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The Book of Hosea – Part 2, Hosea 2:1-23

[Study Aired April 20]

In the first chapter of Hosea, we see that Gomer and her children are deliberately designed to be the mother of harlots who directly depict the incipient Elect of God, Christ’s budding Bride. Indeed, “great shall be the day of Jezreel” since it is Christ’s Bride that soon, and following the one-thousand year reign of the ‘rod of iron’, she will bring together her children as the sand of the sea in the resurrection to judgment and redemption of every conceived son since Adam to the end of the one-thousand years.

In the meantime, that process is continuing to unfold in chapter 2 of Hosea.

Hos 2:1  Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. 
Hos 2:2  Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her Husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 
Hos 2:3  Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 
Hos 2:4  And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 
Hos 2:5  For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. 
Hos 2:6  Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 
Hos 2:7  And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first Husband; for then was it better with me than now. 
Hos 2:8  For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
Hos 2:9  Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. 
Hos 2:10  And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. 
Hos 2:11  I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 
Hos 2:12  And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Hos 2:13  And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

The Lord’s Mercy on Israel

Hos 2:14  Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. 
Hos 2:15  And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Hos 2:16  And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. 
Hos 2:17  For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 
Hos 2:18  And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Hos 2:19  And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 
Hos 2:20  I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD. 
Hos 2:21  And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; 
Hos 2:22  And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. 
Hos 2:23  And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God. 

Study:

Hos 2:1  Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

Ammi H5971 Definition: 1. nation, people a. people, nation b. persons, members of one’s people, compatriots, country-men 2. kinsman, kindred. From H6604 Definition: 1. to dim, darken, grow dark a. (Qal) to dim, eclipse, be held dark b. (Hophal) to be dimmed, grow dark, hide.

Ruhamah H7355 Definition: 1. to love, love deeply, have mercy, be compassionate, have tender affection, have compassion a. (Qal) to love b. (Piel) 1. to have compassion, be compassionate 1b.

Hos 2:2  Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her Husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 

In Hosea 2:2, who is pleading with whom? In this instance, it is Hosea, yet, all the twelve minor prophets representing Christ are urgently and ‘mercifully’ pleading with the ‘nation’ of Israel, their ‘countrymen’ and ‘kinsmen’ “mother”, depicted as Gomer, to turn away from their inherent whoredoms. The pleading is a designed misnomer in that Israel’s response to her Lord’s pleading intentionally results in her stonily and no doubt frustrating inability to change since the holy spirit was not yet given. We will see that she, like the Elect today, is equally frustrated even with the holy spirit to instantly put away her doctrinal whoredoms, the ‘giants’ of her land, in one decisive moment.

Exo 23:29  I will not drive them [giants, Babylon’s doctrinal lies] out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the Beast of the field multiply against thee. 
Exo 23:30  By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

Since Gomer and her whoredoms represent Israel having many ‘lovers’ and, therefore, equally husbands since sexual intimacies denote espousal, “uncleanness” (Deut 24:1 – Uncleanness  1. nakedness, nudity, shame, pudenda) residing in her and under Mosaic Law, is a hard-core ‘stony hardness of heart’ reason for divorce. As such, and after seemingly endless pleading and mercy, he states, “She is not my wife,” though the Lord remains with her to fully play out the saga to juxtapose the difference in the yet-to-be-created distant New Covenant Bride of Christ. Our Lord will not suffer a hint of doctrinal whoredom; therefore, “she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts”…

Hos 2:3  Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 

By design, Israel is already dreadfully ‘poor, blind and naked’ to her sins to depict the future Elect of God in the early stages of their calling. When our Lord wants to make an impactful point upon His people, scriptures are chock full of horrific events that etch the minds of whom He chooses for their hopeful spiritual memory. Ezekiel and Isaiah, like Hosea with Gomer, were similarly chosen to perform a humiliating task. (Imagine Ezekiel being requested to cook his food with human dung’s smoky infusions with his food! Eze 4:12). Barely more palatable, Isaiah was commanded to go barefoot and naked for three years to denote Israel’s shameless nakedness and ALL accounts mostly and solely for the future benefit of his Bride’s learning (… talk about humiliating)!

Isa 20:2  At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. 
Isa 20:3  And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 
Isa 20:4  So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Egypt, Assyria, Sodom and Old Jerusalem are the same and for indiscernible differences of iniquity and are thus collectively called Babylon. It is Babylon within, Old Israel’s pride for shameless spiritual nakedness we must be made to see as our wilderness of understanding figuratively cooked upon our dung we formally presented as our Lord’s commands to learn their sordid correlations spiritually. Gomer’s daughter, the second child named Lo-ruhamah (no mercy) is animatedly highlighted by Ezekiel, Isaiah and Hosea’s God-commissioned shameful enactments to dramatise that Israel became the third child, Loammi equally; Def. Lo-ammi = not my people.

The three children born to Hosea to his harlot wife, Gomer, Ruhamah, Loruhamah and Loammi, perfectly represent the physical progression and completion of judgment on the house of Israel for the future spiritual pattern of the heavenly Jerusalem, the Bride of Christ’s parallel journey. The irony in the creation of the Bride begins with no mercy on our sins as portrayed in the meaning of Ruhamah’s name and painfully in Loruhamah to no mercy and, finally, the Lord’s rejection of his espoused wife Israel through the meaning of Loammi.

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1Pe 4:18  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Mat 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Jas 1:2  My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 
Jas 1:3  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Jas 1:4  But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

1Co 11:32 But when we are judged [Hebrew: krinō], we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned [Hebrew: katakrinō = a later judgment] with the world.

What man in his right mind would want to be married to the Deuteronomy 24:1 ‘unclean’ wife whom all 12 minor prophets depict? Well, Christ in His ‘right mind’ did it to show His beautiful Bride in the process of her creation, and how she, the “faithful city”, was not just equally corrupt but worse, as depicted by Aholibah, the younger sister of Aholah (a depiction of the elder serving the younger dictate, and embarrassingly the Bride of Christ), having born children of whoredoms.

Isa 1:21-31  How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Hos 2:4  And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 
Hos 2:5  For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. 
Hos 2:6  Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

Continuing…

Isa 1:22  Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: 
Isa 1:23  Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. 
Isa 1:24  Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: 
Isa 1:25  And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
Isa 1:26  And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
Isa 1:27  Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. 
Isa 1:28  And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. 
Isa 1:29  For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. 
Isa 1:30  For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 
Isa 1:31  And the strong shall be as tow [H5296], and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

A “tow” H5296 is a Definition: a strand of flax, tow (as shaken from flax when beaten). To make fine linen, the righteousness of the Saints, the flax’s big, broad, long leaf must be pounded to separate the thread-like fibres. These fibres are dried and beached white in the sun, ready for weaving cloth. Linen is known for its incredibly strong and durable characteristics; however, it burns easily or smolders for a long time and is not easily quenched since its smouldering characteristics cause it to re-burst into flames. Of course, it all is spiritually relatable to how God deals with our unrighteous clothing.

Hos 2:7  And she [Gomer representing Israel and later the emerging Bride sees her past] shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first Husband; for then was it better with me than now.

By saying in her heart that she will return to her first Husband, Israel is a historically classic act when we repeat the same sin. The difference is that the holy spirit, little by little, gives us power over our whorish enemies within. We will shortly see in Ezekiel 23:22 below that we, representing the younger sister, Aholibah, typically have chased our ‘lovers’ in Babylonian Christianity. We, having previously and breathlessly been validated by our religious lover’s lecherous arousals, which ultimately bore us no satisfaction, so more ‘lovers’ of different sects were pursued in a fruitless pursuit of spiritual happiness that produced displeasure and fruit of bastard children. The Philistines these two girls easily preyed upon were the equivalent likeness of encounters with the men of Ashdod, a major Philistine city, since they bore bastard children.

Deu 23:2  A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 

Neh 13:23  In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:  

Zec 9:6  And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Hos 2:8  For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
Hos 2:9  Therefore will I return, and take away my corn [wheat] in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

Taking away Israel’s riches, food, water, oil and clothing corresponds to us imagining that we are rich in the word of God yet clothed by greasy grace that rejects the Lord’s chastisement, thus leaving us naked.

Mat 13:12  For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

Tit 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 
Tit 2:12 Teaching [i.e. chastening – paideuō] us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Hos 2:10  And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. 

Initially and painfully, the Bride of Christ ultimately learns to love her Husband’s chastening, for she sees it precisely as He designed it to be: an act of love.

Heb 12:5  And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, “My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him; 
Heb 12:6  for whom the Lord loves He chastens, and He scourges every son whom He receives.” 
Heb 12:7  If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the father does not chasten? 
Heb 12:8  But if you are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then you are bastards and not sons. 
Heb 12:9  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
Heb 12:10  For truly they chastened us for a few days according to their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness. 

Hos 2:11  I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts [all her self-appointed righteousness in keeping days, seasons, months and years, including birthdays, anniversaries, mother’s day and father’s day etc.].
Hos 2:12  And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest [vineyard left to grow wild and overrun with thorns and thistles], and the beasts of the field shall eat them [… we end up similar to Nebuchadnezzar eating the herbs of the field, and alongside our Beast of the field sister’s of Babylonian and their wild Christian food]. 
Hos 2:13  And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim [Baal = lord n pr m 1. supreme male divinity of the Phoenicians or Canaanites], wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD. 

No physical account of harlot Israel is more graphically depicted than the escapades of the outrageously colorful characters of Oholah and Oholibah! Oholah, the elder, represents the very Israel the minor prophets are prophesying against for her Gomer-like whoredoms, yet, her younger sister, Aholibah, represents the Lord’s future very Elect prior to her being spiritually dragged out of Babylon. As lengthy as their account is, it cannot be outshone by any other chronicle more garishly deliberately to alarm us for our originally whorish condition.  

Eze 23:1  The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 
Eze 23:2  Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother [Israel]:
Eze 23:3  And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
Eze 23:4  And the names of them were Aholah the elder [Old Jerusalem], and Aholibah her sister [the budding New Jerusalem]: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria [representing Israel in the North] is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah [the Priests, representing the Elect of God, who knew better and didn’t walk in all of God’s judgments and were slothful in chastising greater Israel].
Eze 23:5  And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
Eze 23:6  Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
Eze 23:7  Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
Eze 23:8  Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
Eze 23:9  Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
Eze 23:10  These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

The slaying of Aholah, who represents Israel, depicts the Lord’s future Elect looking back at where she once was reveling in the strong, delusional riches of Babylonian doctrines. Today, and judging by the tender shoots of the fig tree, it appears that she, in the form of Zionism, and Jews who say that they are Jews and are not, are in for a grande finale ‘slaying.’

Rev 17:16  And the ten horns [the world’s kingdoms and nations waking up to Zionism] which thou sawest upon the Beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire [That ‘fire’ will be a combination of the Beast’s parallel ‘fiery word’ to God’s spiritual ‘fiery word’, calling out Zionism’s treachery, although, no doubt literal fire from multiple wars and rumors of wars will be included]. 
Rev 17:17  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the Beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Rev 17:18  And the woman which thou sawest is that great city [Babylon The Great; the religious ideologies of the world], which reigneth over the kings of the earth.)

Continuing in Ezekiel:

Eze 23:11  And when her sister Aholibah [the younger representing the future Elect] saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.

Why was Aholibah more corrupt? She represented the Priesthood, the Elect of God who knew better than to corrupt the Laws of God, and thus was a warning for the Bride of Christ.

Eze 23:12  She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. 
Eze 23:13  Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, 
Eze 23:14  And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion [1. red colour, vermilion and representing mankind’s sensuality], 

The young and colorful men of national honor portrayed on the wall in images and artwork and in person highlight the self-proclaimed richness of the culture that mesmerised and empowered Aholibah to work her beautiful femininity upon her lover’s lusts. That act is the same for us any time we go out of our way to proselytise a known enemy of Christ without being asked of our faith. The Shulamite in the Song of Solomon is the complete opposite spiritually to Aholibah and stayed faithful to her Lord by remaining “black” in understanding for her 1,000 sister wives of Solomon.

Eze 23:15  Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: 
Eze 23:16  And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea [The dual instigations of her lust for them, and they for her, she sending messages to her lovers is an act of a harlot, “Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids” – Pro 6:25]. 
Eze 23:17  And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
Eze 23:18  So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

Aholibah’s conscience alerted her to her whoredoms, but she, like we have experienced when already immersed in a repeated sin, fleetingly thinks, ‘What the heck, I’m already guilty, so I might as well finish the act’ and repent at leisure.’ That is the act of lasciviousness (G766) and means  Aselgeia – Phonetic: as-elg’-i-a – Definition: 1. unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness, insolence and precisely represents our graceless Aholibah within “For they, being past feeling, have given themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness” – Eph 4:19.

Eze 23:19  Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth [Ecc 7:10], wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 
Eze 23:20  For she doted upon their paramours [H6370 – concubine], whose flesh is as the flesh of asses [muscular and well-formed], and whose issue is like the issue of horses [… for the sheer number/volume of concubine-like espousals ~ how low can you go?]
Eze 23:21  Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats [lactation for bastard children] by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth. 
Eze 23:22  Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; 
Eze 23:23  The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
Eze 23:24  And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
Eze 23:25  And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears [cut off]; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. 
Eze 23:26  They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels [H3627 – 1. article, vessel, implement, utensil a. article, object (general) b. utensil, implement, apparatus, vessel 1. implement (of hunting or war) 2. implement (of music) 3. implement, tool (of labour)]. 

The Lord designed a woman’s every nuance of her unique and beautiful femininity to be highly attractive for one man, her Husband’s delight and immense pleasure that rebounds for her like-immeasurable pleasure. She is made for him and not him for her (1Co 11:8-9), yet the glorious paradox is that she, by elegantly employing her every article of fair jewels as utensils and apparatuses of intentional music that He designed for His arousal, will receive the express desire of the Shulamite, His spiritual kisses that are better than wine (Son 1:2)!

Eze 23:27  Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. 
Eze 23:28  For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated: 
Eze 23:29  And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms [remember the Great Whore being burned with fire?  (Rev 17:16)]. 
Eze 23:30  I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols. 
Eze 23:31  Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand. 
Eze 23:32  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. 
Eze 23:33  Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. 
Eze 23:34  Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 
Eze 23:35  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. 
Eze 23:36  The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; 
Eze 23:37  That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them. 
Eze 23:38  Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
Eze 23:39  For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house. 
Eze 23:40  And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments [her fair jewels lewdly used to arouse her paramours], 
Eze 23:41  And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil. 
Eze 23:42  And a voice of a multitude [the world of Babylon] being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness [entire world of humanity], which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. 
Eze 23:43  Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?

Aholah and Aholibah being termed “old in adulteries” goes to show just how long Israel, the Lord’s first wife, indulged the sheer number of orgastic whorish nations from Sinai to this very day, yet ~ “Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them? – Yes! She is the old whore, Babylon, who is soon to be remembered by God (Rev 16:19. 18:2. 18:21).

Eze 23:44  Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. 
Eze 23:45  And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

Those “righteous men” are the Lord’s Seven Angels, the Elect of God (Rev 16:16-21), who have first drunk from the same cup as Christ, their Husband and received His wrath upon their Aholah and Aholibah ways spiritually within.   

Eze 23:46  For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. 
Eze 23:47  And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
Eze 23:48  Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women [H802 from H376 – 1. man a. man, male (in contrast to woman, female)]  may be taught [Chastened. Perfect tense] not to do after your lewdness.
Eze 23:49  And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

The “all women” being taught to cease their lewdness certainly refers outwardly to all physical men and women, yet most significantly to the Elect of God, his Bride, the Woman made up of many joints of men and women.

For the Lord’s Elect, and following the withering judgment upon our Aholah, Aholibah and Gomer ways spiritually within, the meanings of Gomer’s second children’s names returns to the meaning of the first child’s name, Ruhamah, 1. to love, love deeply, have mercy. It is the same pattern throughout the scriptures for chastisement for sin, repentance, forgiveness and redemption and now learned spiritually.

(Ruhamah H7355 Definition: 1. to love, love deeply, have mercy, Lo-ruhamah = no mercy. Loammi, Lo-ammi = not my people).

The Lord’s Mercy on Israel

Hos 2:14  Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably [to – 1. inner man, mind, will, heart, understanding a. inner part, midst (spiritually)] unto her.

Allure H6601 1. to be spacious, be open, be wide. Deceive, entice. Very similar to Allure G1185 – 1. to bait, catch by a bait 2. metaph. to beguile by blanishments, allure, entice, deceive.

Speak comfortably H3820 – 1. to bait, catch by a bait 2. metaph. to beguile by blanishments, allure, entice, deceive.

Hosea, by alluring and speaking comfortably in their order to Gomer, and Christ to the Elect, is aligned for each husband speaking with the same enthusiastic encouragement to their wives to change their harlot ways. To the wife, their husband’s ‘extravagant, spacious, broad allurement’ expressions with gentle urgency for hopeful change of behaviour are seen as a ‘deception’ to ‘entice, bait’ with ‘beguiling deceit’ for change. Every sinner being called out and held to acknowledge their sins is given to “accuse” the circumstances of their whoredoms or equally “excuse” themselves in victimhood and dig their heels in against change.

Subsequently, the vast majority of unconverted wives are unwitting whores while being physically chaste in marriage. By them not pursuing the unity of mind and spirit with their converted or unconverted husband, to him, is a (mostly an unwitting) act of Deuteronomy 24:1 “uncleanness”. That uncleanness for an Elect of God is fornication and the trademark of a whore; the notion of which all non-spiritually wise wives understandably violently revolt.

Speaking “comfortably” means appealing to the spiritual heart and soul of the Elect, the Bride in her youth, to hopefully allure her to war against her whorish ways and be washed by her Christ-like husband’s (Christ’s) commandments.

Isa 40:1  Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Isa 40:2  Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins. 
Isa 40:3  The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 
Isa 40:4  Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 
Isa 40:5  And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. 

Hos 2:15  And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor [ 1. trouble, disturbance a. Achor – as the valley of trouble where Achan and his family were stoned] for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 
Hos 2:16  And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi [1. man a. man, male]; and shalt call me no more Baali H1180  Ba`aliy – Phonetic: bah-al-ee’– Definition: Baali = my Lord 1. a deity in the northern kingdom, variation of the name ‘Baal’. From 1167 1. owner, husband, Lord  owner b. a husband].

What Hosea 2:16 means is that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God while lewdly serving ourselves, a Baal-like god sitting in the Temple of God, showing that we are god, central to our first father, Satan. Hence, we know no more Jesus after the flesh but as Christ, our Lord and Saviour.

2Co 5:14  For the love of Christ constrains us, judging this, that if one died for all, then all died;
2Co 5:15  and He died for all, that the living ones may live no more to themselves, but to Him who died for them and having been raised. 
2Co 5:16  So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know Him so.
2Co 5:17  So that if any one is in Christ, that one is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 
2Co 5:18  And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
2Co 5:19  whereas God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and putting the word of reconciliation in us. 
2Co 5:20  Then we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as God exhorting through us, we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 
2Co 5:21  For He has made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 

2Th 2:3  Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,
2Th 2:4  who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.

Hos 2:17  For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 
Hos 2:18  And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Hos 2:19  And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

Clearly, the entire Bible is mostly for the Bride of Christ and her creation since she is the only one “betrothed forever.” Nonetheless, her children, meaning every conception since Adam to the end of the one-thousand year reign under the rod of iron will receive eternal life.

1Co 15:21  For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 
1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 
1Co 15:23  But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.

Hos 2:20  I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD. 
Hos 2:21  And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; 
Hos 2:22  And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.

The entirety of mankind will ‘hear Jezreel’ (Jezreel = God sows. From H2232 1. to sow, scatter seed) since Christ and his Christs will sow His commandments in the hearts of the scattered seed of mankind in the Resurrection to Judgement.

Hos 2:23  And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.

Remembering that in the Bible, the original text didn’t have chapters, and the conclusion of Hosea’s chapter two seamlessly steps into chapter three. However, to finalise chapter two, our Lord summarises Gomer’s God-given whoredoms, of course, meaning the called-out Elect of Christ’s awakening to their prostitution, and provides her immense hope for a chaste heart by calling her “my people”, and she calling her Husband, “my God.”