Hosea 6



Hosea 6                                                             The Book of Hosea  Book of Hosea

Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
  • Let us return = These are the words of Israel in a yet future day, as already symbolized by the return of Gomer.
  • Hosea 3:2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
    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.
  • Foretold in = 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • He will heal us = Jeremiah 30:17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
  • What did he say?
  • The 7th trumpet has sounded, Christ is with us
  • After two days = two days after this national repentance.
  • 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.
  • Revive us = bring us back to life.
  • In = on
  • Live = live again in resurrection. Referring to the yet future resurrection of the new Israel (Ezekiel 37), which will thus resemble the resurrection of Messiah (1 Cor 15:20).
  • In His sight =  Hebrew = before His face, as their sin had been
  • Hosea 7:2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
  • God's word is going to come to pass, Just As God Said
  • You have to let the living God into your life
  • Rain = He shall come down like rain
  • Psalms 72:6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
  • Former Rain = Deut 11:14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
  • Job 29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
    24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
  • Jeremiah 5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
    25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
    26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
  • Ephraim = 10 tribes
  • God is saying, How can I count on you?
5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
  • Light = just as the sun comes up, I am going to judge you
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
  • I want your loving kindness, I want you to study My word
  • I want you to love Me, If you love Me, keep My commandments
  • Matthew 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
  • Righteous = self righteous people
  • Mercy = love
  • 1 Corinthians 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
    4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
    5 To deliver s    uch an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
    6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
    7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even     Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us:
  • Jesus was sacrifice for our sins = no more sacrificed
7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
  • They went against My Commandments and follow their commandments
  • 2 Timothy 2:14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
    15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
  • Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
  • Jeremiah 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
  • Sottish = To be silly = to be stupid
8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
  • Hosea 4:15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The Lord liveth.
9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of My people.
 
• 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

 
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