Hosea 1:10-11
“Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.”
King James Version
Israel's restoration and reidentification as sons of God, quoted by Paul as the basis for Gentile inclusion.
Fulfillment References
Romans 9:25-26 1 Peter 2:10
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) PentecostalWhere God had said 'Lo-ammi — ye are not my people,' He now promises, 'ye are the sons of the living God,' and they shall 'appoint themselves one head.' Paul applies this to the calling of both Jews and Gentiles into God's people (Rom. 9:25-26; 1 Pet. 2:10). The 'one head' under whom the scattered are gathered is the Lord Jesus, the one Shepherd (John 10:16). God turns the rejected into His own children in Christ.
JewishThe reversal of judgment — 'not my people' becomes 'sons of the living God,' Israel and Judah reunited under one head and greatly multiplied; the hope of restoration.
CatholicThe 'not my people' made God's children, fulfilled in the calling of the Gentiles and the gathering of all under Christ the one Head (Rom. 9).
ProtestantPaul cites this (Rom. 9:25-26) of God's mercy calling a people — Jew and Gentile — to be sons of God in Christ.
AcademicHosea's reversal of his children's symbolic names (Lo-ammi to Ammi); Paul's application to the Gentiles extends the original Israel-focus.
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