1. Hosea 1:10–11 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is the great surprise of chapter 1:10-11?

Hosea 1:10–11 (ESV)

10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”

This: that what you read here is actually impossible. God has left his people. After the adultery, divorce followed. They separate, forever, it seems. And yet, a great surprise, there comes a new opening.