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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...

them, ‘The land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the LORD’ (1:2). Now, in this chapter, we shall see some of the ways in which Israel had gone away from the Lord, and what he was going to do as a consequence of their unfaithfulness to the covenant that he had made with them. This section of Hosea’s prophecy can be seen at three levels. It is all about the faithful one and the adulterer. At the first level Hosea is the faithful husband and Gomer is the adulterous wife. At the second
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