4. GOD DIVIDED THE NATION BECAUSE
1. His people’s hearts were divided

5. GOD DIVIDED THE NATION BECAUSE
Genesis The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his.

6. GOD DIVIDED THE NATION BECAUSE
Jeremiah 23 5 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.

7. GOD DIVIDED THE NATION BECAUSE
6 In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The Lord Our Righteous Savior.

8. 2. to call them back to obedience and back into relationship with him
GOD DIVIDED THE NATION
2. to call them back to obedience and back into relationship with him

9. GOD DIVIDED THE NATION
3. He sends prophets to the Northern Kingdom to call his people back to obedience.

11. GOD’S MESSENGERS
Elijah

12. GOD’S MESSENGERS
Elisha

13. GOD’S MESSENGERS
Hosea

14. GOD IS SPEAKING
Hosea 1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel: Hosea’s Wife and Children

15. GOD IS SPEAKING
2 When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.”

16. GOD IS SPEAKING
3 So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

17. GOD IS SPEAKING
Hosea 3:1 The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”

18. GOD IS SPEAKING
2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley. 3 Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.”

19. GOD IS SPEAKING
4 For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods.

20. GOD IS SPEAKING
5 Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days.

21. GOD IS SPEAKING
Randy Fraazee says, “Messages of correction almost always fall on deaf ears when we are in times of prosperity and often in depression and recession we are open to hearing the voice of God?”

22. Through His Word Through His Spirit Through Us
GOD IS SPEAKING
Through His Word
Through His Spirit
Through Us

23. GOD IS SPEAKING
What is he saying to YOU?