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King James Version (KJV)
“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody
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Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.
Hosea 1:10 — KJV
Yet the number. Mingled with the prophecy of the breakup of the kingdom of Israel (v. 4) is the promise of restoration. Note the resemblance here to the promise given to Abraham (Gen. 22:17), and to that given to Jacob (Gen. 32:12). The promised restoration would not be to the ten tribes as such, but to Israel and Judah together (see on v. 11). However, the children of Israel did not live up to the glorious destiny that the Lord had planned for them (see pp. 30-32). The apostle Paul shows how this prophecy will be fulfilled with respect to the Gentiles (Rom. 9:25, 26; see pp. 35, 36).
Sons of the living God. This promise now meets its fulfillment in the Christian church. Through the acceptance by faith of the gospel we, whether Jews or Gentiles, are adopted as individuals into the family of God (Rom. 9:24-26), and so become heirs of eternal life (see John 1:11, 12; Rom. 8:14-17; Gal. 3:26, 29; Rev. 21:7; cf. Paul’s illustration of the grafting into the fig tree of true Israel, Rom. 11).
It was on the basis of the covenant relationship that God acknowledged Israel as His “people.” The name Lo’ ‘ammi thus implied an annulment of the covenant, and the statement, “Ye are the sons of the living God,” its restoration.
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