Hosea 1:2

Hosea the prophet....Like others before and after him, Hosea discovered that being a prophet had its occupational hazards. The Lord sometimes required His prophets to perform difficult and even humiliating object lessons to complement their messages. 


God will do anything it takes to make us understand that even though we are unfaithful HE never is. 


Return to the One who loves you most!!!! 


Gomer may have been a common prostitute at the time Hosea married her, or perhaps she had participated in a ritual sexual act as part of the Baal cult. However, it is more likely that the descriptive phrase anticipates what Gomer would become following her marriage to Hosea. 


If Gomer was a prostitute when she married Hosea, this could refer to children that Gomer already had and that Hosea adopted at the time of marriage. A more likely possibility is that the title anticipates children born to a mother whose reputation and escapades would make their lineage suspect. 


Gomer’s marital infidelity is a picture of Israel’s idolatry and unfaithfulness to its covenant with God.


 Hosea 1:2 


 When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea:


 "Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry And children of harlotry, For the land has committed great harlotry By departing from the Lord.”