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If yesterday was heavy, today may hit even deeper. Because Hosea isn’t speaking to pagans… He isn’t talking to atheists… He isn’t confronting outsiders.
Hosea is speaking to God’s people The same people of God I too am reaching for. They were the covenant community, the worshipers, the ones who believed they were safe simply because they “belonged.”
And God says:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
Not because they didn’t have access to truth… but because they stopped valuing it. They drifted the exact same way we drift today:
Not by rejecting God, but by letting other things matter more than His word.
The priests stopped teaching what was holy.
The people stopped asking what was true.
The generation after them stopped knowing the difference.
Does that sound familiar?
Because Hosea is describing a spiritual collapse caused by:
📌 Ignorance
📌 Indifference
📌 Inheritance of empty traditions
📌 Leaders softening the lines God drew
📌 People choosing convenience over covenant
No wonder God says His people were “destroyed.” When truth is not passed down, identity dissolves. When the Word is neglected, mixture takes root.
When the sacred is ignored, culture fills the gap. Israel didn’t fall because of persecution. Israel fell because of passivity. And God is warning us the same way today.
See, at the end of the day, what I am trying to say is that God is not pleased with our current acceptance of pagan worship. The church has left it's first love. Cheating on her with her shady friend "darkness". The problem with Darkness is, often it is not this big step back from God instead it looks like slow, subtle, slippery slope that you are at the bottom before you realized you even slid. God is trying to get us to return to him, return to our first love, return to the one who saved you with the devotion that reflects that salvation.
They didn’t hate God.
They simply stopped caring enough to seek Him.
Hosea’s generation looked extremely “religious”:
Festivals
Sacrifices
Celebrations
Altars
Songs
Symbols
Rituals
It all looked like worship. But the problem was simple:
They worshiped Yahweh the way the nations worshiped their gods.
Not the way God commanded. They blended truth with tradition.
They blended devotion with entertainment. They blended holiness with cultural rhythms.
Sound familiar?
Hosea is describing a nation that had:
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priests who stopped correcting the people
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families who practiced traditions without understanding
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leaders who diluted God’s standards
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worship that became emotional but not obedient
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generations who inherited mixture as “normal”
This is not a time of rebellion
this is a time of comfortable compromise.
| Scripture | Verse |
|---|---|
| Isaiah 5:20 | Woe to those who mix light with darkness |
| Ezekiel 22:26 | Priests failed to distinguish holy vs common |
| 2 Kings 17:15 | Priests led the people into corruption |
| Malachi 2:7–8 | Sabbath as covenant identity marker |
| Exodus 31:13 | Sabbath as covenant identity marker |
| Leviticus 20:26 | “Be holy, for I am holy” |
| Leviticus 10:10 | Distinguish between holy and common |
Every one of these passages says the same thing:
When God’s people stop caring about distinction, mixture destroys identity.
HIDDEN TRUTH — “Destroyed” Doesn’t Mean What You Think
Often, I am harping on the fact that culture alone has destroyed the intentional meaning of a lot of verses. This is a good example of that. The Hebrew word for “destroyed” is נִדְמ֥וּ (nidmu):
Slowly Dissolved
Cut-off
Made Silent
Fading into Nothingness
This is not lightning judgment. This is a slow spiritual death. A people who once belonged to God becoming unrecognizable
because they no longer know Him.
God is saying:
“You didn’t break overnight.
You drifted because you stopped learning.”
Why This Matters Right Now
We are living Hosea all over again.
Today’s church:
✔ celebrates what culture celebrates
✔ sacralizes tradition without testing it
✔ softens God’s commands into “preferences”
✔ lets mixture pass as worship
✔ inherits rituals without knowing their roots
✔ teaches emotions more than obedience
✔ follows a Christianity shaped by convenience
Hosea is not calling out the pagans. He is calling out the people who thought they were safe.
The ones who thought mixture was harmless.
The ones who thought God didn’t care.
The ones who thought tradition was good enough.
But the moment we stop learning God’s ways, we stop living God’s ways. And the next generation inherits our drift as their identity.
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