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Pamphlet 1404 Hos kc 2-2

You must learn to read carefully if you desire to understand the simplicity of God's Word

We are going to learn about that "salvation", which is everlasting, and the plan to bring it to pass in our study of Hosea. Remember at the conclusion of study #1402 we learned that the land, meaning the children in the land of Israel, had committed great whoredoms and DEPARTED from God. Our Father wants us to know that to Him it is just like having a wife who becomes a whore and chases after other men.  How would you feel if your wife became lewdly unfaithful to you?

Well, God told Hosea to go marry one of those unfaithful women and have some children with her. In this heartfelt analogy we will not only see how God feels, but we will find contained in the Hebrew names of the children the very plan of salvation for the House of Israel. We begin with verse three where Hosea has just been instructed to go marry a "wife of whoredoms" (vs. 2).

Hosea 1:3
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
Gomer means "completeness" which Dr. Bullinger points out in the Companion Bible on page 1209 means completeness as in "filling up the measure of idolatry". In other words, Gomer represents the complete or whole idolatrous House of Israel who has become the daughter of sensualities, which is what her mother's name "Diblaim" (a double cake of figs) means.

Note: Students of history who know and understand the migrations of the descendents of Noah, and how his grandson, whose name was Gomer, became the progenitor of the Cimmerians and various branches of the Celts and the Gauls, etc., will see the deeper significance in the name "Gomer", a name that also means "perfect". (see Smith's Bible Dictionary)

So Gomer conceived and bare Hosea a son, a son whom the LORD Himself named! So we can be sure there is great significance in that name.

Hosea 1:4
And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu [the living - should be eternally], and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
This fourth verse is pivotal to understanding that which our Father would have us know and understand in this first chapter of Hosea concerning His Plan of Salvation for His people Israel. First of all, one must learn to read carefully if he or she desires to understand the simplicity of God's Word. Notice that the LORD has NOT said that He would cause the "children" of the house of Israel to perish or cease. It is only their "kingdom", their national identity as the "House of Israel" with a king reigning over them, that He would take away!

To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you accomplish both.


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