More proof to show your idea is false that the unbelieving Jews must repent and believe on Jesus of Nazareth as The Christ before He can return.
To Others Reading This - Copperhead probably won't read much of this because he is provoked by a falsehood which 'unbelieving' Jews have been proposing lately that the orthodox Jews must believe on Jesus before He can return. So I write this mainly for you, so you know how and where in God's Word to counter such baloney with their misinterpretation of Matthew 23:39.
God used Hosea to speak to the ten northern tribes of Israel, i.e., the "house of Israel". Ephraim was the head tribe over the ten tribes, and king Jeroboam at Samaria was of the tribe of Ephraim. God ended their kingdom and removed the ten tribes out of the lands of Israel, and said He would no more be their God, and they were no longer His people, because of their rebellion against Him. In contrast, He said here in Hosea 1 that He would save Judah, meaning the "house of Judah" at the south in Judea-Jerusalem. And so He did, as the ten tribes in the north were completely removed out of the lands while the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi remained in Judea-Jerusalem (2 Kings 17-18).
But later, God said the number of the children of Israel (ten tribes at this time) would be as the sand of the sea, and in the place where it was said to them that they are 'not My people', it would be said to them that "Ye are the sons of the living God."
Hos 5:14-15
14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
15 I will go and return to My place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek My face: in their affliction they will seek Me early.
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Hosea was sent to prophesy against the "house of Israel", which was the TEN TRIBE KINGDOM OF NORTHERN ISRAEL, made up of the ten tribes. This was NOT for Judah which dwelt in the south at Judea-Jerusalem, also called the "house of Judah". The above Hosea 5:14-15 Scripture is an example which Copperhead is misinterpreting to try and show that the unbelieving Jews must accept Jesus Christ before His second coming can happen.
There are FOUR AND A HALF CHAPTERS before those 14 & 15 verses. And in those previous Hosea chapters God told the house of Israel they aren't His people anymore because of their having rebelled against Him. But that He would save Judah, and He did, as they didn't go into captivity to Babylon until about 120 years later after God had already removed the ten tribes out of the land. The false prophets prey on the Biblically illiterate who don't study all of God's Word. So this is why it's important to study all of God's Word, and not just the parts you may like. Historically, and today, the ten tribes of Israel are still... lost. A small remnant of them moved south and joined with Judah when king Jeroboam setup his golden calf idol worship in the north, but that remnant was by no means the majority of the ten tribes. The majority of them were scattered to Assyria and the land of the Medes, and then further scattered through the countries, mainly to the West. It would be there that they would fulfill the Genesis 35 & 48 prophecy of becoming "a company of nations" and "a multitude of nations". This happened when Christ's disciples left Judea and preached The Gospel to the nations of Asia Minor and Europe.
Hos 1:2-9
2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by 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.
3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
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.
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 had 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.'
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The "house of Judah", which were the 3 tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi that made up the southern "kingdom of Judah" at Jerusalem, were not... in rebellion at that time, which is why verse 7 shows God would have mercy on them. And He did, as He brought the kings of Assyria upon the northern ten tribe kingdom of Israel and took them all away captive to Assyria and the lands of the Medes; but the "house of Judah" remained and would not go into captivity for rebelliion until around 120 years later, under Nebuchadnezzar. So this here is God speaking through Hosea to the ten tribes of the "house of Israel", to Ephraim. It was them that God said verse 9 to, that they were no more His people, and that He would not be their God.
So Copperhead speaks of holding to the Torah, but actually shows Biblical ignorance of Old Testament history of God's prophets, like Hosea here, and just what God's Message through Hosea was about, and who it was mainly to.
Rom 9:22-26
22 What if God, willing to shew His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom He hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As He saith also in Osee, "I will call them My people, which were not My people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, 'Ye are not My people'; there shall they be called the children of the living God."
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Now there Apostle Paul is quoting from the very end of Hosea 1. And he is applying what God said through Hosea to Roman believers on Christ Jesus of Nazareth.
TEN TRIBE REMNANTS WHO WOULD BELIEVE ON CHRIST JESUS are mainly who God was talking about in Hosea that would seek Him early, acknowledging their offense as written in Hosea 5:15, NOT ORTHODOX UNBELIEVING JEWS who still to this day reject Jesus of Nazareth as The Messiah!