NOTES for Hos 10:1-15
Rebuking the people for the sin of a “divided heart,” Hosea prophesies the coming Assyrian captivity, almost a century before the prophecy was fulfilled! Living not according to the spirit but according to the flesh inevitably means condemnation, a severe sentence at God’s judgment: God will withdraw His protection, and Israel will be left defenseless and put to shame. How often in our own lives the most terrible punishment is simply for “everything to take its natural course,” according to the patterns of this world, according to the “law of sin and death”!