Thank-you. Please see the reply below, to illustrate there is no contradiction or irreconcilable differences in the multi-faceted prophecy being discussed.
Hosea 11
1 "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
The people Israel were sent into slavery in Egypt, as punishment for not keeping The Law. It began with the 11 sons of Israel selling their brother Joseph into slavery, and culminated with God using Moses to call Israel out of Egypt. Of God's Children, Israel is referred to
METAPHORICALLY as God's firstborn, which is exactly what Israel is here on Earth.
Exodus 4:22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the "I AM", Israel [is] My son, [even] My firstborn:
The reason for this is very simple: the people Israel were to be a peculiar people, set apart from everyone else on Earth by their obedience to God.
Deuteronomy 14:1-2
14:1 Ye [are] the children of the "I AM" your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
14:2 For thou [art] an
holy people unto the "I AM" thy God, and
the "I AM" hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth.
As God has promised, anyone who keeps His Law receives His Blessings, and so, when the Israel's neighbors would see how blessed Israel was, they would want what Israel had. The neighboring nations would then try to take that by force but, likewise as God promised, He would defend Israel against all aggressors and defeat their enemies. The defeated neighbors would then ask if there was anyway they could be included in what Israel had, and would be told yes, IF they too keep The Law.
And that is how the surrounding Gentile nations were to be grafted into Israel. The process would then have repeated itself, until the entire world became the Kingdom of heaven on Earth.
But that didn't happen, as explained in the next verse:
2But the more they were called, the more they went away from me.[
a] They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.
Instead of championing God's Cause here on Earth, and setting themselves apart through their obedience to God, Israel sadly decided to become more like the nations around them, eventually asking Samuel to give them an earthly king, like everyone else (see
1 Sam. 8), exactly as
prophesied. And it went downhill from there.
The rest of the Old Covenant chronicles what happened to Israel, in direct fulfillment of the prophecies, and in accordance with The Law. When Israel even
marginally obeyed The Law (e.g. under the reigns of David and Solomon), they were very richly blessed. When they repeatedly did evil/broke The Law (as was the case under most of the kings of Israel and Judah), they were punished/cursed.
Both houses were eventually taken into captivity again, the 10-tribed "House of Israel" into Assyria, c. 722 BC, and the 2-tribed "House of Judah" into Babylon, c. 588 BC., because they refused to obey God and His Law, making idols and "lords" (baals) of the rich and powerful, exactly as
prophesied in Hosea 11:2.
Clearly not a prophecy but a statement of what had happened in the past.
Except it clearly was
BOTH a statement of what had happened in the past
AND a prophecy of what would happen in the future (right up to the present day) IF Israel didn't return to keeping The Law.
Hosea was written during the years leading up to the 10-tribed "House of Israel" being taken into captivity in Assyria as a
WARNING to
BOTH houses, not just for what happened to them in 722 BC and in 588 BC,
BUT WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN AGAIN, AS ALL 12-TRIBES ARE DEFEATED IN WW3 and taken into captivity by their enemies (Russia and China).
The British (Israelites today, along with all of the commonwealth countries) literally have a "house of lords" in their parliament, in direct violation of The Law, even though the
British monarch PROMISES to do his/her utmost to "maintain the Laws of God" in the coronation oath.
Most, if not all prophecies, have multiple applications throughout time, which makes them even more amazing and further proof of the Divine influence from start to finish in everything. The prophecies also factor in free-will, with at least two possible outcomes/timelines.
Yet the NT:
Matthew 2
14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
And that prophecy too was fulfilled, as Christ is
LITERALLY God's Firstborn Son.
Colossians
1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father (God), Which hath made us meet to be sharers of the inheritance of the holy people (Israel) in Light:
1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into The Kingdom of His dear Son (Christ):
1:14 In whom we have redemption through his (Jesus') blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins:
1:15 Who (Christ) is the image (likeness) of the
invisible God,
THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY CREATURE:
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