HOSEA 4;4-10 LIKE PRIESTS' LIKE PEOPLE

HOSEA. 4; 4-10 ALL ISRAEL WAS GUILTY BEFORE GOD. WHEN GOD SENT THEM PRIESTS TO REVEAL HIS WILL,THEY ONLY ARGUED WITH THEM(4;4) THEREFORE THEY WOULD ""STUMBLE "" EVEN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT (4;5) BECAUSE THEY HAD WILLFULLY REJECTED KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, HE HE WOULD REJECT THEM AS HIS WITNESSES TO THE WORLD (4;6 ALSO SEE ISA. 43; 8-13)BOTH LAY PEOPLE AND PRIESTS HAD BECOME HOPELESSLY CORRUPT,FEEDING OFF EACH OTHER'S SIN, GOD WOULD BRING THEIR FALSE RELIGION TO NAUGHT(4; 7-10) HUMANITY'S PROBLEM IS NOT A LACK OF INFORMATION ABOUT GOD BUT WILLFUL REJECTION OF THE ABUNDANT INFORMATION AVAILABLE. JUST AS BOTH PEOPLE AND PRIEST ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER'S SINS IN HOSEA'S TIME, CHURCHES TODAY OFTEN CALL PASTORS WHO WILL BE LIKE THEM RATHER THAN HELP THEM TO BE LIKE GOD. +++ HOSEA 4;11-19 IDOLATRY, INTOXICATION, IMMORALITY; SUBSTITUTES FOR TRUTH, BECAUSE ISRAEL HAD STRAYED FROM IT'S TRUE GOD(4;12) IT HAD BECOME INVOLVED IN IDOLATRY, DRUKENNESS,AND DEPRAVED SEXUAL SINS, ISRAEL (""EPHRAIM"" 13'12) WAS BEYOND HOPE AND SHOULD BE LEFT ALONE (COMPARE EXPO. ON JER. 7;16-27) ( THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH WERE WARNED AGAINST ASSOCIATING WITH THEIR NORTHEREN RELATIVES (4;15) ISRAEL'S DECISION TO REJECT GOD WAS FUTILE AND WOULD ULTIMATELY BRING JUDGEMENT(4;19) THOSE WHO REJECT GOD ALWAYS SEEK A SUBSTITUTE TO FILL THE RESULTING VOID).+++(HOSEA 5;1-7 THOUGH ISRAEL' AND IT'S LEADERS HAD NOT IGNORED GOD, THEIR SPIRITUAL DEFECTION AND ADULTERY DID NOT ESCAPE GOD'S NOTICE . TRY AS THEY MIGHT TO HIDE THEIR TRUE CONDITION,GOD SAW THEM FOR WHAT THEY WERE (5;1-3)(THEY WERE ENSLAVED BY THEIR SINS (5;4-5)JUDAH SHARED IN ISRAEL'S SIN AND WOULD ALSO SHARE IN IT'S JUDGEMENT (5;5) WHEN THEY CAME TO THE END OF THEMSELVES AND FINALLY SOUGHT G OD WITH THEIR RELIGIOUS FORMALITY, THEY THEY WOULD NOT FIND HIM, FOR HE WOULD HAVE WITHDRAWN HIMSELF FROM THEM(5;6) PRAISE GOD. MAY THE LORD KEEP YOU AND PROTECT YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS, HAPPY' HOLIDAYS' TO ALL WHO DO THIS' AND BE HAPPY TO THOSE WHO DON'T RESPECT EACH OTHER, AND HELP EACH OTHER TO GOD THE GLORY FOREVER AMEN, SERVANTGODGIVETH