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The Book of Hosea – Part 10, Hosea 10:1-15

[Study Aired June 15, 2024]

This series in Hosea and its foundational theme of all the ‘Minor Prophets’, indeed the entire Bible, indelibly reminds us of our decreasing courtesan ways in this age.

When presenting a study teaching the word of God based on sound doctrine (2Ti 4:1-5), and the primary topic from Genesis to Revelations is principally about marriage and infidelity and the path to devoted faithfulness, our job is to examine the nuances of spiritual unfaithfulness carefully. To me, idiomatically speaking, its overwhelming dominance and sub-themes are ‘quite a meal’ of whoredoms, particularly from the minor prophets designed for us to choke upon its spiritual filth. Look what happened to Israel upon leaving Egypt and then growing weary of manna, which spiritually represents the milk of their Lord’s word that they found nauseating:

Num 11:4  And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh [for us, spiritual food/meat] to eat? 
Num 11:5  We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 
Num 11:6  But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. 
Num 11:7  And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. 
Num 11:8  And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil [… from the manna, they did everything imaginable to rehash and make interesting by the works of their confectionery skills more agreeable “dainties” i.e, meat. Gen 49:20, Psa 141:4, Pro 23:3]. 

Pro 23:1  When thou sittest to eat with a ruler [for this cause, Christ serving up endless whoredoms to digest], consider diligently what is before thee:
Pro 23:2  And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 
Pro 23:3  Be not desirous of [the Adversary’s] his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

Num 11:9  And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. 
Num 11:10  Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased. 
Num 11:11  And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
Num 11:12  Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? 
Num 11:13  Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. 
Num 11:14  I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 
Num 11:15  And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Num 11:16  And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
Num 11:17  And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone. 
Num 11:18  And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat [… and for us, lots of whoredoms until they run out of our Babylonish noses].
Num 11:19  Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; 
Num 11:20  But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it [whoredoms] be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? 

Throughout the Bible, especially in the Old Covenant, we are warned about our immense tendency to give in to unrighteous lust, almost always to the point of excess, whereupon it becomes unrighteous. As imitators of Christ, it’s important for us to rest on His strength so we can easily cut off our unhealthy desire for sinful things before they become humiliatingly repulsive. 

Yet, we know that our stains of harlotry will not be remembered or mentioned in the increasing Kingdom of God within, which is already at work in Christ’s Christs on earth today.

1Pe 4:1  Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 
1Pe 4:2  That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
1Pe 4:3  For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 

Isa 1:18  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isa 1:19  If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 
Isa 1:20  But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

2Co 4:7  But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2Co 4:8  We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
2Co 4:9  Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 
2Co 4:10  Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 

In this age, we need to work at not resisting the Holy Spirit’s work within us so that we don’t need to be devoured too frequently by the fiery sword of His word. Should we be designed to resist Christ’s goodness and immerse ourselves in spiritual impurity, then all glory to God for giving us the most perplexing desire our sisters in Babylon would recoil, and that is to receive the Lord’s fiery chastisements for our whoredoms joyfully.

Jer 23:29  Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? 

Isa 30:9  That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: 
Isa 30:10  Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 
Isa 30:11  Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Isa 30:12  Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: 
Isa 30:13  Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. 
Isa 30:14  And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter’s vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

Let’s continue with Hosea’s “meal of whoredoms” to have Christ’s word hammer our self-righteousnesses to pieces without submitting to our former dull, harlot-like dispassion, to continue to acknowledge her elaborate harlot schemings spiritually within and figuratively tend our wounds with the pot shards of our sweat in remembrance of Job’s mirrored self-righteousness.

Job 2:6  And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he [You and I are…] is in thine hand; but save his life. 
Job 2:7  So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job [the Body of Christ] with sore boils [and whoredoms] from the sole of his foot unto his crown. 
Job 2:8  And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down [dwelt] among the ashes [When we tend our sore trials, we generally have a lot of time musing them, hopefully not excusing ourselves or accusing others as Job and we are prone to do, but honestly for a righteous and speedy recovery while we dwell among the ashes reflecting upon our prideful lusts]. 
Job 2:9  Then said his wife [Old Jerusalem devoid of spiritual understanding] unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. 
Job 2:10  But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips [… but for us, we have to be tuned spiritually to catch our sin!].

In tying in the introduction pertinent to our God-designed intrinsic whoredoms:

Psa 119:165  Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Paraphrased for this study’s purpose:  ‘Great peace has the Elect of God ravished by His law, whereby formally being identified as a harlot does not in the least offend them.’ (Why? Subsequently, because of even more intense spiritual ravishing… Son 4:9  Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck). 

The Significations

Hos 10:1  Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. 

In reference to the theme of ‘eternal’ harlotry, no greater ‘emptiness’ is portrayed than a harlot’s understandably avoidance of pregnancy. She, as is Israel and formally us spiritually, is an empty vine with no spiritual fruit of our womb for our Husband’s glory. As Israel graphically sketches conversely, she increases the filth from her womb in doctrinal idols that speak smooth things to her (and our) ears.

Just as whoredoms are endlessly represented in scripture, so, too, are oft-repeated traditionally and falsely understood scriptures. Those 200,000,000 scriptural lies swell the belly of Old Jerusalem’s ‘high walls’ whereby the birthing of her ‘bastard’ children break forth suddenly in her day of reckoning.

Isa 30:8  Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: 
Isa 30:9  [We must think about almost every scripture pointing to us, as individuals spiritually!] That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: 
Isa 30:10  Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 
Isa 30:11  Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Isa 30:12  Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: 
Isa 30:13  Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

The Canaanite worship of Baal and particularly Asherah, whom Israel eagerly lusted, are gods of fertility that are designed by God to depict Israel’s lewd sensualities vividly; and as always for us, spiritually.

Here are a couple of many negative and positive expressions of our former harlot ways for the creation of the Bride:

Son 8:10  I am a wall, and my breasts like towers [embedded in the walls of Jerusalem, Old and New]: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour. 

Rev 21:12  [Regarding the Heavenly Jerusalem] And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 

1Th 5:1  But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 
1Th 5:2  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord [God dragging you as he did with Saul, who became Paul] so cometh as a thief in the night.
1Th 5:3  For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a [for this purpose, the harlot woman…] woman with child; and they shall not escape. 
1Th 5:4  But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 
1Th 5:5  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Following is an interesting and highly reasonable secular deduction if one wishes to look up using AI search for its origins regarding Israel’s carnal view of the Promised Land:

“When the Israelites entered Canaan, they found a land of farmers, not shepherds, as they had been in the wilderness. The land was fertile beyond anything the Hebrew nomads had ever seen. The Canaanites attributed this fertility to their god Baal, and that is where the Israelites problems began. Could the God who had led them out of Egypt and through the wilderness also provide fertile farms in the Promised Land? Or would the fertility god of Canaan have to be honored? Maybe, to be safe, they should worship both Yahweh and Baal.” [end] And they did!

Jer 10:1  Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 
Jer 10:2  Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them [Positvely dismayed as the signs of phenomenal physical riches in the Promised Land soundly portraying Canaanite gods as powerful]. 
Jer 10:3  For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 
Jer 10:4  They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 
Jer 10:5  They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
Jer 10:6  Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

Hos 10:2  Their heart is divided [between worshiping gods of fertility and physical riches and Jehovah]; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. 

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 
Joh 6:64  But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. 

Of course, Israel is designed by God to be first to betray him for the equally God-given spiritual observance of our betrayal of Him.

Mar 14:48  And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me? 
Mar 14:49  I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.
Mar 14:50  And they all forsook him, and fled.

Hos 10:3  For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us? 

Historically, it is unwise yet easy to demonise old Israel by shaking our heads at her blindness to remembering their King’s (God’s) infinitely superior power over the Egyptians all the way to the Promised Land and beyond. Yet they still want a wretched physical king to highlight the pride of their power as plainly as the Cannanites have, just as the world today jostles for ruling superiority over her neighbors. 

In Hosea 10:3, Israel is still grizzling sullenly that they don’t have a king since Jehovah destroyed their (Israel’s false) gods and incredibly, and colloquially speaking, “What the heck can you do, Jehovah, more than what our eyes plainly see in the richness of Cannan by them following their gods!?”

Hos 10:4  They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. 

Any farmer looking eagerly for the glorious sight of hundreds of thousands of perfectly formed rows of emerging wheat is severely dispirited and angered when he recognises his arch-enemy weed arrogantly flourishing shoulder to shoulder with his crop. So, too, is Christ if we are fearfully ‘inclusive’ and ‘loving’ to the spiritual tares inevitable challenge to sound doctrine.

Hair is pictured just like the billions of new wheat growth shimmering golden green in the sunlight. Babylon within, formally sees it as loving and inclusive and oblivious to doctrinal lies that automatically deny Christ.

Mat 10:30  But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 
Mat 10:31  Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. 
Mat 10:32  Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 10:33  But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

Hos 10:5  The inhabitants of Samaria [Directly synonymous of the Northern tribes of Israel] shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven [H205 – idols]: 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. 

Classically, Israel always looks back to the physical riches lost. She mourns not having a physical king and wants to be ‘inclusive’ with the inhabitants of Cannan and love them rather than offend them. That is precisely what Babylonian Christianity is doing today in submitting to every whoredom of immorality the powerful Satan-led leaders of the World force enslavement. How? They have even lost the half-light of the Moon pictured as her churches full of blind priests and become equally blind as her modern-day Canaanite slave masters.

Samuel’s Warning Against Kings – and every detail for us, spiritually.

1Sa 8:10  And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
1Sa 8:11  And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
1Sa 8:12  And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

Just look at the multiple millions of men and women conscripted or deceitfully coerced by their governmental slave masters, sending them to ‘endless’ (34 since the Boer War 1899-1902) meat-grinding wars ~ and where is the peace?! Currently, in Ukraine, even 17-year-old girls are being drafted into the military. Absurdly, wars are never designed for peace; rather, more extensive economic slavery through taxes advances the ruling oligarchy’s iron grip ~ for us spiritually, it means ruling over the laity with the distorted meaning of scripture.

1Sa 8:13  And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. 
1Sa 8:14  And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. 
1Sa 8:15  And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. 
1Sa 8:16  And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. 
1Sa 8:17  He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. 
1Sa 8:18  And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day. 
1Sa 8:19  Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;

If we desire a ruler other than Christ, we always end up with the wrong leader! However, even when they govern unrighteously, we accept their authority, understanding that it is all for our spiritual growth, even in difficult circumstances. The result for them, they will see in the Lake of Fire, is that we submitted to their authority in dreadfully trying circumstances, as long as it didn’t conflict with Christ’s word, and now it is their time to fill up the afflictions of Christ as we did.

Heb 13:5  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 
Heb 13:6  So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Heb 13:7  Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. 

1Co 7:21  Art thou called being a servant? [Effectively a slave] care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. 

Paradoxically, slavery to Christ IS freedom! There is no ‘freedom of speech’ or other so-called ‘freedoms’ of ‘diversity’ today in God’s kingdom, and that forced realisation in the one-thousand year reign of the rod of iron will no doubt smoulder discontent to be violently activated upon Satan’s short release.

1Co 7:22  For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant. 
1Co 7:23  Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 
1Co 7:24  Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God [… in freedom of unity of spirit never previously experienced]

Hos 10:6  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. 

Israel being ashamed of his own counsel is exactly what our Lord does to us when we insist on having our pet ‘god’. He will make us vomit for our indulgences and be utterly humiliated if we fail to judge ourselves (1 Co 11:28-34).

Jer 25:26  And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. 
Jer 25:27  Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. 
Jer 25:28  And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink. 

1Co 11:28  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 
1Co 11:29  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 
1Co 11:30  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 
1Co 11:31  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 
1Co 11:32  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Hos 10:7  As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

Foam forms mostly from impurities in the water that separate and float with kindred particles. So, too, are party-spirited heretics garnering support for their uncounselled ideologies cut off and wandering from the purity of the Body. They float and congregate like dross on the edges of the Body (figuratively water).

Jud 1:11  Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying [contradiction; rebellion] of Core [Korah = baldness. Spiritually, not covered by Christ’s word]. 
Jud 1:12  These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 
Jud 1:13  Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

Hos 10:8  The high places also of Aven [Vanity], the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

‘The mountains covering them’ is directly synonymous with the initially dreadful turmoil in the Lake of Fire, when everyone not in the First Resurrection will, for the first time, ironically want the Christs, the “mountains” and “rocks,” to fall and kill them. Of course, that will be the beginning of their spiritual death while they exist as embryonic spirits.

Rev 6:15  And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 
Rev 6:16  And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 
Rev 6:17  For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? 

Hos 10:9  O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah [a hill, the embryonic ‘mountain of the Lord directly symbolising a place of war]: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them. 
Hos 10:10  It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows. 
Hos 10:11  And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods. 

For the Elect of God, His chastisement is learned to be a glorious occasion that to her sisters in Babylon is absurd since they believe that they are already saved simply by muttering the iconic ten-second sinner’s prayer. Her preachers directly mean the Priests of God who are more treacherous than Ephraim since they supposedly know their Lord’s truth, plough their spiritual land full of the seeds of tares, thorns and briars, yet, and in the future that is since the cross, Jacob, the Elect of God shall refine her land within; breaking her clods daily in a well-prepared field to produce a bountiful harvest of truth for her, alone.

Therefore, the “two furrows” are self-explained, being Ephraim in the north and Judah in the south. Ephraim, in today’s churches, loves to tread out the corn of her doctrines because she can feed herself with ear-tickling, smooth doctrines that are easy to digest.

Hos 10:12  Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. 
Hos 10:13  Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. 
Hos 10:14  Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people [A great and clamorous noise of Babylonish confusion in Christianity, today], and all thy fortresses [40,000 + Christian denominations and 200,000,000 associated lies Rev 9:16] shall be spoiled, as Shalman [= fire worshipper. King of Assyria] spoiled Betharbel [puzzlingly for Babylon = ‘house of God’s ambush’] in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.

What a climactic ending! Our first father, Satan, and his wife, formally our “mother”, are destroyed along with her children first in the wilderness and ultimately in the Lake of Fire, and…

Hos 10:15  So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

Therein lies our joy of chastisement spoken earlier; the Bride of Christ is elated to have “Bethel”, the house of God in unity with Christ, destroy her wickedness as He, the Sun/Son of righteousness, rises in the east of Her glorious morning for the new day of God’s eternal kingdom.