I shared this message last Sunday night at the chapel. The entire message is nearly an hour and a half. I broke it down into three parts by the three chapters we explored in Hosea. This is dealing with Hosea 1. Come join us.
The historical setting brought to light in Hosea is setting the stage for what is to come — by reminding them that what He planted, purposed, and produced in the past had already come to pass.
Jehu's house (the current king a grandson of Jehu) was one king away from being removed — as will be the unavoidable fate of an adulterous Israel.
Jezreel means, "what God sows" meaning what God seeds out God sees to its full potential. He will cultivate His promised seed to its full end.
Jehu is a former king specifically raised up by God who had a purpose of killing. And he was a killer king. His prey… the former king of Israel, his wife, all their children, and their priest that misled the nation while being funded by the king and his wife's orders. God gave Jehu the task of killing them and the treasures of the throne for 4 generations. Jeroboam was the 3rd generation and his son Zechariah would be the fourth. He would be assassinated had promised in Hosea 1:4 and according to the seed God planted for the descendants of Jehu.
God called Jehu (planted a seed in Elijah 1 Kings 19) and therefore this planted seed in him was to slaughter Ahab's entire house.
God also planted a seed for when Jehu and his house would rise to power and when it was to come to an end. He gave Jehu 4 generations (2 Kings 10; 2 Kings 15)
Zechariah, the current King's son, would be the last of Jehu's grandsons to govern Israel. For shadowing the inevitable
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