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Turning Back to God: Hosea and Obadiah Simply Explained is unavailable, but you can change that!

The prophecies of Hosea and Obadiah, along with the other so-called Minor Prophets, are all too frequently overlooked by contemporary Christians, and we are much the poorer as a result. The weakness of the churches in our generation is largely due to our ignorance of the character of God. Nowhere in the Bible is that character more clearly expounded than in the ministry of the prophets. If the...

When the first child was born God said, ‘Call him Jezreel’ (1:4). Jezreel was the name of a well-known town and also a valley in the northern kingdom. Its ‘location … in a valley-plain between the mountains of Samaria and Galilee, and its close proximity to the valley of Megiddo, mark it as one of the prominent battle sites in Palestine, one of the few places where chariotry, cavalry and marching armies could be manoeuvred’.2 Many famous battles had been
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