Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.” 4 And the Lord said unto him, “call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel 5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.” 

 

Hosea 6-11: 6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, “Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.”

8 Now when she was weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bare a son.

9 Then said God, “Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not My People, and I will not be your God.

10 Yet the number of the children Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them,”Ye are not My People,” there it shall be said unto them, “Ye are the sons of the living GOD.”

11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and anoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

 

 That Message in Hosea was especially to the 'house of Israel', the western Christian nations of today which are the 'remnant' left from the migrations of the ten tribes taken captivity to Assyria

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Those deceived along with the ones who refuse our Lord are 'as a woman that travaileth' because in the spiritual sense, they are already wed to the false messiah when Christ our True Bridegroom returns revealing Himself to 'all'. That's also why their 'faces shall be as flames' because of shame. And then they shall say to Jesus: "... Matt.7:22-23:

 Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works?"  Then our Lord will say to them: "And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

     Now you should truly understand why many overtaken Church systems would say things like, "We don't live in the Old Testament anymore. Christ came for our salvation and gave us The Gospel, so we don't need the Old anymore; we have The New Covenant." The New Testament constantly refers back to the Old.  The meaning of the New is found in the Old Testament. That's why so many Christians are totally ignorant of this 'being with child' analogy, because it's fully covered here in the Old Testament, but only hinted at in the New Testament. When Christ came at the first Advent to be crucified, the New Testament did not exist in written form , so naturally when our Lord Jesus and His Apostles taught, they assumed we had already studied the Old Testament, as Christ even said several times, 'have ye not read'; 'it is written.'

 

Matt.12:3, 5: But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred and they that were with him.

5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

 Matt 19:4: And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that He Which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Matt 22:31: But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God saying.

'It is written'-