The book of Hosea deals mainly with the house of Ephraim. Remember, there were seperate prophecies given to the house of Judah. Ephraim is also called Israel as it was know as the northern country of and Judea the southern - two houses of Israel. Judah would be taken into captivity for four hundred years, then return, rebuild the wall and temple, and then put Jesus Messiah to death. Ephraim was to be absorbed into the Gentile nations and become as lo ammi, and then you need to finish that verse to see the exciting revelation that they would become as "Sons of the Living God". The other sons of Gomer and Hosea reveal even more about the "lost tribes of Israel", in that Jezreel is an agricultural term that has to do with a seed being planted and then re-emerging to new life. Jesus even said that He has come for the lost sheep of Israel and the promise is that the two houses would be reunited before God's Son would return and establish the "reign of iron". Another clue to who Ephraim is that he is God's "firstborn" son. What tribe or mighty nation sounds like "Sons of the Living God and firstborn sons? Well it sounds like the born again Church to me, and Ephraim is the mighty tribe that has come as the Notzrim or watchmen over their brother Judah, for God has a remnant of that tribe to be saved too. Check out these verses:
Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Ezekial 37:16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: 17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Hosea 1:9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
God even describes the land He will place His lost tribe in as a pleasant place in Hosea which sounds like America, the new world, and abortion:
Hosea 9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
More pertinate verses:
Jer 3:18 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.
Jer.31:6 Arise, and let us go up to Zion, To Yahveh our God . We are the watchmen, Notzrim, preserved in Yeshua and have found grace in the wilderness, as the name Ephraim means to flourish in captivity.
Zech 10:6-10 I will strengthen the house of Judah, and will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back, because I have had compassion on them; and they will be as though I had not rejected them, for I am Yahweh their Elohim and I will answer them. Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will be glad as if from wine; indeed, their children will see it and be glad, their heart will rejoice in Yahweh. I will whistle for them to gather them together,for I have redeemed them; and they will be as numerous as they were before. When I scatter them among the peoples, they will remember Me in far countries, and they with their children will live and come back. I will bring them back from the land of Egypt and gather them from Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon until no room can be found for them
Isaiah 11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah,and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
Revelation 12:5 And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne."
Revelation 19:15 From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.
It's fairly easy to see the will of God in His not so "lost tribes of Israel" as being part of His plan, and seeing that the United States was founded on religious freedom, it was indeed a pleasant place for Ephraim to flourish - and then, as Daniel, Hosea, and Zechariah prophecied, come to the aid of their remnant brother Judah.
I think that the United States is clearly the beast that looks like a lamb (Christian) and speaks like a devil (immorality) depicted in Revelations. We, America and Great Britain, have supplied and revived the beast that was nearly slain so many years ago at Tours France and the gates of Vienna which was the Jihad of Islam with oil dollars. Revived and stimulated with this money, this financing of a one last Jihad will lead to Armageddon.