Hosea for Today and Tomorrow #1
To the Wise
Most people reading the book of Hosea will see some literal events in the life and days of Hosea, and will dismiss this book of prophecy as "for some ages past" and of little relevant use to us today, except in noting that God does not like sin. Hummmm .... have we not already seen from the books of Moses that God does not like sin, so no big revelation per se to find it is so even in a much later book like Hosea. Many may not even get to the last verse of Hosea, dismissing it as of little importance and just some old history of an old Israel way back in the 760s B.C. before they were eventually deported to Assyria from 745 to 718 B.C. But before you put away the book of Hosea will you not take a look at the last verse. "WHO IS WISE, AND HE SHALL UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS. PRUDENT AND HE SHALL KNOW THEM. FOR THE WAYS OF THE LORD ARE RIGHT, AND THE JUST SHALL WALK IN THEM: BUT THE TRANSGRESSORS SHALL FALL." Jeremiah we saw in chapter 30 of his book, was to WRITE DOWN THE PROPHECY, FOR IT WAS TO BE REPLAYED WAY DOWN THE ROAD, EVEN AT THE TIME OF THE END, WHEN ONCE MORE GOD WOULD DELIVER ISRAEL AND JUDAH FROM THE LANDS OF THEIR ENEMIES, BRING THEM BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND, WHERE THEY WOULD SERVE DAVID RAISED UP TO THEM AND THE LORD GOD. HOSEA HAS A MESSAGE FOR MODERN ISRAEL AND FOR THE GREAT TRIBE OF EPHRAIM - THE CELTIC-ANGLO-SAXON BRITISH COMMONWEALTH!! ONCE MORE I TELL YOU THAT YOU NEED TO PROVE WHO THE PEOPLES OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL ARE TODAY. YOU HAVE NO BETTER WEBSITE THAN THE YEARS OF RESEARCH WORK DONE ON THE .... BRITAM.ORG Website. Hosea Taught It is generally agreed that Hosea gave his prophecies from about 760 to near the end of that century, probably shortly before the final deportation of Israel to Assyria in 718 B.C. CHAPTERS 1 TO 4 The prophecies concern the House of Israel in the land of Samaria. God tells Hosea to take a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms. This does NOT mean Hosea's wife was a prostitute. It means as it goes on to say that the LAND HAS COMMITTED WHOREDOMS, hence all in the land to God were men and women of whoredoms. Hosea went and took Gomer as wife. She bare him a son. The son was to be called Jezreel meaning "judgment on Jehu" for the massacre at Jezreel (2 Kings 10:11). The judment was fulfilled in Zechariah, the last of Jehu's dynasty as decreed in 2 Kings 10:30 9see 2 Kings 15:8-12). The house of Israel is to come to an end. Another child is born - a daughter this time, named Lo- Ruhamah - meaning "unpitied" - signifies the end of mercy to the house of Israel. Yet notice verse 7, JUDAH ... will be shown mercy! So it was in the 7th century B.C. Judah did not go into the Assyrian captivity, not as a whole people that is, some indeed were taken captive by Assyria, but the kingdom of Judah held fast. NOW NOTICE chapter 5:5 where we are told: "And the pride of Israel does testify to his face; therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity, AND JUDAH SHALL FALL WITH THEM!!" Ah, the wise shall understand as God said in the last verse of Hosea. The prophecy of Hosea was written down and became part of the inspired canon of Scripture BECAUSE THERE WILL BE AN END TIME FULFILMENT, WHEN ISRAEL AND JUDAH, STILL TWO SEPARATE PEOPLES AT THE END TIME, WILL ***FALL TOGETHER*** AS WE HAVE SEEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN ISAIAH, JEREMIAH, AND EZEKIEL!! Gomer gave birth to a son (verse 8). He was to be called Lo- Ammi meaning "not my people." But though to be cast off they would again be the children of God, the sons of the living God. And this is where the prophecy steps over to the time of the end of this age. The children of Judah AND the children of Israel would appoint themselves ONE HEAD. IT IS THE SAME PROPHECY AS IN chapter 3. It is the time when the children of Israel will RETURN and SEEK GOD and DAVID their king ... IN THE LATTER DAYS! There it is in plain language ... IN THE LATTER DAYS; the same prophecy as we found in Jeremiah chapters 30 to 33 and in the last chapters of the prophecy of Ezekiel. There is no time in history that any part of Israel has come back or returned to have David their king. There has only ever been one David as king over Israel, there has never been another David after that David. It cannot be referring to the Messiah. It is silly to even think it could refer to the Messiah. Israel has never returned to worship God and also to have the Messiah as their king. There can only be ONE truth to these verses; Israel will return out of captivity at the time of the end of this age, to worship God in the form of Christ Jesus, and to have David RESURRECTED and be their king over them under Christ, and the 12 apostles each ruling a tribe of Israel, just as Jesus in the Gospels promised them! (verses 10-11). This prophecy in Hosea is the same as in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. The context of Hosea's time as this prophecy fits in DOES NOT MATTER, that is the nature of prophecy, it COMES AT YOU KINDA OUT OF THE BLUE. It was the same for many prophecies regarding Christ's FIRST COMING, the very name Immanuel prophecy of Isaiah 7 had a CONTEXT OF THE AGE OF ISAIAH, but it WAS STILL A PROPHECY OF THE CHRIST!! So it was with a number of prophecies of Jesus' first coming, there was a context of something else being discussed, and yet it was also a prophecy to do with the context of Christ's first coming. Prophecy OFTEN works that way, and God has done it so many "unlearned" "unwise" in Bible understanding, will fall and miss the mark; they will just not get it as we say, they ain't in the grove, hence many become false prophets. We have many of them in the fundamental Christianity - they are truly funny-mental when it comes to understanding Bible prophecy correctly. CHAPTER 2 The present Israel of Hosea's days is in analogy here the "mother" who has lost her husband (the Lord God) and will be stripped bare, as in the day she was born, being in Egypt slavery and having nothing when God chose her to be His wife. God will not have any more mercy on her, for she has born children of whoredoms. Israel of Hosea's day has played the harlot. She has said she will go after her "lovers." It is exactly as in Ezekiel - Israel has gone after her lovers, those she thought were in love with her. God will hedge up the way, she will go after her lovers but not really find them, her lovers will be not there to solve her problems. She has forgotten that it was not her lovers that gave her corn and wine and all that is good, IT WAS GOD who gave her those things. And they took all those good blessings and forgot God and went off serving Baal - false religion! This is modern Israel today. This is Britain, her Celyic-Anglo-Saxon commonwealth children and the USA. We have been given BLESSINGS like no other people ever in all history. We have gone after our lovers. We have forgotten our God. We have allowed our physical blessings to take us away to serve false religion, even false Christian religion. God says He will take back our corn, our oil, our wine, our wool, flax and all our blessings, and He will strip us naked. Our sins will be laid bare in front of our lovers. Our lovers will not help us, none can deliver us out of the hand of God's punishment. In fact it is our lovers that will come against us as we have seen in the book of Ezekiel. The Lord will visit upon us the days of Baal, we worship a false god and so death and falseness will be our end. God will do it but for a very important reason. TO BRING US BACK TO HIMSELF! (verses 1-14). When Israel is brought back to God they will call him "Ishi" meaning "my husband" and no more Baali - our false religion will be swept away. In THAT DAY there will be a covenant made with them for the beast of the field, and with the fowl of heaven, and all that creep on the ground, AND God says, "I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie safely. And I will betroth thee unto me for ever, yes, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and you shall KNOW THE LORD!" (verses 16-20). Read those verses again friends. Can it be that they have come to pass? Is there any history of Israel, any history of the Jews (if you still think they are all of Israel) where such a covenant has ever been made between them and God. Has the sword and battle STOPPED on the earth, or even the earth of the Holy Land? Do the Jews (if you think they are all of Israel which they are not, but even if you do) dwell in SAFETY? Have they ever dwelt in safety. Have they been betrothed in RIGHTEOUSNESS, JUDGMENT, LOVINGKINDNESS, IN MERCIES, AND IN FAITHFULNESS? I DO NOT THINK SO, BY ANY STRETCH OF IMAGINATION! The Jews are MAINLY a SECULAR, NONE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE, THEY ARE FAR FROM THIS COVENANT HERE MENTIONED! But this is not for some Jews only. It is for ISRAEL IN THE FUTURE of the NEW AGE TO COME, the age of the Kingdom of God on earth!! "It shall come to pass IN THAT DAY, I will hear, says the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth. And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and they shall hear Jezreel (here meaning "God will sow"). And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that has not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which are not my people, YOU ARE MY PEOPLE, and they shall say, YOU ARE MY GOD" (verses 21-23). There is no way these verses have ever been fulfilled in the completeness as here written. Today the heavens do not hear the earth, why we have GLOBAL WARMING AND A HEAVEN AND EARTH MESS ON OUR HANDS. The Jews (if you think they are all Israel here which they are not) have NOT OBTAINED MERCY, THEY ARE STILL HATED AND MANY FIGHT AGAINST THEM! THIS PROPHECY IS FOR A YET FUTURE TIME - THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH TIME. CHAPTER 3 Hosea is to buy a lover loved of a lover so an adulterous woman. It is a picture of God and Israel. Israel loving lovers but not God, hence a spiritual adulterous woman. So Hosea buys an adulterous woman and tells her she is to abide many days and not play the harlot - she shall not have a man, not even Hosea. It is to illustrate that God says Israel will abide many days without Him as their true love and husband. It is a prophecy for the last days of this age, for verse 5 says, "Afterwards shall the children of Israel RETURN and SEEK the Lord their God, and DAVID their king, and shall FEAR the Lord and His goodness, IN THE LATTER DAYS!" If you believe the Jews to be all Israel and David here as representing the Messiah, then you can see IT HAS NOT YET TAKEN PLACE! The Jews STILL DO NOT ACCEPT JESUS AS THE MESSIAH!
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