Audio Download

The Book of Hosea – Part 9, Hos 9:1-17

[Study Aired June 8, 2024]

The term “whore” or “harlot” is, by Babylon Christian sensitivities, increasingly offensive because they, as we in the past have done, incredibly want to relieve their accusing consciousnesses (Rom 2:12-16) of their deliberately subtle and Babylon’s increasingly blatant degeneracy. Today, in this it seems, the rapidly closing age of man’s rule, Babylon has once again become one language. Not just by her ability with AI to instantly translate languages, but more spiritually potent internationally is the deranged moral cry of every man openly justifying his “one language” of spiritual perversions. In fact, so degraded is the term ‘honourable’ regarding thinking and actions that very few people can identify what it means, equally as they can’t identify the difference between a man and a woman. The world is designed by Christ to be on a one-way ticket just short of oblivion; ‘but for the Elect’s sake, no flesh would be saved alive’ for the One Thousand Year Rule by them! 

Mat 24:21  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 
Mat 24:22  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. 

Regarding the Tower of Babel:

Gen 11:1  And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 
Gen 11:2  And it came to pass, as they [Descendants of Noah] journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. [Shinar = country of two rivers {Euphrates River} 1. the ancient name for the territory later known as Babylonia or Chaldea and today, Iraq. Since Mt. Ararat is a distance to the North-North-West, they must have gone into Persia, Iran today in order to come from the East].

Notice that they are not heading East towards the sun/the Son of righteousness, but instead to the symbolic spiritual darkness in the West to build their amazing tower. Eventually, the light shining from the rising sun in the East will dispel the darkness in the West. This spiritually symbolises what happens to the Lord’s Elect. However, for the time being, as described in Hosea’s account in old Israel, there will be semi-darkness in the coming exile.

Gen 11:3  And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter [The burning of brick to make it stronger is what the Elect of God see in themselves as they suffer the glorious tribulation of Him building off-site yet still on the Earth, the New Heavenly Jerusalem in them ascending spiritually as a tower “unto heaven”]. 
Gen 11:4  And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 
Gen 11:5  And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 
Gen 11:6  And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do [to pollute Christ’s word].
Gen 11:7  Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech [… confounded language in the world is exactly what is nearing its conclusion today]. 
Gen 11:8  So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 
Gen 11:9  Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 

Babel H894. Definition: babel or Babylon = confusion (by mixing) 1. Babel or Babylon, the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah) situated on the Euphrates. From H1101 – 1. to mix, mingle, confuse, confound a. (Qal) 1. to mingle, confuse 2. to mix. 

What is mixed is the seed of men “mingling” with one another of endless moral ideologies opposing the Lord’s word. If those times of building the tower of the Beast’s ascension to sitting on the throne of God, soundly stating that he is god, were not cut short, the timeframe and plan for God’s recreation of man would have been theoretically shortened.

Likewise, and today for the sake of the Elect, Old Israel in Hosea’s time is deliberately designed to be a whore for the emergent Bride of Christ’s enduring reflection, not to repeat her former ways.

The Lord Will Punish Israel

Hos 9:1  Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. 

Righteous or unrighteous sexual lust, particularly for men, is designed by God to be a phenomenally powerful magnet, equally as most women’s desire to bear children. On both occasions, if sensual gain is heightened by lingering on an illicit act, the replayed thought held captive by lust is likely to sear one’s conscience to excuse the occasion and subsequently carry out the misdeed. Just as alternately crossed layers of plywood create a thin yet incredibly strong structure, so do the dismissed trumpet blasts of righteous alarm laminate illegitimate thoughts for a seared conscience.

Likewise, is the “joy as other people” who do not know Christ since they do not have a moral foundation as Israel did outwardly to know right from wrong. Consequently, whoring was as natural as brute beasts of the field. Symbolically in nature, brute beasts have more ‘morality’ than mankind only because they are programmed to procreate by certain biological timings rather than man’s conscious deliberations.

Pro 5:3  For the lips of a strange woman [Israel’s neighbours, even some of their ‘own household’] drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 
Pro 5:4  But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 
Pro 5:5  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 
Pro 5:6  Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 
Pro 5:7  Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. 
Pro 5:8  Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: 
Pro 5:9  Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 
Pro 5:10  Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; 
Pro 5:11  And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 
Pro 5:12  And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 
Pro 5:13  And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

Israel, as we do spiritually, having repeatedly committed whoredoms and given to not hearing the still small trumpet blast within to remember their Lord’s commands, have figuratively fattened themselves with ‘loved reward upon every cornfloor’ and is traced to a seared conscience since their reward is the fatness of lawlessness without sharp rebuke. 

Eze 33:3  If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; 
Eze 33:4  Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 

Hos 9:2  The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 

Nonetheless, all her outstanding debts will be paid in the coming exile, and for our unrepentant hearts, the resurrection to Judgment. In that case, in this time and age, spiritually for us, our unrighteousness will never be satisfied with Babylon’s bread and wine, and we may be given over to a reprobate unclean mind, hopefully for temporary chastisement. If not…

Hos 9:3  They shall not dwell in the LORD’S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

Israel went into exile regardless of the potential confusion of connecting Egypt, Assyria, Sodom, and Old Jerusalem since our Lord deems them all as one and the same. Similarly, it is with the Lord’s own people inwardly today if any return to the vomit of unclean Babylonian doctrine. Subsequently, and before being dragged out of Babylon, God’s Elect were one and the same with the mixed seed of Babylon’s churches. 

Rev 18:3  For all nations [The Elect, too!] have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her [Babylon’s] fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies [Lewd doctrines for etching ears]. 
Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 
Rev 18:5  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Hos 9:4  They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

If we come before our Lord seeking answers to our prayers and we have not beforehand acknowledged our sins, our sacrifice—that is, spiritually, our prayers—is polluted and contemptible. Offering lame, sick, blind and any other sacrifice that is defective is us when we come before Christ without repentance and forgiveness for our brother’s sins against us.

Mal 1:6  A son [in the flesh] honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests [those claiming Elect], that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Mal 1:7  Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar [Christ]; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible. 
Mal 1:8  And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor [An outward king or person deeply respected]; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

Verse 4 of Hosea seems to directly relate to the Day of Atonement, which is a “holy convocation” and not a feast day as the other six are named. It is a solemn assembly and day of physical fasting that profoundly identifies Old Israel as physically dependent on him.

Passover – Lev 25:4-8

Unleavened Bread – Lev 23:6

Feast of Firstfruits – Lev 23:10

Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks (count 50 days) – Lev 23:16

Feast of Trumpets – Lev 23:24

Day of Atonement, not a Feast but a Sabbath rest – Lev 16, 23:26-32

Feast of Tabernacles or Booths – Lev 23:34

How interesting that in the subsequent verses of Joel 2:12-17, written before 201 BCE, a prophetic representation of spiritual fasting for the Israelites, no doubt a lot of blindness for the masses, and partial blindness for a few!

Joe 2:12  Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Joe 2:13  And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. 
Joe 2:14  Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God? 
Joe 2:15  Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Joe 2:16  Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 
Joe 2:17  Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? 

Rom 11:25  For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in [in the Lake of Fire].

So, too, it is with our sister Babylon, as we once did. They fast and pray similarly to the custom of Israel before Christ without his spirit to cleanse their polluted hearts. For those dragged to Christ since the cross, the Bridegroom’s spirit resides within, where mourning is far removed since they know their calling as His Bride, where physical fasting is not a necessity, but rather, a broken and contrite spirit which is totally submissive to Christ.

Meanwhile, in the harlotry of Babylonian Christianity, they fast and pray mostly for physical reward, and “their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.” Consequently, in type, the Lord’s people, the “haven of the good”, bury their spiritually dead brother’s polluted bones, represented as unclean doctrines and resulting stench in their nostrils.

Eze 39:11  And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers [the Elect of God]: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
Eze 39:12  And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
Eze 39:13  Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD. 
Eze 39:14  And they shall sever out men of continual employment [the Elect who never give up routing spiritual pollution from within], passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. 
Eze 39:15  And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog [the multitude of Gog, the world].
Eze 39:16  And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land [at the end of the One Thousand Year reign in the Lake of Fire].

Rev 20:7  And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 
Rev 20:8  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9  And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

Hos 9:5  What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? 
Hos 9:6  For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis [haven of the good] shall bury them [since they are in exile]: the pleasant places for their silver [God’s word], nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. 

A brambled confusion of thorns in their tabernacles is what blindness does to one devoid of spiritual understanding. He’s pricked that the scriptures are too difficult to untangle, and rightly so since he hasn’t been given spiritual understanding (Mat 13).

Hos 9:7  The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. 

The days of visitation have come in this age since the cross only upon the Lord’s little flock of Elect. Any professing priests of God therein, and typified as Essau disdaining his inheritance, are foolish and mad enough not to recognise God’s glorious gift of the First Resurrection and give their entire heart to him.

Hos 9:8  The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
Hos 9:9  They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah [hill]: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. 

“The days of Gibeah” are frightfully renowned for the Levite giving his concubine to be most vilely raped repeatedly to death by the sons of Belial, and her husband subsequently sending her dissected body to the far corners of Israel…

Jdg 19:30  And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed [a pollution depicting all of Israel and not just Benjamine] done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.

During the conflict, Israel fiercely battled Benjamin to near extinction. This can be compared to finding only one ripe cluster of grapes on a vine or one plump, ripe fig on a fig tree, which would be thoroughly plundered by thoughtless, uncouth men, leaving nothing for anyone else, representatively leaving no carried forward seed of Benjamin now paralleled to Ephraim’s coming destruction. 

On a positive note, the Lord’s scattered little flock is cherished as the apple of His eye, with the one ‘firstfruit’ fig symbolizing the emerging Bride amidst a world of spiritually immature green apples or evil figs (naughty figs, Jer 24:1-10).

Hos 9:10  I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor [Lord of the gap; a deity; Baal], and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. 
Hos 9:11  As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. 

Unclean fowl such as crows and vultures, keen to be first to gorge themselves on an animal’s afterbirth or struggling young just delivered, is like Israel, the church, lacking in her Lord’s courage to protect her flock from evil spirits who would normally fly away at the first motherly threat; so, too, are we in lockstep with our first father, Satan, if we fail to challenge what we suspect is unclean doctrinal food. 

Jas 4:7  Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil [unclean fowl], and he will flee from you. 
Jas 4:8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 
Jas 4:9  Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 
Jas 4:10  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Rev 18:2  And he [An Angel of the Lord in harmony with the Elect] cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 
Rev 18:3  For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 
Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 

Hos 9:12  Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave [Miscarry] them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Hos 9:13  Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 

Those verses can be seen as we once were, allowing the innocence of youthful and pure doctrines to perish without any resistance from our mother Babylon, who stands by passively while her religious leaders also indulge in wrongdoing. Subsequently, she bears symbolic stillbirths, even though they live, being ripped apart by the predatory pastors of Babylon, effectively giving their children to Satan, “the murderer”.

Lev 18:21  And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 

Rev 12:1  And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 
Rev 12:2  And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Rev 12:3  And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 
Rev 12:4  And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 
Rev 12:5  And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 
Rev 12:6  And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Even Babylon will violently protect her still-born lamb (her laity) to remain in her care, twice dead. Having been a wool grower (a sheep farmer), I’ve noted individual ewes for up to three days, keeping at bay foxes, eagles and crows from her stillborn until she grows weary and thirsty. She will go her way and, just like Babylon, forget her dead young, and naturally, her milk will dry up. Thankfully, for the Lord’s little flock, she has moved on from milk and is paradoxically soundly attached to the Vine, Christ, the symbolic root of Jesse from King David’s stock.

Hos 9:14  Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 
Hos 9:15  All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings , I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
Hos 9:16  Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. 
Hos 9:17  My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. 

The Bride of Christ is spiritually connected to Christ, who is her foundational root. While the Bride’s sisters in Babylon are focused on the victimised ‘wandering’ Jews who claim to be Jews but are not and are fiercely defending their mutually agreed 200,000,000 Zionist lies, she (the Bride) is also scattered and symbolically wandering among every nation on Earth.

Joh 10:15  As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 
Joh 10:16  And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. 

Deu 30:1  And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, 
Deu 30:2  And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; 
Deu 30:3  That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. 
Deu 30:4  If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 
Deu 30:5  And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

The Bride of Christ sees the detailed view of the entirety of her Lord’s word. The flesh is a wearisome evil experience, and so, too, can be endlessly reminded of having been a whore. Though not remotely proud of her former, and still disappearing nature, she is well past being sensitive and defensive to how her Lord designed her for recreating her in his image.

Rom 9:19  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? 
Rom 9:20  Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 
Rom 9:21  Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 

1Co 15:41  There is one glory of the sun [The Father in Christ], and another glory of the moon, [One of two churches] and another glory of the stars [The world, those outside the camp of the Saints]: for one star differeth from another star in glory. 
1Co 15:42  So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1Co 15:43  It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: 
1Co 15:44  It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Now, and with no memory of her whoreish ways, the Bride, Christ’s blossoming Wife, the New Heavenly Jerusalem above, is an extraordinarily dazzling and colourful jewel already considered to crown her Husband (Pro 12:4… ‘a virtuous woman…’) intimately fitted (rooted) in spiritual comfort of the same unified mind in him (Rev 21:9-27).