Not My People? Part One

(For Scott Ben David)

Seed Sown

Jezreel

God uses Hosea the Prophet’s life as an allegory of His judgments upon the House of Israel, Ephraim and the House of Judah and their eventual reconciliation to Himself. Hosea is told to name his children by prophetic names that detail the fall and rise of God’s people. At this time, we will look at the names of his second child, a daughter, and his second son.

1:6: 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.

(Lo-ruhamah means “No-Mercy”)

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.

So here we have a prophecy telling us that the House of Isreal will be taken away but Judah will be saved, in the sense that they will not be taken away.In fact, they will be saved supernaturally.

(Notice Judah is saved, why? Because Messiah would come from that tribe)

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.

(Lo-Ammi means “Not My People”)

So the people of God become a group called Not My People, and this is significant, because the prophecies detailing their return have been in front of us all along, and we knew them not!

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.

How does a people made into Not My People become as numerous as the “sand of the sea”? How does this same people become “sons of the living God”?

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.

2:23: And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.

Going back to Jezreel, Hosea’s firstborn, his name means “God sows”. God sows Israel unto Himself in the earth. Yeshua said, “Amen, Amen, I say to you, Unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.” John 12:24

God sows Israel into the earth with the expectation that He will reap a harvest!