Hosea 1:9-11 NKJV
The Restoration of Israel [10] "Yet the number of the children of Israel Shall be as the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered. And it shall come to pass In the place where it was said to them, 'You are not My people,' There it shall be said to them, 'You are sons of the living God.' [11] Then the children of Judah and the children of Israel Shall be gathered together, And appoint for themselves one head; And they shall come up out of the land, For great will be the day of Jezreel!
The name Jezreel means "The Lord sows" - many times I've overlooked the Jezreel Valley in Israel, once even in a glider, spiralling ever upwards following the storks via the thermals!
It is a fertile plain where crops thrive today - many different crops are sown there: wheat, watermelon, melon, oranges, white beans, cowpeas, chickpeas, green beans, cotton, sunflowers and corn.
That is what farmers have sown - but first the Lord sowed His people back in the Land, as He promised.
This is a massive bone of contention globally today, with so many protesting against the so called colonisation of "Palestine" by the Zionists!
But it is what God has purposed and declared and no UN resolution or Islamic terrorist group can undo.
In the passage above, we read the solemn promise of the Lord for His restoration of His people back in Eretz Israel.
Hosea, the prophet, expounds how the Lord rejected His people because of their harlotry with other "gods" - in the most graphic demonstration - by marrying and having children with a prostitute called Gomer (meaning finishing).
The children were called "lo- ruhamah" לא רחמה - "not pitied" and "lo-ami" לא עמי - "not my people" - because, at that point, the Lord had rejected them.
It also tells of God's final restoration of Israel as one people under one head, when He would sow them in the Land again.
So it happened, in 1948, Israel became one nation under one head, David Ben-Gurion - a miraculous event.
Ever since, their enemies have tried to eradicate Israel, to no avail.
Read it here, they will never succeed.
The whole world may turn on Israel, but God will stand up for her.
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