Hosea 12:12 The Bride of Christ

 

 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria and Israel served for a wife and for a wife he kept sheep

Comments: ^{Hosea 12:12} Jesus also served for a wife. He left his glory in Heaven, where he was known as THE WORD ^{John 1:1}, and, becoming the SON ^{Psalm 2:6, Hebrews 1:5}, took on inferior human flesh. He became clay ^{Genesis 2:7}, so that he could submit to a horrific death in order to ransom all humanity ^{John 3:16}, and, in doing, betrothed himself to a Bride ^{Revelation 19:7}.

For God so LOVED the word he gave his only BEGOTTEN son that WHOSEVER believes on Him SHOULD NOT PERISH but have Everlasting LIFE

Hosea Chapter 8

 1: Set the trumpet to thy mouth [The enemy ^:3 shall come] as a vulture against The House of YHWH ^Jacob because they have transgressed my covenant and trespassed against my law 2: Israel shall cry unto me My Elohim we know you! ^{Matthew 7:22} 3: Israel has cast off the thing that is good The enemy shall pursue him 4: They have set up kings but not by me They have made princes and I knew it not ^{Matthew 24:36}

Comments: ^{Hosea 8:4} YHWH ELOHIM said that Israel appointed princes and HE did not know it. Do we really believe The Almighty didn’t know what Israel was up to? No. HE knew it but was saying he was neither consulted in the choices nor did he give consent.

 Of their silver and their gold have they made them idols that they may be cut off.
5: Thy calf O Samaria has cast thee off ^{Hosea 5:9} Mine anger is kindled against them How long will it be ere they attain to innocency? 6: For from Israel was it also the workman made it Because of this it is not God but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces 7: For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind It has no stalk The bud shall yield no meal If so be it yield the strangers shall swallow it up 8: Israel is swallowed up Now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure  

Comments: ^{Hosea 8:8} Israel being among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein there is no pleasure, means the Gentiles won’t like or appreciate them. Where they will not be outright persecuted, they will be barely tolerated and even resented for the benefits they bring.

9: For they are gone up to Assyria a wild ass alone by himself Ephraim has hired lovers 10: Yea though they have hired among the nations now will I gather them and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes 11: Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin altars shall be unto him to sin 12: I have written to him the great things of my law But they were counted as a strange thing 13: They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings and eat it But YHWH accepts them not Now will he remember their iniquity and visit their sins They shall return to Egypt 14: For Israel hath forgotten his Maker ^{Isaiah 43:1} and builds temples and Judah has multiplied fenced cities But I will send a fire upon his cities and it shall devour the palaces thereof

Hosea 4:2-3,6

By swearing and lying and murdering and stealing and committing adultery they breach ^{[Breach God’s hedge of protection – Job 1:9-10]} and bloods in bloods they touch Therefore shall the [promised] land mourn and every one that dwells in it shall languish with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the heavens Yes the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.... 

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge Because you have rejected knowledge I will also reject you....

Comments: ^{Hosea 4:2-3} It’s not a difficult thing to know what behavior breaches God’s hedge of protection. He lists these things in verse three: swearing, lying, murdering, stealing, and committing adultery. Basically, the ten commandments. The children of Israel, en masse, were guilty of all of these things. 

^{Hosea 4:6} This verse is often quoted but rarely in whole. The part about rejecting knowledge is usually left out. Yes, ignorance can and does destroy, but within the context of judgement, as in Hosea 4:6, it is the rejection of God’s knowledge that can and does bring about both national and personal calamity.