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Hosea
Chapter 2
1
Say you unto your brethren, Ammi;
and
to your sisters, Ruhamah.
2
Plead with your mother . . . plead . . .
for
she is not my wife,
neither
am I her husband.
Let
her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight,
and
her adulteries from between her breasts.
3
Lest I strip her naked,
and
set her as in the day that she was born,
and
make her as a desert/wilderness,
and
set her like a dry land,
and
slay her with thirst.
4
And I will not have mercy upon her children . . .
for
they be the children of whoredoms.
5 For their mother has played the harlot.
She
who conceived them has done shamefully . . .
for
she said,
"I
will go after my lovers,
who
give me my bread and my water,
my
wool and my flax, my oil and my drink."
6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns,
and
make a wall,
that
she shall not find her paths.
7
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."
8
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.
9
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.
10
And now will I discover her lewdness
in
the sight of her lovers,
and
none shall deliver her out of my hand.
11
I will also cause all her mirth to cease,
her
feast days, her new moons, and her Sabbaths,
and
all her solemn feasts.
12
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
whereof
she has said,
"These
are my rewards that my lovers have given me.
And
I will make them a forest,
and
the animals/beasts of the field shall eat them.
13
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim,
wherein
she 'burned incense'/'practiced human sacrifice' {qatar}
to
them
{Baal and the other gods of the Phallic Cult},
and
she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels,
and
she went after her lovers, and forgot me," said Jehovah/God.
{Note: The Phallic cult was a mixture of sex and religion. They would usually go up a hill in a grove of trees where a figure of a fat man was set up. They would have a sexual orgy. And, to increase the experience, they would throw their children into the fire and continued their activities to the screams of the dying. The analogy then is of the faithless wife of Hosea to the faithless 'right people' (Israel) and God.}
14
Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
and
bring her into the wilderness,
and
speak comfortably unto her.
{Israel
has Drifted from the Lord But He is Faithful And Calls them to Return}
15~~And
I will give her
her
vineyards from here
{economic prosperity},
and
the valley of Achor/Achan
{see Joshua Chapter 7 for the story of how the valley was named
his name means troublemaker and he became cherem/'accursed by
stealing cherem from Jericho}
for
a door of hope
{reference to the 1st Advent of Christ - no man comes to the
Father except by Me}.
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.
16
"And it shall be at that day,"
said
Jehovah/God,
"that
you all shall call me Ishi
{'iysh - name means 'man' or 'mankind'}. . .
and
shall call me no more Baali
{ Ba`aliy - name means 'my Lord'}. 17
For
I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth,
and
they shall no more be remembered by their name."
18
"And in that day will I make a covenant for them
with
the animals/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.
19 And I will betroth you unto Me forever.
Yes,
I will betroth you unto Me
in
righteousness,
and
in justice/judgment,
and
in lovingkindness,
and
in mercies/'grace in action'.
20 I will even betroth you unto Me in faithfulness.
And you all shall know Jehovah/God."
21
"And it shall come to pass in that day,
I
will hear," said Jehovah/God,
"I
will hear the heavens,
and
they shall hear the earth."
22
And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil . . .
and
they shall hear Jezreel.
23~~Therefore
I sow her for Myself in the land.
{Millennial
reference - restoration of Israel to God}
And
I will 'love tenderly'
{Israel
in the Millennium}
the
one not being loved
{Israel
out under the 5th cycle of discipline}.
Furthermore,
I {God} will say to those who were not My people
{gentiles
around Israel},
You
are My people.
And they shall say, "You are my 'Elohiym/Godhead".
{Note: Paul quoted from this verse in Romans 9:25.}
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