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IN FULFILMENT OF THE PROPHECY OF HOSEA.

'EPHRAIMITE' SONS (13:1 NEB):
THEIR GUILT IS "TIED UP IN A SCROLL".
These rebel sons with the spirit of 'Ephraimite' stubbornness and pride are unfaithful covenant leavers (Dan 11:30,31) exalting themselves to such a pitch of sin and hostility before Almighty God as to call "a man inspired" of God "insane!" But even though "within the temple of his God men are hostile to him", "the prophet is God's watchman, placed over Ephraim". (Hosea 9:7-9 Moffatt). Those who were called to become members of the heavenly "woman" of God but who spiritually "fornicated" while on earth were not chosen for further spiritual development through God's creating of them. (Matt 22:14 RSV. 2:2). Unfaithful covenant-leavers have progressively had the legal case of the "Little Scroll" conducted against them by faithful anointed "sons of the living God" (His "watchman") to whom unfaithful ones once said to them: "You men are not My people". (1:10).

The spirit "fruitage" of these rebel sons with 'Ephraimite' natures are those scripturally described as the "disgusting thing" "standing in a holy place". (Matt 24:15. Dan 12:11). The outcome for these, the "offspring" of the "fornication" of unfaithful covenant-leavers denounced by the legal case of God: "And to her sons I shall not show mercy, for they are the sons of fornication... for she has said 'I want to go after those passionately loving me...'" (2:4,5). These 'lovers' of unfaithful covenant-leavers ("her") are baalists ("dungy idols"), false witnesses, the "disgusting thing" "standing in a holy place".

To reveal to them their sins, Jehovah has said He will: "rip apart the enclosure of their heart" (13:8) for "his sin is kept in store for him", "treasured up". (13:12 Mo. NWT). "Ephraim's guilt is tied up in a scroll, his sins are kept on record." (13:12 NEB). This scroll is the bitter "Little Scroll" of Revelation 10:8-11. When this record has been completed by the writer and earthly witness residing in the prophesied symbolic "wilderness", according to Spirit knowledge received from the remaining "witness" The Christ Michael in heaven, this scroll will be 'prophesied again'. (Rev 10:11. 12:14. 11:3,4. Zech 4:14).

Unlike faithful anointed sons of the heavenly "woman", 'Ephraimite' rebels refuse to subject themselves to the spirit birth and development of God's creating, just as it is written: "The pangs of childbirth are here, but a senseless babe is he, he will not come to the womb's mouth" (to be approved anointed sons of the heavenly "woman"). They refuse a spirit "birth" of obedience to, and dependence upon, the one true God. (13:13 Moffatt).

But: "Though he flourishes among the reeds [between (or a son of) brothers], an east wind shall come, a blast from The Lord, rising over the desert; Ephraim's spring will fail and his fountain run dry." (13:15 NEB footnote). The Spirit of The Lord our God will dry up the "spring" and "fountain" of their spirits and pillage their "treasure" of "desirable articles", namely, their "fruitage": The removal of faithful anointed sons of God and replacing them with the "disgusting thing" of unsealed men "standing in a holy place" between The Christ and mankind. To reveal to them their apostasy, which they do not believe to be a sin, Jehovah says He shall "encounter them like a bear that has lost his cubs, and I shall rip apart the enclosure of their heart." (13:8). Only by this means will they be forced to acknowledge their sins against anointed members of the body of Christ recorded in the "Little Scroll". "My God will reject them, for they have not listened to Him, and they will become fugitives among the nations." (9:17. See 13:14 Moffatt).

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