Agricultural Image

Let us muse today from Hosea 9:10-10:10 and the agricultural image. God in this text reviews His relationship with Israel with a gardening image. God first saw them in 9:10 as grapes in the wilderness and a ripe bearing fig tree. God planted this nation in a special land and they polluted it with the worship of false religion. In 10:1 she became a fuitless vine and in 10:4 they became a field of weeds. In 10: 12 He gave them a space to repent and they repented not. In 722 BC God used the Assyrian army to cause the 10 tribes to vanish as a nation. Let us take warning, righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people and blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.