EPHRAIM'S SONS. THEIR SINS ARE "TIED UP IN A SCROLL".
The final "fruitage" from the proud sons of Ephraim and their activities today, are those who are scripturally described as the "disgusting thing standing in a holy place". (Matt 24:15. Dan 12:11).

Concerning these, God will now "rip apart the enclosure of their heart" for the purpose of revealing to them their sins that have been "treasured up". (V.8 NWT). "Ephraim's guilt is tied up in a scroll, his sins are kept on record." (Hosea 13:12 NEB).

The aforementioned scroll is the "Little Scroll" of bitterness of Revelation Ch.10. This scroll is to be "prophesied again", and is still being written up while the earthly author and witness is still residing in the prophesied symbolic "wilderness" referred to in Revelation 12:14, receiving knowledge from the other "witness", the Lord in heaven. (Rev 11:3,4. Zech 4:14 NWT).

Unlike their brothers of the heavenly "woman", these Ephraimite sons (of proud natures) of this generation could not subject themselves wholesouled to God, as it is written: "For at the proper time he could not present himself at the mouth of the womb" (as approved anointed sons of the heavenly "woman"). He refused a spirit birth in obedience to and depending only upon, the one true God. (Hosea 13:13).

"Though he flourishes among the reeds [between (or a son of) brothers. Hosea 13:15 NEB footnote]", our God is now to bring from the spiritual "wilderness" an east wind that will dry up their spirit well and spring, that will pillage all desirable articles; namely their fruitage of the "disgusting thing" (their removal of anointed sons of God and replacing them with unsealed men to stand in a holy place between The Christ and mankind themselves). To reveal to them this sin, which they do not believe to be a sin, God says He will "encounter them like a bear that has lost his cubs, and I shall rip apart the enclosure of their heart". (Hosea 13:8 NWT). Only in this way will they accept their sins against members of the body of The Christ, written down in the "Little Scroll" that has become their final reward of bitterness, and without death to rescue them. "Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Discreet, that he may know them?" Who will repent and "flourish like a vine?" (Hosea 13:14. 14:7).

(Cont. on Next Page).

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