We are in Egypt now. The word for Egypt in Hebrew is Mitzrayim and represents bondage, enslavement, and chaos. The Israelites experienced it in Egypt under Pharaoh and believers today experience in the world we live in. We are in bondage to the ways of the world, enslaved to the customs of the time (Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Greek Mythology, Pagan gods, etc.), and especially now we are living in a time of worldly chaos that is increasing at a fever pitch (Arab Spring, Depressing economy, blatant disregard of God’s commandments, hatred for believers, mass murders, terrorism, etc.).
Why?
Hosea says it is because we have regarded God’s commands as a strange thing or something we do not regularly practice and thus we have been punished and scattered into the nations just as the nation of Israel (House of Ephraim), via the Assyrians, was scattered into the nations. Believers today who cannot trace physical lineage to Judah are from the House of Ephraim or the Ten Tribes, which made up the Northern Kingdom that was scattered into the nations. The House of Judah (Jewish physical lineage) has already returned to the land. The remnant of both Houses make up the children of Israel; all who believe in the Messiah, Yeshua.
Hosea says it is because we have regarded God’s commands as a strange thing or something we do not regularly practice and thus we have been punished and scattered into the nations just as the nation of Israel (House of Ephraim), via the Assyrians, was scattered into the nations. Believers today who cannot trace physical lineage to Judah are from the House of Ephraim or the Ten Tribes, which made up the Northern Kingdom that was scattered into the nations. The House of Judah (Jewish physical lineage) has already returned to the land. The remnant of both Houses make up the children of Israel; all who believe in the Messiah, Yeshua.
We are not in the Promised Land that has been given to all Israel (House of Judah and House of Ephraim/Israel who believe in the Messiah) to dwell in. We are foreigners in a foreign land awaiting our coming King to deliver us to Zion.
Hosea 8:11-13 (NASB)
11 Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.
12 Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law,
They are regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for My sacrificial gifts,
They sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the LORD has taken no delight in them.
Now He will remember their iniquity,
And punish them for their sins;
They will return to Egypt.
11 Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.
12 Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law,
They are regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for My sacrificial gifts,
They sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the LORD has taken no delight in them.
Now He will remember their iniquity,
And punish them for their sins;
They will return to Egypt.
A Greater Exodus is coming. We will again be delivered from Mitzrayim into the Promised Land. YHVH will gather us from the nations which He has scattered us and bring us to His holy mountain to teach us His Torah and dwell with us.
Jeremiah 16:14-15 (NASB)
14 “Therefore behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ 15 but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.
Jeremiah 23:7-8 (NASB)
7 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when they will no longer say, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ 8 but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will live on their own soil.”
Isaiah 2:2-4 (NASB)
2 Now it will come about that
In the last days
The mountain of the house of the LORD
Will be established as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And all the nations will stream to it.
3 And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the law will go forth from Zion
And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And He will judge between the nations,
And will render decisions for many peoples;
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.
2 Now it will come about that
In the last days
The mountain of the house of the LORD
Will be established as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And all the nations will stream to it.
3 And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the law will go forth from Zion
And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And He will judge between the nations,
And will render decisions for many peoples;
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.
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