In other words Hosea 11 is a prophecy because the NT says so lol
No, it's prophecy because it foretold
FUTURE EVENTS.
And even after the events have happened, hundreds and even thousands of years later, you
STILL want to argue it wasn't a prophecy.
You may not realize it but Egypt symbolically represents
SLAVERY. The Israelites (all 12-tribes) were enslaved in Egypt, under the evil rule of evil men, and were led out of that slavery to
FREEDOM, given to them in the form of The Law at Mt. Horeb in Sinai, to protect them from evil and to set and keep them
FREE.
But even after being called and led out of Egypt (slavery) to freedom, and being reminded of The Law that provides that freedom (if it is kept) every step of The Way --
lest we forget -- we allowed ourselves to become slaves
AGAIN, this time to the Assyrians (who enslaved the 10 tribed "House of Israel") and to the Babylonians (who enslaved the 2-tribed "House of Judah").
And here we are today, after promising we would never be slaves again (Rule Britannia, think of the words),
IN SLAVERY AGAIN, this time
NOT to another nation (yet), but to rich people from within our own (banksters and their puppet politicians and priests, etc.).
Deuteronomy 28:43-44
28:43 The stranger that [is] within thy borders shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
28:44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
Employee is just a modern word for slavery (think about it). And how did it happen? Because we forgot The Law/Commandments of our God.
Deuteronomy 4:1-13
4:1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the Statutes and unto the Judgments, which I teach you, for to
DO [them], that ye may
LIVE, and go in and possess the land which the "I AM" God of your fathers giveth you.
4:2
Ye shall not ADD unto the word which I command you,
neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the
Commandments of the "I AM" your God which I
COMMAND you.
4:3 Your eyes have seen what the "I AM" did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the "I AM" thy God hath destroyed them
[idolaters] from among you.
4:4 But ye that did cleave unto the "I AM" your God [are] alive every one of you this day.
4:5 Behold, I have taught you Statutes and Judgments, even as the "I AM" my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land where ye go to possess it.
4:6
KEEP therefore and
DO [them]; for this [is] your Wisdom and your Understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these Statutes, and say, Surely this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people.
4:7 For what nation [is there so] great, who [hath] God [so] near to them, as the "I AM" our God [is] in all [things that] we call upon Him [for]?
4:8 And what nation [is there so] great, that hath Statutes and Judgments [so] Righteous as all this Law, which I set before you this day?
4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently,
lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
4:10 [Specially] the day that thou stoodest before the "I AM" thy God in Horeb, when the "I AM" said unto me, Gather Me the people together, and I will make them hear My Words, that they may learn to respect Me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and [that] they may teach their children.
4:11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, "Clouds", and thick darkness.
4:12 And the "I AM" spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only [ye heard] a voice.
4:13 And He declared unto you His Covenant, which He
commanded you to perform, [even] Ten Commandments; and He wrote them upon two tablets of stone.
Or, from Hosea if you prefer...
Hosea 4:6-7
4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of My Knowledge: because thou hast rejected My Knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me:
seeing thou hast forgotten The Law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against Me: [therefore] will I change their glory into shame.
Hosea 5:15 I will go [and] return to My place, till they
acknowledge their offence, and seek My face: in
their affliction they will seek Me
early.
We are in the midst of the
intentional collapse of the entire global economic ponzi-scheme, under the guise of an alleged (non-existent) viral threat, and people still won't repent of all of this evil. And yet here you are, looking for excuses why the OT and NT are somehow irreconcilable, even though thousands of prophecies foretold in the OT are fulfilling themselves in the NT, just as the ones in the NT are likewise fulfilling themselves as we speak.
Not because of the context of the verse, but because the NT says its a prophecy it becomes one.. Pretty flimsy but at least you tried...
You
mistakenly thought the word "when" is past tense, and yet still believe you understand the context of the verse?
Do you really feel this one verse, which is
clearly an OT prophecy being fulfilled in both the OT and the NT, somehow confirms your
mistaken belief that the OT and the NT are supposedly irreconcilable? How is it possible that you don't find that to be a flimsy excuse?
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