“The people of Israel mingle with godless foreigners, making themselves as worthless as a half-baked cake!"  Hosea 7:8 Have you ever eaten a half-baked cake? The first cake I ever made as a girl was half-baked.  Opening the oven door, it was a beautiful thing to behold.  The top was a light golden brown color and it had puffed up nicely in the center.  I was just sure it would be perfect.  I allowed it to cool a bit and noticed the nice round puffiness had been replaced with a sunken middle.  Then, when turning it out of the pan and onto a serving plate, the cake completely fell apart into a mess of crumbs and batter. Seeing my disaster and disappointment, my mother lovingly instructed me about cakes and cake baking.  She said you can't really tell if a cake is done just by looking at the outside.  You must insert a toothpick in the middle to test it.  If the toothpick comes out clean, with no batter on it, then the cake is done.  If the...