Hosea was believed to have lived in the 8th century B.C. The name “Hosea,” means “salvation,” or “He saves,” or “He helps.”
Here is how the Book of Hosea starts:
1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. (Hosea 1:1)
Hosea is shown to have had a difficult time and was told to take harlots as wives. But he also had difficult messages …
The so-called Islamic State killed people today in Yemen:
May 12, 2016
SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s Islamic State affiliate claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing that struck a navy base in the southern port city of Mukalla on Thursday morning, killing at least six troops in a rare IS attack in a city once occupied by its rival militant al-Qaida branch.
There was a military incident related to the British controlled territory of Gibraltar:
May 6, 2016
A Royal Navy patrol boat fired a flare to warn off a Spanish customs vessel that got too close to a US submarine as it approached British Gibraltar territorial waters last month. … the Spanish patrol boat belonged to the Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera…