Hosea 11 – 14
I had never considered that there was some parallel or significance to the fact that the children of Israel went form the promised land to Egypt and then were brought out of Egypt to inherit the land they had been promised similar to the way Christ was taken to Egypt in His early years and then returned to live in the land of Israel where He would teach and give himself for His chosen people.
Houses consistently calls Ephraim wicked but alternates between calling Judah wicked and righteous.
I just realized why the ten tribes so quickly turned from worshipping God when Jeroboam separated from Judah was that they were only culturally Hebrew. what I mean is that they generally made the sacrifices but the laws were not written in their hearts. Their worship constituted a national identity bit not as personal identity thus when their nation changed and the leader of their nation changed their worship they went right along with it. Those who identified personally with the covenant set forth in the law of Moses would have been inclined to go live in the kingdom of Judah (and indeed many did so) even if some of them might not have had the means to do so.
Too many of the members of the church today are the same. They ads LDS because it is the social group they were raised in but they will easily abandon any part of the gospel that is not emphasized by the particular leaders they choose to follow because they are not lead in their hearts by God nor converted to Him.
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