Hosea 2

Comments
Ammi means a nation or people and Ruhamah is seen as a symbolical name given to the daughter of Hosea. Hosea is laying out the metaphor to the nation concerning their need for mercy and repentance of their ways of national adultery.
If they do not repent there will be consequences for them and their children.
If the nation continues to be unfaithful in the righteous ways of God there will be difficulties that appear in the path they have made for themselves. If she chooses to go after " my lovers" who have become her benefactors because they "give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink"
Because the people as individuals and as a nation continue to be unfaithful God will place "thorns, and make a wall(hedges), that she shall not find her paths" 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".
This list of obsticles and curses come about because her adultery is equated with the "days of Baalim" which is mentioned in the New Testament by Peter,^[1] Jude,^[2] and in Revelation^[3] and a similitude to the ways of the Nicolaitan which God hates.
Questions
Are nations of the world committing the same adultery and the error of Balaam and the deeds of the Nicolaitan?
Are nations of the world pursuing the free bread and benefits of a lover who does not follow in the ways of faith, hope, and charity but the people and their whole nation in the covetous practices of "legal charity" through force, fear, and fealty?
Has the evil of Deuteronomy 22:21 corrupted the earth as mentioned in Revelation 19:2?

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

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;

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.

4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

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.

6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

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.

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.

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.

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

11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

12 And I will destroy^[4] her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards^[5] that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

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.

14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

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.

16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.

17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

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.

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.

20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.

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;

22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.

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.

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Hosea Today audio is about Hosea 4:6 Lack of knowledge; Learn through Humility? Facts matter... follow the Straight way; Act upon truth; Salvation if we be doer of God's word not looking to "gods" many. Do modern Christians "Worship" Satan and his world? John 10:3; Do we Curse children engage in Foolishness of Humpty Dumpty, Exercise authority or Nurture mercy(Hosea 6:6)? Put on God's armor there is no Utopia. From Adam and Eve to the Tens to be Perfected in Christ Sophistry was the enemy. The Spirit of the "Gulag" and Mao lives today in The War on Poverty; Offices of power vs service. No king in Israel; Hosea 10:3; unrighteous mammon; Electing the perfect king(1 Samuel 8(? What's righteous?; Alice's adventures; Calling good evil -> persecution; Hosea 10:4; The love of felons. Acts 19:26; Religion, Temples; Altars; Red Heifer; Admitting you've been deceived and deluded; Kingdoms divided not gathering as Christ "commanded"; Repent and seek the kingdom or Catastrophic consequences; Fear not!

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↑ 2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
↑ Jude 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
↑ Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
↑ "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits." -- .Plutarch.
↑ 0866 ^hnta^ 'ethnah \@eth-naw'\@ from 08566; TWOT-2524a; n f AV-reward 1; 1 in Hosea 2
1) hire, price (of a harlot)

2) (TWOT) reward

[1] 2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

[2] Jude 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

[3] Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

[4] "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits." -- .Plutarch.

[5] 0866 ^hnta^ 'ethnah \@eth-naw'\@ from 08566; TWOT-2524a; n f AV-reward 1; 1 in Hosea 2
1) hire, price (of a harlot)

2) (TWOT) reward

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