Chapters 1&2 from the Message Bible.
Welcome! Please take your time with this post and the whole book as we highlight and underscore what God is saying.
Suggested: Listening to the intro while looking at pictures and reading in silence/ ambient worship with chapters and note from me.
Together we go traveling down the narrow road! This deep and mysterious path mixed with promises kept in prophecy fulfillment. I see and hear it in scripture, in the skies, in the peace I have despite the double time weird events, actions, blank faces and resistant hearts.
Going back to the well of scripture leads us to answers that feel like living water. Jesus is glorified as I testify to such, share what I witnessed in the skies, tell the truth about a life with and for Christ our Lord. Every example is given and it is as plain as day. If you walk with the spirit, you are led into all that is God and it lands with exactly who it is supposed to, when, why and how- it never makes sense to the masses or those closest and it takes longer or is a ‘suddenly’ out of human control for the reasons that rest with God, for our good.
I’ve experienced God’s correction and favor for a long time. My faith is given to me by the Father and over 47 years, I’ve never denied my faith at critical points that would have cost me life. His intervention through miracles, wise counsel and unconditional love extended beyond any human or earthly intervention possible; for extended periods of time.
I’ve always been in process – I came disassembled for his plans and purposes. I’ve trusted a perfect, living God named Immanuel and Yahweh. Jesus and Jehovah.
This is it! Don’t be a fool anymore- the song in my head is from Kenny Loggins- the word in my heart is from Amos and proverbs. Love good, turn from evil and live.
I love everyone. I really do. I smile because I want to, when I wasn’t able to- I still prayed for you and loved inside because God has always seen me through. His love is a lodge in my heart and I’ll extend where he calls and preserve behind a wall what needs protection by God’s powerful spirit.
Note- 03/07/2026
Reading through Hosea, I’m taken in by the straight forward rebuke, the clear request and the embrace ahead of time. I understand the prophecy for a millennial age and the real time example asked of Hosea.The time is upon us and the path sure.
The Lord leads with a bounty and rewards without sorrow, leading to fullness of joy. This is why I love him, trust him and keep going!
I am working on Chapter 3 for next week with more contemplations and revelations from spending time with the book.
A blessed day is yours! Thank you Jesus 🙏
Kellie 🫂🙌
Hosea 1:1-11 (MSG)
This is God’s Message to Hosea son of Beeri. It came to him during the royal reigns of Judah’s kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. This was also the time that Jeroboam son of Joash was king over Israel.
The first time God spoke to Hosea he said: “Find a whore and marry her. Make this whore the mother of your children. And here’s why: This whole country has become a whorehouse, unfaithful to me, God.”
Hosea did it. He picked Gomer daughter of Diblaim. She got pregnant and gave him a son.
Then God told him: “Name him Jezreel. It won’t be long now before I’ll make the people of Israel pay for the massacre at Jezreel. I’m calling it quits on the kingdom of Israel.
Payday is coming! I’m going to chop Israel’s bows and arrows into kindling in the valley of Jezreel.”
Gomer got pregnant again. This time she had a daughter. God told Hosea: “Name this one No-Mercy. I’m fed up with Israel. I’ve run out of mercy. There’s no more forgiveness.
Judah’s another story. I’ll continue having mercy on them. I’ll save them. It will be their God who saves them, Not their armaments and armies, not their horsepower and manpower.”
After Gomer had weaned No-Mercy, she got pregnant yet again and had a son.
God said: “Name him Nobody. You’ve become nobodies to me, and I, God, am a nobody to you.
“But down the road the population of Israel is going to explode past counting, like sand on the ocean beaches. In the very place where they were once named Nobody, they will be named God’s Somebody.
Everybody in Judah and everybody in Israel will be assembled as one people. They’ll choose a single leader. There’ll be no stopping them—a great day in Jezreel!
Hosea 2:1-23 (MSG) “Rename your brothers ‘God’s Somebody.’ Rename your sisters ‘All Mercy.’
“Haul your mother into court. Accuse her! She’s no longer my wife. I’m no longer her husband. Tell her to quit dressing like a whore, displaying her breasts for sale.
If she refuses, I’ll rip off her clothes and expose her, naked as a newborn. I’ll turn her skin into dried-out leather, her body into a badlands landscape, a rack of bones in the desert.
I’ll have nothing to do with her children, born one and all in a whorehouse.
Face it: Your mother’s been a whore, bringing bastard children into the world. She said, ‘I’m off to see my lovers! They’ll wine and dine me, Dress and caress me, perfume and adorn me!’
But I’ll fix her: I’ll dump her in a field of thistles, then lose her in a dead-end alley.
She’ll go on the hunt for her lovers but not bring down a single one. She’ll look high and low but won’t find a one. Then she’ll say, ‘I’m going back to my husband, the one I started out with. That was a better life by far than this one.’
She didn’t know that it was I all along who wined and dined and adorned her, That I was the one who dressed her up in the big-city fashions and jewelry that she wasted on wild Baal-orgies.
I’m about to bring her up short: No more wining and dining! Silk lingerie and gowns are a thing of the past.
I’ll expose her genitals to the public. All her fly-by-night lovers will be helpless to help her.
Party time is over. I’m calling a halt to the whole business, her wild weekends and unholy holidays.
I’ll wreck her sumptuous gardens and ornamental fountains, of which she bragged, ‘Whoring paid for all this!’ They will soon be dumping grounds for garbage, feeding grounds for stray dogs and cats.
I’ll make her pay for her indulgence in promiscuous religion— all that sensuous Baal worship And all the promiscuous sex that went with it, stalking her lovers, dressed to kill, And not a thought for me.” God’s Message!
“And now, here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to start all over again. I’m taking her back out into the wilderness where we had our first date, and I’ll court her.
I’ll give her bouquets of roses. I’ll turn Heartbreak Valley into Acres of Hope. She’ll respond like she did as a young girl, those days when she was fresh out of Egypt.
“At that time”—this is God’s Message still— “you’ll address me, ‘Dear husband!’ Never again will you address me, ‘My slave-master!’
I’ll wash your mouth out with soap, get rid of all the dirty false-god names, not so much as a whisper of those names again.
At the same time I’ll make a peace treaty between you and wild animals and birds and reptiles, And get rid of all weapons of war. Think of it! Safe from beasts and bullies!
And then I’ll marry you for good—forever! I’ll marry you true and proper, in love and tenderness.
Yes, I’ll marry you and neither leave you nor let you go. You’ll know me, God, for who I really am.
“On the very same day, I’ll answer”—this is God’s Message— “I’ll answer the sky, sky will answer earth,
Earth will answer grain and wine and olive oil, and they’ll all answer Jezreel.
I’ll plant her in the good earth. I’ll have mercy on No-Mercy. I’ll say to Nobody, ‘You’re my dear Somebody,’ and he’ll say ‘You’re my God!’ “
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