Though it is God’s right alone to judge the outside world it is the Church’s duty to teach and to uphold His covenant standards within her walls as the Body of Christ. Narrow is the road to salvation and only through Jesus but it is always governed by God’s great love for all His creation.
Gomer’s marital infidelity is a picture of Israel’s idolatry and unfaithfulness to its covenant with God.
infidelity |ˌinfiˈdelitē|
noun (pl. infidelities)
1 the action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse
2 unbelief in a particular religion, especially Christianity.
ORIGIN late Middle English (in the senses ‘lack of faith’ and ‘disloyalty’): from Old French infidelite or Latin infidelitas, from infidelis ‘not faithful’ (see infidel) .
Hosea 1:2
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.”
16 And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.
Deuteronomy 31:16
17 Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do so.
Judges 2:17
13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:13
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