THROUGH THE BIBLE DAILY DEVOTIONS FOR CHILDREN
HOSEA
This book about Prophet Hosea who preached in the northern part of Israel uses the unfaithfulness of Hosea's wife to describe how the people of Israel were unfaithful to God. When people worship idols instead of God, they are like a woman who leaves her husband instead of taking care of him.
DAY 146 ISREAL REPENTS AND GOD FORGIVES HER
Bible Reading - Hosea 14:1-9
God is very happy when we realize we have done something wrong and ask for His forgiveness. He is a loving, merciful father from whom we may be pulled away by our own mistakes and sins. God promised that whenever the people of Israel realized that Assyria and their idols cannot help them and return to Him, He will receive them and love them. The same applies to us today. If we realize our wrong doings and change, God will be pleased with us.
TODAY'S ACTION
Pray for all God’s messengers that as they speak God's Word, our hearts will be touched and we will repent, change our behavior and return to God.
BIBLE QUIZ FOR ALL AGES
HOSEA
28.1 The Word of the Lord came to Hosea, son of --- during the reigns of --- kings of
Judah and --- king of Israel
28.2 The kings of Judah who reigned in the time of Hosea’s writing were Uzziah, Jotham,
--- and ---
28.3 God instructed prophet Hosea to marry a wife who was --- in character
28.4 Prophet Hosea married --- daughter of ---
28.5 The first son and first daughter of Hosea were named --- and ---
28.6 God said that he would not show love to the people of --- but will show love to the
house of ---
28.7 Hosea’s third child was named Lo-Ammi because God said the people of --- were
not his people and he was not their God
28.8 The day that the adulterous woman in Hosea’s description is taken back to her
vineyard, she will --- like in her old days
28.9 --- told prophet Hosea to go and show that he loves his wife the way that he loves ---
28.10 Hosea had to buy back his wife who was to live with her husband without other
lovers just as Israel will be without a ---
28.11 God said when he found Israel, it was like finding --- in the desert
28.12 God was angry with Israel because instead of calling on him in their distress, they ---
on their beds
28.13 When the hilltop shrines where Israel worshipped idols are destroyed, the people will say to the mountains “--- ---“ and to the hills “--- --- ---“
28.14 When Israel was a child, God called him his ---
28.15 God said that because the people of Israel refused to return to him, they must return to ---
28.16 One of God’s accusations against Israel was that when they were hungry he ---- them and when they were satisfied, they became ---
28.17 God promised to ransom Ephraim from the power of the ---
28.18 When God decides to have mercy on Israel, he will be like a --- and Israel will blossom like a ---
28.19 When Israel returns to the Lord, his fragrance will be like the --- of Lebanon
28.20 The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them but the rebellious --- in them
ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY’S QUIZ ON THE BOOK OF HOSEA
28.1 Beeri, 4, Jeroboam
28.2 Ahaz, Hezekiah
28.3 adulterous
28.4 Gomer, Diblaim
28.5 Jezreel, Lo-Ruhamah
28.6 Israel, Judah
28.7 Israel
28.8 sing
28.9 God, Israel
28.10 king
28.11 wailed
28.12 grapes
28.13 “cover us”, “fall on us”
28.14 son
28.15 Egypt
28.16 proud
28.17 grave
28.18 dew, lily
28.19 cedar
28.20 stumble