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Weekly Guide：2024-2025 Week 66
April 06, 2025
Week 66 Day 1: The Promiscuous People ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did Israel commit sin?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- Hosea showed his love to his wife again.
- Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God.
- There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. Therefore, the land dries up and all who live in it waste away.
- People are destroyed from lack of knowledge.
- Prostitution, old wine and new wine take away their understanding. They are led astray and unfaithful to their God.
- Though you, Israel, commit adultery, do not let Judah become guilty.
- Judgment will come to Israel.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - The Israelites are stubborn, like a stubborn heifer. However, the Lord would pasture them like lambs in a meadow. The Lord is our shepherd, only He can give us our true identity and true relationship with Him. Am I in the meadow like His lambs?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 66 Day 2: Tribe of Ephraim ⇧ ⇩
Question
What happened to the Ephraim?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of reckoning. For God will be like a lion to tear Ephraim to pieces and go away.
- Then God will return to His lair until they have borne their guilt and seek His face.
- Urge Israelites to return to the Lord so that they may live in His presence.
- The Lord said Ephraim’s love is like the morning mist.
- The sins of Ephraim are exposed and the crimes of Samaria revealed.
- Ephraim mixes with the nations and Israel’s arrogance testifies against him.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - The Lord awakes me and lifts me up. We must endeavor to know the Lord. How may I know Him deeper?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 66 Day 3: The Covenant Broken ⇧ ⇩
Question
How was Daniel different?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- An eagle is over the house of the Lord because the people have broken the Lord’s covenant and rebelled against His law.
- With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction. Samaria, throw out your calf-idol! The Lord’s anger burns against them.
- Israel has forgotten their Maker and built palaces; But God will send fire on their cities that will consume their fortresses.
- Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people. They will not remain in the Lord’s land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity - Israel has forgotten their Maker and built palaces; But God will send fire. Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. For things I build, do I lean on God or by my own effort?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 66 Day 4: The Withered Root ⇧ ⇩
Question
Ephraim is blighted for what reason?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- Ephraim is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit.
- Israel was a spreading vine; he brought forth fruit for himself. Their heart is deceitful. The Lord will demolish their altars and destroy their sacred stones.
- They make many promises, take false oaths and make agreements; therefore lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.
- Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity - The Lord wants us to sow righteousness for ourselves so we may reap the fruit of unfailing love. It is now the time to seek the Lord. Am I treating others and myself with justice? Do I do everything by seeking the Lord?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 66 Day 5: Ties of Love ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did God lead Israel with the cord of human kindness and ties of love?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- When Israel was a child, God loved him, and called him out of Egypt.
- But the more they were called, the more they went away from God. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.
- A sword will flash in their cities; it will devour their false prophets and put an end to their plans.
- They will follow the Lord; He will roar like a lion. When he roars, His children will come trembling from the west.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - God taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms, led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. To them He was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek and bent down to feed them. How does this help me to see and understand God’s love?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 66 Day 6: Lies and Violence ⇧ ⇮
Question
What sins did Ephraim commit?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- Ephraim pursues multiplies lies and violence. He makes a treaty with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
- The Lord has a charge to bring against Judah; he will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.
- Ephraim has aroused his bitter anger; his Lord will leave on him the guilt of his bloodshed.
- Ephraim became guilty of Baal worship. Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver.
- When God fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot God.
- The guilt of Ephraim is stored up, his sins are kept on record. His storehouse will be plundered of all its treasures.
- Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - The Israelites were satisfied when God fed them; when they were satisfied, the became proud; then they forgot God. By whom are we fed? Do I give thanks to God or am I proud of my own success?