And although it’s easy to lose sight of the grace of God when you read the Old Testament, it’s still there. Kinda like an undercurrent, flowing beneath the more obvious stuff. By Hosea’s time, the people of Israel were completely off the rails as far as their relationship with God. But as you’ll hear in Pastor Dan’s teaching today, even though God said that there was nothing they could do to keep the Assyrians from taking them captive, God showed them that there was hope for their country’s future.