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Hosea 14
The Book of Hosea
Hosea 14 sums up the return of Israel which will take place in the
millennium.
It refers to those specific children by name that were
mentioned in the early chapters of Hosea and who were symbolic of the
different states that all the tribes experience.
In the early chapters,
God calls them "Not His people" because they disown Him.
They claim that
the kenites who have slipped among the Jews are His chosen people.
But
in the later chapters He relents. The Father is gracious to His
disobedient children.
Hosea 14:1 O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen
by thine iniquity.
2 Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all
iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our
lips.
3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will
we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee
the fatherless findeth mercy.
4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger
is turned away from him.
5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast
forth his roots as Lebanon.
6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree,
and his smell as Lebanon.
7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as
the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine
of Lebanon.
8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard
him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit
found.
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I am like a green fir tree
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Ephraim the ten tribes of Israel
9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he
shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall
walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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