Hosea builds its entire message around the prophet’s own troubled marriage, using it as a live-action metaphor for Israel’s relationship with God, which is about as uncomfortable a literary device as you’d expect. We worked through all 14 chapters of the metaphor and the message behind it.
You’ll also see 3 episodes marked Dig Deeper below. The show’s format is an unstudied first read, reactions and all, so those episodes are where the hosts go back into a book or chapters they already covered to chase down their own questions and pick up what they missed the first time through. They’re not listener Q&A, just the hosts grading their own homework.
17 episodes (14 read-through + 3 Dig Deeper) • Chapters 1–14 (complete) • Recorded 2024
Every Episode, In Order
- Hosea Chapter 1
- Hosea Chapter 2
- Hosea Chapter 3
- Hosea Chapter 4
- Hosea Chapter 5
- [Dig Deeper] Hosea Chapters 1–5
- Hosea Chapter 6
- Hosea Chapter 7
- Hosea Chapter 8
- Hosea Chapter 9
- Hosea Chapter 10
- [Dig Deeper] Hosea Chapters 6–10
- Hosea Chapter 11
- Hosea Chapter 12
- Hosea Chapter 13
- Hosea Chapter 14
- [Dig Deeper] Hosea Chapters 11–14
Contradictions We Found in Hosea
Here are the contradictions we dug into in Hosea:
- Are we all God's children?
- Did God commend or condemn Jehu?
- Does God help in times of need?
- Does God know and see everything?
- Does God love everyone?
- Has there ever been a just person?
- Is is wrong to have sex outside of marriage?
- Should we fear God?
- Will Ephraim return to Egypt?
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