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Does The Truth Offend You? | Hosea 9:7-9
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Summary
Welcome to The Daily. 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 9:7-9 : The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred. The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God; yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins. — Hosea 9:7-9 There is a moment when someone stops resisting sin—and starts resisting the truth. That's where Israel is. "The prophet is a fool… the man of the spirit is mad." The people weren't just ignoring God's messengers. They were mocking them. God's truth is marked as crazy, extreme, out of touch, and even dangerous. This is precisely where we have come as a nation today. Good has become evil, and evil has become good. Progressivism and relativism have led to tribal truths that now turn The Truth into offensive because individual truth and tribal social truth have taken over. So, instead of adapting their behavior to God's Truth , they attack the messenger who opposed their truth. This is not a new pattern. When truth confronts our comfortable truth, people don't always repent. Sometimes they reframe the truth as the problem. They call conviction "judgment." They call clarity "hate." They call correction "intolerance." And the more a person or nation drifts, the louder that reaction becomes. Hosea says a prophet was supposed to be a "watchman." The watchman sees danger early and warns people before it's too late. But instead of listening to the watch…