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The breakdown of family values is having a devastating effect on society. Older people are no longer respected by the young, lawlessness abounds, everyone does what they like with no thought for their neighbors, politicians, and the government is viewed as corrupt. The leaders of the church are out of touch, out of mind, and out to lunch. This scenario is not taken from last week’s tabloid...

house, change jobs, get some new friends, find another woman, and bury the memory of Gomer, regarding her as a part of their lives best forgotten! Maybe this is what Hosea would have done, except that God spoke to him. Hosea 3:1–5 does not tell us much, but it hints that Gomer had fallen into slavery; Hosea buys her out of her plight at the market value of a slave. 1 And Yahweh said to me again, ‘Go love a woman already loved by a companion, an adulteress—just as Yahweh loves the Israelites, but
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