She is not My bride

 

 

 

 

Israel the people is seen as the bride of Yahuah. In this chapter the people are no longer His bride due to whoring and having children from whoring.

Hosea chapter 2 speaks of a whore (Israel) who the Heavenly Father is no longer her husband and removes her and her children (divorce) from Him. One day in the future after she (Israel) turns away from her whoring and asks forgiveness from her husband, is accepted back as His bride forever. Note these that return will always only be a remnant as majority will not return. People today see Israel as a certain nation (race, language or gene) but it is not who Israel is! Israel is those who hear His voice and walk in (do) His commands.

 

Verse 1-5 is the warning of punishment due to whoring. Israel's unfaithfulness to Yahuah and since she did not recognize the blessings that were given to her by Elohim He would remove them from her.

Verse 1-3 Say to your brothers, a people; and to your sisters, Mercy. Strive! Strive with your mother, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Therefore, let her put away her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts, that I not strip her naked and set her out as in the day that she was born, and make her as the wilderness, and place her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

These three verses give first the warning of what will come upon the sinner, given by all prophets. The below two verses include the children who are born from the whoring mother.

 

Verse 4-5 And I will not have pity for her sons, for they are the sons of harlotries. For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

 

Verses 6-13 is the divorce (punishment and struggles).

Verse 6-7 Therefore, behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and I will wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. And she shall look for them, but she shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.

She will wonder around doing her own thing, struggling through the days not achieving anything. Then she will return to her husband but still partake in whoring (mixed worship – mix little truth with lies).

Verse 8-9 For she did not know that I gave her grain and wine and oil, and I multiplied her silver and the gold they made for Baal. So, I will return and take My grain in its time, and My wine in its season. And I will take back My wool and My flax she uses to cover her nakedness.

She will gain from the world but not acknowledge from her husband but rather from baal and He will then start removing them from her.

 

Verse 10-13 And now I will reveal her shamefulness to the eyes of her lovers, and not a man shall deliver her out of My hand. I will also cause all her joy to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, they are my rewards that my lovers have given me. And I will set them for a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. And I will visit on her the days of the baals in which she burned incense to them. Yea, she adorned herself withher nose rings, and her jewels, and she went after her lovers and forgot Me, says Yahuah.

The husband will expose her whorings to the world and she shall forget His set-apart days for false feast days. Her days will be a struggle as she turns her walk to falsehood. She adorns herself with rings, make-up and jewelry and goes whoring after her lovers (falsehood).

Verses 14 is the husbands loving and merciful heart.

Verse 14 Therefore, behold, I will lure her and bring her to the wilderness, and speak to her heart.

After a while of going through her hardships, the husband starts giving her truth (mercy, grace) when she is down in the dumps and she looks back on her lifestyle (struggles) to realize if this whoring life is all worth it.

 

Verse 15 is a period when the truth is slowly provided to the bride of which only a remnant will hear and obey.

Verse 15 And from there I will give her vineyards to her, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope. And she shall answer there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Yahuah start revealing the truth, then a remnant start hearing His word, and repentance returns.

Verse 16-23 In the future the husband will remove the falsehood (whoring) and take His bride forever.

Verse 16-17 And at that day, says Yahuah, you shall call Me, my husband; and you shall no more call Me, my baal. For I will take away the names of the baals out of her mouth; and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

Baal means Lord. A time will come when all false names are removed and the true name will be used.

 

Verse 18 And in that day, I will cut a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and the creepers of the ground. And I will break the bow and the sword, and the battle out of the earth, and I will make them to lie down securely.

The new covenant will take place for all the earth.

Verse 19-23 And I will betroth you to Me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in mercy, and in compassions. I will even betroth you to Me in faithfulness. And you shall know Yahuah. And it shall be in that day, I will answer, says Yahuah. I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth. And the earth shall hear the grain, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall answer Jezreel. And I will sow her to Me in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy. And I will say to not My People, you are My people! And they shall say, my Elohim!

In the end time Yahuah will redeem the remnant bride of Israel and sow her in fertile soil where she will be blessed for her repentance in that day forever.

 

 

Walking blameless

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can we be righteous and walk blameless before Yahuah?

According to the world’s religion man cannot stop sinning as we are born that way*. According to them we can never be righteous or blameless.

This is not true according to what my scripture tells me. * We are born into a sinful world but we are not born sinners. We have a free choice to sin or not to sin.

 

 

 

 

Here is one example found in the so-called New Testament.

Luke 1:5-6 In the days of Herod the king of Judea, there was a certain priest named Zacharias, of the daily course of Abijah (Abia). And his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before Elohim, walking blameless in all the commandments and ordinances of Yahuah.

They were parents to their son Yokhannan/Yohanan (John the Baptist) and they were righteous before the Almighty Father.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They were sincerely and really righteous; they were so in the Father’s sight; they were walking according to truth; they approved themselves to Him who searches the heart. Two people joined to each other in marriage and both joined to the Heavenly Father! Walking in all the commandments and ordinances of Yahuah. How admirable is the character given of this pious pair!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If these two people can be righteous and obey the commandments, then what is stopping us in walking as they did?

Remember, righteous in Father’s eyes not as the world.

May our behaviour be thus unblameable, and our obedience thus sincere to the only true Heavenly Father!

 

 

Israel the people

 

 

Who is Israel the people?

We know Jacob was the father of the 12 tribes known as the children of Israel. Remember Jacob’s children was already born before his name was changed to Israel. Jacob’s name was changed to Israel after he overcame his struggle. Jacob to Israel; “overcame with El, to strive with El, to rule with El” (Genesis 32:28). It is so important to understand the meaning of this name change. You will know who Israel is once you understand the reason for the name change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yahuah choose Israel only as a people and made covenants only with them. Is Israel about an indigenous group? Let us see what scripture says about what the children of Israel look like.

·         Jacob had children from two concubines – who were they? Were they from Jacob’s family? This is not clear, so we must exclude this from the topic, but it is something to think about (Genesis 30).

·         Joseph married an Egyptian woman and had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim (Genesis 41:50-51). They were not pure Israelites, but they received the most blessings from Jacob (Israel). Yahuah did not punish Joseph for marrying a gentile. Ephraim received more blessings than any other tribe of Israel. Was Ephraim and Manasseh known as gentles?

·         During the exodus out of Egypt, a mixed multitude of people left with the Israelites (Exodus 12:38). Who were these people and were they known as gentiles, or did they become part of Israel?

·         The two spies, Joshua and Caleb. Caleb was of the tribe of Judah (Numbers 13:6) but was the son of a Kenizzite. Read Joshua 14:6 as Caleb been from the Kenizzite/Qenizzite. Caleb was not seen as a gentile, but as an Israelite (Numbers 13:6).

·         Ruth was a Moabite (Ruth 1:4). Yahuah blessed her with a child – Ruth 4:13. Read also 4:14. Was she seen as a gentile?

These are a few examples of many other.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is another example of Israel taking virgin woman from another nation and gave them to the tribe of Benjamin.

Judges 21:11-14 And this is the thing which you shall do. You shall destroy every male and every woman who has been known by lying with a male. And out of all the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead they found four hundred young women, virgins, who had not known a man by lying with a male. And they brought them into the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. And all the assembly sent and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and called out peace to them. And Benjamin came again at that time. And they gave the women whom they had kept alive, of the women of Jabesh-Gilead. But they did not find enough for them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the Israelites were scattered all over the world, do you think they did not mix with other nations (had children with other nations). They defiantly did mix which is how they became lost.

The Messiah Yahusha meant Israel when he said he came only for the lost Israelites (Mathew 15:24). All the promises were made to Israel only, not to any gentile and Messiah confirmed this.

What is a gentile or heathen? It is someone who follows false gods, practices witchcraft, lusts, etc. A gentile is also those who mix the truth with falsehood. Ephesians 4:17 So this I say, and witness in the Master, that you should no longer walk as the gentiles walk. 1 Peter 4:3 For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the desire of the gentiles, having walked in indecencies, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, wild parties, and abominable idolatries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yahuah does not except uncleanness even a mixture of clean/unclean, therefore a gentile can never enter His kingdom.

Who is the true Israel? The scripture is very clear on this point. Israel is those who hear and obey. They follow truly the ways of Yahuah, not turning to the left or the right. Their leader is Yahuah only. He laid down His condition for Yisrael to be His people, as we read in Exodus 19:5-6, “If you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the peoples – for all the earth is Mine – and you yourselves become to Me a reign of priests and a set-apart nation.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you do not hear and obey then you cannot be part of Israel. The scripture is full of stories on how most Israelites fell away from hearing and following. The narrow path and only a few find it. Are these that fell away from the truth still seen as Israel. Cannot be as they overcame with the evil one - the meaning of the name changed.

When you started to hear the truth, repented of your sins, accepted the truth spoken by the Messiah and then turned back to Yahuah (following His commands), you went from being a gentile to becoming part of Israel just like Ephraim, Caleb, Ruth etc. You cannot be known as a gentile.

Nothing has changed today, and will not change in future.

 

 

 

 

 

I’m talking for myself: I was once a gentile, but I heard His calling, started hearing and obeying His word. I’m now an Israelite who hears and follows the ways of Yahuah. My forefathers could have been from an Israel tribe that was scattered or I could be from another gentile nation. But this does not matter because I now overcame with El. I do make mistakes but hopefully they are not intentionally.

Are you hearing His call and obeying His commandments, if so then you are Israel? This is where the “heart” thing comes in, these commands are now written on your heart. The Father looks at the heart as the commands can only be followed when it comes from the heart. Is that not where the Ruach of Yahuah is, in the heart. Those who overcome are the true Yisraelites. Their hearts are circumcised, they keep the law as proof of their love towards Elohim.

If you still see yourself as a gentile, then the messiah you are believing is not the same one that said He came only for Israel.

As history has shown many Israelites fell away due to not hearing and obeying, and returned to the gentile world, although they still believed they were of Israel, but sadly will not be saved.

This is not my words but scripture.