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Deliverance is a Divine promise and God’s Covenant with humanity. While
the details are not fully comprehended until a precise time, the plea to put
God first is continual throughout all time. What is the significance of the
three times pertaining to certain time periods, and certain events within
those periods of time? Everyone must ask these questions, and although
theology offers insights in order to approach the truth and know rather than
believe, the answer does not depend on any theology of today. Until the
right time is at hand, the truth remains a mystery [or secret] to the mind,
and those doors remain closed by choice.
Hosea Message Is Love
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Repentance and Forgiveness
Hosea also envisioned the covenant, and once again extended prophetic
words concerning a union between God and Israel [chosen of God]. The
expression of this vision is forcefully made through terms usually reserved
for the description of physical love in a human sense, but it is certainly most
profound in a spiritual sense. The union was formerly based only on law,
and it was intended as a spiritual bond based on love. The Hebrew prophet
Hosea found human marriage to be the means of expressing a human
relationship, and to articulate the spiritual relationship between God and
His chosen—forgiveness and repentance expressing the essence of love.
Hosea is the betrayed husband of the wife [Israel] who is an adulteress; she
evidences human weakness and perhaps separation. Both she and her
offspring are punished, yet each time she errs, she is redeemed and even
bought back, because the love of her husband is strong indeed.
Hosea relayed God’s message to all humanity. He was instructed by God to
comprehend love, for God asked him to excuse the faults of a failing wife.
Hosea was encouraged to accept his adulterous wife, because repentance
