BIBLE STUDY MANUALS: ROMANS CHAPTER 9

OBSERVATION STAGE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The purpose of the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand within the normative rules of language, context and logic which limits the observer to the content offered by the book of Romans. This will serve to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more importantly, it will provide the framework for a proper and objective comparison with passages located elsewhere in Scripture.

Remember that something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in view.

I) [Ro 9:1-4a]:

A) PAUL EXPRESSES SUCH A GREAT GRIEF AND UNCEASING SORROW THAT HE WISHES HE HIMSELF WOULD BE UNDER CHRIST'S ANATHEMA (CONDEMNATION) INSTEAD OF PAUL'S BRETHREN, THE ISRAELITES - WHICH ANATHEMA WAS DUE TO THE ISRAELITES' REJECTION OF CHRIST AND THEIR BLASPHEMING GOD'S NAME

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GOD'S NAME IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE THE JEWS DISHONOR GOD BY CONSTANTLY BREAKING THE LAW YET HOLD THEMSELVES UP AS SUPERIOR TO THE GENTILES. THEY HAVE A UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AS HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE TO REPRESENT GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS TO THE WORLD THROUGH OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW, THEIR UNIQUE POSSESSION. THEY CLAIM THEY RELY ON IT FAITHFULLY

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I cont.) [Ro 9:1-4a cont.]:

B) PAUL EMPHATICALLY TESTIFIES THAT HE IS TELLING THE TRUTH IN CHRIST, HIS CONSCIENCE BEARING WITNESS IN THE SPIRIT THAT HE IS FILLED WITH GREAT GRIEF AND UNCEASING SORROW SUCH THAT HE COULD WISH THAT HE HIMSELF WERE UNDER CHRIST'S ANATHEMA (CONDEMNATION) INSTEAD OF PAUL'S BRETHREN, THE ISRAELITES - WHICH ANATHEMA WAS DUE TO THE ISRAELITES' REJECTION OF CHRIST AND THEIR BLASPHEMING GOD'S NAME

II) [Ro 9:4-5]:

A) TO THE ISRAELITES: THEIRS IS THE ADOPTION BY GOD AS SONS, AND THE GLORY OF GOD TO EXPERIENCE ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN, AND THE COVENANTS GOD HAS MADE WITH THEM, AND THE LAW GIVING, AND THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVICE OF WORSHIP OF GOD IN THE TABERNACLE AND THE TEMPLE, AND THE PROMISES WHICH ARE CONNECTED WITH THE COVENANTS GOD GAVE TO THE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM THROUGH ISAAC AND JACOB

1) THEIRS IS THE ADOPTION BY GOD AS SONS

a) [Compare Dt 14:1-2 NIV]:

2) AND THEIRS IS THE GLORY OF GOD TO EXPERIENCE ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN

a) [Compare Ex 16:10; 24:16-18, 40:34 NIV]:

3) AND THEIRS ARE THE COVENANTS GOD HAS MADE WITH THEM

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ABRAHAMIC COVENANT

IN THE PROMISED LAND, THE LORD WILL MAKE ABRAM A GREAT NATION (LONGEVITY AND MANY DESCENDANTS), MAKE ABRAM’S NAME GREAT THROUGHOUT THE EARTH FOR ALL HISTORY, AND IN ABRAM WILL ALL MANKIND THROUGHOUT HISTORY BE BLESSED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ETERNAL LIFE VIA A MESSIAH SAVIOR DESCENDANT

GENESIS CHAPTER 3 DECLARES GOD'S PLAN FOR THE ETERNAL RECONCILIATION OF MAN TO GOD AND THE RESTORATION OF MANKIND'S SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE EARTH THROUGH AN INDIVIDUAL DESCENDANT OF EVE WHICH CHAPTER 12 IMPLIES WILL BE FULFILLED THROUGH THE LORD'S MAKING ABRAM A GREAT NATION AND A GREAT NAME AND IN ABRAM THROUGH HIS SEED WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ETERNAL LIFE AND BLESSING FOR ALL MANKIND THROUGHOUT THE AGES

[GEN 3:14 NKJV]:

FOR DECEIVING EVE AND CAUSING HER AND ADAM TO SIN, THE LORD GOD CURSED THE SERPENT WHO WAS POSSESSED BY SATAN, GOD'S ADVERSARY, MORE THAN ANY OTHER CREATURE, RELEGATING SERPENTS NOW TO CRAWL ON THEIR BELLIES, EATING DUST AS A SIGN OF JUDGMENT UPON SATAN'S REBELLION

[GEN 3:15]:

TWO SPIRITUAL (NOT BIOLOGICAL) SEEDS ARE IN VIEW:

i) THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO FOLLOW SATAN IN SPIRITUAL REBELLION ARE DECLARED SEED OF SATAN - ANGELS AND HUMANS ALIKE. THEY ARE FURTHER DECLARED BY GOD TO BE AT ENMITY WITH THE WOMAN, EVE, AND HER SEED:

ii) A SEED, WHICH BIOLOGICALLY COMES FROM THE MALE, IN ORDER TO BE THE SEED OF THE WOMAN, HAD TO BE PRODUCED INTO A FEMALE PHYSICAL DESCENDANT OF THE WOMAN SUPERNATURALLY AND SPIRITUALLY BY GOD TO RESULT IN AN INDIVIDUAL MALE DESCENDANT TO REPRESENT THE HUMAN RACE - A MESSIAH-SAVIOR - IN THE BATTLE WITH SATAN AND HIS SEED TO PROVIDE ETERNAL RECONCILIATION FOR HUMANITY WITH GOD AND REGAIN SOVEREIGNTY OF THE HUMAN RACE OVER THE WORLD

THE SEED OF THE WOMAN PORTRAYS AN INDIVIDUAL OF SUPERNATURAL BIRTH VIA A SPIRITUALLY PROVIDED SEED WHO WILL REPRESENT ALL OF HUMANITY IN BATTLE WITH SATAN AND HIS SEED TO REGAIN THE LOST SOVEREIGNTY OF THE HUMAN RACE OVER THE WORLD AND PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL HUMAN BEING TO BE ETERNALLY RECONCILED WITH GOD RELATIVE TO SIN. THIS MESSIAH-SAVIOR WILL BRUISE SATAN'S HEAD = DELIVER A MORTAL BLOW TO DESTROY HIM, AND SATAN WILL BRUISE HIS HEEL - A NON-MORTAL BLOW

ABRAM BEGAN BELIEVING, IN THE TIME FRAME OF GENESIS 15:4-6, IN GOD'S PROMISE OF INNUMERABLE DESCENDANTS THROUGH HIS SEED SUPERNATURALLY PROVIDED BY GOD AND RELATIVE TO THE LORD'S PROMISE OF INHERITING THE LAND AT WHICH TIME GOD ACCOUNTED IT TO ABRAM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE AND CONFIRMED HIS ENTIRE COVENANT WITH ABRAM UNILATERALLY

THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT WAS CONFIRMED WITH ISAAC BECAUSE ABRAHAM WALKED BEFORE THE LORD AND THEREBY WAS DECLARED BLAMELESS, I.E., VIEWED AS OBEYING THE LORD'S VOICE AND KEEPING HIS CHARGE, COMMANDS, STATUTES AND LAWS

[Compare Gen 17:1-2]:

a) WHILE ABRAM WALKS BEFORE THE LORD, I.E., ACKNOWLEDGES HIS HOLINESS, SOVEREIGNTY AND ALL SUFFICIENT CAPACITY TO PROVIDE EVERYTHING, ABRAM IS THUS DECLARED BLAMELESS = RIGHTEOUS BY GOD AS AN ACT OF GRACE

THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT IS CONFIRMED WITH JACOB

THE COVENANT OF CIRCUMCISION AS A SIGN OF THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT

A) ABRAHAM AND HIS HOUSEHOLD MUST KEEP A COVENANT OF CIRCUMCISION WITH THE LORD AS A SIGN OF THE ORIGINAL COVENANT NOT AS A PART OF IT

PALESTINIAN COVENANT

GOD WILL CIRCUMCISE THE HEARTS OF ALL ISRAELITES SO THAT THEY WILL LOVE HIM WITH ALL THEIR HEART AND SOUL IMPLYING COMPLETE OBEDIENCE TO HIM; AND BY THAT THEY WILL LIVE AND FULFILL THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT UNILATERALLY THROUGH THE LORD

[Dt 27-28; 29:1; 30:1-20 NKJV]:

DAVIDIC COVENANT

God reaffirms the promise of the land that He made in the first two covenants with Israel (The Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants)

God promises that David’s descendent or "seed" will succeed Him as king of Israel and that David’s throne will be established forever - evidently referring to a future Messiah-Savior

1) [2 Sam 7:11-16]:

2) [Compare 1 Chron 16:15-18 NKJV]:

NEW COVENANT

THE LORD WILL PUT HIS LAW IN THE MINDS OF ALL ISRAELITES SO THEY THEY WILL KNOW AND OBEY HIM; AND HE WILL FORGIVE THEIR WICKEDNESS. HE WILL BE THEIR GOD AND THEY WILL BE HIS PEOPLE

1) [Jer 31:31-34 NKJV]:

THE LORD WILL GATHER THE ISRAELITES INTO THEIR OWN LAND AND GIVE THEM A NEW HEART, PUT A NEW SPIRIT WITHIN THEM AND PUT HIS HOLY SPIRIT IN THEM CAUSING THEM TO WALK IN HIS STATUTES AND KEEP HIS JUDGMENTS HENCE FULFILLING THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT

1) [Ez 36:24-38 NKJV]:

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II cont) [Ro 9:4-5 cont.]:

A cont.) TO THE ISRAELITES: THEIRS IS THE ADOPTION BY GOD AS SONS, AND THE GLORY OF GOD TO EXPERIENCE ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN, AND THE COVENANTS GOD HAS MADE WITH THEM, AND THE LAW GIVING, AND THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVICE OF WORSHIP OF GOD IN THE TABERNACLE AND THE TEMPLE, AND THE PROMISES WHICH ARE CONNECTED WITH THE COVENANTS GOD GAVE TO THE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM THROUGH ISAAC AND JACOB, cont.

4) AND THEIRS IS THE LAW GIVING

a) [Ps 147:19-20 NIV]:

b) [Ro 2:13-4, 17, 3:1-2 NIV]:

c) [Dt 11:26-28]:

5) AND THEIRS IS THE SERVICE OF WORSHIPPING GOD IN THE TABERNACLE AND TEMPLE

a) [Exodus 25:1-8]:

6) AND THEIRS ARE THE PROMISES WHICH ARE CONNECTED WITH THE COVENANTS GOD GAVE TO THE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM THROUGH ISAAC AND JACOB

a) Abrahamic Covenant Promises

i) The LORD Promised To Give Abram Eternal Life And Make Abram A Great Nation With Countless Offspring, A Great Name. It Will Be Through Abram That All The Families Of The Earth Of All Ages Will Be Blessed

[Gen 12:1-2]:

[Gen 15:5]:

[Gen 17:2]:

[Gen 28:13-15]:

ii) Abraham's Descendants Will Be Strangers In A Country [Egypt] NotTheir Own, Enslaved, Mistreated For 400 Years, That Nation Will Be Punished, Abraham's Descendants Will Come Out With Great Possessions And Return to The Promised Land To Deal With The Amorites

[Gen 15:13-16 NIV]:

iii) God Will Be With His Children - Israel, And Watch Over Them Wherever They Go

[Gen 28:13-15 NIV]:

b) Davidic Covenant Promises

i) David's Son, Solomon, Will Be Established As Ruler Over Israel And Will Build The Temple Instead Of David - And God Will Be His Father And Punish Him When He Does Wrong, But God's Love Will Never Be Taken Away From Him

[2 Sam 7:27 NIV]:

[2 Sam 7:12-16 cf. 2 Chr 6:15 NIV]:

ii) God Promises To Protect And Redeem Israel Out Of Egypt

[2 Sam 7:22-27 NIV]:

iii) God Allowed No Man To Oppress Israel Or Her Prophets

[1 Chron 16:15-22 NIV]:

iv) If Your Descendants Walk Faithfully Before God, You Will Never Fail To Have A Man - An Israelite - On The Throne Of Israel

[1 Ki 2:1-4 NIV]:

[1 Ki 8:20, 24-25 NIV]:

[1 Ki 9:1-9 NIV]:

c) Mosaic Law Covenant Promises

i) When Solomon Or Israel Is Faithful To God's Commands and Decrees, Then Solomon Remains On The Throne And Succeeding Israelites Will Be Ruler. If Solomon Or Israel Is Unfaithful, Israel Will Be Cut Off From The Land, The Temple Rejected And Israel Ridiculed

[1 Ki 2:1-4 NIV]:

[1 Ki 9:1-9 NIV]:

d) Palestinian Covenant Promises

i) [Dt 29:1; 30:1-20 NIV]:

e) New Covenant Promises

i) [Jer 31:31-34 NKJV]:

ii) [Ez 36:24-38 NKJV]:

7) THEIRS ARE THE PATRIARCHIAL FATHERS, ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB THROUGH WHOM WERE MADE THE COVENANTS AND PROMISES TO ISRAEL. IT IS THROUGH THE SEED OF THE FATHERS THAT CHRIST'S HUMANITY WOULD BE BORN

a) [Compare Ex 3:15 NIV]:

8) THEIRS IS THE CHRIST IN HIS HUMANITY WHO IS SOVEREIGN OVER ALL, WHO IS GOD BLESSED FOREVER

III) [Ro 9:6-8]:

A) CHRIST'S ANATHEMA ON PARTICULAR ISRAELITES IN HISTORY IS NOT A FAILURE OF THE WORD OF GOD AND THE COVENANTS THEREIN. NOT ALL ISRAELITES ARE TRUE ISRAELITES BECAUSE ONE MUST EXPRESS A MOMENT OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM IN GOD'S PROMISE OF ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH ABRAHAM'S SEED, ISAAC AND IN HIS MESSIAH-SAVIOR DESCENDANT

B) THOSE WHO ARE ONLY PHYSICAL DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM ARE NOT GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE, ISRAEL. THEY MUST ALSO BE OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM - IN THE SON OF THE PROMISE, ISAAC AND IN HIS MESSIAH-SAVIOR DESCENDANT, JESUS CHRIST, UNTO ETERNAL LIFE - TO BE CHILDREN OF THE PROMISE, GOD'S CHOSEN ONES OF ISRAEL, THROUGH THE SEED OF ABRAHAM

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(Gen 21:10 YLT)

(Gen 21:11 NKJV)

(Gen 21:12 NKJV)

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AN OUTWARD, (PHYSICAL), JEW MUST BE A JEW IN ANOTHER SENSE: AN INWARD ONE VIA CIRCUMCISION OF THE HEART BY THE SPIRIT - BY FAITH IN THE GOSPEL, NOT BY THE LAW, IN ORDER TO BE DECLARED A JEW IN GOD'S SIGHT. GENTILES AND CHRISTIANS ARE NOT IN VIEW IN THIS VERSE

CIRCUMCISION OF THE HEART (MIND) BY THE SPIRIT IS A SPIRITUAL OPERATION, A REMOVAL OF ONES ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SINS AT THE POINT OF A MOMENT OF FAITH ALONE IN CHRIST ALONE - THE GOSPEL - UNTO THE IMPUTATION OF A RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD

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IV) [Ro 9:9]:

A) THE LORD PROMISED TO RETURN TO ABRAHAM AT THE APPOINTED TIME THAT IT TAKES FOR A LIFE TO BE BORN FROM CONCEPTION - IMPLYING THAT SARAH HAD JUST CONCEIVED AT WHICH TIME SARAH WILL HAVE A SON, ISAAC THROUGH WHOM WOULD BE FULFILLED THE LORD'S COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM

1) [Compare Gen 18:10, 14]:

2) [Compare Gen 17:19]:

V) [Ro 9:10-13]:

A) REBECCA BY 'OUR FATHER ISAAC' HAD ONE CONCEPTION = TWINS BY DIVINE INTERVENTION. WHILE THE TWINS WERE IN THE WOMB AND DID NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO DO GOOD OR EVIL, THE LORD FORETOLD THAT THE GREATER ONE, THE FIRSTBORN WOULD SERVE THE LESSER AND THE LESSER WOULD BE THE SEED OF THE CHILDREN OF THE PROMISE TO ABRAHAM OF A MESSIAH-SAVIOR DESCENDANT. HENCE THE INTEGRITY AND PURPOSE OF THE ELECTION OF GOD WOULD PREVAIL OUTSIDE OF NATURAL CAUSES, HUMAN DOING AND THE TRADITION OF MAN

1) [Compare Gen 25:21-26]:

a) When Rebekah Was Barren, Isaac Prayed And God Supernaturally Provided By One Conception, Twin Sons - Progenitors Of Two Nations Who God Foretold Would Struggle With One Another Even In The Womb. The Younger Would Prevail, Receive The Firstborn Birthright And Be The Seed Of God's Chosen People In The Line Of The Promises To Abraham And Isaac Of The Messiah-Savior Descendant

B) THE PHRASE "JACOB I DID LOVE AND ESAU I DID HATE" PORTRAYS NOT THE EMOTIONS OF LOVE AND HATE OF GOD BUT THE STARK CONTRAST BETWEEN THE BLESSINGS JACOB RECEIVED FROM GOD AND THROUGH JACOB UPON ALL MANKIND DUE TO GOD'S ELECTION OF JACOB AS THE SEED OF THE PROMISED MESSIAH-SAVIOR OF THE WORLD TO COME THROUGH ABRAHAM VS. NOT ELECTING ESAU FOR THAT PURPOSE

1) [Compare Luke 14:26]:

2) [Compare Mal 1:1-3]:

a) Israel Questions God's Love For Her. God Answers: Jacob, Your Father, I Did Love - I Chose To Bless Him And Hence All Israel With The Blessings Of The Covenant I Made With Father Abraham. By Contrast, Esau, His Brother, I Hated - I Did Not So Choose To Bless. I Laid Waste His People And His Heritage

VI) [Ro 9:14-16]:

A) GOD IS ABSOLUTELY SOVEREIGN AND RIGHTEOUS. HE IS ACCOUNTABLE TO NO ONE. HIS ACTIONS ARE NEVER UNRIGHTEOUS. MERCY AND COMPASSION TOWARD UNDESERVING ISRAEL WERE HIS TO DISPLAY. THEY DID NOT DEPEND UPON MAN'S DESIRE OR EFFORT. GOD'S ACTIONS WERE WHOLLY CONSISTENT WITH HIS UNILATERAL COVENANT AND CALLING OF ABRAHAM AND HIS DESCENDANTS AS HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE

1) [Compare Ex 32:7-16; 33:11-19]:

a) The LORD Continued To Be Gracious And Compassionate With Israel Despite Her Ungodliness By Virtue Of His Sovereignty As Demonstrated By His Unilateral Covenant With Abraham And His Descendants, The Israelites. The LORD Is Sovereign, And Not Dependent Upon Any Man: He Will Be Gracious And Compassionate To Whomever He Chooses

VII) [Ro 9:17-18]:

A) PAUL CONTINUES TO DEFEND THE SOVEREIGNTY AND HOLINESS OF GOD RELATIVE TO THE PLAGUES GOD PUT UPON PHARAOH AND EGYPT AND GOD'S HARDENING OF PHARAOH'S HEART IN THIS MATTER

1) [Compare Ex 9:12-35]:

a) The Sovereignty And Holiness Of God Is Defended Relative To The Plagues God Put Upon Pharaoh And Egypt And God's Hardening Of Pharaoh's Heart In This Matter

VIII) [Ro 9:19-24]:

A) ALTHOUGH GOD IS CREATOR AND CAN DO ANYTHING HE CHOOSES WITH HIS CREATION, BY HIS RIGHTEOUS NATURE GOD DOES NOT FORCE MEN AGAINST THEIR WILLS TO DO ANYTHING THAT WOULD LEAD TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION. HENCE MEN ARE HELD WHOLLY ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS

1) [Compare Isa 29:16; 45:9]:

a) The LORD Is Creator Of All Things, Sovereign And Righteous In All That He Does. Woe To Him Who Questions Him. He Raised Up Cyrus, An Unbeliever To Be A Conqueror To Enable Israel, His Chosen People, To Return From Captivity To The Promised Land So As To Bring Forth Salvation And Righteousness To The Earth Through Israel Via A Messiah-Savior Descendant

B) ON THE ONE HAND, GOD SOVEREIGNLY CHOSE TO DEMONSTRATE HIS WRATH, POWER AND RIGHTEOUS LONG SUFFERING WITH VESSELS HE CREATED FOR DESTRUCTION, (UNBELIEVERS, ESPECIALLY IN VIEW: UNBELIEVERS OF ISRAEL). ON THE OTHER HAND, GOD CHOSE TO DEMONSTRATE THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY WITH VESSELS HE CREATED TO RECEIVE HIS MERCY AND GLORY: THE REMNANT OF BELIEVERS THROUGHOUT HISTORY, JEWS AND GENTILES

IX) [Ro 9:25-26]:

A) JUST AS SPECIFIC GENERATIONS OF ISRAELITES WHO BELIEVE IN AND ARE TRUE TO THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM IN A MESSIAH-SAVIOR DESCENDANT THROUGH ISAAC UNTO ETERNAL LIFE WILL BE CALLED BY GOD HIS PEOPLE WHO WERE FORMERLY NOT HIS PEOPLE, AND BELOVED WHO WERE NOT HIS BELOVED, AND SONS OF THE LIVING GOD, (= BELIEVERS), SUCH FAITHFUL GENERATIONS BEING PRESERVED (SAVED) FROM TEMPORAL DESTRUCTION UNTO GREAT AND RICH TEMPORAL BLESSINGS / PROTECTION / NURTURING UNTO A UNIQUE FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD COMPARED TO ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH; SO SHALL IT BE WITH GROUPS OF JEWS AND GENTILES THROUGHOUT THE AGES - EACH GROUP WITH GOD'S PARTICULAR DESTINY FOR THEM

B) HOSEA CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO POINT TO A FUTURE GENERATION DESCENDANT FROM THE GODLESS AND ESTRANGED ANCIENT ISRAELITES OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM. THIS FUTURE GENERATION WILL BELIEVE IN AND BE TRUE TO THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM IN A MESSIAH-SAVIOR DESCENDANT THROUGH ISAAC UNTO ETERNAL LIFE; AND THAT GENERATION OF ISRAEL WILL BE VIEWED BY THE LORD AS HIS PEOPLE, BELOVED AND SONS OF THE LIVING GOD TO RECEIVE PROTECTION AND TEMPORAL BLESSINGS

1) [Compare Hos 1:1-2:23]:

a) [Hos 1:1-5]:

i) Hosea Was Commanded By The LORD To Marry A Prostitute As A Reflection Of The Israelites' Spiritual Harlotry Of Worshipping Baal. Then The LORD Commanded Hosea To Name His First Son Jezreel - A Reminder Of Israel's Evil And God's Plan To Bring An End To The Northern Kingdom Of Israel Through Drought, Invasion, Captivity, Exile And Slavery

b) [Hos 1:6]:

i) The LORD Commands Hosea To Name His Daughter LoRuhamah, Which Means "She Is Not Loved," A Comment On The LORD's Removal Of His Love And The Withdrawal Of His Mercy From The House Of Israel, The Israelites Of The Northern Kingdom Tribes. He Will Take Them Away Via Military Conquest And Enslavement For Being Unfaithful

c) [Hos 1:7]:

i) The LORD Said That He Would Save The Southern Israelite Kingdom Of Judah From Temporal Destruction In A Manner Which Did Not Involve Military Force But By The LORD Their God Himself - His Direct Intervention

d) [Hos 1:8-9]:

i) The LORD Commands Hosea To Name His Third Child, A Son, Lo-Ammi, Which Means "Not My People." With This The LORD Declares That Due To Their Unfaithfulness The Generation Of Israelites Of The Northern Kingdom Are Not His People, And He Is Not Their God - Temporal But Not Total Destruction Is Imminent

e) [Hos 1:10]:

i) There Will Be A Great Restoration Of The Israelites' Population In The Future. In The Place Where It Was Said To Them "You [Are] Not My People" [Then] It Shall Be Said To Them "[You Are] Sons Of The Living God" Implying That God Will Restore His Broken Relationship With Israel With A Future Generation Of Israelites Who Become Faithful Believers

f) [Hos 1:11]:

i) There Will Be A Great Restoration Of The Israelites' Population In The Future And A Remnant Of Believers From That Generation Of Israelites, Then The Israelite Believers Of Judah And The Northern Kingdom Will Be Gathered Together Under One Ruler. In That Great Day Of Jezreel - Of The Eternal Kingdom In The Promised Land, The Restored Nation Israel Will Grow In Her Relationship With The LORD

g) [Hos 2:1]:

i) With The Future Gathering Together Of The Descendants Of The Israelites Of The Ancient Kingdoms Of Israel And Judah And The Restoration Of The Descendants' Relationship With The LORD In View, The LORD Declares Through Hosea, That The Descendants Are "Ammi" = His People; And The Restored Nation "Ruhamah" = His Loved One

h) [Hos 2:2-4]:

i) The LORD Contends With The Northern Kingdom Of Israel For Being Unfaithful. The LORD Has Broken Off His Relationship With Her In A Separation From His Marriage With Her Accompanied By Severe Temporal Discipline Until She Removes The Unfaithfulness

i) [Hos 2:5-13]:

i) In View Of Israel's Unfaithfulness To God And Her Self-Deception That False Gods Like Baal And Not The LORD Were Her Providers, The LORD Fought To Win Israel 'His Wife' Back Through The Temporal Disciplines Of Drought, Invasion, Captivity, Exile And Slavery. Israel's Material Blessings And Pagan Worship Celebrations Which She Used In Her Worship Of Baal Were Taken Away To Prove That The LORD Alone Is Her Sole Provider And To Persuade Her To Return To Him

j) [Hos 2:14-23]:

(cf. Ro 9:25 NKJV) "As He says also in Hosea: 'I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved.' " [Hos 2:23]

i) There Will Be An Unprecedented Event In The Future: Peace, Safety And Prosperity Will Be Restored To All Human, Plant And Animal Life Throughout All The Earth. At That Time, A Future Generation Of Israelites Will Be Bethrothed Forever To The LORD, Sealed Forever In Faithfulness. The LORD Will Say To Them Whose Ancient Israelite Descendants Were Unfaithful And Hence Not His People, 'You Are My People' And They Shall Say, 'You Are My God!'

X) [Ro 9:27-29]:

A) JUST AS WHEN THE LORD DECREED THAT A GENERATION OF GODLESS ISRAELITES WAS TO BE DESTROYED, YET HE PRESERVED A REMNANT OF ISRAELITES TO AVERT THEIR EXTINCTION AND INSURE THE FULFILLMENT OF HIS PROMISES TO HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE, WHICH REMNANT WAS DECLARED BY GOD TO BECOME SERVANTS OF THE LORD, I.E., BELIEVE IN AND BE TRUE TO THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM IN A MESSIAH-SAVIOR DESCENDANT THROUGH ISAAC UNTO ETERNAL LIFE; SO IT IS WITH ALL GENERATIONS OF MANKIND, JEWS AND GENTILES ALIKE: A REMNANT OF FAITHFUL BELIEVERS WILL BE PRESERVED (SAVED FROM TEMPORAL DESTRUCTION) SO AS TO PRESERVE THE HUMAN RACE FROM EXTINCTION IN ORDER TO FULFILL GOD'S PROMISES TO MANKIND

1)[Compare Isa 10:1-23]:

a) [Isa 10:1-19]:

i) Assyria Was Directed By God To Discipline God's People, The Israelites Of The Northern Kingdom For Being Godless. However, Assyria Never Acknowledged The Sovereignty Of God And Went Too Far By Attempting To Oppress And Destroy The People Of Israel And Jerusalem Causing God's Wrath To Turn Upon Assyria

b) [Isa 10:20-23]:

i) In The Day Of Assyria's Conquest Of Ancient Israel, The LORD Struck Down Assyria With Pervasive Disease And Fire For Oppressing The Israelites, Trying To Destroy Them And For Not Acknowledging God's Sovereignty And Righteousness In The Matter. This Freed A Remnant Of Israelite Captives From Relying Upon The Assyrian Rule, Hence They Began To Truly Rely Upon The LORD, The Mighty God, And Were Enabled By Him To Be Saved From Temporal Destruction And To Return To The Land

[Compare 2 Kgs 15:29 NIV]:

[Compare 2 Kgs 17:6 NIV]:

[Compare 2 Kgs 15:19-20 NIV]:

[Compare 2 Chr 30:6-9 NIV]: