Hosea for Today and Tomorrow
Chapters 7 to 14
CHAPTER 7 The Corruptions and Wickedness of Israel It is over and over that God lays down the sins of Israel. He makes every effort to warn them, tells them to REPENT so they will not have to go into captivity. But they consider not in their heart to remember their iniquities. It would seem the rulers of Israel just will NOT listen, so their doings are before the face of the Lord. They are like an oven prepared for the baking; they are hot to sin as an oven is to bake. Your judges and leaders are devoured and have fallen. They just do not know how to lead you back onto the right and correct pathway of righteousness. Ephraim Britain is a burnt cake, just rotten and hard as brick to see its wickedness. Outsiders have devoured your once mighty strength of character. They are so proud they cannot find their way back to their God (verses 1-10). My father at age 85 went back to Britain in 2005 with the desire to live the rest of his life back in the small village we came from in south Wales. He was there for one year. He told me on the phone he could not stay there in Britain because of their evil and wickedness and corruption from the top of the head down to the foot. He returned to Canada. Ephraim Britain is like a silly dove God says, she goes to Egypt and the Assyrian (Germany Europe and the Middle East) for help. God says that he will spread His net upon them; He will bring them down as the fowls of heaven; He will correct them just as they have been told. Woe unto you Britain for you have fled from your God. Destruction will come on you because you have transgressed against the Lord. He has blessed you but you have now spoken lies and live in lies. You have NOT cried out to your Maker and God. Even when in deep trouble you did not cry out to Him, but went to Germany Europe to try and help your problems and find prosperity. Oh you turn all right, you move, you change, but NOT in God's direction. You will again be in captivity as in the land of Egypt (verses 11-16). CHAPTER 8 The TRUMPET is to blow! The Lord shall come as an eagle to the prey, FOR you have transgressed the covenant of living with God and have transgressed His LAW. The time will come when you will cry "My God, we know you, help us!" But it will be too late. You people of Israel have rejected what is the right and good way and so the enemy will come to destroy you (verses 1-3). You set up kings, but NOT by me; you have made princes, and God had no part in it. God is NOT IN YOUR POLITICS! Your rulers are not sent from God (verse 4). Many of you thought George Bush was the "man from God" for the leading of the United States 8 year ago (2000 to 2008). But what a MESS the USA is in today as I write this just before another President comes into power. President Bush boy has gone down in history as the most un-popular President since Richard Nixon, and Richard Nixon did not lead the USA into any where near the mess the USA is in today. Your silver and gold has led you to idolatry. Your banking guys have led you to another 1939 CRASH! Now the average tax payer has to bail out Wall Street to the tune of about 1 TRILLION dollars, in this month of September 2008 (verse 4). You have SOWN THE WIND AND YOU WILL REAP THE WHIRL-WIND!! Israel is swallowed up; you will finally be a junky, a vessel worthless around the Gentiles. For you hope in Assyria Germany Europe - Ephraim Britain has hired LOVERS. You will writhe under the burden of the great king of the North, the Europe Roman Empire of the last days. Ephraim, Britain and family, you have made altars to sin, you are the sick nation of the Europe Union. So God will leave you to your sins. He has written and given you the great things of His law, that you once loved, but NOW you count them as a "strange thing" - those teaching of the good and right ways of the Lord are laughed at, ignored, counted as the enemy of freedom and choice. Here in Canada if you call same sex marriage an EVIL and SIN, you are cast as a BIGOT and an enemy of "love" and "social respect" for all peoples whatever they believe or want to practice. God will remember your sins and you will one day return to the slavery of Egypt as in the beginning, when you were delivered under Moses and given the law of God. ISRAEL, you have FORGOTTEN your Maker; you build temples of one religion or another in your lands. JUDAH, you build and multiply your fenced and protected cities; BUT God will send a FIRE UPON your cities and you will be devoured! (verses 7-14). We have seen in other prophecies how Judah is full of sins and corruptions. This September 2008 the leader of the state of Israel has had to resign because of deep corruption in his life, and the new woman leader they say will have a very difficult time to form even a coalition government. Corruption and violence is still a major part of life in Jerusalem and Judah. CHAPTER 9 "REJOICE NOT, O Israel, for joy, as other people; for you have gone a whoring from your God..." The riches of Israel will no longer save you. Ephraim Britain will return to the slavery days of Egypt, and shall eat unclean things in Germany Assyria. Your days of visitation and punishment are coming. Israel, you will know that your prophets are FOOLS, and the spiritual man is MAD, YOU WILL COME TO KNOW YOUR INIQUITIES AND THE GREAT HATRED YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT AGAINST THE LORD AND HIS TRUE WAYS. You and they (your prophets and spiritual men) have DEEPLY CORRUPTED yourselves, so God will remember your iniquities and He will visit you with correction for your sins. As for Ephraim Britain, your GLORY will fly away like a bird, it already has, your days of glory are over. Though you will bring up children, you will loose them, it is woe to you when God finally departs from you. Though Britain you are planted in a very pleasant place (the British Isles are like the garden of Eden in so many ways), you will bring up your children for the MURDERER! God will one day finally take His love from you, you will in effect be driven out of His house, for a while He will love you no more; all your princely leaders are REVOLTERS against the Lord. It is decreed that Ephraim will be mitten, their root to dry up, bearing no fruit. Yes, though they bring forth children the Lord will SLAY even the fruit of the womb. Hosea shouts, "My God will CAST THEM AWAY, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HARKEN UNTO HIM, AND THEY SHALL WANDER AMONG THE NATIONS" (verses 11-17). CHAPTER 10 Israel will be an empty vine, as they increased with fruit they increased their altars to false worship and sin. The goodness of their lands made them more images of sin and corruption. God will come and punish. Israel will one day say, "We have no king, because we feared not the Lord." It is the mighty Assyrian nation - the GERMAN people who will spear-head a mighty Europe Beast Babylon power that will carry you away into captivity. The punishment will put an end to your gross sins, your false altars will be covered with thistles, and you will desire the mountains to cover you, for the hills to fall on you, for so great will be your pain and suffering (verses 1-8). It is the Lord's will to punish you, to chastise you, the people He will use will be gathered against you. It will be the time to sow righteousness, to reap for mercy, a time to REALLY SEEK the Lord, till He arrives to rain righteousness on you. You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies in your way of life: BECAUSE you did trust in YOUR OWN ways, and in the multitude of your so-called mighty leaders of government, economics, military, and spirituality. It will be a mighty TUMULT among you in the day of your correction, and none of your mighty fortresses of economics and/or war machines will save you; they will be for the spoiler (9-15). CHAPTER 11 God called you out of Egypt as a son, but as you went you turned to false idols. God taught Ephraim to go in the right way, but many times they did not acknowledge the Lord was their healer. He drew them with bands of love. Now God has decided because you are like your forefathers, not to send you back into Egypt, but the Assyrian German will be your master and king. The sword of his army shall abide on your cities. God says you are BENT on backsliding into sin: though you have at times an outward face of calling to the Most High (when something like a massive natural disaster strikes you, or the enemy blows up some of your mighty buildings as the infamous 9 11 of 2001) you really do not EXALT Him in deep and humble contrition that leads to turning from sin to holy righteousness (verses 1-7). HOW CAN I GIVE YOU UP, EPHRAIM? HOW SHALL I DELIVER YOU, ISRAEL? .... I WILL NOT EXECUTE THE FIERCENESS OF MINE ANGER, I WILL NOT RETURN TO DESTROY YOU COMPLETELY EPHRAIM: FOR I AM GOD, NOT MAN; THE HOLY ONE IN THE MIDST OF YOU. I WILL YET BE IN YOUR CITIES. YOU WILL YET WALK AFTER THE LORD: HE WILL ROAR LIKE A LION: WHEN HE DOES THE CHILDREN IN THE WEST WILL TREMBLE. THEY WILL TREMBLE AS A BIRD OUT OF EGYPT, AND AS A DOVE OUT OF THE LAND OF ASSYRIA: I WILL PLACE THEM IN THEIR HOUSES, SAYS THE LORD" (verses 8-11). God, in His chastising, will not fully and completely destroy you Oh Israel. He will chastise enough for you to come to your knees in humble REPENTANCE. In your affliction you will turn back to serve God in spirit as well as in truth. He then will deliver you from the lands of your enemies at the coming of the Messiah Christ, and He will place you in your houses in the Holy Land and in Jerusalem, as all the prophets proclaim and teach (verse 11). CHAPTER 12 Ephraim Britain feeds on the "east" wind, the east wind travels "west" - from Europe. Britain has looked to the EAST for help! She has made a covenant with Germany/Assyria and she will continue to do so. She has sided with the king of the North and some kind of deal will be made with the king of the North and the coming king of the South with Egypt at its head. It could well have something to do with "oil" but the deal will hit a dead end and the king of the South will "push at" (somehow) the king of the North and the king of the North will come against the South and win the battle. We have covered that prophecy in Daniel 11:40-45. The Lord has also a controversy with Judah. All of Jacob Israel will be punished according to their ways (verses 1-2) A little history is reviewed (verses 3-5). There has been deceit and oppression used by Ephraim to acquire her riches, and she has thought herself righteous with no sin, in so doing. Not all that Britain did in building its Empire was the smell of roses. God has used the prophets many many times to warn Ephraim and Israel. A little more Jacob history is retold, as well as reminding them that it was through a prophet - Moses - that God brought Israel out of Egypt. It has been the nature of Ephraim and Israel to provoke the Lord in sinning, so they will have payment for their wickedness (verses 8-14). What we sow that we eventually will reap. If we sow sin and iniquity then death is the final payment. It is a universal law, all great nations of the past that sank into more and more sin, finally ended in destruction. The classic example is the Roman Empire. The famous work "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Gibbon, makes that universal law a clear reality. Gibbon gives I believe 5 basic sins that led Rome to its doom, not the least of them was that the Roman society corrupted itself from WITHIN - sin upon sin - blood upon blood - until the wickedness like a cancer rotted the Empire, and then it was no match for the enemy to swoop down and bring Rome and its Empire crashing to the ground. So it will be for Ephraim and all Israel - it is only a matter of WHEN! And that "when" belongs to the Lord in His time. CHAPTER 13 When Ephraim Britain spoke with the humble fear of God in the nations like in the days of the Second World War under Winston Churchill, they were exalted in Israel, but when they have now offended in secularism and pagan Baal practices, Britain has signed the death sentence. But they sin the more and then more, and have set up many idols in their heart and mind. They will be as the morning cloud and the dew that passes away, as the chaff driven by the whirlwind, and as the smoke out of the chimney is blown away. At the same time God says, "Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt; and you shall know no god but Me, for I am your true Savior, there is no Savior besides me" (verses 1-4). It is as it ever was, once you are filled and prosperous, your heart was exalted in your own eyes; therefore you have forsaken your God. And because it is so, God will be to you as a lion: as a leopard stalking its prey. God will meet you as a bear bereaved of her cubs; He will devour you like a lion; the wild beasts shall tear you (verses 6-8). Listen Israel to the voice of your God, "O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; BUT IN ME is your help" (verse 9). It is the Lord God who WILL be your KING. There is no other who can save what will be left of you from your cities. God is binding up your sins, He is not forgetting them. You will cry and wail as a woman giving child-birth. YET, the power of the Lord will rescue many from the grave; you will be redeemed from death (we've seen that in Ezekiel 37). "O death, I will be thy plague; O grave, I will be thy destruction: changing my mind does not even enter my mind on this promise" (14). Though Ephraim Britain is fruitful among his brethren, and EAST wind with come, it is coming from the Lord. The east wind from the Europe Babylon/Assyria, will come Westward and famine and desert like conditions the Europe east wind will bring, all the goodness shall dry up (verses 15). Samaria Israel shall BECOME DESOLATE; for she has REBELLED AGAINST GOD; THEY SHALL FALL BY THE WORD; Samaria shall become desolate because they have rebelled against God; they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces; and their women will child shall be ripped up (verses 16). There have been some horrid - terrible - violent things done in the name of WAR! So sadly it will be again for Israel Samaria, by the mighty hand of the end time European Babylon Beast. CHAPTER 14 Healing for the Repentant "RETURN, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sins have brought you down. Bring your petitions, and return to the Lord, say to Him, 'Forgive all our sins and graciously receive us, so that we may offer you the sacrifice of praise. Assyria (Germany) cannot save us, nor can our strength in battle. Never again will we call the idols we have made [our gods]. No, in YOU alone do the orphans find mercy" (verses 1-3. This September 2008 we have witnessed the greed and corruption of the elite Wall Street banker investors CRASH to the basement - their careless sins, while they roll in physical riches (tens of millions of dollars in each of their pockets) have been exposed in bankruptsy. The madness of poor government and the sickening fact that it may be the average tax payer who is to try and bail out the Wall Street debacle, to the tune of 700 BILLION DOLLARS and possibly ONE TRILLION DOLLARS, is white collar crime and iniquity that has until now been rampant in the United States of Samaria. Our sins WILL BRING US DOWN, AND NO NATION WILL STOP OUR FALL. Our lovers (that one day will be our nightmare enemies) that we have helped and loved, nations like Germany, in Europe, will not be able to save us, they will not desire to save us, nay God will even use them to punish us. But if we will then REPENT and cry out to God, admitting our sins and that none but He can save us, then the Lord says, "I will heal you of your idolatry and faithlessness, and my love will know no bounds, for my anger will be gone forever. I will be to Israel like a refreshing dew from heaven. It will blossom like the lily; it will send roots deep into the soil like the cedars in Lebanon. Its branches will spread out like those of beautiful olive trees, as fragrant as the cedar forests of Lebanon. My people will return again to the safety of their land. They will flourish like grain and blossom like grapevines. They will be as fragrant as the wines of Lebanon" (verses 4-7). This prophecy will come to pass but it is a prophecy for the time beyond us; the time of the new age to come, when Israel and Judah will have been punished in captivity and restored to the Holy Land, where new righteous blossoming will begin, when Israel will at last be the inspired Spirit filled children of God, and will set the righteous example for all the nations of the earth to want to emulate. That is why God chose the people of Israel in the first place (Det.4). We have a few times in out long 3,000 plus years of history, been the right holy example, like under the reign of king Solomon and a few others. Yet the time when Israel will be the holy righteous example for ever, while physical flesh is on this earth, will have to wait for the age that is yet to come. In the prophecy of Hosea God wants Israel to NOT have to be punished with destruction and captivity, so He gives a final cry: "O Israel Ephraim, come out of idolatry! I am the one who looks after you and cares for you. I am like a tree that is always green, giving my fruit to you all through the year"(verse 8). If you would LISTEN. If you would TURN from SIN and iniquity, you would not have to go through this great affliction like no other in history. God would be willing to then work His plan on earth and into the new age, a DIFFERENT way! Yes, He would! He has told you through the prophet Ezekiel that He has NO PLEASURE in the death of the wicked, but if the wicked acknowledge their wickedness and turn from it to righteousness, then God will turn from the evil He thought to do to them - the righteous would then LIVE in their righteousness. "Let those who are WISE understand these things. Let those who are DISCERNING listen carefully. The PATHS of the Lord are TRUE and RIGHT, and RIGHTEOUS people live by WALKING in them. But sinners STUMBLE and FALL along the way!" (verse 9). ARE YOU ONE OF THE WISE? YOU CAN BE! IT IS WRITTEN THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM. IF YOU WILL FEAR IN DEEP HUMBLE RESPECT FOR THE PATHS OF THE LORD, IF YOU WILL HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, IF YOU WILL PROVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD, IF YOU WILL SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES TO PROVE WHAT IS SPOKEN ON THIS BLOG IS THE TRUTH OF THE WORD OF THE LORD, THEN YOU WILL BE FILLED WITH UNDERSTANDING. THE PROPHECY OF HOSEA WAS NOT JUST FOR HIS DAY, NOT JUST FOR ISRAEL OF OLD, BUT IT IS ALSO A PROPHECY FOR MODERN ISRAEL. YOU NEED TO PROVE WHO MODERN ISRAEL IS TODAY. THE BEST WEBSITE TO DO THAT IS—— BRITAM.ORG YOU NEED TO PROVE WHO THE MODERN ASSYRIANS ARE. THE BEST BOOK TO DO THAT IS "IN SEARCH OF THE GREAT GERMAN NATION - ORIGIN AND DESTINY" BY CRAIG M.WHITE———
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