Sunday I took my two oldest sons to Family Day at the Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand, Indiana. My Aunt, who is in her 60s, has been part of the community there since she was 18.
It’s pretty cool walking around such a place. I’ve taken my sons to St. Meinrad and we’ve snuck around, but yesterday we had a tour from a lady that has lived in and even had cleaning duty on almost every part of the place except the catwalk on the roof (she said she wants to get up there sometime before she gets too old to climb the stairs or balance up there!)
There were two things that stuck outthe most to my kids, and they really are the coolest things of our day there. The Monastery was built in 1915 (we found the cornerstone) and you can see pictures of that here. As we walked up to the church, we noticed a large circular window on the side, and 4 tiny square statues around it. After a closer look, I noticed that they are the four creatures mentioned in Rev. 4.
Hosea 10?É¬Ø v. 5 The people who live in Samaria fear for the calf-idol of Beth Aven. here Hosea shows that God has renamed Bethel (House of God) to the House of Wickedness. The people are worried about their god being taken away by the Assyrians. Can you imagine their fear? “Oh, I hope they…
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Idol worship in Hosea 8 v.5 ‘Throw out your calf-idol, O Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?’ Israel’s idolatry has made righteousness impossible for them. They can go to the temple and have their feasts and sacrifices, but it does no good-the idols are still in place….
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This study started in Hosea 8Jeremiah 11:13 You have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem. Israel was turned so far from the Lord. He was about to bring affliction…
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Hosea 4-5?É¬Ø 4:6 “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.” The same things is happening today, but it need not be God doing some kind of spiritual cleansing. By simply not knowing Him and disobeying Him, people are pouring judgement on themselves through disease, criminal suffering, starvation as a result of greed, addiction, and…
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Hosea 12:8 in the NRSV says “Ephraim has said, “Ah, I am rich, I have gained wealth for myself; in all of my gain no offense has been found in me that would be sin.” Ephraim knows that he has made himself rich by less than honest means, but none of the means were flat…
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Hosea 14:4 "I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them." All of the rebukes from Hosea to the people and this is how He reassures them in the end. Man o man have we been wayward. So wayward that we cannot even do right if we…
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