Ray (12 Dec 2021)
"Hosea 6:2. The third day"


 


John and Doves,


Now that I have correctly identified the 49 days in Daniel's 7 weeks prophecy, they are the 49 days separating First Fruit and Pentecost, Jesus shall return to Jerusalem on a future First Fruit.

Hosea 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

The two days are Crucifixion Nisan 14 and burial Nisan 15. During these two days Jesus went to paradise to preach to old testament saints
 including Hosea. The third day is First Fruit Nisan 16 when Jesus conquered death, and took Hosea all the old testament saints with him to third heaven. Hosea has been waiting for Jesus' arrival for hundreds years in paradise. He prophesies he shall be raised
 up in the third day, and lives in Jesus' sight. Sounds like his prophecy has been fulfilled.


But what if the third day still points to future, holds dual fulfillment purpose, when Jesus takes all the old testament saints with him from
 heaven, returns to earth in the third day, gives them a resurrected body ( raises them up ), so that Hosea can live before Jesus' sight in millennium? I can't rule out this possibility. Having said this, Jesus shall return to earth in the third day which is
 First Fruit.

A note here.

Hosea 6:11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

"When I return the captivity of my people”. This sounds like an event at the end of tribulation, after Jesus returns to Jerusalem, and ends
 the captivity of his people Israel. Verse 2 the third day may point to end of tribulation also.



Ray