Hosea 3                                                          The Book of Hosea 

Hosea 3:1 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.

• This was a second marriage with its own special signification.
• Her friend = Hosea himself
• Yet = Go again = (she has become) an adulteress.
• Referring to Israel's present condition in this Dispensation.
• Adulteress: An idolatress; and denotes only a woman of the northern tribes.

2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

• Fifteen pieces of silver = fifteen shekels = The price of the redemption of a slave.

3 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.

4 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:

• Most of Israel, the 12 tribes of today don't know who they are
• Verse 4-5 The present and future states
• Time "many days"
• Shall abide
• Without a king = not knowing who they are = having rejected Messiah
• John 19:15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priest answered, We have no king but Caesar.
•  Teraphim = idols of any kind

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.

• In the LATTER days
• Afterward = This mark of time has not yet been reached.
• It corresponds with the "many days" of verse 4
• Return = Return to God
• Jeremiah 50:4 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.
• 5 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.

• 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 - page 25