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.

• My their own sins, thou hast fallen

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.

• Asshur = Satan

4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

• I can love My children

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.

• God loves 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.

• I am like a green fir tree
• 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 - page 25