Hosea
Hosea is commanded to do the unthinkable — to marry Gomer, an unfaithful wife, and to love her still — so that his own aching marriage becomes a living parable of the LORD’s covenant love for a wayward people. Through sign-children named “Not Pitied” and “Not My People,” through indictments of a nation with “no knowledge of God in the land,” Hosea exposes Israel’s spiritual adultery and the judgment it invites. Yet the same book contains some of Scripture’s tenderest words of divine mercy — “I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,” and “How can I give you up, O Ephraim?” — as God vows to heal his people’s apostasy and love them freely. Each chapter has a full deep study and a short summary handout.