As we continue this series of history of prophecy, there are some very important prophecies that I think that you will be interested in.

In fact, the things that I've been giving you up to this point are like the salad, or the first or second course, but we have to get into some of the more interesting aspects of this, the main course and the desert so that you can really enjoy the prophecies that are here for you. One of the most interesting aspects of all of this is getting directly into the prophets themselves and asking ourselves what do they tell us about what is going to happen in the future?

Hosea

The next prophet in the line of those that we want to talk about is a man named Hosea. He is the first of the minor prophets, now that might come as a little bit of a surprise to some of you since Daniel is at the beginning of the minor prophets, but technically, Daniel is not considered to be one of the minor prophets. He is part of the holy writings which is in a different category in which his book is grouped with the Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and so forth, as far as original groupings of the Scripture are concerned.

Hosea is the first of the prophets listed in what is called the minor prophets. They're called minor because all of the books are shorter.

Let's begin in 2 Kings chapter 14.

In the study that we have been doing we have gotten ourselves up through the history of Israel and had seen the division of the ten northern tribes of Israel from the southern tribes and then followed the king list, as it were, through for the ten northern tribes and the successive events that took place. The change in religion, the idolatry and how the first of the prophets came along, Elijah and Elisha, the really powerful prophets, and how that their condemnation is almost exclusively oriented around idolatry. This is the fundamental, the most problematic thing and the thing that made God the most angriest but they don't get around to talking about theft and murder and the violation of the Ten Commandments, except for the first two commandments in the works of Elijah and Elisha, primarily. You get the impression, almost, that in the earliest days of Israel that it was idolatry that was the single biggest problem. In the beginning, in the earliest of times, they had not gone into the wickedness, which would be a hallmark in their later existence as a people. So for the first of the prophets, they concerned themselves with idolatry, the worshiping other gods, the making of graven images and the effect that that would eventually have on the lives of these people.

In 2 Kings chapter 14 and verse 23 "In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, and reigned forty-one years."

This is probably during the 41 year period of time of the absolute peak of Israel's power and prosperity. Their economy was at the very strongest, and their military power was at its greatest. God had in His mercy had allowed them to conquer some territory that had been taken away from them and to be able to restore the kingdom back to where it had been before. It was a time of peace and prosperity, and as things will tend to go in such a time, the people began to forget God, more than they had to this day.

The impression that you get from the prophets, and it is borne out by prophet after prophet, is as you are increased so you sin against God, and that seems to be the pattern again and again and again. People tend more in times of trouble, when things are going wrong, when they are sick, when they're hurting, when things are just not right, that's when they begin to pray. That's when they start thinking about God. That is when they drag the Bible off of the shelf above and blow the dust off, and chokingly go to their chair and sit down and read what might be there. Because when everything is going along well and there is no needs in their life, they think, God, if there is a God, is the way they would put it. They are not really that impressed.

So during this time, Israel was prosperous.

2 Kings chapter 14 and verse 24 "Jeroboam did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel to sin."

Remember, we have two Jeroboams here. The first Jeroboam was the one who established the worship of the golden calf, who moved the feast of tabernacles from the 15th day of the seventh month to the 15th day of the eighth month, and he probably didn't even call it the feast of tabernacles, but something quite different. Indications are he may have even changed other holy days as well and he also changed the place where Israel was to worship. Jeroboam the first did all of these things.

This man that we are talking about now is Jeroboam the second and we're told he did not depart from this. This is the same old tired litany that we have been hearing as we have gone through these prophecies, where each king in concession, God says, "Did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. He continued in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who did sin, and who made all Israel to sin." His sin was the setting up of calf worship in Bethel and Dan, the changing of the holy days, and the changing of the place and the method of the worship of God.

Now in their earliest time, as a separate kingdom, Israel did not worship Baal, they worshiped the calf and that was different. That's not quite the same. There is much difference from worshiping Baal and worshiping the calf as there is a difference of being a Methodist or being a Buddhist. These are two quite different religions, the worship of the calf and the worship of Baal.

2 Kings 14:25: "He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which He had spoken through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet who was from Gath Hepher."

This is the famous Jonah, that we all know about, and this is another prophecy that is not written about elsewhere in the Bible. He prophesied that the land would be restored, the coast would be restored at sometime in the future. Jeroboam II carried that out.

This places Jonah earlier than Jeroboam II as you can see.

Verse 26: "The LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and whether bond or free, there was no helper for Israel. {27} And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven; but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. {28} Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did; his might, how he made war, and how he recaptured for Israel, from Damascus and Hamath, what had belonged to Judah; are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? {29} So Jeroboam rested with his fathers, the kings of Israel. Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place."

Let's continue in 2 Kings 15:1: "In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, became king. {2} He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem. "

Now mind you, we are dealing with a king of a different kingdom. This is the king of Judah, and he reigned for 52 years, and his name was Azariah.

Verse 3: "He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done, {4} except that the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Jeroboam II is followed by Zechariah in the north and King Uzziah or Azariah as he is otherwise known in the South in a time of relative prosperity. Jeroboam II reigned for 40 odd years, and Uzziah for 52 years and their reigns are at about the same period of time. And so there's quite a bit of stability, power and prosperity.

Now on the scene walks a man named Amos. He is a prophet of the ten northern tribes. I referred to him in an earlier message as the shepherd prophet.

Also at the same time, comes a man named Hosea. He is the younger contemporary of Amos. Amos was older than him and probably began to prophesy a little before Hosea. Hosea on the other hand was the older contemporary with Isaiah and Micah. These two men prophesied in the South and Amos and Hosea prophesied in the north to different kingdoms and a different place, but still somewhat roughly contemporary, and of course Hosea might have very well have known Jonah in the process of this period of time.

We are at the beginning of Hosea’s work in something like 150 to 160 years into the history of the northern kingdom. It is probably in the year 760 to 720 BC, and it was a 40 year period of time. He followed the succession of the prophet Elijah, Elisha, Jonah and Amos and then comes Hosea.

Now Hosea himself is an interesting study, and I want us to go back. because we are at an appropriate time to do this. His work began in the time of Jeroboam II.

Let's turn back to the book of Hosea, and we're going to introduce ourselves to as much as we know about this particular man.

Hosea, chapter 1 and verse one: "The word of the LORD that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel."

We have him placed in a reasonably close time context. Obvioulsy, he didn't prophesy all the days of Uzziah, but he came on the scene during the 52 year reign of Uzziah. He was a prophet, who had a few things to say to Judah, but he was a Northerner, and he was a part of the ten northern tribes, and his message was primarily to those people.

Verse 2 "The LORD said to Hosea, Go, take to you a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land has committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD."

I think, probably, the commentators of the Bible may have spent more time on that verse than on the entire rest of the book of Hosea, because they found that particular statement rather troubling. Some of them have suggested, what he meant was, that the nation of Israel was a nation that had gone into whoredoms and idolatry and so forth and he was to take himself a wife of the nation of Israel. The Living Bible says it this way, "The Lord said to Hosea "Go and marry a girl who is a prostitute so that some of her children will be born to you of other men. This will illustrate the way my people have been untrue to me by committing an open adultery against me by worshiping other gods."

I suspect that the translator of the Living Bible is dead right. Perhaps not a professional prostitute but a woman who had had a loose reputation, a woman who had known other men, a woman who was not a virgin, was the one to be Hosea's wife.

You know, in a flippant sort of way, I think sometimes, some of us might think that we would like to be a prophet. It would be very exciting to be lying in your bed some night, asleep and hear your name called, like Samuel did. A voice called to Samuel and he woke up and he went in to talk to Eli and ask "Did you call?" Eli said "I didn't call you." Samuel went back to bed. The voice called to Samuel three times.

How would you like to be there some night and hear you name called, "John", or whatever you name is. You sit up in bed and the voice fills the whole room and there is something in you that says "I don't have to ask who that is. I know who that is." And you are suddenly given a message to be carried out to somebody. That would be a real thrill, I guess? It would be a tremendous honor, I suppose? But for Hosea, what he told him to do was to marry a whore. How does that grab you fellas? How would you feel about that? Now I have very little doubt that that is precisely what was involved. The reason being, because just barely marrying some girl who lived in Israel, who was a model of chastity, and a very fine girl and worthy in every way of being a prophet's wife would not have really said much, would It? It would have made no statement whatever and the whole purpose of this entire episode is that Hosea is going to make a statement with his life.

Now, it's one thing for me, if I were a prophet to come in here before you people and say "The Lord appeared to me the other night, and He said "Tell these people that they have all gone into whoredoms and prostitution and playing the harlot and you men are running around with other people's wives and you women are playing the harlot, and they're stealing and lying and some of you have even murdered your neighbors and the Lord is really going to get you for all that."

The emotional impact of coming before you and saying "The Lord appeared to me and He told me to take a wife, a daughter of whoredoms, and I did. I married a woman who was a prostitute and I am a sign and a type to you people from the eternal God that He has married you and you have played the whore against Him."

Do you see the difference between the emotional impact of the message coming from a man who has been sent to carry this out and to actually live it in his life.

Ezekiel was told that as a part of his message and a part of what he was going to do, was that his wife would die. He lost his wife as a part of a prophetic message and God took her life. She died. This man, having lost his wife came forward to preach that the death of his wife had meaning for Israel, and he proceeded to preach that meaning to those people.

So being a prophet is not something to just be tossed off. I think by large you would be far better off to adopt the posture of Jonah in the long run, and say I'm not really eager to be a prophet, in fact I would just as soon not be a prophet, because by the time God chooses someone, there may be things you may be called upon to do that could be very painful, could be incredibly humiliating, and it could cost you those things that are dearest to you. It is like saying to a man that you are going to build a house and you don't sit down and count the cost and make your estimates and plan this thing out and say this is how much it is going to cost. Can you really afford this?

Fortunately for you and I, God knows whether we have the resources to follow through and be able to survive as a prophet.

That may be a perfectly good reason why none of us are prophets, in that God has looked down here and either hasn't needed a prophet, which is frankly most likely of all, or He hasn't found anybody that He feels could bridge the gap. It is not really finding somebody worthy of being a prophet, because there isn't any of those. You are not going to depend on your worthiness or your ability or your holiness to become a prophet. It is going to depend on whether God decides to use you as a prophet and what He wants done and when He wants it done and maybe whether you can stand the gap. For your will and your desires and your fears and your hopes do get bound up in whatever else it is that God may want you to do.

Hosea 1:3: "He went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son."

We are not really told of where she conceived it. We assume his firstborn son was his own.

The LORD said: "Call his name Jezreel."

Jezreel is a place, unlike some of the other names that are given to children in a prophets, this name is a place name.

And he continues: "For in a little while and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, And will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel."

Now that is a very specific prophecy at this point in time. If you will recall, we have a man named Jehu, who became king in Israel who was anointed by God to be king, and was commissioned with responsibility of destroying the remainder of Ahab's house, which he did. But he carried it out with such vigor and went so far beyond what God told him to do that he became an absolute bloody feign in the process of it all. And now God says to a man at a given point in time, you are going to have a son and the name of his son was to be Jezreel and every time you call his name it'll be a living witness to everybody that I am going to avenge what happened in Jezreel upon the entire house of this king. Now this was no end time prophecy. That particular statement has to do with the given king and a given place and at a given time.

You have to keep that in mind as you go along that these prophecies arose out of a specific historical context. Now that does not mean that they had no end time application. Don't ever make that mistake either, because often times, these kings of old were types of something that was to take place in the end time and there are hints and suggestions of end time applications in all the prophets. Actually fewer in Hosea than most, for Hosea's prophecies seem to be very focused toward Israel of his time and in his day. And yet the overtones are still there, the hints are still there, and the warnings are still there.

He goes on to say in Hosea 1:6 "His wife conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then God said to him: "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah."

Now basically in Hebrew that word means "not having obtained mercy". It is a complicated word and is quicker say than in Hebrew. This is a strange name for a girl to have a carry around.

So God says, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, For I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, But I will utterly take them away. "

These are two prophecies, one, I will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel, it is not going to continue as a separate kingdom and two, I am going to utterly take away the house of Israel, all of them. Here are two different prophecies and combined in the name of two different children.

Verse 7 "Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah, Will save them by the LORD their God, And will not save them by bow, Nor by sword or battle, By horses or horsemen."

That also places this prophecy in a strong historical context, because it is made before the sins of Judah had come sufficient for God to discuss the final destruction of Judah as a people. Right?

For Him to say "I'm not going to do this to Judah", we all know He did, so at this time, when this prophecy was given, Judah had not gone this far. And of course in the days of Uzziah was a time of reform and a time in getting back to God. He was a good king. He exercised good leadership in the South. It was going to be considerably later that the other words would be said concerning other kings and later generations of the house of Judah.

Verse 8 "Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son. {9} Then God said: "Call his name Lo-Ammi."

This name means 'not my people.'

Continuing in verse 9: "For you are not My people, And I will not be your God."

Now this sounds like what God is saying is that He is reaching out and speaking to the Israelites and saying "You may be Israelites but you are not my people, and I'm not going to claim you at all and I am not going to be your God.

Interestingly enough, though, the ninth chapter of Romans, Paul reaches back into Hosea and pulls out this concept of 'not my people' as referring to Gentiles, and as a prophecy of the fact that God would eventually call the Gentiles.

Now I wouldn't have jumped to the conclusion just reading along here in Hosea, but I have to respect Paul's interpretation of the Scriptures for indeed what God may have been doing in naming this other son, Lo-Ammi, He could've been saying this son stands for the Gentiles. Let's keep that in mind as a possibility for if we are dealing with this then we are indeed looking along way into the future at this moment in time and with the prophecy of this boy, for this prophecy does not begin to be fulfilled until the Ministry of Saul (Paul) of Tarsus.

Keep that in mind.

Hosea 1:10 "Yet the number of the children of Israel Shall be as the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered. And it shall come to pass In the place where it was said to them, 'You are not My people.' "

Now this tends to support the idea that 'not my people' means Israel are not my people.

But we still contend with Paul's interpretation.

"There it shall be said to them, 'You are sons of the living God.'"

Now remember Paul says that "Israel is cut off like the branches of the wild olive tree so that the Gentiles who are not God's people could be grafted in" (Romans 11:17).

Then he says to the Gentile Christians "Now, if you could be grafted in like wild olive branches can't Israelites who were cut off be grafted back in." So this seems to imply that not only the Gentiles are brought in, but the Israelites are brought back and that could be the intent of this.

Hosea 1:11 "Then the children of Judah and the children of Israel Shall be gathered together, And appoint for themselves one head; And they shall come up out of the land, For great will be the day of Jezreel!"

Now this is a very important verse and it hearkens all the way down to the time of Israel and Nehemiah, and it also may hearken all the way to the end time.

For in truth, when Israel came back from the land of Babylon, it was primarily very nearly exclusively Judah that came back. There were relatively few Israelites anywhere to be found. They had already been scattered to the far ends of the pagan empire. But nevertheless, they were there and there were people, I have no doubt, of Ephraim and Manassash and others.

Paul himself, was a Benjamite and he knew what he was. There were others, other than of Judah, who came back into Israel out of the land of Babylon.

They appointed themselves one king. They were a united kingdom at that point in time, and that one head was named Zerrubbabel. But when you look at Zerrubbabel, you suddenly realize that Zerrubbabel in the prophecies concerning him in Haggai, is a very strong type of guess who? Jesus Christ. No, not some latter-day prophet, but Jesus Christ.

So Zerubbabel then, in that type, looks clear ahead to the time of Christ. Jesus Christ being established as the one king from the house of David, who brings all these people, Israel and Judah, back out of captivity and reunites them in the land.

Now keep in mind that what happened under Zerubbabel was a type or a model of what is yet to happen again in the future.

You would not construe this from Hosea alone. In Hosea alone, you would read along and say that just must refer to the return of Ezra and Nehemiah and to Zerubbabel being the head over Israel at that time, and what they're going to do.

But this strange mystical person Zerubbabel, you know from other prophecies is typical of Christ.

You also know from Isaiah that there are prophecies when the stick of Judah and the stick of Israel is going to be brought back together and is going to be bound up and made one and Isaiah's prophecies are inescapably end time prophecies.

What you're reading here in Hosea, chapter 1 verse 11 is not a prophecy of the end time. It is a prophecy of what was to happen under Zerubbabel, which was a type of the end time. These are two different things and we must keep that in mind.

Throughout Hosea's prophecies there will be numerous references to the end time, but they are almost exclusively indirect references through types or models. Others of the prophets will do quite differently. Other prophets would make their prophecies directed so strongly at the end time that they're absolutely inescapable.

But you will remember that when we started out on this quest in this series of articles, I cited Isaiah 41:22, a scripture where God says "Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and understand the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come."

The clue is given in Isaiah, that the way to understand the ultimate of prophecy is to understand the first fulfillment of what took place. That is where we are right now. We're looking clearly at Israel, where they were, what they were doing and what their attitudes were.

It is a funny thing that just as things happen in patterns in nature, so history tends to come around in patterns, and if we find ourselves in the 21st century repeating the pattern again, we would have to be fools not to realize that the latter part of that pattern is going to come through just as we have re-created the first part of, that just as we have sinned the same sins and just as we have worshiped the same idols, just as we've gone the same way, God's reaction will once again be the same.

As someone said, "If you cannot learn the lessons of history then you are condemned to repeat it." Then it would be foolish of us not to at least try to learn the lessons of history.

Hosea 2:1 "Say to your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah." In this particular case, the negative is dropped off of both those names. Did you notice that?

One of them was Lo Ammi and Lo Ruhamah which means 'not my people' and 'not having obtained mercy'. Now the names are shifted to 'my people' and 'having obtained mercy'.

Verse 2 "Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; {3} Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. {4} I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of whoredoms."

The Living Bible basically says they're not my children, they are somebody else's children, why should I have mercy upon them?

Verse 5 "For their mother has played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink."

Interesting. Can you at all relate to this? Can you relate to this man Hosea and realize how you would feel if your wife had left you and slept around, and how you would react to that situation? Can you comprehend what it means to God for Israel to have left him and to have slept around? For that is the closest analogy that He can draw to make you understand how He felt, when our forefathers did what they did, and I suppose when you and I do what we have done.

For we as Christians, enter into a covenant with Christ. We are to be a part of the bride of Christ. Could we ever leave Him in the same way? Feeling the same way, the same response?

One thing that I want you to bear in mind as we go through these prophecies, for some reason, the New Testament writers make the equation between Israel of old, and the church. The church is almost referred to, and we come to refer to the church in a sense as spiritual Israel. Paul wrote to the Corinthians, and he said that "all these things happened to Israel and are written down as examples for our sake, from whom the ends the world are come" (1 Corinthians 10:11) and that there may be some serious and very stern warnings to the church to be found in some of these things that God said to Israel.

In this thing of having a prophet to go through the agony of having his wife sleep around on him in order that he might understand and to be able to convey adequately and to be able to stand before the people as a spokesman in the place of God or as a type of God and say to them "This is how it is. What my wife has done to me is what you people have done to God, and His reaction, while His ways are higher than mine, His love is greater than mine, His compassion is greater than mine, and one thing you want to bear in mind, His anger is also greater than anything I could muster."

Hosea 2:6 "Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. {7} And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for it was better then than it is now. {8} For she forgot that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. {9} Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. {10} And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.{11} I will also cause all her mirth, her partying, to cease, Her feast days, Her New Moons, Her Sabbaths; All her solemn feasts."

Now keep in mind that this is not said of Judah who is keeping the feast of tabernacles but to Israel, who was keeping something quite different. The point of this is that all the celebrations are finished and the ones He happens to mention is her feast days, New Moons and Sabbaths, and solemn feasts."

It has nothing to do with abolition of the worship of God or the holy days of God or anything of the sort. It has to do with the abolition of their festivities, because He said "I will cause all her mirth to cease."

Hosea 2:12 "And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, Of which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me.' So I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field shall eat them. "

It's hard to imagine how God would feel having poured out His rain in due season, having seen to it that your crops bore good fruit, and then seeing His people go out and burn incense and give thanks before a golden calf and saying "This is the God who gave me all these beautiful things that I have around me here. This Baal, this idol, that I have set up here. This is the one that made all of these trees to grow, the Sun God, and I worship the sun that is rising."

It wasn't Baal or some dumb idol or something that they made with their own hands that gave them these things. God gave them to them. You can begin to understand the reason for God's anger.

He then says "I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field shall eat them. {13} I will visit upon her the feast days of Baalim wherein she burned incense to them."

This gives you the strongest clue yet to what these feast days, all of these holy days that Israel was observing was all about. They were not God's Holy Days. They were the feast days of the sun god that He said He was going to visit upon her.

"Wherein she burned incense to them, She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry, And went after her lovers; But forgot Me," says the LORD. {14} "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfortably to her. {15} I will give her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. {16} And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that you shall call me Ishi, or my husband; and you shall call me no more Baali (which means my Lord). "

Some people have made a big deal out of the word 'baal' but the word simply means 'my lord'. What He is saying is that there is going to be a totally different relationship between us at this point in time. It doesn't really have that much to do with the concept of sacred names.

Hosea 2:17 "For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

Hosea 2:18 "In that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. {19} And I will betroth you unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth you unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. {20} I will even betroth you unto me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD."

Now, what is interesting about this is that this speaks in terms of a time of the creation of the new covenant with Israel. She broke the old one and went off and played the harlot. He says I am going to punish you for this and I will reach out and get you and bring you back and enter into a new arrangement with you. You're going to be mine and you're going to love me and I'm going to love you.