Fire

Hosea 7:3-4,7 - “They delight the king with their wickedness, the princes with their lies. They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises…All of them are hot as an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none of them calls on me.


Hosea 4:2 - There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 10:13-14 - But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many warriors, the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be devastated—as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.

Hosea 3:1

Hosea 4:13

Application:

· Where God is not acknowledged, moral uprightness disappears.
· Am I living a lie? Do I live by lies?
· Have I been unfaithful to God?
· Are my morals eroding?
· I fall when I do not call on the Lord.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV