⁴ Iumi savve pruvim disfala profesi hem tru long wei wea Christian Greek Scripture iusim toktok bilong hem samfala taem. Jesus seleva talem toktok from Hosea 10:8 taem hem talemaot judgment long Jerusalem: “Then olketa bae start for sei long olketa maunten, ‘Foldaon ovarem mifala!’ and long olketa hill, ‘Kavarem mifala!’” (Luke 23:30) Lelebet haf long sem toktok hia olketa talem insaed long Revelation 6:16. Matthew tu hem talem toktok from Hosea 11:1 taem hem showimaot hao disfala profesi fulfill: “From Egypt nao mi kolem kam son bilong mi.” (Matt. 2:15) Profesi bilong Hosea abaotem hao full Israel hem kamap gud moa hem fulfill taem staka from ten-tribe kingdom joinim Judah bifor hem kamap prisoner and olketa pikinini from datfala laen olketa midolwan long olketa wea kam bak from wei for olsem prisoner. (Hos. 1:11; 2 Chron. 11:13-17; 30:6-12, 18, 25; Ezra 2:70) Start kam from taem bilong Ezra, disfala buk hem stap long barava ples bilong hem insaed olketa Hebrew Bible buk olsem “word bilong Jehovah thru long Hosea.”—Hos. 1:2.

¹⁴ Buk bilong Hosea hem strongim faith bilong iumi long olketa profesi wea kam from Jehovah. Evri profesi bilong Hosea abaotem Israel and Judah hem kamap tru. Olketa nation for worshipim idol wea lovem Israel lusim hem and Israel hem finis evribit from Assyria long 740 B.C.E. (Hos. 8:7-10; 2 Ki. 15:20; 17:3-6, 18) Nomata olsem, Hosea hem talem finis hao Jehovah bae showim mercy long Judah and sevem hem, bat no witim eni army. Diswan hem fulfill taem angel bilong Jehovah hem killim dae 185,000 man bilong Assyria wea kam againstim Jerusalem. (Hos. 1:7; 2 Ki. 19:34, 35) Nomata olsem, Judah hem insaed long judgment bilong Hos. 8:14: “And mi bae barava sendem go fire insaed long olketa taon bilong hem and hem mas kaikaim olketa taoa for stap long hem bilong each wan,” diswan wanfala warning wea fulfill long barava nogud wei taem Nebuchadnezzar mekem Judah and Jerusalem kamap wanfala drae ples, 609-607 B.C.E. (Jer. 34:6, 7; 2 Chron. 36:19) Planti profesi bilong Hosea abaotem wei wea olketa kamap gud moa hem fulfill taem Jehovah hipimap Judah and Israel tugeta, and ‘olketa go aot from datfala land’ wea olketa olsem prisoner long 537 B.C.E.—Hos. 1:10, 11; 2:14-23; 3:5; 11:8-11; 13:14; 14:1-9; Ezra 2:1; 3:1-3.