The Whoredom of Israel

Have you ever been called a whore? I know I haven’t. I can’t even recall myself even calling someone a whore. I have heard other people call somebody else a whore. The word itself just has such a horrible connotation anyway! You might as well call someone a bitch and get it over with. Either way, shivers where just sent up your spin with either word.
So what is a whore? The ESV Study Bible says that a whore “refers to a married woman being unfaithful to her husband.” Is that really a whore? Is that what you think when you hear that word? I just posted this on facebook and people were completely take aback as to why I was asking the question. And that is my point it is such a horrible word that we don’t even want to see it, hear, or say it. Yet in Hosea 1:2-3 God tells Hosea to “take to yourself a wife of whoredom…Gomer”
Would you want to marry a whore? Imagine the diseases that she/he could have. Or maybe they have a past with people that they would always be trying to hurt her/him. And on top of this, when you have a kid, God tells you name him Jezreel prophesying that He is going to put an end to everything that you have known. WOW! Thanks God!
But this was the drastic move that God needed to make so that Israel got the point. Israel how whored themselves out to idols and following their own ways that because of their forsaking God, He was going to lay them side. Harsh I know. Being called a whore IS harsh. But when God says you’re a whore…you’re a whore. Dirty, disgusting, gross…That’s you and me.
John 8 tells of a story about a woman caught in the act of the adultery and she was brought out to be stoned. Where was the man in this story who knows but imagine this woman, bare naked in front of everyone. She has been caught and I am sure she feels guilty and embarrassed for what had happened and was happening. By the Jewish law they could stone her for this but Jesus calls them out on their own sin. After the dust settled all that was left was Jesus and this naked woman and Jesus says, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.” You know we are just like the woman. When we are placed at the feet of Jesus all we are left with is our nakedness and our sin. Everything is exposed! Can you say, like the woman, you aren’t condemn?!

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