“God’s Redeeming Love” Lesson Text: Hosea 1-3: Series: The Justice And Love Of God: SS Summer Quarter, 2006 June, July, August:

Key Verse: Hosea 1:10:

King James Translation: “Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where is was said unto them, ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God”

Strong’s Concordance Translation: “YET = duration or continuance, again, repeatedly, more. THE NUMBER = arithmetical, innumerable, narration, certain number. OF THE CHILDREN = relationship, young bullock, whelps. OF ISRAEL = he will rule as God, prevail strong. SHALL BE AS THE SAND = round or whirling particles, to twist or whirl in a circular spiral manner, i.e. to dance, to writhe in pain especially of parturition or fear, figuratively to wait, to pervert. OF THE SEA = to roar, a sea as breaking in noisy surf or large body of water, locally the west or rarely the south. WHICH CANNOT BE MEASURED = to stretch, by implication to measure if by stretching a line, figuratively to be extended, stretch self. NOR NUMBERED = to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. by implication to inscribe, enumerate, intensive to recount, i.e. celebrate, commune, reckon, shew forth, speak, talk. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS = to exist, i.e. be or become, beacon, accomplished. THAT IN THE PLACE = a standing, i.e. a spot, a condition of body and mind, country, room, space, whithersoever. WHERE IT WS SAID UNTO THEM = answer, appoint, avouch, bid, certify, challenge, charge, declare, demand, utter. YE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE = as a congregated unit, specially a tribe, troops, attendants, figuratively a flock. THERE IT SHALL BE SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE THE SONS = as a family. OF THE LIVING GOD = alive, raw flesh, strong, life or living thing.