Hosea 2:16-23
“And in that day, declares the Lord,
you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ For I
will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered
by name no more. And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the
beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the
ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I
will make you lie down in safety. And I will betroth you to me forever. I will
betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in
mercy. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.
“And in that day I will answer, declares the Lord, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer
the earth, and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the
oil, and they shall answer Jezreel, and I will sow her for myself in
the land.
And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’; and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”
And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’; and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”
It is always wise to look at prophecy with
this vision, it sometimes addresses what is going to happen soon, and also in
the near future, and yet sometimes it is referring to a time to come, a time
way out in what we time critters call the future. The more I read this it seems as if this is
what we mention as future, a time yet to happen.
Israel’s people are going to enter into a
new covenant and once more God would call them His wife and they would call Him
their husband. It is important to note
again that God divorces Israel for breaking His covenant, they rejected His law
and even totally rejected the relationship they once had with Him. The evidence was being filled with self and
pride and forgetting the grace that they had lived under. They went after the gods of their neighbors
and engaged in idolatry, and they put trust in kings, armies, and agreements
with other nations and not in God. This
lead them on the same road America and the Western world is engaging in today;
all kinds of injustice and violence, taking advantage of the poor and like
today it brought about lying, stealing, and murder.
Now it is clear that Israel today is not
free from war, and as a people and nation, God is not the center of their minds
and hearts. I believe we are looking at
a time to come when Israel will experience this, “And I will betroth you to me forever. I will
betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in
mercy. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.”
But what a day for the people of Israel to
look to and I pray it happens soon, very soon for it is my understanding that Jesus
the Messiah will reign over them, and will replant Jezreel. And will have mercy on No Mercy, and will say
to Israel, You are my people, and they shall say, You are my God.
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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