All Bible readers know that the last 17 books of the Old Testament are known as The Prophetical Books. With the first 5 being The Major Prophets and the last 12 being The Minor Prophets....They are catalog this way because of size not because of importance.....This is the break down of each one.Major Prophets:
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
The Minor Prophets
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
Now with that said I have a question for my Bible readers.....which one of the minor prophets do you find deep, rich and insightful? With little doubt for me it's Hosea! Hosea reminds me of what God have done for us at the Cross when He paid the price of His Son to redeem us from our sins.....Hosea message was one of repentance and it was to the Jews......God told this righteous man to find a prostitute and marry her....Hosea obeyed and God told him to preach this message that Israel was like a prostitute when God chose them as His chosen people..The Jews did not understand what it meant to be chosen....they were arrogant and they thought they were better than other people...So, God sent Hosea to preach to them....but when Hosea returned home from his preaching gig that God had sent him on...he found that his wife had return to her old ways in the streets of selling herself to the highest bidder.....poor Hosea’s heart was broken.....but God told him to preach the message that like his wife the Jews had been unfaithful to Him chasing after other gods....and like Hosea, God’s heart was broken.....then God told Hosea to put his pride aside and go to the city square and bid for his wife when she offered herself for sale..... He was instructed to pay all he had, if necessary, to redeem her from harlotry....she
