Hosea 2:21-23
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Rev. Mark Perkins, Pastor
Denver Bible Church
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Denver, Colorado 80210
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Hosea 2:21
I. Translation
"And it will be in that day I will answer an utterance of
Yahweh. I will answer the heavens and they will answer the earth."
II. Hebrew Notes and the Meaning of the Verse.
A. Before we begin this verse, let me introduce it.
1. This verse and the next one have to do with agriculture in the millennium.
Topic: AGRICULTURE IN
PALESTINE
2. The agriculture during the millennium will of course be exceptionally great.
3. These two verses concentrate on the subject because of the name of Hosea's first son, Jezreel.a. The name Jezreel is a play on words. It means "God sows" in the Hebrew.
b. As we have seen, the first use of this play on words had to do with God's discipline of the nation of Israel. God had sown the discipline of Israel in Assyria, and soon the Assyrian menace would come to fruit in the destruction of Israel.
c. Now there would be a new use of Jezreel this time it would have to do with the great prosperity of the millennium. God has sown that great prosperity, and even though it has yet to come to pass, it most certainly will.
B. The verse begins with the phrase WEHAYAH BAYYOM HAHU'. "And
it will be in that day".
1. This is our tip off that the subject of this verse is the millennium.
2. The qal perfect tense of the verb "to be" sets it in concrete. This will definitely come to pass, because this is the prophetic future perfect.
3. BAYYOM identifies the time of the prophecy as the end times. We know specifically that it is the millennium from the details of the next verse.
C. Next is the beginning of a procession of phrases which use
the same verb.
1. `E'ENEH is the Hebrew verb "to answer". Since there is a procession of these, we have a chain of command from God to the plants themselves.
2. The idea behind using the verb "to answer" is clever. It shows God responding to human petition.
3. The response of God shows that He does listen and does respond to us.
4. The response of God does not in this case go directly to the person who petitioned, but to the answer itself.
5. Once the answer is clear, then the response is made known to the person who made the petition. This is God's way of answering.
D. The surety of these future events is made abundantly clear
by the statement, NEUM YHWH, "an utterance of yahweh".
This means that these are the very words of God Himself. And
note that answers to prayer are the very words of God Himself
to you!
1. This means that you should be thankful no matter what the answer might be even i f it is not exactly what you wanted.
2. This means that you can be confident no mat[[partialdiff]]ter what the answer might be.
E. The rest of the verse says, "I will answer the heavens
and they will answer the earth."
1. These are the first two links in answered prayer.
Topic: PRAYER
a. First, the answers go from God to the heavens. This is a reference to the angelic host, who will carry out the answer on earth. They carry out God's Word without any kind of compromise.
b. Second, the answers go from the heavens to the earth. This is the activation of the answer in space and time.2. These two links show the intermediate steps in answered prayer.
3. The intermediate steps do not cause any loss of integrity from God's original answer.
F. There is no record of the request, or the presentation of
that request to God by Jesus Christ.
1. This passage concentrates on the reply.
2. The reply has a protocol, and God has chosen that protocol for His glory.
Hosea 2:22
I. Translation
"And the earth will answer the grain and the new wine and
the fresh oil and they will answer Jezreel."
II. Hebrew Notes and the Meaning of the Verse.
A. This verse continues the thought of the last. Again, it shows
the process of answered prayer, beginning at the top with God.
The last verse went like this: "And will be in that day
I will answer an utterance of Yahweh I will answer the heavens
and they will answer the earth."
B. Now this verse continues with WEHA'ARES TA'ANWEH, "and
the earth will answer"
C. There are three direct objects in this sentence
1. HADAGANE is "the grain".
2. HATIRO is "the new wine"
3. And HAYYIS.HAR is "the fresh oil".
D. These three things represent the prosperity of Israel in the
millennial state.
1. The earth is the source of all these things; it is the rich soil that provides the environment for growth.
2. The soil of the millennium will be the richest of all time.
3. Remember that agriculture was about the only business of the ancient world. Today there are many others, and there are likely to be many others in the millennium.
E. The grain represents the a logistical prosperity of the millennial
state; it was a sustenance crop.
F. The new wine represents the additional prosperity of the millennium
it was a luxury crop.
G. The fresh oil represents the spiritual prosperity of the millennium
it was a symbol for the ministry of the Spirit.
H. These three things in turn are the essence of the answered
prayer to Jezreel.
1. Jezreel means "God sows".
2. All of those things which represented prosperity were things that were sowed in the ground.
3. God planted them, He nourished them, and He brought them to fruit.
4. Remember that answered prayer is our lifeline to God; it is the 'proof' that God exists. It vitalizes our relationship with Him, confirming His essence and capabilities and attributes.
Hosea 2:23
I. Translation
"And I will sow her to me in the earth, and I will show
compassion to Lo Ruhamah, and I will say to Lo Ammi "You
are my people." and he will say "you are my God".
II. Hebrew Notes and the Meaning of the Verse.
A. The verse starts with the verb WUZRA'TIHA. This is in the
qal future prophetic perfect. It sets a future event in stone.
It means to sow a seed.
1. The seed that is sown is the nation of Israel.
2. Israel is a priest nation of God, functioning as an ambassador to the whole world.
3. The nation is sown in the earth so that it will grow and become known to all the earth, and bring glory to God.4. The plant brings glory to the planter.
B. The second verb is WERIH.AMTI, which is the piel perfect of
the verb RAH.AM. RAH.AM in its root form means to love someone.
In the piel intensive, it shows compassion by intensifying the
meaning. It does not mean 'passion', but 'compassion'. It is
in the perfect tense, and it is a future prophetic perfect. The
direct object of this verb is Lo ruh.amah, the daughter of Hosea.
1. This compassion is the compassion of Yahweh expressed in the millennium.
2. The compassion is given in response to the positive volition of the remnant of Israel expressed during the tribulation.`
3. The essence of the compassion is the perfect environment of the millennium itself.
C. The third verb is the qal perfect WE'AMARTI, which is the
verb "to say", or "to speak". It denotes
the verbal expression of words, and here it is something more
an official announcement from the throne of heaven. It too is
in the future prophetic perfect.
End of Lesson 11
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