True worship has all but disappeared from the northern tentribe kingdom of israel. And like the book of amos, the book of hosea somehow made its way south to jerusalem where it was copied, edited, and preserved to serve as gods word for future generations. Book titles based on lines from the bible theres a million books based on lines from the bible. I began to memorize individual verses while in the awana program and learned about different bible characters at church and at home. They are short stories about bible characters or events. Fiction favours the facts book 2 is a second collection of 22 microtales from the bible tales newsletter. Just too much detail in the story telling nothing sexual. Often, we do not recognize the derivation of these bible names, but this prophets name would be joseph in english. Based on the book of hosea from the bible, where god told the prophet, hosea to marry the prostitute, gomer go marry a prostitute 4.
Bestselling author francine rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of gomer and hosea in a tale set. Genesis by jeffrey wergin, assassins by tim lahaye, apollyon by tim lahaye, soul harvest. Hoseas wife and children when the lord began to speak through hosea, the lord said to him, go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty. The jews vainly thought to secure the egyptians by a present of the produce of their country. The book is a mixture of prose and poetry mostly poetry. Like amos, hosea was a prophet who was active in the northern kingdom of israel hosea also refers to israel as ephraim and samaria. According to the superscription, hosea began his prophetic activity during the reign of jeroboam ii c. The book of hosea consists of fourteen chapters, which was the record for a minor prophet until zechariah tied it a couple centuries later. Hosea his name meaning to save, salvation is the first of the socalled minor prophets. Its a beautiful love story with themes running through it from the book of hosea in the bible. As a result, the english translations of the book sometimes offer very different readings of the same passage.
Hosea chapter 12 kjv king james version verse 6 is the key verse, and it tells israel to turn to the lord, keep mercy and judgement, and wait on thy god continually. Family fiction christian fiction books, novels, movies. The story is inspired by the book of hosea from the bible. So with that in mind weve pulled out our top ten biblical fiction books to wet your appetite. Gods love for israel, a nation of people more interested in themselves than in gods direction for their lives, shines through clearly against the darkness of their idolatry and injustice hosea 14. This book is loosely based on the bible story of hosea.
A childrens book about the power of words by brandon walden and kristen and kevin howdeshell jun 12, 2018 4. The book of hosea stands first in the division of the bible called the book of the twelve in the apocrypha cf. Hosea 114 niv the word of the lord that came to hosea. The first book in the series, heart of a lion, featured a young noah struggling with a frightening word from god. When god had a message for the people, he gave his message through the prophets. Upon reaching sacramento while looking for work she again meets joseph hochschild, who has built his new store, and she stays with him, knowing that. Adapted from the book of hosea in the bible, we journey with gomer, a harlot lost in her sin until hosea, a prophet of god, offers to marry her and redeem her life from darkness. The first installment of a dark and intense biblical fiction series based on. Come back you have fallen because of your sins, but i love you and will bring you home. Im always a little leary of fiction books that focus this much on s. The book of hosea is the first of the twelve minor prophets. Based on the book of hosea from the bible, where god told the prophet, hosea to marry the prostitute, gomer.
Horrible christian fiction, kidnapping and sex trafficking edition. Jerome specified that one of the divisions of the jews sacred books was the book of the twelve prophets, which evidently included the book of hosea to fill out the number 12. The novel is a retelling of the biblical story of hosea, the prophet called by god to. But of course the real story of this book isnt the story of hosea and gomer, its the story of god and israel. These messages came in visions, oracles, dreams, parables, and the like. The californiabased author francine rivers doesnt travel for speaking. What follows is a period of unrest and political instability. He makes a treaty with assyria and sends olive oil to egypt. In rivers book, michael is aware of the story of hosea and gomer. Ephraim feeds on wind, and pursues the east wind continually. Redeeming love tells the story of one mans faithful obedience to god when he is faced with the difficult command of marrying angel, a picture of gods faithfulness to his often unfaithful people. Return, o israel, to the lord your god, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Book titles based on lines from the bible 195 books. Redeeming love is one of those mustread romances worth reading at least once there are two versions of redeeming love. Highlights from the book of hosea watchtower online library. During the time of the minor prophets, the nation of israel had divided into two separate countries, each with its own government. Moreover, he makes a covenant with assyria, and oil is carried to egypt. I have read mathew 2 15 and hosea 11 it seems that mathew leaves out the first part of the verse. Rowling, the hunger games by suzanne collins, the fault in our stars by john. Throughout the book, hosea pictured the people turning away from the lord and turning toward other gods 4. Israel is the lords bride, but israel has instead joined itself to baal, the false god worshiped in syriapalestine. This paper proposes a formcritical rereading of hosea based upon synchronic literary criteria. One opinion is that the refer ences to judah are from two judaic redactions of the book. Redeeming love, by francine rivers is a historical romance novel set in the 1850s gold rush in california. Hosea has been charged by god with a difficult taskmarry. The book is a retelling of the prophet hosea from the bible.
The princes of judah are like those who move boundary markers. And his name is related to the name joshua, which means salvation. The story of gomer has been performed across the nation, reaching thousands of people with the message of gods faithfulness and love. Love never fails michael hosea and angel quotes from novels, book.
This work of fiction was well researched and written. God sees the sin of his own people, and will reckon with them for it. Redeeming love by francine rivers goodreads share book. Love never fails michael hosea and angel redeeming love. Family fiction is the most comprehensive christian fiction resource providing news, interviews, and information about books, movies, and authors. This book was written based off of the book of hosea in the bible. Although most of the book i did enjoy, it could have been about 100 pages shorter.
Hosea with book summary versebyverse bible commentary. Hosea s life and marriage were used in an analogous way to demonstrate the waywardness of israel and the steadfast, intimately personal love of yhwh. Bible commentaries speculate that this book in the ot may be an allegory about the lord hosea and the rebellious nation of israel gomer. I read redeeming love based on my best friends constant suggestion to do so. Past scholarship generally argues that the book of hosea articulates a message of judgment against israel in three basic parts, hosea. Hoseas love for gomer is only a picture of gods love for israel, because all the while that israel was unfaithful to god, he was providing for them, and they took his blessings and used them for their idol worship. Chapters 1 and 3 are historical narrative of the life and times of hosea, while chapter 2 is poetry. The word of the lord that came to hosea son of beeri during the reigns of uzziah, jotham, ahaz and hezekiah, kings of judah, and during the reign of jeroboam son of jehoash king of israel. A retelling of the biblical love story of gomer and hosea, set against the romantic backdrop of the california gold rush. These twelve prophets are comprised in one single book in the hebrew bible and are called the twelve. The 1997 version is basically the same as the original, but was edited to remove any descriptions of the love scenes and any coarse language to make it suitable for the christian. Nov 01, 20 hoseas book is the first of the minor prophetsthe last 12 books of the old testament. Hosea was a young preacher in the nation of israel, the northern kingdom, and he was a.
The book motivated the reader to read the books of hosea,amos, micah and isaiah one more time. A novel and millions of other books are available for instant. This book helped me understand and relate to them as not books written for another audience. My introduction to the bible began with flannel graphs in sunday school and bedtime stories read by my mom out of an illustrated childrens bible. This retelling of the biblical story of gomer and hosea set during the time of the. I will pour out my rage on them like a torrential flood. His first foray into biblical fiction was the lions of judah series, which revolved around the ancestry of christ. Biblebased fiction the facts of the bible rounded out with imaginative detail to help us recognise the lives and feelings of real people.
A number of scholars, however, contend that the book has a fair number of redactional interpolations. Under the rulership of jeroboam ii, there is material prosperity in israel, but that wanes soon after his death. The book of hosea says that, during hosea s lifetime, the kings of the northern kingdom, their aristocratic supporters, and the priests had led the people away from the law of god, as given in the pentateuch. The amazingly prolific gilbert morris has written everything from science fiction to historical romance. An alternate reading of the book suggests that god had hosea marry another woman besides gomer, with hosea being an example of god and his two wives being an example of both judah and israel. Hoseas primary audience was ephraim another name for the northern kingdom, israel, which is mentioned 35 times in the book. Book of hosea, also spelled osee, the first of 12 old testament books that bear the names of the minor prophets, considered as one book, the twelve, in the jewish canon. Hosea is not referring to jesus, but to the children of israel. While masterpiece was good, i can understand why readers fell in love with redeeming love. Book of hosea overview insight for living ministries. It is not only a story of redeeming love, but unconditional love too. The hebrew of the book of hosea is challenging to translate, possibly because the text is corrupt or because it is written in a nonstandard dialect of hebrew. Without doubt biblical fiction is the most popular genre of christian fiction and its easy to see why with plot twists and a christcentred core, stories based in and around the bible are a winning formula. Israel, the northern country consisting of ten tribes, and judah, the remaining two tribes in the south.
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