Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, April fifteen,
twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you God's word every single day and
today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption
for today is Hoseiah's harlot Wife. That sounds insulting, Hosea's
harlot wife. Well we'll get into that in just a moment,
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
then we will get underway. Bother in heaven. Thank you
for giving us this new day and for the opportunity
to consider you and how much you love us. Thank
you for giving us the kind of examples in the
scriptures that we can actually relate to. In Jesus' name,
I pray a men and a men again. Oh, this
study is really interesting to me, really interesting to me, because, yeah,
sometimes we gloss over the fact that God loves us.
And I say gloss over because there's a lot that
we need to overcome in our lives. And yet God
loves us like he knows us perfectly and still loves us.
He knows what's in our secret closets, you know what
I mean, Like if you open the door of your closet,
there are skeletons that drop out of there. Yeah, he
knows all of that and yet he still loves us,
and I'm thankful. Now, if we go into the Bible
book of Hosea, we see an interesting story, and it's
not just interesting, it can be perplexing if we don't
understand the character of God. And the Bible reads in
verse one, I mean, excuse me. In verse two of
Hoseiah chapter one, the beginning of the word of the
Lord to Hoseiah, the Lord's said, unto Hoseiah, go take
unto thee a wife of horedoms and children of hortems
for the land committed great hortom, departing from the Lord.
And then in verse one of Hosea chapter three, the
Bible reads then said the Lord, unto me, go love
a woman beloved of her friend. Let me go to
the net version, the Lord said to me, go show
love to your wife again. Go show love to your
wife again, even though she loves another man and continually
commits adultery. I wish I had the time to deal
with the reality of our experiences when one or the
other spouse commits adultery. But we're talking about God and
his perspective, his love toward his people. When his people
go astray, and so go show your love to your
wife again, even though she loves another man and continually
commits adultery. Likewise, the Lord loves the people of God,
although they turned to other gods and love to offer
raisin cakes to idols, of course, and it's speaking of
something in their context, but they were sacrificing to idols
and false gods. And God is saying, I want you
to feel and sense the reality of what I go
through when I have to love you, my people. I
want you, Hoseiah, as a prophet to the nations, to
be able to communicate keenly what it is like when
my people because of their lack of real connection with me,
because they are trying to make up ways to be holy,
when all I said was to believe, and I will
give you my laws in your hearts and on your
minds and cause you to live my commandments. But you're
making up new ways, and you're looking for other gods
and putting them before me. Even though they are doing
all of that, I still love them. I still love them.
This is not permission to walk away from God. It
is not permission to play the heart that. It is
not permission to forget our God. But Joseia, you as
a prophet to the nations, I need you to be
able to sense and feel some of what I go through. Now,
there's something very interesting that happens in the Book of Revelation.
Though we still see God's people playing the harlot, but
there's a very different perspective here. And in verses one
and two of Revelation, chapter seventeen, the Bible reads, and
there came one of the seven angels saying, unto me,
of course, I'm leaving a few words out come hither
I will show thee the judgment and of the great
horror that sitteth upon many waters. We're not going to
go into the detail of who the horror is, but
clearly it is God's people who have gone astray to
the extreme and refuse to repent. I'll leave it right there,
the false Church. I'll leave it right there for now.
And the Bible says, of the judgment of the great
horror that sitteth upon many waters, with whom the kings
of the earth have committed fornication, and the part of me,
the inhabitants of the earth, have been made drunk with
the wine of her fornication. So not only has God's
people in this have God's people in that context turned
away from God? Not only have God's people, if we
read more of it, try to replace God. The Harlot
Church tried to replace God and remove Jesus from the throne,
remove Jesus as the one mediator between God and man,
to seek to also change times in the law of God, etc.
But the Bible says that this Harlot, these people who
were of God, who turned away from God, who now
worship other Gods and themselves desire to be worshiped as
God in the place of God sitting in the Temple
of God. The Bible says that they are going out
to the world to cause the world to do the
very same thing, to turn their backs on God. And
so the Bible is teaching us in those verses and
also in Revelation chapter eighteen, verses one through four, that
those who do turn away from Him, those who reject
the love that we see in the Hoseah passage where
he in Ezekiel we talked about yesterday where he puts
us banner over us, which is love, and he has
wooed us with the power of the Holy Ghost. And
even sometimes he has chastised us in order to correct us.
Those whom he loves, he rebukes, and he chased. Since
the Bible says that there are some people who will
who will just turn and never come back to God.
There are some people who, through their spiritual pride, will
become in their own mind worthy of worship. They will
cause people who don't worship them that they should die.
And it's like, whoa wait a minute, what went wrong here?
How do we go from being God's people, the apple
of his eye? How do we go from being covered
in his righteousness? How do we go from being those
that have been speaking to him and hearing from him,
those who have been filled with His holy spirit and
been the ones who who are assisting in the transformation
of other people to becoming an ir, a person who
is not able to come back to God. Well, the
Bible does teach us that there comes a point. Because
God is a perfect gentleman, there comes a point when,
if God forbid his people continue to walk away from him,
continue to choose other gods before him, continue to even
esteem ourselves as gods too, that he'll just accept, not
because he wants to, but he'll accept our decision He's
not going to tie us up and put us in
the basement and try to force us to love him.
You see. So God wanted Hoseiah to feel and sense
the reality of what it takes for God to love
people who sometimes don't love him in return. But the
outcome that God desires is that we will repent, that
we will learn how to love God in return. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,