These past couple of weeks have been pretty eventful and crazy but my learning and understanding of the Old Testament has not stopped. For example this week we started reading about the minor prophets like Hosea, Obidiah, Joel, and Amos. I say minor because they are small books not because they aren't as great as Isaiah or any other prophet. Anyways as I started reading Hosea I got real confused because it said Hosea was commanded by the Lord to marry a prostitute...I thought that's weird. I mean of course the Lord loves every one of His children but it still seemed odd that He commanded a prophet to knowing marry someone who hadn't repented to marry and continue doing the thing she had been doing. After reading in the institute manual I learned that it could be possible that all that Hosea was commanded to do was just a metaphor. A metaphor where Hosea is the Lord and his wife is Israel. I came to understand through this that I don't always understand everything I read in the scriptures and to not always take them at face value (sometimes). Anyways just something to think about during the last couple hours of Easter.
I just want to take a moment to bare my personal testimony that Christ our Savior lives and that just as he resurrected on the 3rd day we too will resurrect and live again with those we love if we follow His example.
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