The Millennium is also going to be a period of salvation, by the way. God is going to win, my friend. Love will triumph.

Our God today is riding victoriously in His own chariotHe is the sovereign God. God pity the man who gets under those chariot wheels! I don’t know about you, but I want to go along with GodI’m hitchhiking a ride with Him today. That is the reason it is so urgent that we know His Wordto find out how to stay in His will in this difficult day in which we are living.