- Will Anti Christian Israel
Still Matter to God?
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- God Warns Israel
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- "And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul
shall not abhor you. And I will walk among you, and will be your
God, and ye shall be my people. I am the LORD your God, which
brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not
be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and
made you go upright. But if ye will not hearken unto me,
and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise
my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that
ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you
terror, consumption, and the burning plague, that shall consume
the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed
in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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- And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain
before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you;
and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. And if ye will not
yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven
times more for your sins. And I will break the pride of your
power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as
brass: And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land
shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the
land yield their fruits. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and
will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times
more plagues upon you according to your sins.
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- I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you
of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few
in number; and your high ways shall be desolate. And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things,
but will walk contrary unto me; Then will I also walk contrary
unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for
your sins. And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge
the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together
within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and
ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. And when I
have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your
bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again
by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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- And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk
contrary unto me; Then I will walk contrary unto you also
in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your
sins. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh
of your daughters shall ye eat. And I will destroy your high
places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon
the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. And
I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries
unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your
sweet odours. And I will bring the land into desolation: and
your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
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- And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will
draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate,
and your cities waste. {Ednote here God warns them what would
happen and it happened.]
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- Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth
desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the
land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. As long as it lieth desolate
it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when
ye dwelt upon it. And upon them that are left alive of you I
will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their
enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them;
and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall
fall when none pursueth. And they shall fall one upon
another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth:
and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies
shall eat you up. And they that are left of you shall pine away
in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities
of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
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- If they shall confess their iniquity,
and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which
they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary
unto me; And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and
have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their
uncircumcised hearts be humbled,
and they then accept of the punishment of
their iniquity: Then will I remember my covenant with
Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my
covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will
remember the land. The land also shall be left of them, and shall
enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and
they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because,
even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul
abhorred my statutes. And yet for all that, when they be in the
land of their enemies, I will not cast
them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them
utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD
their God. But I will for their sakes remember
the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth
out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I
might be their God: I am the LORD. These are the statutes and
judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children
of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses. (Leviticus
26:11-46)
- Romans 9:22-33 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and
to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the
vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that
he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of
mercy, which he had afore prepared
unto glory, Even us, whom he hath
called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? As he saith also in Hosea, I
will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved,
which was not beloved. And it shall come to
pass, that in the place where it was said unto them,
Ye are not my people; there shall they be
called the children of the living God.
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- Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of
the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a
remnant shall be saved: For he
will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness:
because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. And as
Esaias said before, Except the Lord of
Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles,
which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness,
even the righteousness which is of faith.
But Israel, which followed after the law
of righteousness, hath not attained
to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it
not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they
stumbled at that stumblingstone; As it is written, Behold, I
lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Halleluja
(Romans 9:22-33)
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- I Will Not Cast Them Out
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- "I will not cast them away,
neither will I abhor them, to destroy
them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the
LORD their God." God cannot break His own covenants that
is why we can rely on what He tells us. God can't lie to us and
has proven Himself by performing the Abrahamic Covenant Himself
during the night when everyone was sleeping to insure nothing
would interfere with it. God needed Israel to leave us a seed
and that seed was to be His Son, Jesus Christ.
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- God promised that "A remnant shall
be saved: For he will finish the
work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a
short work will the Lord make upon the earth."
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- Before we go into another level of the previous statement,
lets address the reference made to Hosea to lay the groundwork
for the remnant and what the remnant turns out to be and why
that remnant is not included in the Body of Christ or the Bride
of Christ. Today the trend is Dominion Theology or another term
that applies is Replacement Theology. The remnant has disappeared
in teachings today and the reason being that many in the apostate
church congregations called themselves the remnant which caused
confusion and rather than research they have forgotten it exists.
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- The Bible refers to just one Scripture in Hosea but to keep
that verse in context I will take the context into consideration
to understand God's message to us.
- Hosea 1:2-11 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea.
And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms
and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great
whoredom, departing from the LORD. So he went and took Gomer
the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a
little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the
house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the
kingdom of the house of Israel.
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- And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break
the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. And she conceived
again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name
Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of
Israel; but I will utterly take them away. But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah,
and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not
save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses,
nor by horsemen.
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- Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare
a son. Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my
people, and I will not be your God. Yet the number of the children
of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured
nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where
it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there
it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living
God. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of
Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head,
and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the
day of Jezreel."
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- References to this are Isaiah 11:12-13 And he shall set up
an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of
Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four
corners of the earth. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart,
and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall
not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
- Jeremiah 3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk
with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of
the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance
unto your fathers.
- Ezekiel 34:23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and
he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them,
and he shall be their shepherd.
- Ezekiel 37:16-24 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one
stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of
Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon
it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of
Israel his companions: And join them one to
another into one stick; and they
shall become one in thine hand. And when the children
of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew
us what thou meanest by these? Say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in
the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and
will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make
them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. And the sticks
whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
And say unto them,
- Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children
of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will
gather them on every side, and bring them into
their own land: And I will make them one
nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they
shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into
two kingdoms any more at all: Neither shall they defile themselves
any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things,
nor with any of their transgressions: but I will
save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they
have sinned, and will cleanse them: so
shall they be my people, and I will be their
God. And David my servant shall be king over them; and
they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my
judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them."
- In the Scriptures above one could easily get into believing
that God was referring to the Church, but as one reads on that
is not what is referred to. "I will take the children of
Israel from among the heathen means that they live among heathens
all over the world.
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- Hosea, chapter 2 is a reflection of God's plan for Israel.
Notice from your understanding of the Bible that the Church,
the Body of Christ Jesus is the Bride of Christ, a woman, a virgin,
because those who truly commit their lives to Christ Jesus, are
new creatures. The old life has been destroyed and a new life
has begun. Jesus said that He could not pore New wine into old
bottles. The old bottles have to be shattered. When there has
not been a true conversion there will not be a change in a person's
life. Jesus reveals the fact of what has happened to a believer
gradually by revelations and deeper understanding of the Word
of God. They also begin to realize that the Holy Spirit communicates
through them to others. One literally becomes a spectator of
God in action and stands in amazement in how many ways God appeals
to people over time to finally draw them into the net to become
one with Him. Not one of His shall be lost and only He knows
who they are.
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- Why the Remnant Cannot Be Considered
To Be The Bride
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- Hosea chapter 2 tells the story. "Plead with your mother,
plead: for she is not my wife,
- Isaiah 50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your
mother's divorcement, whom I have put away?
or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold,
for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for
your transgressions is your mother put away.
- Hosea 2:1 continued: "neither am
I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms
out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
- Ezekiel 16:25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head
of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast
opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied
thy whoredoms.
- Hosea continued: "Lest I strip her naked, and set her
as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness,
and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. And I
will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children
of whoredoms. For their mother hath played the harlot: she that
conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go
after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool
and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
- Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and
make a wall, (God had divorced
Israel) that she shall not find her paths. And she shall follow
after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall
seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband;
for then was it better with me than now.
- Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge
their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will
seek me early.
- Luke 15:18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say
unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,"
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- We know from the Word that Israel will be rebuilding the
third Temple in Jerusalem. Why? Because things will get so bad
during the tribulation that they will remember God and beg for
mercy and will reestablish the Aaronic Priesthood and make animal
sacrifices to get God's attention once again and instead of God
the Antichrist takes the throne in the temple and will call himself
God. Only a remnant of Israel will not bow not take the mark.
And God will have mercy on them.
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- Hosea continued: "For she did not know that I gave her
corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold,
which they prepared for Baal. Therefore will I return, and take
away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof,
and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
- And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her
lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. I will also
cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons,
and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. And I will destroy
her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are
my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them
a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
- And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she
burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings
and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me,
saith the LORD.
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- Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into
the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give
her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a
door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her
youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of
Egypt.
- And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou
shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. For
I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they
shall no more be remembered by their name.
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- And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the
beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the
creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the
sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to
lie down safely. And I will betroth thee unto
me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee
unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness,
and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness:
and thou shalt know the LORD. And it shall come to pass in that
day, I will hear, saith 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. And
I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon
her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which
were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou
art my God.
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- Jeremiah 31:27-28 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD,
that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with
the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. And it shall come
to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up,
and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to
afflict; so will I watch over them, to build,
and to plant, saith the LORD.
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- God is stating here that the old life was shattered by God
and a new life builds once again and plants.
- Zechariah 10:9 And I will sow them among the people: and
they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live
with their children, and turn again.
- Hosea 1:6-7 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter.
And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no
more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly
take them away. But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah,
and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them
by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
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- Hosea 1:10-11 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall
be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered;
and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said
unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto
them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be
gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they
shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of
Jezreel.
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- The remnant is stated in Zechariah 13:9 And
I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine
them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried:
they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say,
It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
- Romans 9:26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place
where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall
they be called the children of the living God.
- 1 Peter 2:10 Which in time past were not
a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
- God makes it very clear here that he is referring to Israel
not the Church. In fact the Church doesn't come up in this conversation
with God.
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- Hosea Takes Back His Unfaithful
Wife
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- Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved
of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the
LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and
love flagons of wine. So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces
of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou
shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another
man: so will I also be for thee. For the children of Israel shall
abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without
a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and
without teraphim: Afterward 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. Hosea 3:1-5
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- The Notes written in reference to these Scriptures state
in my Bible (kjv) "Many have qustioned why God would tell
Hosea to marry a harlot, but it must be understood that God intended
to use this marriage as an illustration of His dealings with
Israel. God used it to expose Israel's sin in this way because
it vividly reflected Israel's unfaithfulness to Him. Jezreel,
Hosea's first son, was legitimate because it is stated that Gomer
(Hosea's wife) "bare him [Hosea] a son" (1:3). The
other two childen, however, are identified as "children
of harlotry" (Hos. 2:1,4) and are pictures of Israel's illegitimate
children (Hos. 5:7).
- The prophecy of the millennial reign of Christ gives several
significant details. First it clealy affirms that the restoration
of God's people to the land of Israel will be a physical one.
They will be called "sons of the living God" in the
same place where Hosea clled them "not my people" (v.10;
the northern section of the Promised Land, possibly Samaria,
cf Ezek. 37:14, 21-25). Second they will be reunited under one
leader, and will be called God's children (v.11, cf. Ezek. 36:10,
11, 28). When they return from the lands in which they have been
captives. Third, the meanings of the names of Hosea's two youngest
children will not apply to Israel anymore because their situation
will be reversed.
- The term "lovers" used in the passage Hosea 2:5-13
refers to the pagan idols that Israel worshiped. Israel trusted
in these idols for prosperity. The Baals were weather gods which
supposedly controlled agricultural prosperity. Thus when Elijah
called for the drought, it just as effectively demonstrated their
powerlessnes as their inability to send fire from heaven at Mount
Carmel. (1Kgs.17:1-18:47). Fertility was thought to be affected
by many idolatrous practices, such as "weeping for Tammuz"
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- God reveals in Ezekiel 8:9 the incredible depths of idolatry
being practiced even within His temple. The animal worship (Exe.
8:10-12) may have been Egyptian in origin. "Tammuz"
(Exek. 8:14) was an Assyrian fertility god, and weeping for him
was supposed to bring him back from the dead. The sun was worshiped
(Ezek. 8:16) in both Egypt (as Ra or Amon-Ra) and in the Semitic
nations (as Shamash). The "branch to their nose" (Ezek.8:17)
may refer to obscene rituals associated with the worship of Asherah
or Ishtar. The ignorance of the elders of Israel is shown in
that they thought they shoud hide their idolatry from God's sight
as if they were in a dark room (Ezek. 8:12). A corresponding
prophecy can be found in Zephaniah 1:12".. at that time,
that I will search Jerusalem with candles.."
- They engaged in cult prostitution (Hos.4:14). These kind
of practices had even crept into the temple observances. (cf.
Is. 1:11-15; Hos. 8:13).
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- In Hosea 2:14 - 23 The passage speaks
of Israel's eventual restoration as a new,
permanent betrothal to God (Hos. 2:19-20). Jeremiah
likened it to Israel's relationship to God in the wilderness
- In Jeremiah 2:2-37 the content of chapter one discusses the
signs which authenticated Jeremiah's calling. This chapter shows
the beginning of Jeremiah's ministry and reveals the sinful condition
of the people of Judah. It begins with a reflection back on the
wilderness experience with Israel. (cf. Num. 14:32, 33). This
passage also echoes God's earlier description of faithless Israel
as His "bride" (Hos. 2:15). In relation to this analogy,
chapter three characterizes both Israel and Judah as unfaithful
wives.
- God had been removing the material aspect of their prosperity,
but when He regathers Israel, He will grant a great new prosperity
and reverse the significance of Jezreel, Hosea's first child.
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- While the name Jezreel had previously connoted judgment (Hos.
1:5), the new meaning of the name (Hos. 2:22) "God's
Sons," points to God's millenial blessings. (Hos.
2:22)
- Hosea act out God's buying back His strayed people. It is
not coincidence that the value of the items that Hosea paid to
regain his own wife added up to thirty shekels (cf. Zech. 11:12,13;
Matt.26:15).
- The prophetic aspects of verse four are even now being fulfilled.
Israel has no king, and no temple at which to offer sacrifices,
yet they are free from idolatry. However, the fulfillment of
verse five is still future.
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- Hosea 3:5 Afterward 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.
- Jeremiah 50:4,5 In those days, and in that time, saith the
LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children
of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek
the LORD their God. They shall ask the way to Zion with their
faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to
the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
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- Hosea 5:6 They shall go with their flocks and with their
herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath
withdrawn himself from them.
- Jeremiah 30:9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and
David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
- Ezekiel 34:23-24 And I will set up one shepherd over them,
and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed
them, and he shall be their shepherd. And I the LORD will be
their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD
have spoken it.
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- Ezekiel 37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land
upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them
all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they
be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
- Ezekiel 37:24 And David my servant shall be king over them;
and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in
my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
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- Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that
the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the
top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and
all nations shall flow unto it.
- Jeremiah 30:24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return,
until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents
of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
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- Ezekiel 38:8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the
latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back
from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the
mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is
brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely
all of them.
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- Ezekiel 38:16 And thou shalt come up against my people of
Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter
days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen
may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before
their eyes.
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- Daniel 2:28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets,
and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in
the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon
thy bed, are these;
- Micah 4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that
the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in
the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills;
and people shall flow unto it.
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- To Bring Israel To Its Knees Will
Not Be Easy
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- The Book of Amos is one of the books that describes what
God plans to do. The Tribulation is going to take place in Israel
but will affect the whole world. The Tribulation is about Israel.
The signs are vivid today. President Bush admitted pupblically
that this war in Iraq is about Israel. President believes that
he is in God's service because the church is in his camp supporting
his war effort.
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- . And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket
of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The
end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again
pass by them any more. And the songs of the temple shall be howlings
in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies
in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
- Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make
the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon
be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may
set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great,
and falsifying the balances by deceit? That we may buy the poor
for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell
the refuse of the wheat?
- The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I
will never forget any of their works. Shall not the land tremble
for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall
rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned,
as by the flood of Egypt. And it shall come to pass in that day,
saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the
sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear
day: And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and
all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth
upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make
it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter
day.
- Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of
bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the
LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from
the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek
the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. In that day shall
the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. They that swear
by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and,
The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never
rise up again. Amos 8:2-14
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- Here we know that the Church, the Body of Christ, has been
removed from the world, so that the Anti-christ can be revealed.
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- There Will Be No Escape For Israel
- Unless They Come Back to God
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- Amos 9:1-15 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he
said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake:
and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last
of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee
away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. Though
they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though
they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though
they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and
take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in
the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and
he shall bite them: And though they go into captivity before
their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall
slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not
for good.
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- And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and
it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it
shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by
the flood of Egypt. It is he that buildeth his stories in the
heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth
for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face
of the earth: The LORD is his name.
- Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children
of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of
the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the
Syrians from Kir? Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the
sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the
earth; saving that I will not utterly
destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. For, lo,
I will command, and I will sift the house
of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve,
yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
All the sinners of my people shall
die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor
prevent us.
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- In Amos 9:1 the altar; the brazen altar in the court of the
temple at Jerusalem; for the vision has respect to the whole
covenant people of God. Am 9:11 The altar is the seat of God's
justice, and thence his commands go forth against the workers
of iniquity. Compare Eze 9:2.
Smite the lintel; rather, "the chapiter," or ornamented
head of the pillars in front of the temple.
- The posts; or, "the thresholds," as the Hebrew
word is elsewhere rendered. Jg 19:27; 1Sa 5:4-5, etc. The blow
shakes the temple from top to bottom.
- Cut them; smite so as to break them in pieces. The reference
is to the pillars of the temple. The demolition of the temple
is a symbol of the destruction which God is about to bring upon
both parts of his covenant people, Amos 9:8-9
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- The Last of Them; The Remnant
That Escapes.
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- No outward privileges and relations to God can exempt the
wicked from punishment. They were sifted "like as corn is
sifted in a sieve."
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- Amos continues: In that day will I raise up the tabernacle
of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and
I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days
of old: That they may possess the remnant
of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called
by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. Behold, the days
come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains
shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
- And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel,
and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and
they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they
shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will
plant them upon their land, and they shall
no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them,
saith the LORD thy God.
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- And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that
have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him. Hold thy peace
at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at
hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his
guests. And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice,
that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and
all such as are clothed with strange apparel. In the same day
also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which
fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
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- And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that
there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an
howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people
are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off. And it shall
come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with
candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that
say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he
do evil. Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their
houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit
them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine
thereof.
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- The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth
greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man
shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day
of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of
wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a
day of clouds and thick darkness, A day of the trumpet and alarm
against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. And I
will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind
men, because they have sinned against the
LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their
flesh as the dung. Neither their silver nor their
gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath;
but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy:
for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell
in the land. (Zephaniah 1:6-18)
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- Zechariah 12:2-3 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling
unto all the people round about, when they
shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for
all people: all that burden themselves
with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the
people of the earth be gathered together against it.
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- Malachi 3:16-18 Then they that feared
the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD
hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written
before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon
his name. And they shall be mine,
saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when
I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth
his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern
between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth
God and him that serveth him not." Amen
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