Category: Notes On The Minor Prophets by H A Ironside
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 8
By H A Ironside A Vessel Wherein Is No Pleasure God seems almost to exhaust figurative language in describing the unhappy condition of His deluded people, their hearts set on wandering from Him who was their only real good. We have already contemplated them in their wretchedly fallen estate, under the…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 7
By H A Ironside A Cake Not Turned Judgment is God’s strange work. He had no desire to punish the people He had taken into covenant-relation with Himself, but who had violated the covenant from the first. On the other hand, blessing and restoration had ever been offered them, conditioned on…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 6
By H A Ironside What Shall I Do Unto Thee? The opening verses (1 to 3) connect intimately with what we have just been considering, while the balance of the chapter is another appeal to the consciences of Ephraim and Judah. Nothing could be more suited than the expression of these…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 5
By H A Ironside I Will Hide Myself This chapter is replete with searching ministry for the consciences of the people of God in all ages, which we of the present latitudinarian times will do well to lay to heart. It may be part of a single discourse of which the…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 4
By H A Ironside Joined To Idols The statement we have just been considering (that Israel should abide many days without an image or teraphim), seems all the more remarkable when we remember the gross idolatry into which they had fallen at the time when Hosea was divinely called to declare…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 3
By H A Ironside Israel’s Present And Future This chapter, brief as it is, becomes of vast importance if one would understand the ways of God in regard to the earth and the earthly people. It is, one might say, the 11th of Romans of the Old Testament, and, read in…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 2
By H A Ironside The Valley of Achor God’s ways of grace and government are marvelously blended in this first recorded instance of the prophet’s ministry, which follows closely on the promise in the last two verses of the previous chapter. In accordance with the assurance of future restoration and blessing,…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 1
By H A Ironside The Blood Of Jezreel1 Hosea, whose book is the first of the so-called Minor Prophets, was a contemporary of Isaiah throughout almost his entire ministry, as also of Amos in his earlier years. A comparison of the first verses of each of their books with the one…
Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded 