"All their wickedness is in Gilgal; For there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
"I will drive them out of my house ..." Just as Abraham drove Hagar out of his house, and just as Gomer was rejected as a wife by Hosea, in that same definite and final way, Israel is summarily removed from any further participation in the covenant with God. As far as the northern kingdom was concerned, this hardened into a permanent and unrelenting reality shortly after this prophecy was delivered.  For the southern kingdom, after severe punishment, the opportunity to accept God, recognize the Christ when he appeared, and to participate in the New Covenant delivered through the preaching of the apostles, was continued historically until the times of Christ and the apostles; but after the destruction of Jerusalem, the status of all Israel, Judah and Ephraim alike, was removed forever.  None of their posterity were excluded from the terms of the gospel; but there is no Biblical promise, not even the outside possibility of any hint, that old secular, temporal, fleshly Israel (whether Judah or Ephraim)can continue any longer in any sense as "chosen people of God." The status of that Israel with God is exactly that of a wife divorced for adultery in relation to her former husband after his death!