n2thelight
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That's a pretty bold statement about the supposed "divorce". Where is it found in Scripture. Yes, Yahweh has punished the physical seed of Abraham by throwing them out of the Land that He gave to them because of their disobedience. But a "divorce"--NO. God knows who and where that physical seed is and He will bring them back to the Land when He decides. The Risen Jesus said that "the Father determines those dates" (for the restoration of the Kingdom) in Acts 1:6. He will always take them back even though they have been unfaithful. This is pictured over and over in the OT.
Come on now ,are you serious
Jeremiah 3:6 "The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot."
This is aimed at Israel, the Christian nations of today. Just as that ancient House of Israel sought after every false religion and form of idolatry, so also is the Israel of today. Anytime the Christian nations go on any new mountain they will believe anything anybody tells them.
We will see this chapter addressing the House of Israel spoken of separately from the House of Judah. Why? They are two separate house [nations] in this sense. They are all of the seed of Jacob, yet they are two seperate houses from this time until they are joined into one stick (that is at a time just prior to the time Christ returns). Today they are still two separate houses, the House of Judah [the Jews], and the House of Israel [the Christian nations].
"Backsliding Israel" is refering to the ten tribes that went north in captivity by Assyria. In captivity they were spread out, and fled through the Caucasus Mountains, and spred out to settle in Western Europe, and the Americas. They have lost their true identity. The House of Israel knows only of themselves by the event of their scattering. They call themselves after this event "Caucasians" and think of it as a race, not a scattered nation of the House of Israel.
Hosea identifies them in Hosea 1:10; "Yet the number of the children of 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."
The "sons of the Living God" are called Christians, after the Living God, Jesus Christ who came out of the tomb and today sits at the right hand of the Father. Most Christians today have limited Israel to the house of Judah, however this chapter in Hosea is directed to the House of Israel, whom God divorced, and called "not my people". Christians today just don't know who they are, or where they came from. They have no desire to return to old Palestine, and they are content to stay right where they are, and remain the "sons of the Living God".
God has fulfilled his promise to Abraham, that His seed would become a numerous as the stars of the heaven, and the sands of the sea. However, remember also that Judah was the king line, and that is what is being addressed here, that they should have known better. God is also saying, wait till you see what the House of Israel is doing, they will do anything that anyone tells them to do.
Jeremiah 3:7 "And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it."
The king line of the House of Judah saw and witnessed all the whoredoms that the House of Israel was doing. She saw all the idolatry and the chasing after strange gods, and she heard God's pleadings for Israel to turn back to Him. But God would forgive Israel and take her back. But what did Judah do about it?
Jeremiah 3:8 "And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also."
It was God that divorced the House of Israel. Judah did exactly as Israel did, taking on other beliefs with apostacy. Leadership was to keep true to our Heavenly Father, but she [Judah] also was deceived and went astray.
Do you see GOD addressing both houses? Not gonna get into that here but it should tell you something