Hosea 8 - How do you know if someone is a liar? 2016

Israel has turned away from Elohim and relied on silly idols of gold and wood to deliver them. They didn't consult Elohim or His Word in setting up their kings and princes. Israel was being foolish and now they are going to pay the price for their foolishness.

Hosea 8:1
Put the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the LORD, Because they have transgressed My covenant, And rebelled against My law.

Elohim says His judgement is going to come like an eagle to strike Israel. An eagle is a very intelligent and tactical predator. It swoops down upon it's prey with great efficiency. It happens so quickly that the prey is usually in the talons of the eagle before they even know danger is nearby. Elohim is warning that judgement is coming. Elohim once again says why this judgement is coming, "Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My Torah." Elohim makes Himself very plain.

Hosea 8:2
They cry out to Me, "My God, we of Israel know Thee!"

Israel claims to know Him, but they are disobedient to His Torah. Scripture tells us that if we do not obey His commandments, but say we know Him, we are a liar.

1 John 2:3-7
And by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; 5but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: 6the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. 7Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

Matt 7:21-24
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. 22“Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’ 24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts upon them, may be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock.

If we know Him, or love Him, we will keep His commandments.

John 14:15
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

John 14:21-24
“He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me; and he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him, and will disclose Myself to him.” 22Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him. 24“He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

Deut 10:12-13
“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require from you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13and to keep the LORD’s commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?