4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.”
But then there are the preterists that refuse the entire word of God.
You re-quoted Hosea 14:4-9, with no explanation, whatsoever! I cannot read your mind.
>>>But then there are the preterists that refuse the entire word of God.<<<
I don't know about preterists, since I am not one. But it is obvious who ignores much of the word of God: the new age-cults, like the Roodies and the dispensationalists. They have created their own little world. Too bad for them that it is unbiblical.
Philip