◄ Hosea 6:2 ►
After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
Study Bible
After two days He will revive us;

Israel acknowledges that the God who wounds in judgment is also able to heal and restore. The short period portrays the certainty and nearness of God’s mercy after His disciplining hand has accomplished its purpose. Revival includes renewed covenant life, repentance, and restoration from the ruin brought by sin.

Psa 85:6 Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice…
Psa 71:20 Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes,…
Ezk 37:12 Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord…

on the third day He will raise us up,

God promises more than recovery from distress; He promises renewed life before Him. The third day repeatedly marks God’s decisive intervention, and Hosea’s words find their fullest fulfillment in Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead on the third day. His resurrection secures the future resurrection and restoration of all who belong to Him.

1Co 15:4 that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day…
Luk 24:46 And He told them, “This is what is written:…
Act 10:40 God raised Him up on the third day and…

that we may live in His presence.

Restoration reaches its intended end in fellowship with God. Israel’s hope was not merely national recovery from judgment, but life under the favor and rule of the Lord. Through Christ, believers are brought near to God now and will dwell in His presence forever.

Psa 16:11 You have made known to me the path of life;…
Psa 140:13 Surely the righteous will praise Your name;…
Jhn 14:23 Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word.…

Persons / Places / Events
1. Hosea
A prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel during the 8th century BC, Hosea's ministry focused on calling Israel to repentance and warning of impending judgment due to their unfaithfulness to God.

2. Israel
The Northern Kingdom, often depicted in Hosea as an unfaithful spouse, symbolizing the nation's spiritual adultery through idolatry and alliances with foreign powers.

3. Revival and Restoration
The event of God reviving and raising His people, symbolizing spiritual renewal and restoration to a right relationship with Him.
Teaching Points
God's Promise of Restoration
Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God promises revival and restoration. This demonstrates His enduring mercy and faithfulness, encouraging believers to trust in His promises even when circumstances seem dire.

Symbolism of Three Days
The "third day" symbolizes completeness and divine intervention. It points to the ultimate fulfillment in Christ's resurrection, offering hope of new life to all who believe.

Living in God's Presence
The ultimate goal of revival is to live in God's presence. Believers are called to seek a deeper relationship with God, prioritizing spiritual renewal and intimacy with Him.

Call to Repentance and Faith
Hosea's message is a call to repentance. Believers are encouraged to examine their lives, turn from sin, and renew their commitment to God, trusting in His power to restore.
Bible Study Questions
1. How does the promise of revival in Hosea 6:2 encourage you in your personal walk with God, especially during times of spiritual dryness?

2. In what ways does the "third day" motif in Hosea 6:2 connect to the resurrection of Jesus, and how does this connection deepen your understanding of God's redemptive plan?

3. Reflect on a time when you experienced God's restoration in your life. How did this experience change your relationship with Him?

4. How can the message of Hosea 6:2 inspire you to live more intentionally in God's presence daily?

5. Considering the broader context of Hosea, what steps can you take to ensure that your relationship with God remains faithful and vibrant, avoiding the pitfalls of spiritual complacency?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Jonah 1:17 and Matthew 12:40
These passages connect to the theme of "three days" as a period of transformation and deliverance, with Jonah's time in the fish prefiguring Christ's resurrection.

1 Corinthians 15:4
This verse speaks of Christ being raised on the third day, directly connecting to the prophetic imagery in Hosea 6:2 of resurrection and new life.

Ezekiel 37:1-14
The vision of the dry bones being revived parallels the theme of revival and restoration in Hosea, emphasizing God's power to bring life to what is dead.
Sermons
Christ and His PeopleW. Watters, M. A.Hosea 6:2
Death the Gate of LifeF. B. Meyer, B. A.Hosea 6:2
Spiritual RevivalJ.R. Thomson Hosea 6:2
The Third DayE. B. Pusey, D. D.Hosea 6:2
Repentance and Saving KnowledgeC. Jerdan Hosea 6:1-3
Returning to GodJ. Orr Hosea 6:1-3
The Promised DayspringA. Rowland Hosea 6:2, 3
People
Adam, Haggai, Hosea
Places
Assyria, Gilead, Shechem
Topics
Face, Presence, Raise, Restore, Revive, Sight, Third
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Hosea 6:2

     1656   numbers, combinations
     2560   Christ, resurrection
     8151   revival, corporate
     9311   resurrection, of Christ

Hosea 6:1-2

     6606   access to God

Hosea 6:1-3

     6628   conversion, God's demand

Hosea 6:1-4

     6733   repentance, nature of

Library
Our Miseries, Messengers of Mercy
Three things I must do this morning; first, I must deal a blow, at the old Tempter, who has got the first hand at you; secondly, I will come to reason comfortably with you; and then, thirdly, I must lovingly persuade you, saying--"Come, let us return unto the Lord." I. First then, I must DEAL A BLOW AT THE OLD TEMPTER, WHO HAS GOT BEFORE ME AND HAS BEGUN TO DECEIVE YOU. I cannot tell what is the precise temptation that Satan has been using with you, but I think it is very likely to be one of four. …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 7: 1861

Nature of Covenanting.
A covenant is a mutual voluntary compact between two parties on given terms or conditions. It may be made between superiors and inferiors, or between equals. The sentiment that a covenant can be made only between parties respectively independent of one another is inconsistent with the testimony of Scripture. Parties to covenants in a great variety of relative circumstances, are there introduced. There, covenant relations among men are represented as obtaining not merely between nation and nation, …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

The Limitations of Earth's Great Week.
We are well aware that in broaching this point we shall probably evoke the criticism of honored brethren and be charged with "setting a date" for the Return of our Lord. Nevertheless, we feel constrained to set down our honest convictions, only asking our readers to examine in the light of Holy Writ what we now advance tentatively and not dogmatically. In ancient times it was commonly held by Jewish rabbis before our Lord's first advent, and by many of the most eminent of the church fathers afterwards, …
Arthur W. Pink—The Redeemer's Return

The Synagogue at Nazareth - Synagogue-Worship and Arrangements.
The stay in Cana, though we have no means of determining its length, was probably of only short duration. Perhaps the Sabbath of the same week already found Jesus in the Synagogue of Nazareth. We will not seek irreverently to lift the veil of sacred silence, which here, as elsewhere, the Gospel-narratives have laid over the Sanctuary of His inner Life. That silence is itself theopneustic, of Divine breathing and inspiration; it is more eloquent than any eloquence, a guarantee of the truthfulness …
Alfred Edersheim—The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah

St Gregory the Great (Ad 540-604)
PART I Gregory was born at Rome, of a noble and wealthy family, in the year 540. In his youth he engaged in public business, and he rose to be proctor of Rome, which was one of the chief offices under the government. In this office he was much beloved and respected by the people. But about the age of thirty-five, a great change took place in his life. He resolved to forsake the pursuit of worldly honours, and spent all his wealth in founding seven monasteries. He gave up his family house at Rome …
J. C. Roberston—Sketches of Church History, from AD 33 to the Reformation

Letter xv (Circa A. D. 1129) to Alvisus, Abbot of Anchin
To Alvisus, Abbot of Anchin He praises the fatherly gentleness of Alvisus towards Godwin. He excuses himself, and asks pardon for having admitted him. To Alvisus, Abbot of Anchin. [18] 1. May God render to you the same mercy which you have shown towards your holy son Godwin. I know that at the news of his death you showed yourself unmindful of old complaints, and remembering only your friendship for him, behaved with kindness, not resentment, and putting aside the character of judge, showed yourself …
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux—Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux

Prayer.
CHARACTERISTICS OF PRAYER. WHAT is prayer? A sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God hath promised. The best prayers have often more groans than words. Alas, how few there be in the world whose heart and mouth in prayer shall go together. Dost thou, when thou askest for the Spirit, or faith, or love to God, to holiness, to saints, to the word, and the like, ask for them with love to them, …
John Bunyan—The Riches of Bunyan

The Coming Revival
"Wilt Thou not revive us again: that Thy people may rejoice in Thee?"--PS. lxxxv. 6. "O Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the years."--HAB. iii. 2. "Though I walk in the midst of trouble, Thou wilt revive me: Thy right hand shall save me."--PS. cxxxviii. 7. "I dwell with him that is of a humble and contrite heart, to revive the heart of the contrite ones."--ISA. lvii. 15. "Come, and let us return to the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us. He will revive us."--HOS. vi. 1, 2. The Coming …
Andrew Murray—The Ministry of Intercession

The Strait Gate. Warned against Herod.
(Peræa.) ^C Luke XIII. 22-35. ^c 22 And he went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and journeying on unto Jerusalem. [This verse probably refers back to verse 10, and indicates that Jesus resumed his journey after the brief rest on the Sabbath day when he healed the woman with the curvature of the spine.] 23 And one said unto him, Lord, are they few that are saved? [It is likely that this question was asked by a Jew, and that the two parables illustrating the smallness of the …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

The Work of Jesus Christ as an Advocate,
CLEARLY EXPLAINED, AND LARGELY IMPROVED, FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL BELIEVERS. 1 John 2:1--"And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." By JOHN BUNYAN, Author of "The Pilgrim's Progress." London: Printed for Dorman Newman, at the King's Arms, in the Poultry, 1689. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. This is one of the most interesting of Bunyan's treatises, to edit which required the Bible at my right hand, and a law dictionary on my left. It was very frequently republished; …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

Jesus Defends Disciples who Pluck Grain on the Sabbath.
(Probably While on the Way from Jerusalem to Galilee.) ^A Matt. XII. 1-8; ^B Mark II. 23-28; ^C Luke VI. 1-5. ^b 23 And ^c 1 Now it came to pass ^a 1 At that season ^b that he ^a Jesus went { ^b was going} on the { ^c a} ^b sabbath day through the grainfields; ^a and his disciples were hungry and began ^b as they went, to pluck the ears. ^a and to eat, ^c and his disciples plucked the ears, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands. [This lesson fits in chronological order with the last, if the Bethesda …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

Backsliding.
"I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely: for Mine anger is turned away."--Hosea xiv. 4. There are two kinds of backsliders. Some have never been converted: they have gone through the form of joining a Christian community and claim to be backsliders; but they never have, if I may use the expression, "slid forward." They may talk of backsliding; but they have never really been born again. They need to be treated differently from real back-sliders--those who have been born of the incorruptible …
Dwight L. Moody—The Way to God and How to Find It

Divine Calls.
"And the Lord came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel; Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for Thy servant heareth."--1 Samuel iii. 10. In the narrative of which these words form part, we have a remarkable instance of a Divine call, and the manner in which it is our duty to meet it. Samuel was from a child brought to the house of the Lord; and in due time he was called to a sacred office, and made a prophet. He was called, and he forthwith answered the call. God said, "Samuel, …
John Henry Newman—Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII

Of the Nature of Regeneration, and Particularly of the Change it Produces in Men's Apprehensions.
2 COR. v. 17. 2 COR. v. 17. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new. THE knowledge of our true state in religion, is at once a matter of so great importance, and so great difficulty that, in order to obtain it, it is necessary we should have line upon line and precept upon precept. The plain discourse, which you before heard, was intended to lead you into it; and I question not but I then said enough to convince many, that they were …
Philip Doddridge—Practical Discourses on Regeneration

Job's Faith and Expectation
I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand in the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. C hristianity, that is, the religion of which MESSIAH is the author and object, the foundation, life, and glory, though not altogether as old as creation, is nearly so. It is coeval [contemporary] with the first promise and intimation of mercy given to fallen man. When Adam, by transgression, had violated the order and law of …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 2

Hosea
The book of Hosea divides naturally into two parts: i.-iii. and iv.-xiv., the former relatively clear and connected, the latter unusually disjointed and obscure. The difference is so unmistakable that i.-iii. have usually been assigned to the period before the death of Jeroboam II, and iv.-xiv. to the anarchic period which succeeded. Certainly Hosea's prophetic career began before the end of Jeroboam's reign, as he predicts the fall of the reigning dynasty, i. 4, which practically ended with Jeroboam's …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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