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  • A wife of whoredom: Nations and the Bride

    A wife of whoredom: Nations and the Bride

    +++++++ Conclusion to “Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom.

    Hosea 6

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

    6 “Come, let us return to the Lord;
    for he has torn us, that he may heal us;
    he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
    2 After two days he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.
    3 Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord

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    Few countries embrace Jesus Christ, the Son of God who IS and IS to come as NATIONS with official proclamation: Jesus IS Lord in our Nation.

    • Dios bendiga a Argentina

    • Guð blessi Ísland

    • Gud velsigne Norge

    • Ο Θεός να ευλογεί την Ελλάδα

    Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! – Psalm 33:12

    Yet MANY Nations who once claimed God, even now play the whore.

    Hosea 8

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

    8:1 Set the trumpet to your lips!
    One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord,
    because they have transgressed my covenant
    and rebelled against my law.

    7 For they sow the wind,
    and they shall reap the whirlwind.

    10:3 For now they will say:
    “We have no king,
    for we do not fear the Lord;
    and a king—what could he do for us?”
    4 They utter mere words;
    with empty oaths they make covenants…

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    “In the name of God, I, ______, take you, ______, to be my wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death. This is my solemn vow.”

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    Dearly beloved,

    Are you NOT joined to the Groom, Christ Jesus?

    Is Jesus Christ your Lord?

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    Dear Church making claim and witness to the Name and Cross of Christ:

    Do NOT relegate Jesus Christ into a lowly place alongside the religions you change for your Nation.

    Do NOT hear the agendas of the false prophets and false christians with false professions of faith.

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    Give NO ear to the worldly agendas of those who would CHANGE god to serve their SELF interests.

    “Religions’ of sinful Nations may “change their mind,” yet for all time, even before God’s true Prophets like Hosea until beyond this 21st c. day:

    Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. – Hebrews 13:8

     

    For the Lord will say to these: “I never knew you.”

    AMERICA, BLESS GOD.

    Great Britain, Bless God.

    European Union, Bless God

    Australia, Bless God

    Brazil, Bless God

    DR Congo, Bless God

    Russia, Bless God

    Let your Nation, bless God.

    Malachi 3: 6 “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. 7 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.

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    Jesus Christ IS the Groom, returning in these last days for His Bride, His Church.

    Are you a wife of whoredom?

    Our Heavenly King, Who was and IS and will be returning for His Church warns and encourages in the Good News of Matthew 24:

    10 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. 

    11 And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. 

    12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. 

    13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

    Return to Christ Jesus, our Lord. He has paid the price for your return.

    He has redeemed you from the whoredom of your sin.

     

  • Seamus Heaney

    Seamus Heaney

    I have had on my desktop for a month an obituary (or sorts) where I wanted to honor a great poet who lived above the division and violence of politics and religion in Ireland.  (I had originally thought, “Northern Ireland,” but that is not how he thought of it anymore than identifying English as Britain.)

    As is the case for our rebellious America, English is a language (even more than a culture or land) and Seamus Heaney was a master of the English language.

    A thoughtful look back at the life of this poet, writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature will reveal a man of faith who remains us to be faithful to God and country (in that order) in spite of what others think.

    I have always thought that evil leaders are evil leaders and thugs are thugs.

    Men of God must live above the fray.

    It matters not whether they divide Ireland or America.

    It matters not if evil men would separate north from south or the church east from west.

    Seamus Heaney remained above it all as example for Republican and Democrat, Conservative and Liberal, Catholic and Protestant.

    I expect to meet men like this in reunion with both faithful Catholics & dear Protestants in Heaven (as others may meet with claimers from all churches and denominations in Hell.)

    God, Jesus Christ, and relationship with the Holy Spirit ought to rule every man and guide every country; certainly churches. Let us also remain about the fray, answerable to a faithful and forgiving God who sent Christ to the Cross for all who believe.

    Here is my tribute (not to N. Ireland, not to Britain, not to Catholic, not to Protestant, but to the man and the poet)

    To Seamus Heaney:

    a man, a poet, an author

    Irish not north or south

    English not bound by borders

    English by his craft of language

    Christian unrestrained by division

    Christian by example of Christ 

     

    Now as news come in

    of each neighbourly murder

    we pine for ceremony,

    customary rhythms:

    the temperate footsteps

    of a cortege, winding past

    each blinded home.

     

    Source: BBC

    Additional article below & link to reviews of the many Seamus Heaney books.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23895582

    http://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Seamus+Heaney

     

  • “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom

    “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom

    Disclaimer: Before you move on, this message is NOT about the US (only). It is about the Christian CHURCH: Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox throughout the world of these last days of the 21st century. It is about governments “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” It is about Nations once “under God.”

    Specifically, this is a warning to the Nations and to the Churches from history. The Prophesy still rings true from the Book of Hosea.

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    God spoke to a man. God’s message was to take a fallen woman as his wife.

    If God has spoken something so unlikely, He will use His spoken Command as warning, prophesy, and an opportunity for repentance.  God will accomplish His purpose of saving the souls of His beloved.

    The earlier scene (the Nations would do well not to repeat) takes place in the eighth century Before Christ. Hosea’s ministry paralleled in part the ministries of the Prophets: Amos, Jonah, Isaiah and Micah.

    Introduction to Hosea: Historical Context

    * Hosea was God’s man for a difficult era spiritually. “Prosperity had brought an unprecedented degree of cultural corruption. The much-sought-after political power had opened Israel to foreign cultural influence…

    * https://bible.org/seriespage/introduction-hosea-historical-context

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    Hosea

    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’s Wife and Children

    2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea,

    “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” 

    The Lord’s prophesy though Hosea continues:

    • 9 And the Lord said, “Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.”
    • 10b And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”

     

    Israel’s Unfaithfulness Punished

    2:1 Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.”

    2 “Plead with your mother, plead—
    for she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
    that she put away her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts;
    3 lest I strip her naked
    and make her as in the day she was born…

    • 10 Now I will uncover her lewdness
      in the sight of her lovers,
      and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.

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    The Nations are adulterers, forsaking the Lord their God, our Creator.  
    The Nations who have claimed:
    • God as Father,
    • Jesus Christ as Redeemer,
    • and the Holy Spirit as Counselor.

    These many nations have rejected God and Christ as LORD.

    These many nations will be rejected and shamed for our whoredom.
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    Yet the Lord speaks hope to the one who will return:
    • 14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
      and bring her into the wilderness,
      and speak tenderly to her.
    • 16 “And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband’…
    •  And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. 19 And I will betroth you to me forever.

    I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.

    20 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.

    Hosea 3

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Hosea Redeems His Wife

    3 And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”

    2 So I bought her …

    3 And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days.

    You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”

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    IF God IS, IF Christ Jesus IS; should the Nations NOT play the whore or belong to other gods and false prophets?

    Is sin to be tolerated, without repentance and return to purity?

    Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. – Leviticus 20:7 KJV

     

    Deary beloved wife of the Lord,

    Will you return to the Lord?  Will you accept His love?

    Or will you continue in your whoredom?

     

    We long for your repentance and return to faithfulness.  [To be continued…]

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