Three Days
One last passage, Hosea 5:15:
15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
The one that returns to where He came from is the Messiah. Yet He will return when the people repent and seek the Lord.
Hosea 6:1
1Come, and let us return unto Yehovah: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
This is the people declaring that they will return. They are seeking the God with all their heart. This is what Deuteronomy 30:10 is speaking of.
10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Yehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto Yehovah thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Prior to Messiah’s return, the Children of Israel, physical Israel will seek Him, Hosea 6:2.
2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
These are not literal days and although 2 Peter 3:8 was not written at this time.
8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
There was still Psalm 90:4
4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
And Psalm 84:8-10.
8O Yehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 9Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. 10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
It has been a long understood concept that a day of the Lord is a 1000 years. Therefore in the 3rd day, prior to the millennium, Hosea 6:3-4.
3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know Yehovah: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. 4O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
Hosea declared both a first and second coming. There really is no excuse for anyone to state that there would be only one coming. The scriptures have always foretold of 2 Messiahs; that are really two comings of one Messiah. The only reason the Rabbis, the Jews have gotten away with this for so long is because most believers, including great theologians fail to study their Bibles.
Here is an excerpt from a Yom Kippur Prayer that is no longer published.
Our Righteous anointed is departed from us: horror hath seized us, and we have none to justify us. He hath borne the yoke of our iniquities, and our transgressions, and is wounded because of our transgression. He beareth our sins on his shoulder, that he may find pardon for our iniquities. We shall be healed by his wound, at the time of the Eternal will create him (the Messiah) as a new creature. O bring him up from the circle of the earth. Raise him up from the Sier, to assemble us the second time on Mount Lebanon, by the hand of Messiah.
Prior to the last eighty years, they were Jewish prayers that spoke of the first and second comings.
One last thought, when Yeshua was crucified and buried, it was the 15th of Nisan. If one looked in the sky, they would see the Moon at its brightest. Yet this was darkest point of faith for the disciples of the 1st Century. It was written 30 years later in Hebrews 10:1A:
1For the law having a shadow of good things to come,
The law is the shadow. The answer for many questions of our faith reside in the Hebrew scriptures. When Yeshua went on the cross, there was only the Hebrew scriptures.
When the new Moon comes there are three days of darkness in the sky. When Yeshua died, the moon was the brightest. However, the believers had 3 nights of darkness only because they had forsaken the light of the Hebrew scriptures as so many have today.
Do not be foolish and study only the New Testament; look deeply into the Hebrew scriptures. As believers, our answers are there. The Hebrew scriptures are our foundation. They will never be passé. We must study both the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as one Book. Together they are life to us, it is what confirms our faith. Let us not be hoodwinked by the Rabbi’s anymore. We need to tell them, Rabbi your Bible tells us that He will return.
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