Hosea 11:10

"They shall walk after Jehovah, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west."

Mauchline defended this verse against the attack that would make it an interpolation from some later time, saying, "It is undoubtedly difficult, but even more difficult as an interpolation than as a genuine utterance of Hosea."[17]

This verse, as Keil noted, not only indicates obedience to the gathering voice of the Lord on Israel's part, but also denotes their, "Walking in true obedience to the Lord which follows from conversion."[18] This verse is therefore a reference to the times of the dispensation of Christ and his holy apostles; and the Israel in view is not the old secular kingdom at all, but the new Israel of the Church of Jesus Christ. "This word is a ray of hope to be realized under the Messiah, through whom they would be called by the gospel to peace and protection `in Him.'"[19] Butler also construed this verse as positively Messianic and noted that the roaring lion as a figure of the Lord is like those of Joel 3:16-17 and Amos 1:2, which is, of course, "A sending forth of the gospel from Jerusalem to all those who will hear and become sons of the covenant in the Messianic age."[20]

"The children shall come trembling from the west ..." "West is a very unusual word in Hosea,"[21] and despite the fact of most commentators applying it to the Mediterranean area, we believe it applies to people all over the world who would obey the gospel.