The Prophet Hosea and Jesus Christ as the Word & Israel's Husband

So I'll go ahead and just begin the sermon right away. I gave some handouts for the notes because it does have a lot of history, which is a little heavier than just going through the Bible, like we do many times with the sermon. So this is part two of the prophet Hosea and Jesus Christ as the word and Israel's husband. In the book of Hosea, we are also covering the fundamental belief number 15 of our church, which is the doctrine of the promises to Abraham, where it says in this fundamental belief booklet, that we believe that the knowledge that God has fulfilled and continues to fulfill the physical promises made to Abraham and his children, and that he is fulfilling the spiritual promise through Jesus Christ, is critical to understanding the message of the prophets and its application to the world.

That's why the book of Hosea shouldn't just be studied in a historical manner and just talk about, well, this was the prophet and he preached to Israel, warning what was going to happen if they didn't repent. Basically, it was almost all during that time. But actually, it has so much to do with what God would do with the house of Israel. The prophet Hosea was primarily focused on those 10 tribes, with Ephraim, who was the leading tribe, where Samaria the capital was part of that territory. And so there's this secondary message, which is in the book of Hosea.

But basically, it wasn't revealed to mankind until the end time period, some years ago, that God opened this truth. And that's why it is one of the fundamental beliefs. Now, of course, these promises, we can't just be so detailed that we know exactly every little part of their wanderings and how they got to the place where God had assigned for them. But there is an enormous amount of material nowadays when you want to go into it more. So in Part 1, that we covered last week, there is a repetitive five-stage cycle in the book of Hosea, which means he repeats the same pattern in these five steps involved in the message of Hosea.

The first is when God marries Israel at Mount Sinai. That would have been around 1446 B.C. and brings her to his home in the promised land. So in Hosea, God remembers how I brought you out of Egypt. And we made this covenant, this marriage pact between us. And then you would live there, and you would have to live and enjoy the fruits of your labors and also eventual discipline and punishment if you didn't. That was a commitment they had done. Just like in marriage, there's a commitment to being faithful. The second stage is after 700 years, things have degenerated so bad in the house of Israel that God is about to punish and expel them from the land of Israel, beginning a long period of exile.

So these two parts, you can go to any church and they'll tell you about the marriage covenant and also about what happened at that time. Hosea and other prophets came and warned Israel. If you don't change your ways, you're going to get invaded and you're going to get expelled from the land. It happened first to Israel and later, Judah eventually fell into the same apostasy and faithlessness and they were deported as well, but they were brought back to the land, which never happened to the house of Israel.

And so most churches, they just say, well, these 10 tribes just were lost in history and they are called the lost 10 tribes of Israel. Now, number three is where we have this understanding that besides Church of God groups, it's very rare in traditional Christianity. Number three, in this exile, they would wander among the nations until they reached their assigned places. Where Ephraim and Manasseh would receive the birthright promises and the rest of the 10 tribes would be materially blessed.

They would lose their identity, but not their lineage. Lineage means that they still have intact their tribes, although they've lost the notion of the Sabbath and about keeping God's laws.

This would happen as they pass through the many nations.

And this is mentioned by Hosea, by Isaiah, Jeremiah, all of these. In the end time, they would degenerate again to the level of punishment, captivity, and great suffering. And then the fifth part of the cycle, when Christ returns, God would gather them from among the nations and bring them to the land of Israel. Well, they will be joined with the Jews, with the house of Judah, and have a new covenant with Christ in the millennium. See, that's what we can provide the world, which traditional Christianity doesn't.

It is so clear that most of the prophets convey these same essential points. Yet traditional Christianity insists on denying them and hiding it from their followers, since they don't believe in the modern Israel, where they will be joined with the Jews, and have a new covenant with Christ in the millennium.

And they don't believe in the modern existence of the house of Israel and of the coming Kingdom, but instead think only of going to heaven. So of course for them, this false teaching of going to heaven annuls the idea that Christ is coming back to establish his kingdom and bringing back Judah and the house of Israel together. That's why it's so damaging to have the idea that, well, you die, you either go to heaven and hell, this type of thing, because then who cares what's going on on the earth. But if you know Christ is coming and he's going to establish a kingdom, and he talks about joining the two houses, Judah and the house of Israel. So although the house of Israel would be taken into captivity and never returned to that land before Christ's return, it would remain among the nations without losing its lineage. But it would its identity.

Then, during this end time period, God would reveal their true origin to his church at the appointed time so that a message of warning could be sent to them, just as the prophets of old had done. That is part of our job. That's why, yes, we used to get the gospel out to the entire world, but also to those nations of Ephraim and Manasseh and other of the ten tribes. There's a message. You've received all of these blessings. What have you done with them? Have you honored God? Have you become a more God-fearing nation or not? That's what the world needs to hear and wake up. Because they're going the opposite direction. If you look at the surveys, less people believe in God and the Bible, and also about repentance. What sin is, all of these things. We're going backwards instead of forward. So, Israel and Judah were destined to multiply, and this is dealing with the house of Israel. They were destined to multiply like the sand on the seashore, and would receive the blessings of Jacob's birthright as best as we know, following a 2,520-year delay. This is where you have in Leviticus 26, 23, and 24, where God says, if you forsake me, if you get to the point where God has to intervene, He says He is going to punish them seven times, which in this case, it's not talking about just the intensity, it's the times which means seven times the years amount, which are the 360 days for a year. And so, if you multiply that, you come up with 2,520 years. And that's from 721, when Israel was taken by the Syrians out of their land. Took years for them to finally be removed, but 721 is the general date. If you count 2,520 years later, you know, minus the year zero, you come to 1800, which is where you see the blessings come upon Ephraim and Manasseh. They become the two world-leading powers. First, it was Ephraim, England, that set up that empire, which the sun never set, with a commonwealth of nations that they still have, and Manasseh, the United States, which today we still see is wielding the power, and the blessings have not ceased yet.

As a result, God calls the prophet Hosea to re-enact this cycle of events. It's similar to Hosea acting out a play given by God. Hosea is the main character, personifying God, and it's like a big billboard saying, look what God is doing with Hosea if you want to know the future. To announce how the pre-existing Christ feels about betrayed by the house of Israel, what will happen, and how upon their repentance will be forgiven and take them back to the land of Israel and be restored as a wife. So that belief that we have is not an end of itself, it's a means to an end. It's how you get these people brought back to Israel, and they would be sifted through the nations, as Amos 9.9 tells us that all these nations will be sifted. Well, the house of Israel will be sifted. He says, as the grain is sifted and not one grain is dropped, is lost. So God knows how to do that. If he can create 30 trillion cells in our body that can work well, I don't think he has much of a problem keeping track of peoples that he knows are part of that descendants of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. So we come now to act number, the first act. This act begins with a marriage covenant made between God and Israel at Mount Sinai. Let's go now to the book of Hosea.

And look at chapter 2, verse 15.

God is going to bring back Israel as he says, I will give her her vineyards from there in the valley of Echor as a door of hope. She shall sing there as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. So just as God made that marriage pact with Israel, so God's going to bring them back one day. In Exodus 19, verse 4, it tells us exactly when that marriage pact was carried out. Exodus 19, verse 4, it says, God speaking, it says, you have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people, for all the earth is mine, and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel. And then in verse 8, it's after Moses came and spoke to them, verse 8, it says, then all the people answered together and said, all that the Lord has spoken we will do.

So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord. And the Lord said to Moses, behold, I come to you in the thick cloud that the people may hear when I speak with you and believe you forever.

And so this is like the wife saying, yes, I will.

So that's the first act, which we'll see how Hosea enacts it. In Act 2, after 700 years, God is done with the house of Israel, those 10 tribes, and will temporarily expel her for her for many years, but will not forget her. But this is not the case with Judah. Judah was going to remain in the land. Notice Hosea now in chapter 1. This is how this play is carried out.

God tells Hosea what he needs to do, which wasn't very pleasant at all.

As a matter of fact, it's pretty disgusting. Hosea chapter 1 verse 2, 3.11 says, When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, Go take yourself a wife of harlotry, which means a woman of prostitute, and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the Lord. This is how he felt. We started at Mount Sinai. There was so much hope. I brought you through. I gave you this wonderful country. I kept my promises. And what did you do? You abused. You took advantage of all I had done. 700 years later, they were so corrupt. You could not tell very much difference between the Israelites and the Canaanites and all the Gentile nations.

We don't hear Hosea complaining.

So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Deblaine, and she conceived and bore him a son. You can imagine the scandal. Here's a man of God, and all of a sudden, so this was part of the billboard. This is where it's not just everyday rumors. No, this was shocking! And verse 4, Then the Lord said to him, Call his name Jezreel. For in a little while I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, who overdid all the killings, and bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. See how clear it is? Shall come to pass in that day that I will break the bow, which is the military might of Israel in the valley of Jezreel, which is the largest valley. It's called Esrilon as well. And that's where the troops would come for battle. And Israel met against the Assyrians, and they were defeated. So that's the first act.

Verse 6, And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then God said to him, Call her name Lo-ru-amah. For I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, but I will utterly take them away. Means exile, expulsion from the land. Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah, will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword or battle, by horses or horsemen. Talking about when King Sennacherib came and laid a siege on Jerusalem, and God killed 185,000 Assyrian troops overnight.

And even the Greek historian Herodotus that talks about that destruction by to the Assyrians. And he says it was some type of a plague with rats. That's what he says. Well, whatever it was, it was a plague that killed. It was a miracle from God. But you even have that in some secular historians. So that took place.

So this is the act carrying it out now with the second daughter.

About Judah being spared because it's still faithful, keeping the Sabbath feast days, keeping the commandments. Whereas Israel wasn't doing these things. And then it says, verse eight, now, when she had weaned through a hammer, which is about two years, which means a child is a little older. You don't have to give him milk. She conceived and bore a son. Then God said, call his name Loami, for you are not my people, and I will not be your God. So it's not just expelling them, but losing the identity. You're not going to recognize me. And you know what? I'm not going to recognize you either. I'm not going to send you any prophets when you're out there wandering among the nations.

And yet, God doesn't leave this out of the act. Verse 10, yet the number of the children of Israel, not the children of Judah, the number of children of Israel, shall be as a sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered, and it shall come to pass. In the place where it was said to them, you are not my people, there it shall be said to them, you are the sons of the living God. So I'm going to bring you back. That's when Christ returns. Verse 11, then the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together and appoint for themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel. So this is a time of rejoicing in the Valley of Jezreel, because it's going to be the gathering of all these people. Now, you see, God is going to work in the millennium with all the nations. But He's going to start with Judah and with the house of Israel, and because He's got a promise to Abraham to keep. But of course, that's going to extend out to the rest of the world. But this is the start of the kingdom of God on earth. And then it says in verse one, Say to your brethren, my people, and to your sisters, mercy is shown. So, okay, the whole cycle that we talked about, those five steps are carried out. And these are repeated several times here, from chapter one of Hosea, all the way to chapter 14. Chapter 14 ends with the same the saving of Israel at the time.

And let's just read when this happened. When would they expel? Let's go to 2 Kings chapter 15, 2 Kings chapter 15, and verse 29.

You could give a whole sermon just on this, which is so helpful and such a lesson for all of us in 1 Kings chapter, no, 2 Kings 15 verse 29. It says, in the days of Pika, king of Israel, Tiglath's palisir, king of Assyria, came and took Iann, Abel, Berth, all of these places, talking about in the land of Galilee, or the land of Naphtali, and he carried them captive to Assyria. Just as God had told, years before by Hosea, this is going to happen.

There's a Hosea here, but he's not the prophet. He's one of the ones that killed Pika and then God, he reigned in his place. Because this is just the beginning of this separation and expulsion. Notice in chapter 17, the same book, verse 22, it says, for the children of Israel walked in the sins of Jeroboam, which he did, they did not depart from them until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants, the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day, removed. In Zechariah chapter 12, let's go there, let's see what happens when he gathers them together. Because it talks about the last stage, bringing them back. Zechariah 12, verse 8. So it's all in the Bible. You just have to know where it's at and how to fit these puzzle pieces.

That's why without God's truth, you can't really do it. Zechariah chapter 12, verse 8, it says, It goes on to say, verse 10.

crucified the Lamb of God, now coming as a mighty warrior. Remember, he's got a white robe with blood on it. So they will say, it was true. The New Testament is true because the Jews reject the New Testament. Yes, they will mourn for him as one mourns for his only son and grieve for him as one grieves for a firstborn. You know, the Jews will all be stricken, grief stricken, as well as the house of Israel. They had no idea. In that day, there shall be a great morning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadad Rimon and the plain of Megiddo. That's when Josiah died. And the land shall mourn every family by itself, the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives, family of the house of Nathan, and the wives themselves, family of the house of Levi by itself. So all of these descendants and their wives by themselves, a family of Shemae by itself and their wives by themselves and all the families that remain, every family by itself and their wives by themselves. Verse one of chapter 13. In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness shall be in that day, says the Lord, that will cut off the names of the idols from the land. They shall no longer be remembered. I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land. Satan will no longer be deceiving people.

So you see here how they will come to repentance. But as prophesied, it's not going to happen before Christ returns. So this cycle that we see is repeated throughout the book of Hosea about Israel's sins, punishment, expulsion, repentance, forgiveness, and restoration in God's kingdom. I wanted to place it this way in Acts so it's clear because this is the main theme of the prophets. So we go to act chapter three, Hosea 2 verse 14. Let's go back to book of Hosea.

Again, after all the punishment, exile, now we see God describing the millennial setting when the house of Israel and Judah will be together again. So how many knew that in Hosea chapter two, you have a picture of the kingdom of God as you did in Isaiah 11? We talk about the leopard and the lion and they will all be together. How many knew in Hosea too? Okay, we have very few couple. But it's so important here in the middle of this book that holy people know, we've got the same description of the kingdom of God when Christ comes back. Notice it says in verse 14, therefore, behold, I will allure her, talking about the house of Israel, will bring her into the wilderness and speak comfort to her. I will give her her vineyards. And then we'll skip verse 16. And it shall be in that day when he brings her back, says the Lord, that you will call me my husband. In Hebrew it's ichi.

My husband will no longer call me my master, which is bali. And it has to do with baio. And it does mean master. God can be master or Baal can be. So you're not going to use that word for Baal and bali at all. For I will take from her mouth the names of the balls, and they shall be remembered by name no more. All the idols. Now Baal is all over even this traditional Christianity. They have all these statues with different saints and all of these. And that's all false. You shouldn't have idols like that. So those will all be removed. We won't have one statue in the kingdom of God, of God or Jesus Christ or anything else. That all be removed. He says, in that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, with the birds of the air, and with the creeping things of the ground. So he says, I'm going to make a new covenant. The animals, instead of being wild and violent, they will all be tamed. They will all eat grass. They will be vegetarians, herbivores, and we won't have this doggy dog type of law of the jungle. What else does he say here? So that's equivalent to the lion and the lamb laying together. He says, bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth to make them lie down safely. So no more military weapons, no more wars will take place at that time. Verse 19, I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness and justice. This is the new covenant that will be done in loving kindness and mercy. He says, I will betroth you to me in faithfulness and you shall know the Lord. You won't have any others. It shall come to pass in that day that I will answer, says the Lord. I will answer the heavens and they shall answer the earth. The earth shall answer with grain, with new wine, and with oil. They shall answer Jezreel, which is that fertile valley.

And then I will sow her for myself in the earth, and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy. Then I will say to those who were not my people, you are my people. And they shall say, you are my God. So again, there's so many ways that the Bible expresses the same message.

So act four comes in Hosea 3 verses 1 through 5. It says, then the Lord said to me, go again, love a woman who is loved by a lover. And really, this isn't a good translation of it. I'd like to read it from the good God's word version. It says, then the Lord told me, love your wife again, even though she is loved by others and has committed adultery, love her as I the Lord loved the Israelites, even though they have turned to other gods and love to eat raisin cakes, just all these holy cakes that are that were being used by Baal worship.

And so, verse 2, he says, so I bought her for myself. So she left him and went back to her hoarder, her prostitution, and he had to buy her back for 15 shekels of silver and one and a half homers of barley. And I said to her, you shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man. So too will I be toward you. So this is depicting the exile. There would be many, many years before he would have again a covenant with her. It says, for the children of Israel shall abide many days without king and prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephon or terrafin. They're going to lose their identity, their religion, but not their lineage. Afterward, the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God. That hasn't happened yet. God's going to gather them and David their king. So David will be resurrected. He will be in charge of the 12 tribes of Israel. They shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days, talking about the end time period when it culminates with Christ returning. Now let's look in Hosea chapter 4, especially in verse 6. It's a famous verse.

It says, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, because you have rejected knowledge. I also will reject you from being priest for me, because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. So talking about leaving Israel, they were going to be forgotten by God, and they would forget their God.

In Hosea 5 verses 14 and 15, it focuses on Ephraim again. Notice what it says in verse 14. It says, For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I even I will tear them and go away. I will take them away, and no one shall rescue. I will return again to my place till they acknowledge their offense. Then they will seek my face, and their affliction they will earnestly seek me. Time of punishment and repentance will take place. Notice also in chapter 9 verse 16 and 17.

Chapter 9 verse 16 and 17, it says, Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit. Yes, were they to bear children, I would kill the darlings of their womb. In other words, when they are punished, when they're defeated, all those children are going to be lost. It says, My God will cast them away because they did not obey Him, and they shall be wanderers among the nations. That's what's going to happen to them. Remember the prophecy in Genesis 48. Genesis chapter 48 verse 18. Genesis 48 verse 18, it says, And Joseph said to his father, when Jacob was laying hands to give them the birthright promises, he said, Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn, Manasseh. Put your right hand on his head. But his father Isaac refused. No, no, his father Jacob rather refused and said, I know my son, I know he also shall become a people. He says, and he also shall be great. Talk about Manasseh, a people. It doesn't say a bunch of peoples, but this great nation would arise one day. But truly, his younger brother Ephraim shall be greater than he and that his descendants shall become a multitude of nations. So that's the difference. The British were able to colonize a great part. But a fourth of the land that's inhabited on Earth was one time during that period of time, the 19th century, when they had Great Britain as the great nation and the Commonwealth of Nations. They started centuries before Manasseh ever rose. Also, in 1 Chronicles 5, verse 1, how can we be sure that they did receive the birthright promises?

1 Chronicles 5, verse 1, talking about the descendants of Jacob. It says, verse 1, Now the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, which was Jacob, he was indeed the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's bed, in other words, he took one of them, wives of Jacob, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, so that the genealogy is not listed according to the birthright.

Yet Judah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came a ruler, although the birthright was Joseph. So we see that birthright is much greater than just a normal share of an inheritance. So Jair Davidi in his book The Tribes says, He says, from the Manasseh-dominated areas in Britain came a predominant proportion of the early settlers of the USA who determined that nation's guiding characteristics, he said many of them, they just fled England. It's interesting, Jair Davidi mentions that one of the terms for Manasseh in Hebrew signifies representative government. They were the ones that wanted representative government instead of the aristocracy. They didn't want the monarchy. They wanted everybody to have rights. And we see that as a characteristic with the Constitution of the United States. And here we are, all this represented government, when California got all these propositions. Why? Because it's got to be representative. You got to give people rights. That's not the way the British think. They have the aristocracy, the House of Lords, and the King, who are the ones that rule along with the House of Commons, which is a lower, it'd be like the House of Representatives, senators would be the the House of Lords. It goes on to say, prophecies and traditions concerning Manasseh were to become applicable to the U.S. Britain. On the other hand, was to remain a province of Ephraim. From his other book, Ephraim, he notes, the second son of Joseph was named Ephraim, whose name in Hebrew expresses the principle of nobility. Ephraim was to become the dominant Israelite tribe in the British Isles. For better or worse, Britain is distinguished from other nations by its monarchy and aristocracy. The British system, at its best, appears to instill in members a certain unique sense of duty, order, and the ability to overcome all odds. That's certainly embodied by Winston Churchill and all the great men ruling there. The British certainly have an aristocratic air about them. I don't know if you've noticed that if you have any British friends and so on, you know, they're just always very, very much in control of things and they don't get flustered with things. I remember one when I was over at Ambassador College Auditorium and I was one of the guides of that time and ushers and all of a sudden they had some streakers come from that college close by and I was talking to some British husband, man, you know, they're all dressed in their tux and all of a sudden they said, oh I believe there's some streakers coming by. There were three, two guys and a girl. I went after their guys. But anyways, I've always been fascinated with the British character. Very special.

So it said from the tribes, the V.D. concludes on the whole, it may be said that since the 18th century and to an extent well before, most countries of the world were anti-Jewish while the U.S., Britain, and France and related nations in Western Europe and overseas, in other words, these descendants of the ten tribes, were ambivalent with a favorable attitude prevailing more often than not. This book brings to prove that part of the reason for this, quote, ambivalence was heredity. They had a common heredity. So Acts 5, the final act, the end of the book of Hosea. Let's read Hosea 14. Hosea 14, verse 4. This book concludes saying, I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely, for my anger has turned away from him. I will be like the dew to Israel. He shall grow like the lily and lengthen his roots like Lebanon. His branches shall spread. His beauty shall be like an olive tree and his fragrance like Lebanon. Those who dwell under his shadow shall return. They shall be revived like grain and grow like a vine. Their scent shall be like the wine of Lebanon. Ephraim shall say, What have I had to do any more with idols? I have heard and observed him. I am like a green cypress tree. Your fruit is found in me. Finally cleanses themselves of all the idols. Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right. The righteous walk in them, but the transgressors stumble in them.

So in Jeremiah 31, you can read. That's such a powerful chapter. I'm basically out of time. So sad. If you allow me five more minutes, I can cover that. Jeremiah 31 in verse 7, because this is like a parallel to the book of Hosea. Jeremiah 31, verse 7 through 9, it says, For thus as the Lord, sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations, proclaim, give praise, and say, O Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the ends of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and the one who labors with a child together, a great throng shall return there. They shall come with weeping and with supplications. I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way in which they shall not stumble. For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. Verse 20, is Ephraim my dear son? He asks, is he a pleasant child? For though I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord. Set up signposts, make landmarks, set your heart toward the highway, the way in which you went out of Israel, turn back, O virgin of Israel, turn back to these your cities. And then in verse 31, it says, Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant, which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord, but this is a covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days, says the Lord, I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they all shall know me from the least of them to the greatest. And then in verse 36, it says, For if those ordinances, talking about the laws of nature, depart from before me, says the Lord, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before me forever.

And I have this quote, the New Living Translation, says, I am as likely to reject my people Israel as I am to abolish the laws of nature. So if you can change the constants of gravity, of speed, of time, of space, he says it would be easier to violate and destroy them than my pact with with God. In verse 40, it says, And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good, but I will put my fear in their heart, so that they will not depart from me. So this scripture complements so well, we conclude about the title, the prophet Hosea and Jesus Christ as the word in Israel's husband, how he suffered as he did for his church, and will bring the time of restoration of all things. You know, Acts 3, 21 talks about that time of restoration in the kingdom. So this is the life and lesson of Hosea.