Hosea was called by God to love and marry a prostitute. After bringing Gomer in off the streets, she abandoned him, returning to her sinful lifestyle. Hosea pursues her and buys her back. This story shows the lengths we will go to abandon God and the great love He has for us even in our spiritual adultery.

2. The Prophet and the
Prostitute

3. The Prophet and
the Prostitute Hosea was called to love a
prostitute!
When the LORD began to speak
by Hosea, the LORD said to
Hosea: “Go, take yourself a
wife of harlotry and children of
harlotry….” Hosea 1:2a

4. The Prophet and
the Prostitute Hosea 1:2b
“…for the land has committed
great harlotry by departing
from the LORD.” Hosea 1:2b

5. The Prophet and
the Prostitute Ezekiel 16:30-34
30 “How degenerate is your heart!”
says the Lord GOD, “seeing you do all
these things, the deeds of a brazen
harlot. 31 “You erected your shrine at
the head of every road, and built
your high place in every street. Yet
you were not like a harlot, because
you scorned payment.

6. The Prophet and
the Prostitute Ezekiel 16:30-34
32 You are an adulterous wife,
who takes strangers instead of
her husband. 33 Men make
payment to all harlots, but you
made your payments to all your
lovers, and hired them to come
to you from all around for your
harlotry.

7. The Prophet and
the Prostitute Ezekiel 16:30-34
34 You are the opposite of other
women in your harlotry,
because no one solicited you to
be a harlot. In that you gave
payment but no payment was
given you, therefore you are
the opposite.”

8. The Prophet and
the Prostitute The prostitute abandons the
prophet!
For she said, ‘I will go after my
lovers, who give me my bread
and my water, my wool and my
linen, my oil and my drink.’
Hosea 2:5b

9. The Prophet and
the Prostitute Hosea 2:8,9
8 For she did not know that I gave her
grain, new wine, and oil, and
multiplied her silver and gold—
which they prepared for Baal.
9 “Therefore I will return and take
away my grain in its time and My
new wine in its season, and will take
back My wool and My linen, given to
cover her nakedness.

10. The Prophet and
the Prostitute Hosea 2:13
“I will punish her for the days of
the Baals to which she burned
incense. She decked herself with
her earrings and jewelry, and
went after her lovers; but Me she
forgot,” says the LORD.

11. The Prophet and
the Prostitute James 1:17
Every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above, and
comes down from the Father
of lights, with whom there is
no variation or shadow of
turning.

12. The Prophet and
the Prostitute James 4:4
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do
you not know that friendship
with the world is enmity with
God? Whoever therefore wants
to be a friend of the world
makes himself an enemy of
God.

13. The Prophet and
the Prostitute The prophet pursues the
prostitute!
Therefore, behold, I will allure
her, will bring her into the
wilderness, and speak comfort
to her. Hosea 2:14

14. The Prophet and
the Prostitute Hosea 2:15
“I will give her her vineyards from
there, and the Valley of Achor as
a door of hope; she shall sing
there, as in the days of her youth,
as in the day when she came up
from the land of Egypt.”

15. The Prophet and
the Prostitute Hosea 3:1
Then the LORD said to me, “Go
again, love a woman who is loved
by a lover and is committing
adultery, just like the love of the
LORD for the children of Israel,
who look to other gods and love
the raisin cakes of the pagans.”

16. The Prophet and
the Prostitute The prophet redeems the
prostitute!
2 So I bought her for myself for
fifteen shekels of silver, and one and
one-half homers of barley. 3 And I said
to her, “You shall stay with me many
days; you shall not play the harlot,
nor shall you have a man—so, too,
will I be toward you.” Hosea 3:2,3

17. The Prophet and
the Prostitute Hosea 2:16
“And it shall be, in that day,”
says the LORD, “That you will
call Me ‘My Husband,’ and no
longer call Me ‘My Master.’

18. …looking for the blessed hope
and glorious appearing of our
great God and Savior Jesus
Christ, who gave Himself for us,
that He might redeem (buy
back) us from every lawless
deed and purify for Himself His
own special people, zealous for
good works. (Titus 2:13,14)