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: Saturday, September 19, 2009 8:38 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Sunday September 20 > Day 263 > > Hosea 7-10 (The Message) > > Hosea 7 > Despite All the Signs, Israel Ignores God > 1-2 "Every time I gave Israel a fresh start, wiped the slate clean and got > them going again, > Ephraim soon filled the slate with new sins, > the treachery of Samaria written out in bold print. > Two-faced and double-tongued, > they steal you blind, pick you clean. > It never crosses their mind > that I keep account of their every crime. > They're mud-spattered head to toe with the residue of sin. > I see who they are and what they've done. > 3-7"They entertain the king with their evil circus, > delight the princes with their acrobatic lies. > They're a bunch of overheated adulterers, > like an oven that holds its heat > From the kneading of the dough > to the rising of the bread. > On the royal holiday the princes get drunk > on wine and the frenzy of the mocking mob. > They're like wood stoves, > red-hot with lust. > Through the night their passion is banked; > in the morning it blazes up, flames hungrily licking. > Murderous and volcanic, > they incinerate their rulers. > Their kings fall one by one, > and no one pays any attention to me. > > 8-10"Ephraim mingles with the pagans, dissipating himself. > Ephraim is half-baked. > Strangers suck him dry > but he doesn't even notice. > His hair has turned gray- > he doesn't notice. > Bloated by arrogance, big as a house, > Israel's a public disgrace. > Israel lumbers along oblivious to God, > despite all the signs, ignoring God. > > 11-16"Ephraim is bird-brained, > mindless, clueless, > First chirping after Egypt, > then fluttering after Assyria. > I'll throw my net over them. I'll clip their wings. > I'll teach them to mind me! > Doom! They've run away from home. > Now they're really in trouble! They've defied me. > And I'm supposed to help them > while they feed me a line of lies? > Instead of crying out to me in heartfelt prayer, > they whoop it up in bed with their whores, > Gash themselves bloody in their sex-and-religion orgies, > but turn their backs on me. > I'm the one who gave them good minds and healthy bodies, > and how am I repaid? With evil scheming! > They turn, but not to me- > turn here, then there, like a weather vane. > Their rulers will be cut down, murdered- > just deserts for their mocking blasphemies. > And the final sentence? > Ridicule in the court of world opinion." > > Hosea 8 > Altars for Sinning > 1-3 "Blow the trumpet! Sound the alarm! Vultures are circling over God's > people > Who have broken my covenant > and defied my revelation. > Predictably, Israel cries out, 'My God! We know you!' > But they don't act like it. > Israel will have nothing to do with what's good, > and now the enemy is after them. > 4-10"They crown kings, but without asking me. > They set up princes but don't let me in on it. > Instead, they make idols, using silver and gold, > idols that will be their ruin. > Throw that gold calf-god on the trash heap, Samaria! > I'm seething with anger against that rubbish! > How long before they shape up? > And they're Israelites! > A sculptor made that thing- > it's not God. > That Samaritan calf > will be broken to bits. > Look at them! Planting wind-seeds, > they'll harvest tornadoes. > Wheat with no head > produces no flour. > And even if it did, > strangers would gulp it down. > Israel is swallowed up and spit out. > Among the pagans they're a piece of junk. > They trotted off to Assyria: > Why, even wild donkeys stick to their own kind, > but donkey-Ephraim goes out and pays to get lovers. > Now, because of their whoring life among the pagans, > I'm going to gather them together and confront them. > They're going to reap the consequences soon, > feel what it's like to be oppressed by the big king. > > 11-14"Ephraim has built a lot of altars, > and then uses them for sinning. > Can you believe it? Altars for sinning! > I write out my revelation for them in detail > and they pretend they can't read it. > They offer sacrifices to me > and then they feast on the meat. > God is not pleased! > I'm fed up-I'll keep remembering their guilt. > I'll punish their sins > and send them back to Egypt. > Israel has forgotten his Maker > and gotten busy making palaces. > Judah has gone in for a lot of fortress cities. > I'm sending fire on their cities > to burn down their fortifications." > > Hosea 9 > Starved for God > 1-6 Don't waste your life in wild orgies, Israel. Don't party away your > life with the heathen. > You walk away from your God at the drop of a hat > and like a whore sell yourself promiscuously > at every sex-and-religion party on the street. > All that party food won't fill you up. > You'll end up hungrier than ever. > At this rate you'll not last long in God's land: > Some of you are going to end up bankrupt in Egypt. > Some of you will be disillusioned in Assyria. > As refugees in Egypt and Assyria, > you won't have much chance to worship God- > Sentenced to rations of bread and water, > and your souls polluted by the spirit-dirty air. > You'll be starved for God, > exiled from God's own country. > Will you be homesick for the old Holy Days? > Will you miss festival worship of God? > Be warned! When you escape from the frying pan of disaster, > you'll fall into the fire of Egypt. > Egypt will give you a fine funeral! > What use will all your god-inspired silver be then > as you eke out a living in a field of weeds? > 7-9 Time's up. Doom's at the doorstep. > It's payday! > Did Israel bluster, "The prophet is crazy! > The 'man of the Spirit' is nuts!"? > Think again. Because of your great guilt, > you're in big trouble. > The prophet is looking out for Ephraim, > working under God's orders. > But everyone is trying to trip him up. > He's hated right in God's house, of all places. > The people are going from bad to worse, > rivaling that ancient and unspeakable crime at Gibeah. > God's keeping track of their guilt. > He'll make them pay for their sins. > > They Took to Sin Like a Pig to Filth > 10-13 "Long ago when I came upon Israel, > it was like finding grapes out in the desert. > When I found your ancestors, it was like finding > a fig tree bearing fruit for the first time. > But when they arrived at Baal-peor, that pagan shrine, > they took to sin like a pig to filth, > wallowing in the mud with their newfound friends. > Ephraim is fickle and scattered, like a flock of blackbirds, > their beauty dissipated in confusion and clamor, > Frenetic and noisy, frigid and barren, > and nothing to show for it-neither conception nor childbirth. > Even if they did give birth, I'd declare them > unfit parents and take away their children! > Yes indeed-a black day for them > when I turn my back and walk off! > I see Ephraim letting his children run wild. > He might just as well take them and kill them outright!" > 14Give it to them, God! But what? > Give them a dried-up womb and shriveled breasts. > > 15-16"All their evil came out into the open > at the pagan shrine at Gilgal. Oh, how I hated them there! > Because of their evil practices, > I'll kick them off my land. > I'm wasting no more love on them. > Their leaders are a bunch of rebellious adolescents. > Ephraim is hit hard- > roots withered, no more fruit. > Even if by some miracle they had children, > the dear babies wouldn't live-I'd make sure of that!" > > 17My God has washed his hands of them. > They wouldn't listen. > They're doomed to be wanderers, > vagabonds among the godless nations. > > Hosea 10 > You Thought You Could Do It All on Your Own > 1-2 Israel was once a lush vine, bountiful in grapes. > The more lavish the harvest, > the more promiscuous the worship. > The more money they got, > the more they squandered on gods-in-their-own-image. > Their sweet smiles are sheer lies. > They're guilty as sin. > God will smash their worship shrines, > pulverize their god-images. > 3-4They go around saying, > "Who needs a king? > We couldn't care less about God, > so why bother with a king? > What difference would he make?" > They talk big, > lie through their teeth, > make deals. > But their high-sounding words > turn out to be empty words, litter in the gutters. > > 5-6The people of Samaria travel over to Crime City > to worship the golden calf-god. > They go all out, prancing and hollering, > taken in by their showmen priests. > They act so important around the calf-god, > but are oblivious to the sham, the shame. > They have plans to take it to Assyria, > present it as a gift to the great king. > And so Ephraim makes a fool of himself, > disgraces Israel with his stupid idols. > > 7-8Samaria is history. Its king > is a dead branch floating down the river. > Israel's favorite sin centers > will all be torn down. > Thistles and crabgrass > will decorate their ruined altars. > Then they'll say to the mountains, "Bury us!" > and to the hills, "Fall on us!" > > 9-10You got your start in sin at Gibeah- > that ancient, unspeakable, shocking sin- > And you've been at it ever since. > And Gibeah will mark the end of it > in a war to end all the sinning. > I'll come to teach them a lesson. > Nations will gang up on them, > Making them learn the hard way > the sum of Gibeah plus Gibeah. > > 11-15Ephraim was a trained heifer > that loved to thresh. > Passing by and seeing her strong, sleek neck, > I wanted to harness Ephraim, > Put Ephraim to work in the fields- > Judah plowing, Jacob harrowing: > Sow righteousness, > reap love. > It's time to till the ready earth, > it's time to dig in with God, > Until he arrives > with righteousness ripe for harvest. > But instead you plowed wicked ways, > reaped a crop of evil and ate a salad of lies. > You thought you could do it all on your own, > flush with weapons and manpower. > But the volcano of war will erupt among your people. > All your defense posts will be leveled > As viciously as king Shalman > leveled the town of Beth-arba, > When mothers and their babies > were smashed on the rocks. > That's what's ahead for you, you so-called people of God, > because of your off-the-charts evil. > Some morning you're going to wake up > and find Israel, king and kingdom, a blank-nothing. > > > > > > > ~~~~~ > 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. 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