Hosea Chapter 1: Bible Study by Atheists

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[00:01:19] Do you know what we're doing today?

[00:01:21] We are starting a new book of the Bible.

[00:01:24] We are.

[00:01:24] Which is...

[00:01:26] Hosehead!

[00:01:27] What is it?

[00:01:28] Try again.

[00:01:29] Hosea.

[00:01:30] Hosea.

[00:01:30] You were getting it wrong all last week.

[00:01:32] I was calling it Josiah.

[00:01:33] You were calling it anything but Hosea.

[00:01:35] Yeah.

[00:01:36] So we're starting a new book.

[00:01:38] That's amazing.

[00:01:39] Alright, you ready to do this?

[00:01:41] Sure, I fucking am.

[00:01:42] Let's do it.

[00:01:42] Okey dokey.

[00:01:50] Alright, let's get into this book of Hosehead.

[00:01:54] Hosea.

[00:01:55] Hosea.

[00:01:56] Chapter one.

[00:01:57] Yes.

[00:01:57] Alright, but first I thought we could take a look at who the fuck is this guy?

[00:02:02] Okay.

[00:02:03] Is he like Daniel?

[00:02:04] Just some legend?

[00:02:06] Sure, who the fuck is Hosea?

[00:02:07] Is he a real dude?

[00:02:08] I don't know.

[00:02:09] Is he?

[00:02:09] What's the book?

[00:02:10] When was it written?

[00:02:11] Some time.

[00:02:12] Who wrote it?

[00:02:12] It was a while ago, I know.

[00:02:14] See?

[00:02:14] Yeah.

[00:02:15] I don't know anything about this.

[00:02:16] Yeah.

[00:02:16] So Hosea is listed as one of the 12 minor prophets of the Neve'iam, which is the prophet section

[00:02:26] of the Tanakh.

[00:02:27] Got it.

[00:02:27] You know how they split up their books into the Korah and the Kutuvim is the other part.

[00:02:39] The sections, the things, the breakdowns, the places.

[00:02:42] Yeah, I got it.

[00:02:42] So, oh the writings, that's the one.

[00:02:44] I was thinking of like Proverbs and shit.

[00:02:46] Right.

[00:02:47] Yeah.

[00:02:47] And then this one is the prophets.

[00:02:51] Yes.

[00:02:51] Okay.

[00:02:51] Yeah.

[00:02:52] So, but it also is its own book in the, you know, Christian Old Testament.

[00:02:57] Right.

[00:02:57] Which is obviously because we're reading it.

[00:02:58] Yeah.

[00:02:59] So, yeah.

[00:03:00] According to the traditional order of most Hebrew Bibles, it is the first of the

[00:03:07] 12 minor prophets.

[00:03:08] I see.

[00:03:08] Okay.

[00:03:09] We've gotten into the, what I like to call the doomsday preppers, the minor prophets.

[00:03:14] Okay.

[00:03:14] Because they're talking about, you know, future to come and it's bad.

[00:03:17] Got it.

[00:03:18] You know?

[00:03:19] So that's what I called them on my list.

[00:03:21] Doomsday preppers.

[00:03:22] Got it.

[00:03:23] The book is set, oh yeah, and we're going back in time here.

[00:03:26] Oh, okay.

[00:03:27] Because that's fun.

[00:03:28] Yeah, that's good stuff.

[00:03:29] Right.

[00:03:30] The book is set around the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel in the last

[00:03:35] year of the reign of Jeroboam.

[00:03:37] Wow.

[00:03:38] King of Israel.

[00:03:39] Yeah.

[00:03:40] And as such, it denounces the worship of God other than Yahweh.

[00:03:44] I mean that's pretty much consistent.

[00:03:46] Yeah.

[00:03:46] Look for the way through the Bible.

[00:03:47] Exactly.

[00:03:48] Well this one is a gross story that I hate.

[00:03:50] I read like just a quick what's it.

[00:03:53] Okay.

[00:03:53] And I'm like oh, I'm going to hate this.

[00:03:55] Got it.

[00:03:56] Exciting.

[00:03:56] Yeah.

[00:03:57] It uses the story of an unfaithful wife as a metaphor for the people of

[00:04:03] Israel's abandonment of Yahweh.

[00:04:05] So we get to hear all about this fucking whore that she had on her

[00:04:08] goddamn husband.

[00:04:09] They really like using women to...

[00:04:11] Illustrate everything bad?

[00:04:12] Yeah, basically.

[00:04:15] The book dates back to around 760 to 720 BCE.

[00:04:20] Oh, so like I said.

[00:04:21] This is quite old.

[00:04:22] Okay.

[00:04:22] And it's one of the oldest books of the Tanakh.

[00:04:25] Got it.

[00:04:26] Okay.

[00:04:27] It even predates the final recensions of the full Torah, the

[00:04:32] Pentateuch.

[00:04:32] Okay.

[00:04:33] So you know how they changed around stuff, added, took out,

[00:04:37] rescinded.

[00:04:38] Sure.

[00:04:39] Like they sat around the table figuring out what the final copy

[00:04:42] would be.

[00:04:42] Right.

[00:04:43] Yeah.

[00:04:43] This predates that final version.

[00:04:46] Okay.

[00:04:46] Okay.

[00:04:46] All right.

[00:04:47] The book has a long history of formation and transmission

[00:04:52] meaning gathering up the stories, figuring out what the

[00:04:56] story is, and passing it from one person to the next.

[00:05:00] Sure.

[00:05:01] Yeah.

[00:05:01] Much of the material in oral form goes back to Hosea himself.

[00:05:06] So it is a dude.

[00:05:07] Okay.

[00:05:07] Okay.

[00:05:08] Hosea is a guy.

[00:05:09] All right.

[00:05:09] Not like Daniel.

[00:05:10] Got it.

[00:05:11] Okay.

[00:05:12] And the collection of sayings and individual counts was

[00:05:16] probably done in Judah though at a much later date than

[00:05:20] him.

[00:05:20] Got it.

[00:05:21] So whatever.

[00:05:22] All right.

[00:05:23] And he is among the first writing prophets, which...

[00:05:26] So he hypothetically wrote this?

[00:05:28] Or what do you mean by writing prophets?

[00:05:30] Yeah.

[00:05:31] Okay.

[00:05:32] But it depends who you ask.

[00:05:33] Got it.

[00:05:33] It's like everything.

[00:05:34] So, you know, how it be.

[00:05:36] Right.

[00:05:37] Okay.

[00:05:39] He prophesied during a really deeply dark dramatic era of

[00:05:44] Israel's history.

[00:05:45] Okay.

[00:05:45] Because the northern kingdoms decline and fall that

[00:05:49] happened in the 8th century BCE.

[00:05:52] So...

[00:05:52] Okay.

[00:05:52] Like the 700 BCEs.

[00:05:54] Right.

[00:05:54] You know, they were in a shambles like this guy is

[00:05:57] falling, this guy is falling.

[00:05:58] Sure.

[00:05:59] Everybody's trying to get us all the time.

[00:06:01] Right, right.

[00:06:02] And so Hosea was like, this sucks.

[00:06:04] I gotta share my people up.

[00:06:06] The people's abandonment of faith was rampant, like you

[00:06:09] said, but not just then throughout fucking history.

[00:06:12] Sure.

[00:06:12] Having turned away from God in order to serve both

[00:06:16] the calves of Jeroboam and the Canaanite gods Ba'al

[00:06:21] and Asherah.

[00:06:22] Right.

[00:06:23] So they were like, all of this sounds great.

[00:06:26] But then we also talked about how the calves of

[00:06:29] Jeroboam were not necessarily inconsistent or

[00:06:34] incorrect because remember he was just kind of...

[00:06:37] It was a different version of Yahweh basically.

[00:06:39] It was a different sect.

[00:06:40] Yeah.

[00:06:40] So yeah, I just found that...

[00:06:42] Which is, I feel like that was partly what was

[00:06:45] going on with Aaron at the bottom of the mountain

[00:06:47] when Moses went up to the top of the mountain.

[00:06:49] Exactly.

[00:06:49] Because he made a calf then as well.

[00:06:52] Yes, he did.

[00:06:52] So it feels like some of those things were like

[00:06:54] sprinkled throughout and foreshadowing what maybe

[00:06:57] came later as far as these different groups of

[00:07:02] people that worshiped Yahweh.

[00:07:04] Yup, there you go.

[00:07:06] Other sins followed the book claims.

[00:07:10] So it wasn't just that they turned away from

[00:07:11] God and worshiped other gods.

[00:07:13] Right.

[00:07:14] They did a bunch of other shit like homicide,

[00:07:17] perjury, theft and sexual deviation.

[00:07:19] I'm sure they did.

[00:07:21] That they was always fucking in the high places

[00:07:23] and under the tall trees.

[00:07:24] Yeah, right.

[00:07:25] Hosea declares that unless they were pent of these sins

[00:07:28] God will allow their nation to be destroyed

[00:07:31] and the people will be taken into captivity by Assyria,

[00:07:35] the greatest nation of that time.

[00:07:38] Okay.

[00:07:38] So they were always scared of some nation that was big.

[00:07:41] They were.

[00:07:42] But who knows which one it was in any given sense.

[00:07:45] Right, yeah.

[00:07:46] It doesn't...

[00:07:47] This goes back to when we're like,

[00:07:49] God's always killing his own people.

[00:07:51] Always.

[00:07:51] Like there's always something going on.

[00:07:53] Never not be scared if you're the people

[00:07:55] and never not be mad if you're God.

[00:07:58] Right.

[00:07:59] I just feel like, you know,

[00:08:00] if you're gonna believe in this God, right?

[00:08:02] He's a bad fucking manager.

[00:08:04] His people will not get on board with his message.

[00:08:08] No.

[00:08:08] Right?

[00:08:08] So I just feel like he's a piss poor leader.

[00:08:11] Yeah.

[00:08:11] That's what I think.

[00:08:12] I think so too.

[00:08:13] Because the leader is supposed to take responsibility

[00:08:15] for all those who are under him.

[00:08:17] Yeah, I mean he really could have like benefited

[00:08:19] from like the help of Stephen Covey or something, you know?

[00:08:22] Seven.

[00:08:23] What is it?

[00:08:24] Seven habits of highly effective people.

[00:08:26] Effective people.

[00:08:27] Right, yeah.

[00:08:28] I wonder what color his parachute was.

[00:08:30] Oh no.

[00:08:30] Or who moved his cheese.

[00:08:31] Right.

[00:08:32] The prophecy of Hosea centers on God's unending love

[00:08:36] toward a very simple Israel.

[00:08:39] And God's agony over his people's betrayal.

[00:08:43] But only because it looks bad to his neighbors.

[00:08:45] Yeah.

[00:08:46] At least that's what we've discovered.

[00:08:47] Like how could you stop worshiping me and being scared?

[00:08:51] Love me bitches.

[00:08:52] Yeah, yeah.

[00:08:53] We love all the gods.

[00:08:54] Whichever one makes it rain.

[00:08:55] That's the one we love best though.

[00:08:57] Yeah.

[00:08:57] Hosea prophesied over the course of around 66 years.

[00:09:01] From 790 to about 724 BCE.

[00:09:05] Okay.

[00:09:06] And thus he served eight years under the reign of Jeroboam.

[00:09:10] 33 years under the reign of Uzziah.

[00:09:13] The whole reigns of Jotham and Ahaz.

[00:09:16] Remember they were very brief.

[00:09:18] And then three years in the reign of Hezekiah.

[00:09:21] Got it.

[00:09:21] He would not have survived the taking of Samaria, of course.

[00:09:26] Okay.

[00:09:26] Which happened a bit later.

[00:09:27] Okay.

[00:09:29] Hosea's message influenced latter prophets such as Jeremiah.

[00:09:33] Hmm.

[00:09:33] So you know he was one of the major prophets but now we're in the minor prophets.

[00:09:37] Yeah, probably right.

[00:09:38] So with that now we know a little bit more about him.

[00:09:41] Still not enough really.

[00:09:43] Yeah.

[00:09:43] But you know we'll do a.

[00:09:44] I mean how much can you really know about somebody that's like you know almost 3,000 years old.

[00:09:48] Right.

[00:09:49] Like I just wanted to know a little bit more about you know what he was about when he was

[00:09:55] who wrote his book and stuff but I will do a deeper dive of course when we do our book wrap up.

[00:10:00] I mean I think it's enough to say that he was big mad at the way that Israelites were worshiping other gods.

[00:10:05] That's pretty much the.

[00:10:05] He was big mad.

[00:10:06] Yeah.

[00:10:08] Alright so let's read chapter one.

[00:10:09] Ready?

[00:10:10] Yeah.

[00:10:10] Okay.

[00:10:10] The word of the Lord that came to Hosea son of Beery during the reigns of Uzziah Jotham Ahaz

[00:10:18] and Hezekiah kings of Judah.

[00:10:20] And during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jeho Hash king of Israel.

[00:10:26] Okay.

[00:10:27] Okay.

[00:10:27] That was verse one which is basically like just an intro to this.

[00:10:33] Sure.

[00:10:33] Okay.

[00:10:34] When the Lord began to speak through Hosea the Lord said to him go.

[00:10:38] Marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her for like an adulterous wife this land

[00:10:45] is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.

[00:10:48] Why the fuck is he telling his prophet to go do that?

[00:10:51] I don't know.

[00:10:51] Like is that he's trying to have his prophet be an example of what is going wrong in Israel?

[00:10:56] Yeah.

[00:10:57] That's weird.

[00:10:58] Yeah.

[00:10:58] Okay.

[00:10:59] So he married Gomer you know that whore.

[00:11:01] Yeah I guess.

[00:11:02] Daughter of Deblayam and Deblayam.

[00:11:05] Deblayam.

[00:11:05] And she conceived and bore him a son.

[00:11:09] Then the Lord said to Hosea call him Jezreel because I will soon punish the house of Jehu

[00:11:15] for the massacre at Jezreel and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

[00:11:21] Okay.

[00:11:21] In that day continue God I will break Israel's bow in the valley of Jezreel.

[00:11:27] Got it.

[00:11:28] Yeah great.

[00:11:29] Yeah that sounds that exactly what I'm going to name my kid after.

[00:11:33] Didn't they just say that he was showing something about endless love and now he's going to kill

[00:11:36] them all right?

[00:11:37] This is part of his love.

[00:11:39] Oh killing people means love.

[00:11:41] I always wondered how that worked.

[00:11:44] It's like if you research a narcissist online like in the whole medical sense of the word

[00:11:51] yeah it's they love bomb and then they punch you in the face and then they apologize

[00:11:56] and then they say but you had it coming and then they're like well it's fine everybody

[00:12:01] punches and then they're like that never happened what are you fucking talking about you weirdo?

[00:12:05] Sure.

[00:12:06] Why are you exaggerating and then they love bomb some more if they feel like it.

[00:12:08] Got it.

[00:12:09] So he's in his punch you in the eye face.

[00:12:14] Got it.

[00:12:14] Okay yeah.

[00:12:15] Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter.

[00:12:19] If this woman is as much of a whore as they say she is how does he know that it's

[00:12:25] his right?

[00:12:26] Exactly.

[00:12:27] Then the Lord because the Lord just knows these things.

[00:12:29] Oh okay okay.

[00:12:29] He had a pregnancy test.

[00:12:31] Got it.

[00:12:32] And DNA kit.

[00:12:34] Okay.

[00:12:34] Then the Lord said to Hosea call her low Ruhama which means not loved.

[00:12:41] Wow.

[00:12:41] Right?

[00:12:42] That's horrible.

[00:12:43] I know exactly for I will no longer show love to Israel that I should at all forgive

[00:12:49] them yet I will show love to Judah and I will save them not by bow sword or battle

[00:12:57] or by horses and horsemen but I the Lord their God will save them.

[00:13:03] Until he doesn't when they all later not too much later.

[00:13:07] That's why I kind of did that with my voice at the end there to kind of suggest that there's

[00:13:13] a dot dot dot.

[00:13:14] Right.

[00:13:15] Question mark?

[00:13:15] Yeah no it's funny like he just it's whatever he punishes everybody all the time always

[00:13:22] until he doesn't and then he doesn't I guess.

[00:13:24] It's like if you had a kid and you named it fuck you.

[00:13:28] Right.

[00:13:29] Why?

[00:13:30] Stop that's mean don't do that.

[00:13:32] Yeah.

[00:13:33] After she had weaned low Ruhama Gomorrah another son so three babies.

[00:13:39] Okay.

[00:13:39] Then the Lord said call him low on me which means not my people.

[00:13:44] Wow.

[00:13:45] Right.

[00:13:45] Maybe this is the one she had with somebody else.

[00:13:47] But you are not my people and I am not your God.

[00:13:51] Okay.

[00:13:51] Don't you?

[00:13:52] I love you but I'm not your God and you're not my people.

[00:13:56] So but I could go under the a share poll now right?

[00:13:58] Right yeah so fuck off God.

[00:14:00] That's what I was trying to tell you all these years God.

[00:14:02] Yeah.

[00:14:03] Jays yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore which cannot be measured or

[00:14:08] counted in the place where it was said to them you are not my people they will

[00:14:13] be called children of the living God.

[00:14:15] The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together they will appoint one

[00:14:21] leader and will come up out of the land for great will be the day of Jezreel the end.

[00:14:27] Well that still hasn't happened technically because they got conquered by Babylon and Judah

[00:14:33] was still a thing and then the 12 tribes of Israel they are still trying to recover

[00:14:39] them to this day to this day.

[00:14:42] To this day.

[00:14:42] You know I'm just saying like it's not they don't know where the fuck these tribes

[00:14:46] are they don't know what happened to them like it speaks of it as though it's

[00:14:49] going to be this great coming together right?

[00:14:51] Right.

[00:14:52] And there has been no account of a great coming together of the Israelite tribes

[00:14:56] after they were tribes way back in thousands of years ago.

[00:15:00] My dad said they're all there.

[00:15:01] That's bullshit.

[00:15:02] My dad said they're all there.

[00:15:03] Well your dad's full of shit.

[00:15:05] I mean.

[00:15:05] With regard to that.

[00:15:06] Yeah.

[00:15:07] I don't know how you can say that with any authority.

[00:15:10] He read the Bible.

[00:15:12] Okay.

[00:15:13] So that was the end of that chapter but I took some notes and I wanted to tell

[00:15:17] you a few things as I went through chapter one.

[00:15:21] Sure.

[00:15:21] Okay.

[00:15:21] Yeah.

[00:15:22] So my first note I use the swipe thingy to make words on my phone like I don't type

[00:15:29] them in.

[00:15:30] Swipe type.

[00:15:31] I swipe type.

[00:15:31] Yeah.

[00:15:32] Yeah.

[00:15:33] Only sometimes almost always it doesn't guess the word correctly.

[00:15:38] Yeah.

[00:15:38] So I kept trying to type in or swipe in Gomer.

[00:15:41] Yeah.

[00:15:42] The first one that came up was Grindr.

[00:15:44] And then King Ginger.

[00:15:46] And I was like okay I gotta save these.

[00:15:49] So I did.

[00:15:50] She was probably not a prostitute when Hosea was told to marry her.

[00:15:55] Okay.

[00:15:56] I don't know how that works when that verse specifically said go marry that promiscuous

[00:16:02] person.

[00:16:02] Yeah.

[00:16:03] Does that mean that she was fucking but not getting money for it?

[00:16:07] That could be maybe.

[00:16:09] Maybe.

[00:16:09] You know that.

[00:16:10] Or maybe they've tried to in years since that was written try to tame that down

[00:16:15] some.

[00:16:16] Right.

[00:16:16] You know.

[00:16:17] Maybe we should be a little more lenient on women and not hit them quite as much.

[00:16:22] I mean I think you could see that either way.

[00:16:24] Okay.

[00:16:25] Because the Bible is notoriously bad with regard to how it views and talks about women.

[00:16:33] Yeah.

[00:16:34] So I feel like even maybe hundreds of years ago they might have seen stuff like this

[00:16:39] and be like we need to like not say that this is that.

[00:16:42] Right.

[00:16:43] Because that sounds pretty fucking bad.

[00:16:44] It's mean.

[00:16:45] Even in the grand scheme of things of how much bad there is about women in the Bible.

[00:16:49] This one's you know pretty bad.

[00:16:51] Yeah.

[00:16:52] And it's very direct like I'm going to represent the shittiness of Israel with a woman.

[00:16:59] That is what I'm going to do.

[00:17:00] Yeah.

[00:17:01] This woman represents how shitty Israel is.

[00:17:03] Exactly.

[00:17:04] Wow.

[00:17:05] Okay.

[00:17:05] Yeah.

[00:17:06] That's fucked up.

[00:17:08] So some of the notes that I took from various sources said that in recording the story this

[00:17:14] is Hosea looking back over the events that happened and he's recalling that the woman whom

[00:17:21] he married and who bore him children became a prostitute.

[00:17:25] Whoa.

[00:17:26] Became one, huh?

[00:17:27] I guess.

[00:17:28] Wow.

[00:17:29] Yeah.

[00:17:29] I don't know.

[00:17:29] That's interesting.

[00:17:30] I haven't.

[00:17:31] I want to hear that story.

[00:17:32] Right.

[00:17:32] Yeah.

[00:17:33] I have not gone.

[00:17:35] Apparently Hosea was not you know not doing his bit.

[00:17:38] I don't know.

[00:17:39] Dang.

[00:17:39] Didn't didn't didn't hold up his end of the bargain maybe.

[00:17:41] Oh my gosh.

[00:17:42] I mean, I don't know.

[00:17:44] Geez.

[00:17:44] He's in love with God you know.

[00:17:46] Okay there are many different reasons that people cheat and it's not all related to sex.

[00:17:51] No but I want to hear the story.

[00:17:52] I do too but I don't know what story we're getting so we'll just have to you know hang in there.

[00:17:57] I'm just saying that sounds like a juicy story.

[00:17:59] I want to hear that story.

[00:18:00] No I agree.

[00:18:01] I do.

[00:18:01] So let's talk about the kids for just a second.

[00:18:04] All right.

[00:18:05] Okay so you know how each of them was named something horrible bad and wrong?

[00:18:08] Yeah.

[00:18:08] Yeah.

[00:18:08] So the first one was intended to put Israel in mind of their unrepented guilt.

[00:18:15] Okay.

[00:18:15] And the acts of cruelty committed in their palace of Jezreel.

[00:18:19] It just occurred to me maybe she got rid of him because of what he made her name their

[00:18:25] kids.

[00:18:25] That could be.

[00:18:26] Just saying.

[00:18:26] That could be and the only way to support herself was prostitution.

[00:18:29] Sure.

[00:18:29] Yeah.

[00:18:29] So she wasn't promiscuous.

[00:18:31] She was a woman on hard times trying to support her kids.

[00:18:34] I like that.

[00:18:36] Right.

[00:18:36] So this particular name with the first child and the prophecy foretold judgment on the dynasty

[00:18:44] of Jehu to which Jeroboam belonged.

[00:18:47] Okay.

[00:18:48] I don't really.

[00:18:49] Okay.

[00:18:49] It's been a while so I can't remember all this that well but okay.

[00:18:54] So God's appointment of Jehu as king was for the purpose of destroying the wicked family

[00:18:59] of Ahab and Jezrebel.

[00:19:00] But Jehu used it as an opportunity to satisfy his ambition for absolute power.

[00:19:08] I don't I only vaguely remember all that.

[00:19:10] Right.

[00:19:11] And he treacherously destroyed all opponents in a series of brutal massacres.

[00:19:16] Oh.

[00:19:16] But now the dynasty he established would be coming to an end.

[00:19:20] So that's what the first name is supposed to represent.

[00:19:23] All of that.

[00:19:24] Okay.

[00:19:24] All right.

[00:19:25] So the second name was a daughter and that one foretold that God will no longer have pity

[00:19:31] on the northern kingdom but will allow it to suffer the full penalty of its sins.

[00:19:37] So he's like fuck you die.

[00:19:39] It signifies the people of Israel not finding mercy and in consequence of their guilt God's

[00:19:45] rejection.

[00:19:46] I knew God.

[00:19:48] Right.

[00:19:49] However, of course we all know he will not withdraw his mercy from Judah but will

[00:19:54] protect it by his remarkable miraculous power blah blah blah whatever.

[00:20:00] So anyway then the third kid was another son and by that point God was like fuck all y'all

[00:20:06] he no longer recognized Israel as his people and the nation and then later Judah as well

[00:20:12] would be cut off from him and taken into captivity.

[00:20:16] So those are supposed to all be three separate prophecies.

[00:20:19] Got it.

[00:20:20] Okay.

[00:20:20] And then of course despite these judgments God will have pity on Israel and Judah didn't

[00:20:26] you know.

[00:20:26] Of course.

[00:20:27] Yeah.

[00:20:27] Right.

[00:20:28] So he promises to repair the loss to his church by calling in the Gentiles and by uniting

[00:20:34] all the children of God under one head the Messiah in the latter days.

[00:20:39] Did you get any of that?

[00:20:40] I didn't.

[00:20:41] I didn't hear him say that.

[00:20:43] No.

[00:20:43] Yeah, I didn't hear him say those words either.

[00:20:45] No.

[00:20:45] Now I have stuff sprinkled in that's helpful and then I have stuff that is like

[00:20:50] I'm being sarcastic because I got it from an apologist who just decided he was going to

[00:20:55] tell us things that he thought it should mean.

[00:20:56] Yeah, I was going to say that sounds like somebody Christian just kind of tossed that

[00:21:00] in there for their own you know.

[00:21:02] Yeah.

[00:21:02] They wanted that in there.

[00:21:04] Messiah.

[00:21:05] But maybe I'm wrong.

[00:21:06] Maybe I missed a bit.

[00:21:07] Okay well they didn't say that.

[00:21:09] I don't recall that part.

[00:21:10] It didn't say it.

[00:21:11] That's why.

[00:21:11] I know.

[00:21:12] No.

[00:21:13] So that is all I have for this chapter.

[00:21:16] I feel like we're off to a good start even though it's shitty.

[00:21:19] Right.

[00:21:20] It's a story.

[00:21:20] It is.

[00:21:21] It is.

[00:21:21] Which is better than a lot of the older stuff was.

[00:21:24] Yeah.

[00:21:24] So I mean I'm happy about that.

[00:21:25] Yeah and we do want to know what happens next.

[00:21:28] Definitely.

[00:21:29] And you can't always say that about this fucking book.

[00:21:32] No, definitely not.

[00:21:33] So that was Hosea chapter one.

[00:21:36] God damn it I almost said his name wrong again.

[00:21:38] That was indeed Hosea chapter one.

[00:21:42] And we will be back tomorrow with.

[00:21:45] Hosea chapter two.

[00:21:46] Hosea chapter two.

[00:21:48] Yes that one.

[00:21:48] See you then.

[00:21:49] Bye.

[00:22:17] Thanks for watching.