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Hosea 8 · Grade 5

Forgotten Maker

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Hosea 8 begins with a warning trumpet and an eagle over Yahweh's house, because Israel had broken God's covenant and rebelled against His law. The people still said, My God, we, Israel, acknowledge you! But words of faith could not cover the fact that Israel has cast off that which is good.

Israel's two great failures were kings and idols. They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn't approve. With their silver and gold they made idols, including the calf of Samaria. The workman made it, and it is no God. Idols are made by people; the true God made people.

Then comes the famous farming proverb: For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. Choices grow, and their harvest is larger than the seed. God had given His law, but they treated it as a strange thing, and Israel has forgotten his Maker. In the New Testament, Paul writes that God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap (Galatians 6:7).

Show What You Know

  1. What did the people still say to God?

  2. What were Israel's two great failures?

  3. What is the difference between idols and the true God?

  4. What does the whirlwind proverb teach?

  5. In the New Testament, what does Paul say a man will reap?

Crossword

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Across

  1. they will reap the ____

Down

  1. the many things of my ____
  2. Put the ____ to your lips
  3. For they sow the ____

Think About It

  1. Israel forgot his Maker while building palaces. How can busy lives make people forget God?

  2. Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. How can this encourage you to sow good habits?

Memory Verse

“For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.”

Hosea 8:7 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for Your good law. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Israel cried out that they knew God while breaking His law. Where do your words and actions not match yet?
  • What good things can you plant in others this week?
  • What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?

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