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684. Bible Study: Hosea 6 (A Prophecy for Israel, Judah and Us?) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 6 of Isaiah. This is called Israel
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Unrepentant. Dear God, please help us as we
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read through this scripture and give us wisdom and insight and
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future application. We ask for this in Jesus name,
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Amen. Come let us return to the Lord.
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He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us.
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He has injured us, but He will bind up our wounds.
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After two days He will revive us.
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On the third day He will restore us that we may live in His
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presence. Let us acknowledge the Lord.
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Let us press on to acknowledge Him.
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As surely as the sun rises, He will appear.
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He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring
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rains that water the earth. What can I do with you, Ephraim?
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What can I do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning
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mist, like the early dew that disappears.
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Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets.
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I killed you with the words of my mouth.
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Then my judgments go forth like the sun.
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For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, an acknowledgement of
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God rather than burnt offerings as at Adam.
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They have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me
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there. Gilead is a city of evil doers,
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stained with the footprints of blood.
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As marauders lie in the ambush for a victim, so do bands of
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priests they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their
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wicked schemes. I have seen a horrible thing in
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Israel. There Ephraim is given to
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prostitution. Israel is defiled also for you
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Judah, a harvest is appointed. So that was a really quick
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chapter, but there is so much in this chapter that this might end
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up being a long Bible study so I'll read the questions and
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answers 1st for this chapter. Was Israel's repentance genuine
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or fake? If genuine, these beautiful
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words of repentance were extremely short lived.
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Verse 4 It may have been that Hosea recalled Israel's pattern
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throughout history. When in trouble, the people
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would cry out to God for help. When help came, the people would
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quickly revert to their old ways.
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Why didn't God want the people to offer sacrifices anymore?
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God preferred to see the practical results of a repentant
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lifestyle. He wanted them to turn from sin
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and do what was right and just. What God did not want was empty
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religious ritual. The people were simply going
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through the motions. They were following His
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instructions, but their hearts were not in the religious deeds.
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How could priests be become a murdering, marauding mob?
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These priests were destroying the people by leading them into
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idolatry and failing to provide genuine spiritual leadership.
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The results of the priest's actions were just as devastating
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and destructive as a hostile army invading the land.
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What was the road to Shechem? Shechem was on the road between
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the capital city of the northern Kingdom, Samaria, and its
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religious center, Bethel. It was a city of major religious
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and political importance throughout the Old Testament.
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The image here is that worshippers on their way to
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Bethel with their offerings were a prime target for crime.
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And that's the end of the questions and answers.
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So going back, it's you know, Jose is a prophet and he's
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talking in the early 7 hundreds BC this was written around 7:15
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or so. So mid 7 hundreds was one this
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was written and he's he's giving a warning to Israel and and also
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ultimately to Judah as well. He resides in Judah, but he's
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giving this information primarily to Israel.
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But then he's saying, you know, let's turn to God and he's
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recognizing that they have been through some devastating losses,
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but he will heal us. They have confidence.
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He has confidence in God that he will spiritually be healed.
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They will be healed. He has injured us, but He will
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bind up our wounds. So they're showing some faith.
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I mean, Hosea is at least. And then here's where the
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prophecy is. After two days, He will revive
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us. On the third day He will restore
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us that we may live in his presence.
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Now this certainly is not a way back then prophecy because it
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talks about after two days. It's talking about the Lord
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after two days. He, God will revive us on the
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third day He will restore us that we may live in his
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presence. Well, to me that sounds like the
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millennial reign of Christ. That's the time when the people,
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when all people will be living with Christ in the presence of
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Christ. And so this is again thousands
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of years before Jesus was born. Well, almost 1000 years before
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Jesus was born where this was prophesied.
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And and it wasn't even prophesying of his initial
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arrival, but it's prophesying about his second coming.
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And so there's another really good series of videos if you
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haven't seen them yet or listen to them, but yeah, they're
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pretty detailed. You'd have to watch them a
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couple times to really absorb everything that they talk about.
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But they're called Messiah 2030 and they did an excellent job of
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pointing out all of the repetitious symbology that's
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within the Bible and prophecy. So I believe this is one of the
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verses that they do talk about after two days.
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And then they bring into account the the scripture that says that
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a day is like 1000 years and 1000 years like a day.
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So after two days would be 2000 years.
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He will revive us and I guess the speculation or the theory is
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that Jesus died around 30 AD and then 2000 years later after two
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days would revive us. That's where the 2030 is coming
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in Messiah 2030, because that's the the theory that they've put
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forth on this. And then the third day he will
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restore us. So that would be the, you know,
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during that Millennium reign on the third day, because that
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would be another 1000 years. And the third day is really
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significant too. I was, as I read that there was
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like the third day, three days. Those are all, you know, really
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symbolic. And if you go to a digital copy
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of the Bible and like blueletterbible.org and then
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just search Third day, you'll find out in the New
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International Version, you'll find that it occurs 106 times in
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47 verses. And it starts in Genesis.
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And you could look at that and just say, OK, well, it's
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repeated. You know, it's a large book,
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that the Bible's a large book. Well, that's true.
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But isn't it weird or a coincidence or more than a
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coincidence that it talks about Third Day?
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Like, I mean, it just, it seems like it's always the third day
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or three days. And there's a reason I believe.
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And let's see. And there was evening and there
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was morning the third day. And then on the third day,
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Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
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And then on the third day, Laban was told that Jacob had fled.
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Now, the third day was Pharaoh's birthday.
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On the 3rd day, Joseph said to them, do this and you will live.
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And so these are all different parts of the Bible, like those
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were all from the book of Genesis.
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Then they have Exodus. This talks about Exodus 19 when
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the Lord gave them the 10 commandments and be ready by the
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third day because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount
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Sinai in the sight of the people.
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Well, that's really interesting because that was the initial,
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initial covenant that God made with people was the 10
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commandments, the laws. And then think about this, that
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a day is like 1000 years and then like three, well, I don't
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know, like 3000 years later, Jesus returns and he is the new
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covenant and he comes, he will come down as his feet will
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actually come down on a mountain too.
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At at one point of that in Bible prophecy, what it talks about
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will happen. And then in Exodus, it says,
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then he said to the people, prepare yourselves for the third
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day. Abstain from sexual relations.
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That was part of their custom there, their culture to be
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clean. And then on the morning of the
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third day, there was Thunder and lightning with a thick cloud
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over the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast.
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Everyone in the camp trembled. That's from Exodus.
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But think about this. When Jesus returns, he will be
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coming on the clouds and with a loud trumpet call.
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So again, it's pointing to Jesus.
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This is back in the book of Exodus and any of the meat of
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the sacrifice leftover till the 3rd day must be burned up.
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There's way more than I'm actually absorbing with this
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third day. But when you read through these
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things, then you will start to see that it's, it's kind of like
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a on the third day, there's a reconciliation of things.
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There are either people who have made themselves clean or people
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who are, who will be, you know, burned up or not in a literal,
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literal sense, but maybe in a literal sense.
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But people will be destroyed. The ones who have not, you know,
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our we'll go through a trial or a testing period because there,
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there will be some survivors after the wrath of God.
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It does say that in the Bible. I think it's in Zephaniah, I
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believe is where our Zechariah where I did find at the very
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end, the last chapter where there were survivors after the
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wrath of God. So it just throughout again,
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just that the third day gets brought up so many times and
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then you have it in the Old Testament and then the New
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Testament. And then it was also symbolic of
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what Jesus was going to do. And it said like in Matthew
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chapter 16. From that time on, Jesus began
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to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and
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suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests
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and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on
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the third day be raised to life. So again, that that you know, on
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the going back to Hosea, chapter 6, verse 2, on the third day, he
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will restore us. Well, Jesus was raised to life
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on the third day. So it's like there's a pattern
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here. Let's see it.
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It says that over and over again.
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They will kill him. And on the third day, he will be
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raised to life. And the disciples were filled
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with grief. And they will hand him over to
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the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified.
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On the third day he will be raised to life.
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So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the 3rd
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day. Otherwise his disciples may come
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and steal the body and tell the people that he had been raised
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from the dead. This last deception will be
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worse than the first. These are excerpts from various
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parts of the Gospel. I just did a word search on the
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third day. And then Luke says, and he said
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the Son of Man must suffer many things to be rejected by the
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elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and he
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must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
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And also in Luke, he replied, this is Jesus replying, Go tell
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that fox. I will keep on driving out
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demons and healing people today and tomorrow and on the third
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day I will reach my goal. That's almost like code for
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Jesus saying, you know, I'm going to keep on doing what I'm
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doing here, but just wait till that third day comes that he
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will reach his goal when he rises from the dead.
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But he didn't, you know, have to even share that he was just
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going to show what that was. But it was he was repeated.
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He told his followers that he would be raised on that and and
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they didn't even realize it because they just thought he was
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gone afterwards. They didn't realize or
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understand what he was saying to them.
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But it was all documented in the Gospel that that's what he told
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them. It was only after the fact.
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And then this was really interesting.
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It was like when Jesus did his first miracle, it said on the
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third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee.
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Jesus's mother was there. And that's just interesting too,
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because again, this restoration is often shown symbolically as a
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wedding between the bride and bridegroom, where Jesus is the
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bridegroom and believers are the bride.
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And, and then it says in Acts, but God raised him from the dead
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on the third day and caused him to be seen.
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And so it goes. You know it, there's a lot of
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that in Scripture on the third day.
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So I only read a few of those, but then I was thinking on the
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three days and there that is listed 151 times in 65 verses
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from the New International Version, so about 3 days.
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And I just think it's kind of, it's a great way to study the
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Bible. If you do this in the electronic
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version, maybe when I'm reading it here, it's it's not as
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impactful. But if you do it on your own and
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then you search it and then just read, see every place where it
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says 3 days or the third day and then even read the the context
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that it's given for the sentence as well.
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But there is a lot of symbolism and you will have a deeper
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understanding of three days. I did do a search and just said,
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you know what was the significance of three days in
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Jewish culture? And the number 3 is frequently
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associated with divine wholeness and perfection.
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In the Bible, the third day is often highlighted as the moment
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when something reaches its culmination or when a new phase
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begins. Well, that would make sense.
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On the third day during the millennial reign, there's going
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to be a change. It's going to be a new creation.
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Here are some other examples of the third day in creation.
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God creates light on the third day, making a significant step
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in the creation narrative. In Exodus, the Israelites
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journey into the wilderness for three days to offer sacrifice,
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signifying a departure and a new beginning.
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In Esther, Queen Esther's decision to approach the king
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after three days of fasting and prayer leads to the salvation of
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the Jewish people. And then Jonah spends 3 days and
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three nights in the belly of the fish, a period that prefigures
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the resurrection and new life. And then it does reference the
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book of Hosea, which we're in. In the book of Hosea, the phrase
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after two days he will revive, revive us.
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On the third day, he will raise us up is understood by many to
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refer to resurrection and Jewish burial practice.
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Some Jewish traditions suggest the soul hovers near the body
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for three days after death, adding another layer of
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significance to the number three in the context of life, death
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and renewal. And then I was, I just searched,
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what is the significance of the third day?
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And then in the context of Jesus's resurrection, the third
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day refers to the day on which Jesus rose from the dead,
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specifically the third day after his crucifixion.
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This is a crucial event in Christianity, fulfilling Old
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Testament prophecies and signifying the victory over
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death and the promise of new life for believers.
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And then there was another thing that I had read that was pretty
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good. So, from gotquestions.org, what
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was the significance of Jesus being dead for three days?
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There are several reasons it is significant.
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Jesus was dead for three days before his resurrection.
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First, resurrection after three days of death proved to Jesus's
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opponents that he truly rose from the dead.
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Why? According to Jewish tradition, a
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person's soul spirit remained with his or her body for three
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days. After three days, the soul slash
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spirit departed. If Jesus's resurrection had
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occurred on the same day, or even the next day, it would have
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been easier for his enemies to argue he never truly died.
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Significantly, Jesus waited several days after Lazarus had
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died before he came to resurrect Lazarus so that no one could
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deny the miracle, and you can find that in John Chapter 11,
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verses 38 through 44. A second reason it was important
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for Jesus to be dead for three days was to fulfill Bible
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biblical prophecy. Jesus personally claimed he
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would be dead 3 days. He claimed that in Matthew and
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in John also, some point to Hosea 6 one through 3 as a
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prophecy of the Messiah's resurrection.
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After three days come, let us return to the Lord.
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He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us.
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He has injured us, but He will bind up our wounds.
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After two days He will revive us.
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On the third day He will restore us that we may live in His
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presence. Let us.
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To acknowledge the Lord, let us press on to acknowledge him.
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As surely as the sun arise, rises, he will appear.
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He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring
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rains and that water the earth. This may also be the passage
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Paul refers to in First Corinthians 15 verse four, that
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Jesus was raised on the third day according to scriptures.
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I also think it means more about the end times because that's
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when the Israelites and will be restored at the people that he's
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talking to actually that Jose is actually talking to.
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But this will be way off into the future for them.
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The three days were significant in other ways as well.
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Jesus died on a Friday, Nissan 14, the day when passed, when
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the Passover Lamb was sacrificed.
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His death represents the death of a perfect, unblemished
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sacrifice on our behalf. His resurrection on the third
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day took place on the first day of the week, illustrating a new
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beginning, a new life to all who trust in Him.
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So why was it important for Jesus to be dead for three days
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before his resurrection? Number one, so the unbelieving
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Jews could not deny that Jesus had truly been dead.
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And two, because three days is what Jesus himself prophesied.
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Aside from these two reasons, the Word of God does not
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explicitly state the reason for the necessity of three days
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between Jesus's death and resurrection.
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He did say that like when I think it was Martha had gone up
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to him, that he told her not to embrace him or touch him because
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he had he had not yet transformed.
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So there there was the a process of some sort that happened too
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about the appearing of the Lord. So of course in chapter 6 of
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Hosea it says he will as surely as the sun rises he will appear.
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So this is absolutely talking about Jesus.
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So in Matthew 24, verse 30, it says, then will appear the Son
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of the man, the Son of man. That's the way Jesus was
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referred to in heaven. And then all the peoples of the
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earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the
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clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
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And then in Zechariah Chapter 9 verse 14, it says, and this is
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another prophetic book. Then the Lord will appear over
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them. His arrow will flash like
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lightning. The sovereign Lord will sound
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the trumpet. He will March in the storms of
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the South. And then in Colossians 3 verse
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4, when Christ who is your life appears, then you will also
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appear with Him in glory. So to give that a little bit of
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context, it says this is about believers and to set your minds
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on things above, not on earthly things.
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For you died spiritually to your sinful nature, madding that part
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of it in, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God,
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because Christ is the mediator and He made atonement for our
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sins so that we we can get into God's Kingdom.
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Then we go to Hebrews 9 verse 28.
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So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many, and
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he will appear a second time not to bear sin, but to bring
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salvation to those who are waiting for Him.
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And then there was another part where at the end of Hosea, it
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talked about also for you Judah, a harvest is appointed.
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This is another word that is very interesting to search.
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In the New International Version, it occurs 97 times in
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87 verses. And it's there's some symbology
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here. There's of course the, the wheat
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harvest, the barley harvest and the wine harvest.
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And they occur at different times.
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And I do believe these things are very symbolic and just about
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when you pray and then you read these things and ask for the
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Holy Spirit to give discernment about some of this.
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But it's it's like the grape harvest is the harvest of the
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the remaining ones. It's at the very end.
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And it's for the wickedness because when we go into the Book
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of Revelation, it talks about the sickle being going, you
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know, gathering the grapes, but then they go into the wine
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press. So that's the wrath of God.
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That is not the gathering of the ones that are stored because
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that's the earlier harvest. That's where they talk about the
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wheat and the tares growing together or the wheat and weeds
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growing together. And just to let them all grow
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together until the harvesters come.
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And then they will bind up all the weeds or the tares.
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They'll bind up all of the bad stuff and then they will take
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away the wheat to the barn for storage.
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But the stuff that's bound up is is bound up to be burned later.
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So they will the wrath will happen later.
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So when you start looking into the harvest, it really does
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sound like the early harvest the first fruits will be.
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I mean, that's sounds like a time for the gathering of
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people. And then, but at the grape
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harvest, it does say that there were two sets of angels.
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It's important to read very closely what scripture says
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because 1 Angel comes out and then it was harvested.
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The grapes were harvested. And I wonder if that if there is
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like a if it does have to do with Israel.
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And so the ones who have prepared themselves then are
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harvested, are gathered. But then the ones who haven't
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who rejected will then be put into the wine pressed.
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Like there are some that are gathered because there's 2
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angels that come out a second one comes out with a sickle and
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that's when they have the the other harvest that isn't such a
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great harvest. So when we read scripture really
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carefully, we'll pick up on some of these things.
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And so I think that this chapter that we just read, chapter 6,
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has a lot of prophetic information in it.
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It is prophetic and it was prophetic for the time, but I
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think it's also applicable to future to the end times and for
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the reasons that I had stated. So check it out if you want to
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look. It's we're already at almost a
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30 minute podcast, so I will stop now, but look up Harvest in
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an electronic copy of the Bible because it's really interesting.
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And if you're interested in timings of things, those are
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just questions that I have. Like are there going to be
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different gatherings and or did the first gathering was that
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when Jesus resurrected he was the first fruit so that ones
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already over and then will the next one be the grapes?
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We don't know. We won't know until it actually
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happens and then in hindsight. But it is interesting to look at
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Scripture and try to understand some things and also to see the
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symbolism and the prophecy and all the they are.
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There are clues throughout Scripture that God gives us and
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the Holy Spirit can help us to understand that.
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So pray for the Holy Spirit's and revelation and understanding
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as we read through the Word. That's why I do that every time
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before I start reading. So anyway, have a good evening
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and we'll pick up with Chapter 7 next time.