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Pamphlet 1458 Hos kc 14-3

This practice of buying friends and allies is continued big time by the United States of America this very day!

Isaiah 1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Will the 10 tribes of the House of Israel get away with turning their backs on the Holy One of Israel? Ha! Can donkeys fly?

He said, " Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." You can rest assured and be confident that our Father is completely fair and everyone gets exactly what they have coming to them.

So Israel, represented by the largest tribe of Ephraim (America), having forsaken God by forgetting God, by not considering His Word, resorted to hiring (buying) friends and allies for protection and security. That's a "Big No No" according to His commands.

Hosea 8:9 (continued...)
Ephraim hath hired lovers.
This practice of buying friends and allies is continued big time by the United States of America this very day! And you want to talk about "dumb and dumber"? An harlot usually charges her lovers for her services, right? Not good old Israel/America. She PAYS THEM!

Here is how Ezekiel describes her using the same adultery/idolatry terminology as Hosea:

Ezekiel 16:32
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

[33]They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

[34] And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

She pays them to be her lovers/allies! The word contrary means "reverse" or as we say "bass ackwards"!
Hosea 8:10
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.
What have we learned so far today? "You reap what you sow", right? Therefore, because Ephraim has forgotten God and acted contrary to His commands, instead of his allies helping him and coming to his aid, God will gather them against him and Ephraim will suffer for a little while under the tribute (burden) paid to the king of princes. (Have you been watching the news lately? Isn't that what is happening to America right now in the middle east)
[11]Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
What does it mean that Ephraim, who is representative of the 10 tribes of Israel, has made (multiplied) many altars? It means that there are a multitude of churches in the nation, one on every street corner in some towns, but as we have learned, many are merely Beth-Avens, houses of emptiness, whereas they should be Beth-Els, houses of God. Therefore, Ephraim's religions and his churches are a sin unto him even as the worship services before the golden calves of Samaria were sin unto him.

The sad part of all this is that our people are really without excuse. Unlike those who lived in the Dark Ages where access to the Word of God was prevented and denied by the church  i.e. the Light of Truth was all but snuffed out (hence the term the Dark Ages), we in this nation do have access to the entire written Word of God.

There are many times more Bibles in this land than there are people, but there are few people who have "considered it", i.e. read it with understanding.

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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