At the start of this section on Hosea, we learned that Hosea is referred to as the “prophet of doom” which was a well earned nickname as most of this book focused on all the ways God was going to destroy the Israelites. Women, children, the elderly, all were to be destroyed. At times there were comments on how God was still a loving god, but for the most part he was a god of death.
Then, in the last chapter, the fourteenth in this book, God decides that he is going to turn his anger away from the Israelites. See, God loves everyone! You just have to survive his constant wrath. Who cares if you lose a spouse or a few children in the process. God’s love is all you need! It boggles my mind how people can read the Bible and think this is a god of love! You can’t kill people, then stop and say, see, I do love you! For fuck’s sake Christians.