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Hosea 1:11

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

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #184

  
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184. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 1(1)

1-3 The prophet represented the falsification of the Word with the Jewish nation. (3)

3-5 That profane church will be destroyed when the Lord comes. (3, 1)

6 No pity is possible;, (3, 1)

7 but the Lord will pity those who will be of His new church. (1, 11)

7-9 When nothing of the church will any longer remain, (3)

10-11 then the new church will grow, and will acknowledge the Lord. (11)

  
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