Old Testament Scripture Reading: ( Hosea 3:1 – 5 KJV)
Hos 3:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
Hos 3:2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
Hos 3:3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.
Hos 3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
Hos 3:5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
New Testament Scripture Reading: (2 Thes 2:1 – 14 KJV)
2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2Th 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2Th 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
2Th 2:14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Transforming Power Statements:
1) The world calendar keeps record of the time of the apostasy of Israel, (the covenant people) who willfully rejected Jesus The Christ just as it had been stated in Old Testament Scripture, which accurately and graphically described in stunning detail hundreds of facts about the coming, the life and rejection of Messiah, which brought about this current situation on earth where the Church, (which consists of all people who believe in Messiah, Jesus, of both Jews and Gentiles) has been spreading the Gospel throughout all the world ever since. (Which was also written in Old Testament Scripture) Which is summarized by Hosea in Chapter 3.
2) The sad reality is that just as Israel got caught up into themselves to a point that they became self-reliant rather than God-centered and dependent, the Scriptures also teach and warn the Church against following the same demonically induced satanically engineered, destructive systems of phony religion, which shall also infect the world church to enter into apostasy, which characterizes the end-times.
3) This message is an alert to the Church to be aware of the delusions that are already present in the world and are creeping into the Church, such as a) ritualism; b) man-centered doctrine rather than the teachings of Scripture ALONE; c) propagation of abhorrent life-styles rather than godliness; d) calling evil good and good evil; e) acute materialism; f) spread of pride and godlessness through mass-social media; g) personal and governmental delusion such as: climate change / control; sexual mutilation and overall confusion h) the illusions of peace and safety i) normalization of illicit drugs etc.