As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
In Hosea 4 the declaration belongs to the portrayal of the condition of the inhabitants of the land, showing them as increased in number yet increased in sin against God, with their glory to be changed into shame. Its threat was part of Israel's punishment for its ways and deeds in the period before the Assyrian captivity, when instead of glory continuing it would be turned into shame because as Israel increased its sins against God increased.
As those addressed were increased, so they sinned against God, and God would change their glory into shame. Rejection of God's law and of the knowledge of it brings that judgment. The verse applies to growing impiety caused by false shepherds who turn people from God's law to human theories.
It shows that religious leaders and people sin as they increase by trampling God's law and making human laws that they force others to accept. They devise Sunday observance in place of the law instituted in Eden when the world was made, supposing that because the world keeps Sunday and they are few they should obey the land. They are blinded by error and take their words from priests and human lawmakers instead of honoring the living God and His memorial of six-day creation and rest, and their glory will be turned to shame. It serves as a warning relevant to preparation for the coming of the Lord. It applies before the judgment on mystic Babylon.
In Hosea 4 the declaration belongs to the portrayal of the condition of the inhabitants of the land, showing them as increased in number yet increased in sin against God, with their glory to be changed into shame. Its threat was part of Israel's punishment for its ways and deeds in the period before the Assyrian captivity, when instead of glory continuing it would be turned into shame because as Israel increased its sins against God increased.
As those addressed were increased, so they sinned against God, and God would change their glory into shame. Rejection of God's law and of the knowledge of it brings that judgment. The verse applies to growing impiety caused by false shepherds who turn people from God's law to human theories.
It shows that religious leaders and people sin as they increase by trampling God's law and making human laws that they force others to accept. They devise Sunday observance in place of the law instituted in Eden when the world was made, supposing that because the world keeps Sunday and they are few they should obey the land. They are blinded by error and take their words from priests and human lawmakers instead of honoring the living God and His memorial of six-day creation and rest, and their glory will be turned to shame. It serves as a warning relevant to preparation for the coming of the Lord. It applies before the judgment on mystic Babylon.