Second son? Following day? Lol at this madness. This is how you have to stretch, flip, twist, plank, somersault and whatever other gymnastic moves there are to make your book fit. If a dad says "when you completed your homework I called you out to play" he's saying that ONCE his son was finished, he called him. Theres no room for a second son on the following day. Thats you adding onto it so your book can fit. And its not going to fly.
No, that's your "self" ignoring the obvious facts that it/you are wrong, to defend the egotistical notion that it/you know better than God. You are the one stretching, flipping, twisting, etc., to promote your satanic viewpoint.
It's your arrogance that keep you from being able to "see" that even on a superficial level the verse could be referring to either Israel or Israel's King.
Theres no "two sons" in the OT. Just Israel.
While there is no disagreement that the Bible is written
FOR Israel, you apparently haven't considered the following physical and spiritual references:-
Exodus 4:22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the "I AM",
Israel [is] My son, [even] My firstborn:
Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a
straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and
Ephraim [is] My firstborn.
Connection:-
Genesis 48:16-20
48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and
let my name [Israel] be named on them (let Ephraim and Manasseh be called Israel), and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
48:17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
48:18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this [is] the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know [it], my son, I know [it]: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude (Commonwealth) of nations.
And God said when Israel was a child (past tense) He called him out of Egypt. Thats it. Past tense only. No imaginary son waiting in the cut to be "called the next day"... Thats you adding onto it to make your book fit. Wont work...
48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying,
In thee [Joseph] shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and
he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Ephraim (
the British people)
LEADS Israel, i.e.were placed over Israel and given the
NAME Israel as well. The name "British" means "people of the Covenant", i.e. the
PEOPLE Israel. And it is in the land of Ephraim (Great Britain) where we find the Davidic throne, that God promised David would
never lack one of his descendants to sit upon (
Jer. 33:17). So Israel remains God's firstborn son
on Earth (firstborn among the tribes of the Earth, receiving a double-share inheritance from God), with Ephraim called the firstborn son because Ephraim
LEADS Israel,
IN BOTH THE PRESENT AND IN THE FUTURE, WHEN CHRIST IS GIVEN THE THRONE OF DAVID DURING HIS SECOND COMING.
Genesis 49:10, 22-24
49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah [to Joseph], nor a law-giver from between his feet,
UNTIL Shiloh comes [from Joseph-Ephraim v 22-24]; and unto him [shall] the gathering of the people [be] (
Rev. 7:4-9,
Rev. 14:1-4).
49:22 Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:
49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at him], and hated him:
49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty [God] of Jacob; (from
THERE [is] The Shepherd, The [Corner] Stone of Israel(
1 Cor. 10:4;
Daniel 2:34-5;
45);
So there we have it, in the very first book of the Bible, that Christ (the Firstborn Son of God
in heaven) will incarnate a new body from Joseph-Ephraim (Ephraim was set before Mamasseh, as head over Israel) with a
NEW NAME (
Rev. 2:17,
Rev. 3:12,
Rev. 19:12) during His
SECOND Coming, at which time the throne of David will be taken away from its current occupier (Elizabeth A.M. Battenberg) descended from the line of David, and given to Christ, according to prophecy (
Ezek. 21:26-27,
Luke 1:32-33).
So yes, there are
TWO SONS: Israel (meant to be God's demonstration here on Earth), led from Ephraim, and Israel's
KING: soon to be Christ Himself, God's Firstborn Son in Heaven (
Col. 1:15).
I mean you can keep repeating yourself if you like but at the end of the day my point remains.
You're the one who keeps repeating himself, refusing to accept you are wrong and that God is right. All that's personally been done is to deliver His message of truth.
The bottom line here is you either
mistakenly believe God is not all-powerful, and is allegedly the author of confusion, which is ridiculous (
1 Cor. 14:33). And what is your paradigm based upon? The
mistaken belief that you are smarter than God, know better than God, and know the English language better than God. And this is even after your multiple errors have been pointed out to you, expanding upon those errors in subsequent posts, in order to help you see them.
God was speaking about when He CALLED (past tense) Israel out of Egypt. Cant take Him speaking about a past event and make it about some future event. Thats disingenuous but thats the only way your god fits the OT. By disingenuously twisting the OT
Except it isn't God Who is twisting the OT, is it? It's your "self", trying to prove that God is somehow in error, because it's cooned you into
mistakenly believing you(?) are smarter than God and know better than God. And you do all of this even after you've been shown the very prophecies you're referencing
HAVE BEEN FULFILLED hundreds of years after they were made. What amazing arrogance!
Just look how disingenuous
YOU (your "self" really) are being. The verse does
NOT say God called "Israel" out of Egypt; that's what
YOU have added to it to twist the verse's meaning. The verse specifically says: "...AND CALLED
MY SON OUT OF EGYPT".
You are
ASSUMING that son is Israel, while ignoring the fact it could be (and is) referring to God's Son, The King of Israel.
"When", and "then" are
CONDITIONAL STATEMENTS. Do you apply this same irrational illogic with all of the statements and prophecies in the Bible?
Most (but not all) of the Book of Revelation is considered to be prophetic, i.e. about
FUTURE events. (although some are presently happening at this point in time). Please take the time to see how many events are shared in either the past or present tense. A few examples (of many) below:-
Revelation 5:8 And
WHEN (in the future) he had
taken the Book, the four beasts and four [and] twenty elders
fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of holy people (those who really trust God).
Revelation 6:1 And I saw
WHEN (in the future) the Lamb
opened (
past tense) one of the seals, and I
heard (past tense), as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
Revelation 6:3 And
WHEN (in the future) he had
opened the second seal, I
heard the second beast say, Come and see.
Revelation 8:1 And
WHEN (in the future) he had
opened the seventh seal, there
was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Are you starting to see a pattern developing here? There's plenty more. Just read Christ's Revelation to John. And read the verse again in Hosea, bearing the above in mind. Please also consider these verses from Christ as well, regarding your attitude and in your reading of Hosea 11:1:
Matthew 18:3-4
18:3 And said,
Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and [then] become as little children, ye shall NOT enter into The Kingdom of heaven.
18:4
Whosoever therefore shall HUMBLE himself as this little child, the same is greatest in The Kingdom of heaven.
WHEN Israel has humbled itself (
Prov. 16:5), and has become as little children,
THEN Israel will be called out of Egypt, and will follow their King (The Firstborn Son of God: Christ)
leading them out of Egypt (slavery). That's the way it works
EVERY TIME.
Colossians 1:12-15
1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, Which hath made us meet to be sharers of the inheritance of the holy people in Light:
1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into
The Kingdom of His dear Son:
1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins:
1:15 Who is the
image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of every creature:
Hebrews 1:1-4
1:1 God, Who at sundry times and in diverse manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the Prophets,
1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us
by [His] Son, whom He hath
appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds;
1:3 Who being the brightness of [His] glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by The Word of His power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of His Majesty on high;
1:4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath
by inheritance (
Deut. 21:17) obtained a more excellent name than they.