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Pamphlet 1482 Hos kc 21-1

Three bulls to get rid of!

This is it, the Epilogue of Hosea bringing forth the final message, even the salvation message directly from our Father to His children He loves so dearly. It is a national call as well as an individual call!

Hosea 14:1
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
The story of Israel's iniquity and their fall has been eloquently and vividly portrayed in this Book of Hosea as if acted out on stage so that we can "see and hear" in our mind's eye and understand in our hearts the feelings and emotions of our Father and the enormous love He has for His children who, despite His bountiful blessings, almost totally ignore His Word thereby forsaking Him. This hurts Him deeply for not only does He long for our love, He must now bring chastisement upon us that we might reap the consequences of our deeds so that we may "see the light" and return unto Him.

The whole story is actually contained right in the meanings of names of the characters:

Hosea = "Salvation", the husband and the Father
Gomer = "Completion", the wife who becomes an adulteress showing the fullness of Israel's sin of idolatry.
Jezreel = "A play on the name Israel and an homonym meaning scattering and sowing", showing Israel scattered and sown among the nations while losing his identity. He would eventually be sown in his own land.
Lo-Ruhamah = "Not compassionate", Israel as the unpitied one.
Lo-Ammi = "Not my people", Israel belonging to another.
Ammi = "My people", Israel returned unto Him.
Ruhamah = "Pitied one", Lo-Ruhamah's new name.

(Reference pg. 1223 in Companion Bible)

The Good News is that His children can return unto Him now, before the sands of time for this flesh age run out of the "hour" glass.

Here is how to do it:

[2] Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto Him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
Take the words which He supplied, i.e. His Word, and go to Him and say unto Him, "Take away all iniquity and receive us O' Gracious One (as it should read)". If you do, He promises in verse 4 to heal you, spiritually, which is take away your iniquity thereby cleansing you! Is this not the same thing John says in 1 John 1:9: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Then promise to cut out the "bull" and praise Him with your lips instead of kissing the "golden calves" of men's traditions.

Here are three bulls to get rid of:

Hosea 14:3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
1. The Assyrian, representing the false messiah, cannot "save you" in anyway, i.e. neither nationally nor individually, neither physically nor spiritually. Hosea 13:4 ..."There is no Savior beside me!"

2. The reference to "ride upon horses" is a from to Deut. 17:16 meaning do not trust in man's armies for deliverance.

3. Recognize and get rid of "man made" religion and traditions which much of churchianity has become. The traditions of men are pure "apostasy" and will lead millions of our brothers and sisters to worship antichrist, the spurious Jesus!  So "Take His (God's) Words!", not man's (vs. 2), and go to Him!

The "fatherless" are the orphaned children of Israel and those who have forsaken His Word and therefore cut themselves off from their heavenly Father.

Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Israel's (Christian nation's) "backsliding" does not refer to their flesh sins (i.e. adultery) but rather to their "apostasy" which is "idolatry"!

You see, a person can have good morals and not be an adulterer while at the same time being a "spiritual whore"!  Therefore, always remember what Israel's great sin is from Hosea 10:8! It is their Beth-avens, their high places of worship, i.e. their churches which should be Beth-els (houses of God) instead of Beth-avens (houses of emptiness, i.e. void of His Word)!

It is precisely because of the lack of the knowledge and understanding of His Word that the majority of Christians will fall into the great apostasy of the end time and worship antichrist as if he were God.   2 Thes. 2:3 "Let no man deceive you by any means (Take His Words instead): for that day (the return of Christ) shall not come, except (until) there come a falling away (apostasy) first, and that man of sin (Satan, antichrist) be revealed, the son of perdition;"

backsliding = meshuwbah, mesh-oo-baw', Hebrew 4878; or meshubah, mesh-oo-baw'; from Hebrew 7725 (shuwb); apostasy :- backsliding, turning 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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