O. Addison Gethers
e-mail address [email protected] [email protected] twitter URL http//:twitter.com/OAddisonGethers Messenger contact window live/msn messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS rs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 10:39 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Saturday September 19 > Day 262 > > Hosea 4-6 (The Message) > > Hosea 4 > No One Is Faithful > 1-3 Attention all Israelites! God's Message! > God indicts the whole population: "No one is faithful. No one loves. > No one knows the first thing about God. > All this cussing and lying and killing, theft and loose sex, > sheer anarchy, one murder after another! > And because of all this, the very land itself weeps > and everything in it is grief-stricken- > animals in the fields and birds on the wing, > even the fish in the sea are listless, lifeless. > > 4-10 "But don't look for someone to blame. > No finger pointing! > You, priest, are the one in the dock. > You stumble around in broad daylight, > And then the prophets take over and stumble all night. > Your mother is as bad as you. > My people are ruined > because they don't know what's right or true. > Because you've turned your back on knowledge, > I've turned my back on you priests. > Because you refuse to recognize the revelation of God, > I'm no longer recognizing your children. > The more priests, the more sin. > They traded in their glory for shame. > They pig out on my people's sins. > They can't wait for the latest in evil. > The result: You can't tell the people from the priests, > the priests from the people. > I'm on my way to make them both pay > and take the consequences of the bad lives they've lived. > They'll eat and be as hungry as ever, > have sex and get no satisfaction. > They walked out on me, their God, > for a life of rutting with whores. > > They Make a Picnic Out of Religion > 11-14 "Wine and whiskey > leave my people in a stupor. > They ask questions of a dead tree, > expect answers from a sturdy walking stick. > Drunk on sex, they can't find their way home. > They've replaced their God with their genitals. > They worship on the tops of mountains, > make a picnic out of religion. > Under the oaks and elms on the hills > they stretch out and take it easy. > Before you know it, your daughters are whores > and the wives of your sons are sleeping around. > But I'm not going after your whoring daughters > or the adulterous wives of your sons. > It's the men who pick up the whores that I'm after, > the men who worship at the holy whorehouses- > a stupid people, ruined by whores! > 15-19 "You've ruined your own life, Israel- > but don't drag Judah down with you! > Don't go to the sex shrine at Gilgal, > don't go to that sin city Bethel, > Don't go around saying 'God bless you' and not mean it, > taking God's name in vain. > Israel is stubborn as a mule. > How can God lead him like a lamb to open pasture? > Ephraim is addicted to idols. > Let him go. > When the beer runs out, > it's sex, sex, and more sex. > Bold and sordid debauchery- > how they love it! > The whirlwind has them in its clutches. > Their sex-worship leaves them finally impotent." > > Hosea 5 > They Wouldn't Recognize God If They Saw Him > 1-2 "Listen to this, priests! Attention, people of Israel! > Royal family-all ears! > You're in charge of justice around here. > But what have you done? Exploited people at Mizpah, > ripped them off on Tabor, > Victimized them at Shittim. > I'm going to punish the lot of you. > 3-4"I know you, Ephraim, inside and out. > Yes, Israel, I see right through you! > Ephraim, you've played your sex-and-religion games long enough. > All Israel is thoroughly polluted. > They couldn't turn to God if they wanted to. > Their evil life is a bad habit. > Every breath they take is a whore's breath. > They wouldn't recognize God if they saw me. > > 5-7"Bloated by arrogance, big as a house, > they're a public disgrace, > The lot of them-Israel, Ephraim, Judah- > lurching and weaving down their guilty streets. > When they decide to get their lives together > and go off looking for God once again, > They'll find it's too late. > I, God, will be long gone. > They've played fast and loose with me for too long, > filling the country with their bastard offspring. > A plague of locusts will > devastate their violated land. > > 8-9"Blow the ram's horn shofar in Gibeah, > the bugle in Ramah! > Signal the invasion of Sin City! > Scare the daylights out of Benjamin! > Ephraim will be left wasted, > a lifeless moonscape. > I'm telling it straight, the unvarnished truth, > to the tribes of Israel. > > 10"Israel's rulers are crooks and thieves, > cheating the people of their land, > And I'm angry, good and angry. > Every inch of their bodies is going to feel my anger. > > 11-12"Brutal Ephraim is himself brutalized- > a taste of his own medicine! > He was so determined > to do it his own worthless way. > Therefore I'm pus to Ephraim, > dry rot in the house of Judah. > > 13"When Ephraim saw he was sick > and Judah saw his pus-filled sores, > Ephraim went running to Assyria, > went for help to the big king. > But he can't heal you. > He can't cure your oozing sores. > > 14-15"I'm a grizzly charging Ephraim, > a grizzly with cubs charging Judah. > I'll rip them to pieces-yes, I will! > No one can stop me now. > I'll drag them off. > No one can help them. > Then I'll go back to where I came from > until they come to their senses. > When they finally hit rock bottom, > maybe they'll come looking for me." > > Hosea 6 > Gangs of Priests Assaulting Worshipers > 1-3 "Come on, let's go back to God. He hurt us, but he'll heal us. > He hit us hard, > but he'll put us right again. > In a couple of days we'll feel better. > By the third day he'll have made us brand-new, > Alive and on our feet, > fit to face him. > We're ready to study God, > eager for God-knowledge. > As sure as dawn breaks, > so sure is his daily arrival. > He comes as rain comes, > as spring rain refreshing the ground." > 4-7 "What am I to do with you, Ephraim? > What do I make of you, Judah? > Your declarations of love last no longer > than morning mist and predawn dew. > That's why I use prophets to shake you to attention, > why my words cut you to the quick: > To wake you up to my judgment > blazing like light. > I'm after love that lasts, not more religion. > I want you to know God, not go to more prayer meetings. > You broke the covenant-just like Adam! > You broke faith with me-ungrateful wretches! > > 8-9"Gilead has become Crime City- > blood on the sidewalks, blood on the streets. > It used to be robbers who mugged pedestrians. > Now it's gangs of priests > Assaulting worshipers on their way to Shechem. > Nothing is sacred to them. > > 10"I saw a shocking thing in the country of Israel: > Ephraim worshiping in a religious whorehouse, > and Israel in the mud right there with him. > > 11"You're as bad as the worst of them, Judah. > You've been sowing wild oats. Now it's harvest time." > > > > > > > ~~~~~ > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > Also, follow my tweets on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/Donnie1261 > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dbilg?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
