ASIN: B00I0IDGGY
Publisher: Corbett's
Pages: 22
"We are going to get into the books of Hosea
and Joel this evening. Hosea was a native of
the Northern Kingdom. The nation of Israel had
split into two sections: the Northern Kingdom
(the northern ten tribes called Israel) and the
Southern Kingdom called Judah. The nation
had split soon after the death of King Solomon.
At the time we pick up the story, the split
was approximately 130 years downstream. So,
quite a bit of time had transpired. A lot of time
had passed as far as the history of the nation
when Hosea came on the scene.
One of the interesting things to note is that a
whole cluster of prophets (Hosea, Joel, Amos,
Obadiah, Jonah and Micah) all flourish right in
the same general time period. The prophet Isaiah
was in that same general time period. It’s the
greatest cluster of prophets of which we have
any record or evidence. The interesting thing is ...
