Yet and Still

A message the Lord God

revealed to Hosea the prophet:

Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin. Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him. 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.-Hosea 5:8-15***Gibeah was the name of at least 2 cities in the Promised Land. Gibeah of Saul, also known as Gibeah of Benjamin, was in the portion of the Promised Land allotted to the tribe of Benjamin. Another Gibeah was in the portion of the Promised Land allotted to the tribe of Judah. Ramah was the name of several cities in the Promised Land. Ramah of Benjamin was in the portion of the Promised Land allotted to the tribe of Benjamin, and Bethaven was in land allotted to the tribe of Benjamin. Ramah of Mount Ephraim was identical to Ramathaim-zophim. Most of Mount Ephraim was in the portion of the Promised Land allotted to the tribe of Ephraim. Israelites from the tribe of Ephraim descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and his 2nd wife Rachel,  their son Joseph and his wife Asenath, and Joseph and Asenath's 2nd born son Ephraim. However, Jacob proclaimed Ephraim and Ephraim's older brother Manasseh to be his own sons, and the tribe of Joseph became known as the tribe of Manasseh and the tribe of Ephraim. Israelites from the tribe of Benjamin descended from Jacob and Rachel's 2nd and last son Benjamin. Israelites from the tribe of Judah descended from Jacob and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah. Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, became the 1st king to reign over the Israelites in the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Approximately 400 years before Saul was anointed and reigned, the Israelites were in the desert wilderness of Sinai, in the region of Mount Sinai, and heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim the Ten Commandments to them. Immediately thereafter, the Lord God began giving Moses the prophet  judgments, statutes and laws for the the Israelites, and the Lord God made a covenant with the Israelites. Moses and his older brother Aaron were from the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi. The Lord God told Moses that only Aaron, and Aaron's sons, and the sons born to their descendants were to serve the Lord God as priests.  Moreover, Moses proclaimed that the Israelites must not remove their neighbor's boundary landmarks in the Promised Land, according to the command of the Lord God. David, from the tribe of Judah, was the 2nd king to reign over all of the Israelites. Solomon, the 2nd child born to David and Bathsheba, was the 3rd king to reign. Rehoboam,  the son born to Solomon and Naamah, was the 4th king to reign over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land. After Rehoboam gave a specific answer, the Israelites split into 2 kingdoms. according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of Solomon. Judah was the nation in the south and consisted of the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin. The northern nation of Israel consisted of the other Israelite tribes. The Israelites in the tribe of Ephraim, the Ephraimites, were warriors, and their tribe was possibly the largest in the northern nation. Throughout the divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible, the northern nation of Israel is sometimes identified as Ephraim. Jeroboam, the son born to Nebat and Zeruah, was the 1st king to rule the northern nation of Israel. After Jeroboam began thinking that he would be killed if the Israelites in the northern nation went to the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem, Judah's royal city, and turned their heart back to Rehoboam, he established a system of his own. Jeroboam placed a golden calf in Bethel, in the southern part of the kingdom bordering the tribes of Benjamin and Ephraim, and a golden calf in Dan, in the northern part of the kingdom, and appointed men of his own selection to serve as priests. Idolaters and murderers ruled the northern nation. Jehu was the 10th king to rule over all of the Israelites in the northern nation of Israel. During the beginning of Jehu's 28-year reign, Jehu put the false priests and prophets to death and burned their idols. Yet, Jehu did not destroy the golden calf in Bethel or the golden calf in Dan. Sometime thereafter, Jehu became an idolater. Jehu's son Jehoahaz was the 11th king to rule over all of the Israelites in the northern nation of Israel. Jehoahaz's son Joash (Jehoash) was the 12th king, and Joash's son Jeroboam was the 13th king to reign. King Hoshea was the 19th king to rule over all of the Israelites in the northern nation of Israel. During Hoshea's reign, the Assyrians invaded the kingdom again and conquered Samaria, the royal city, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. Rehoboam's great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson Uzziah (Azariah) was the 9th king to rule Judah. Uzziah's son Jotham was the 10th king. Jotham's son Ahaz, the 11th king, sought help from King Tiglath-pileser, ruler of Assyria. Ahaz's son Hezekiah was the 12th king to rule Judah. Hosea the prophet proclaimed the words of the Lord God to the Israelites when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, and Joash's son Jeroboam reigned. Uzziah, and Uzziah's great-great-great-grandfather Jehoshaphat, the 4th king to rule Judah, and Jehoshaphat's father Asa, the 3rd king to rule Judah, and Jotham, Hezekiah, and Hezekiah's great-grandson Josiah were the only kings in Judah who did not worship idols. Josiah's son Zedekiah (Mattaniah) was the 19th king to rule Judah. During the 11th year of Zedekiah's reign, the Babylonians (Chaldens) conquered Jerusalem, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. Less than 70 years after Jerusalem was conquered, King Cyrus, ruler of the Persian Empire, proclaimed that Israelites could return to Judah and Jerusalem and build the house of the Lord God. Over 500 years after the new temple was built, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah, the tribe of Judah's kings, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 13:1-14:45, 20:1-29, 26:1-27:23, Deuteronomy 31:1-34:12, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Hosea, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

Reference Scriptures:

Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.-Deuteronomy 27:17

But unto the wicked God saith, What has thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?-Psalm 50:16...Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.-Psalm 50:22

The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it. It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.-Hosea 10:5-6 

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