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Cycle of Nations• From bondage to spiritual faith• From spiritual faith to great courage

• From courage to liberty• From liberty to abundance• From abundance to selfishness

• From selfishness to complacency

• From complacency to apathy

• From apathy to dependency• From dependency back into bondage

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Hosea 770-722 BC *

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750 BC770 BC

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Hosea = salvation

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Hosea “wordle”

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First son ~ 1:4 – Jezreel (God sows)

Daughter ~ 1:6 – Lo -Ruhamah (No mercy)Second son ~ 1:9 – Lo -Ammi (Not My People)

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Hosea 770-722 BC *

Joel770-760 BC *

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Joel= Jehovah is God• Pethuel = Vision of God

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Andrew Fausset ~ "Joel’s style is pure, smooth, rhythmical, periodic, and regular in its parallelisms; strong as Micah, tender as Jeremiah, vivid as Nathan, and sublime as Isaiah."

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Chewing locust = BabyloniansSwarming locust = Medo-Persians

Crawling locust = GreeksConsuming locust = Romans

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Day of the Lord (5x, 19x in OT) = 1007 years

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Hosea 770-722 BC *

Joel770-760 BC *

Amos 760-750 BC

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Amos = Burden

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Amos “wordle”

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Judah

Tekoah

Israel