Book of Hosea Chapter 11 Vs. 9

 The Lord's Love for Israel

I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city. Hos. 11:9

I will not... 15th prophecy in Hosea (Hos. 11:9-11, unfulfilled). Next, Hos. 12:2.

Eight Predictions—Unfulfilled:

1. I will not execute the fierceness of My anger (Hos. 11:9).

2. I will not return to destroy Ephraim.

3. I will not enter the city.

4. They will walk before the Lord (Hos. 11:10).

5. He will roar like a lion.

6. The children will tremble from the west when He shall roar.

7. They will tremble like a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of Assyria (Hos. 11:11).

8. I will place them in their houses.

These predictions are yet future, for God destroyed them soon after this. It is at the second coming of Christ when God will not execute His fierce anger anymore, when He will return but not to destroy Ephraim, and when He will be in the midst of Israel. At this time God will not enter the city to destroy it; instead He will spare it and place the people in their own houses (Hos. 11:10-11). Ultimately, it referred to the promise that after the long dispersion God would, in mercy, restore His people in the kingdom, never to be destroyed again.

God is not man, that He has to explain why He forgives someone. God never pours out His wrath upon His own. He loves them and will make a way out for them. He will not completely destroy Ephraim. He will leave a door open in this situation. They will have opportunity to accept Jesus as their Savior, when God pours out His mercy on mankind. God never stops loving, and that is why He sent His Son to save whosoever will.

John 3:16"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Such a love has been the secret of Hosea’s persistence through so many years with so faithless a people, and now, when he has failed, it takes voice to itself and in its irresistible fullness makes this last appeal. Once more before the end let Israel hear God in the utterness of His Love!

Instead of carrying out His fierce (lit., burning) anger to the fullest, God’s compassion would be aroused (lit., grow warm; cf. kindled in KJV, NASB). The burning flame of God’s anger would be replaced, as it were, by the fire of His compassion. Ephraim would never again experience the judgment of God. This promise is reliable because it was made by the Holy One (cf. Hos. 11:12) Himself, who condescends to dwell with His people (among them) and yet continues to transcend all that is human and fallible (He is not man; cf. 1Sam. 15:29).