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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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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- God as Father,
- Jesus Christ as Redeemer,
- and the Holy Spirit as Counselor.
These many nations have rejected God and Christ as LORD.
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.
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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