This is apparently Jesus speaking. Earlier in Hosea, chapter 1 begins with Hosea speaking in third person. In verse 2 Jesus is speaking in first person to and through Hosea. This pattern continues up to chapter 3, where Hosea begins speaking in first person. Then, most of chapters 3-8 are Jesus speaking in first person (see 5:15), with the exception of 6:1-3 and 8:2, which is the leaders of Israel speaking in the last days. Chapter 9:1-9, 10, 17 are again Hosea speaking in first person interspersed with Jesus speaking in first person. The rest of Hosea through chapter 14 continues in this way with Hosea sometimes speaking in first person, the future leaders of Israel in the last days sometimes speaking, but with most of the words being those of Jesus speaking in first person. Fascinating.

If we look at the words of Hosea 8:12-13 above again, we see that Jesus says that he wrote the law. However, in John 5:46 Jesus says that Moses wrote about him. He is saying that Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament. These books contain the law. How could both Moses and Jesus have written the law? Of course we know the answer. Jesus wrote it and the Holy Spirit or Jesus himself spoke it to Moses who put the words to scroll.

HOW WAS THE REST OF THE OLD TESTAMENT WRITTEN?

We have many proofs in the New Testament that Jesus was the author of much of the Old Testament and was spoken about extensively in the Old Testament. Let’s look at a few of these scriptures.

John 1:45: Philip told Nathanael that he had found the one written about in the law and by the prophets.

John 5:39-47, Lk 24:25-27: Jesus says that the Old Testament scriptures testified about him.

John 5:46: Jesus says that Moses wrote about him.

John 8:54-59: Jesus says he saw Abraham, and existed before Abraham, as the “I AM.”

John 12:41: John says Isaiah saw Jesus glory and spoke of him.

John 15:25: Says that Ps 35:19 and 69:4 are Jesus speaking.

Acts 4:25: Says that Psalm 2 was written by the Lord speaking to David through the Holy Spirit.

Acts 28:23-24: Paul tried to convince the Romans about Jesus using the Law of Moses and the prophets.

Heb 2:11-12: Says that Psalm 22 is Jesus speaking.

Heb 2:13: Says that Isaiah 8:17-18 is Jesus speaking.

Heb 10:5-7: Quotes Ps 40:6-8 as the words of Jesus saying the whole book is about him.

2 Peter 1:20-21: Says that prophecy was written by God and given to the prophet by the Holy Spirit.

How could the whole of the Old Testament be about Jesus if either he or the Father didn’t write it? Of course they wrote it, and then either the Holy Spirit, an angel or Jesus himself passed it along to the human author who put it to scroll.

HOW WAS THE NEW TESTAMENT WRITTEN?

Of course the New Testament was written in the same way as the Old Testament. Let’s look at a couple of New Testament scriptures that apply to all scriptures.

2 Tim 3:16-17 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Gal 1:11-12 11 I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up. 12 I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

1 Cor 2:6-16 6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"-- 10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: 16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ. (The Spirit).

Now, we will look at a few specific examples of how the human authors expressed their authorship.

Rom 1:1-3 1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God-- 2 the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3 regarding his Son,

Col 1:1-2 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

2 To the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.

Gal 6:11 11 See what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand!

1 Pet 5:12 12 With the help of Silas, whom I regard as a faithful brother, I have written to you briefly, encouraging you and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it.

2 Pet 3:15-16 15 Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

I Jn 5:13 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Rev 1:1-3 1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who testifies to everything he saw-- that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it.

We see from the above scriptures that all scripture is God breathed, given by revelation from Jesus, and inspired by the Holy Spirit. Also in John 14:26 and 16:12-15 Jesus tells the apostles that the Spirit would remind them of what he had told them. We also see that Paul, John, Peter, etc. often assisted by others, were actually putting pen to paper or scroll. The scripture was given by God’s Spirit to the author’s heart, which the bible indicates by usage is the mind of man’s spirit body. We often call this our subconscious. The words from the Spirit were in the human author’s subconscious and what he wrote were the words from the Spirit expressed with his own human personality. The Bible tells us that the Spirit communicates with us through our heart and spirit (Rom 8:16, 26-27, 1 Cor 2:10-12, Rom 2:14-15).

SUMMARY

As always, we see consistency between the Old and New Testaments. Either the Father or the Son expressed their actual thoughts to the human author, usually through the Holy Spirit, but occasionally through the Son himself or through a special angel. We see that the method for relaying the message to the human author varied, but no matter how it was done, it was God breathed! Again and always, the absolute proof of this, to anyone who will seriously study it and is not blinded, is in fulfilled prophecy and the supernatural holographic Bible.

THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN NATURE OF THE BIBLE

This section contains the following discussions concerning the supernatural origin and design of the Christian Bible:

• How God spoke to the Old Testament prophets & how he wrote the Bible
• Biblical canon; how we got the Bible
• The holographic design structure of the Bible