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Are You Listening To Your Alarm | Hosea 8:1-3
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Welcome to The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Read more about our mission to teach every verse of the bible in what we call Project23 . Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is Hosea 8:1-3 : Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law. To me they cry, "My God, we—Israel—know you." Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him. — Hosea 8:1-3 Some alarms are meant to wake you before it is too late. That is how Hosea 8 begins. "Set the trumpet to your lips!" In the ancient world, a trumpet was sounded when danger was near. It warned a city to prepare, to pay attention, and to act immediately. Trumpets were not filler music for a big band. It was an urgent signal that something had gone terribly wrong. Then Hosea gives the reason. Judgment is approaching "because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law." Israel's greatest problem was spiritual rebellion in a time of material prosperity. They had transgressed their relationship with God because they had forgotten and forfeited the law of God. Very similar to what we have done today. We have rejected prayer in school, removed the bible from the public square, legalized the killing of children in the womb, celebrated gay marriage and sodomy, and reidentified the very gender imparted by God. And in our prosperity, we have grown distant from God and his law. We no longer know God's Word and live by his truth in our prosperity. Yet the most revealing part of this text is what it says next: "To me they cry, 'My God, we—Israel—know you.'" They still used the right language and claimed identity with God. They talk like nothing had cha…