It refers to Hosea 11:1, but Hosea 11:1 is not about Jesus, it's about the exodus of the Israelites.
Some people may read the text, and think as you do, but reading the Bible, in a superficial manner, will not help persons to understand what they are reading.
Some things are deep, and require careful study, but also of great importance, texts need to be understood in harmony with the rest of the scriptures.
Why? The Bible on a whole explains itself.
We'll get more if we dive in, rather than standing out here staring at the surface. So let's dive.
Hold your breath.

...but open your eyes.
Hosea was written about 740 B.C.E... 773 years later than the exodus.
Hosea was a prophet of God making prophetic utterances concerning the future of God's people.
God's people are not the natural nation of Israel. This would take several scriptures, but read from Hosea 1 through to Hosea 14... actually do more than read it. Study it. Here are just a few scriptures to start you off: Hosea 1:2-11; Romans 9:6, 25, 26; 1 Peter 2:10; Matthew 21:43
All the prophetic utterances, by the prophets (Hosea; Joel; Amos; Jeremiah; Isaiah; Ezekiel...) relate to future Israel... that is, the Israel of God. Galatians 6:16 Note please... I did not say these utterances did not apply in some way to ancient Israel. Prophetic utterances often had an initial and future fulfillment. They were two-fold. Mark 1:2; John 12:37-41; Romans 10:20;
Matthew quoted Hosea in reference to Jesus the Messiah, so Hosea 11:1 does refer to Jesus, as well as Israel, when they were in captivity to Egypt.
I quite understand if you don't get this J, but we aren't going to quarrel about it.
God did create the formless earth ex nihilo. But that's not what Genesis is about. Genesis is a different story. Genesis is the story in which God creates by doing things like separating waters, gathering waters, establishing roles and functions etc. Genesis is not about ex nihilo creation.
Let's forget about the "ex nihilo" insertion.
God did create the formless earth, and Genesis is about God creating the heavens and the earth, according to Genesis 1:1.
So, I say, "I created pizza. It was formless and empty. I prepared some tomato sauce, and spread on it. I prepared some vegetables, and put on it. I grated my onion and garlic, and sprinkled on it. I put my meats and finally shredded some cheese, and sprinkled on top. Then I put her in the oven."
Are you going to clip off my first two sentences, and say I am not describing creating the actually pizza, but only putting on the dressing?
That's exactly what you have done with God's word, by separating the first two verses, and calling them a summary
This is why we are having this disagreement, and create has become warped, because you are excluding the creation of the earth, which Genes includes.
In Genesis, before the earth was filled with life, it was bohu, or empty. Before the waters were gathered to reveal the earth, it was tohu or formless and uncreated.
The earth was uncreated now?
The Bible does not say that. Are you adding to and changing up what the Bible says?
Be careful. God is paying attention. You don't want to be messing with his word like that. He does not take it lightly. 2 Peter 3:16.
You have repeatedly said...
The earth was formless. The earth was not non-existent.
Genesis says that the earth was formless. It does not say that the earth didn't exist at all.
It doesn't say that the earth didn't exist yet. It says that the earth was formless or in a chaotic state
So, let me know when you make up your mind because something cannot exist, and at the same time be uncreated... except God.
To say that is to say something is created and yet uncreated. Which defies logic.
It also does not show reasonableness, or a sincere desire to reason.
It's more like a case of doing anything it takes to be right... even if wrong.
I let God deal with those. I don't want to deal with that.
Isaiah 45:1, 15.
But now, this is what the Lord says—
he who created you, Jacob,
he who formed you, Israel:
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
in the ships in which they took pride.
15 I am the Lord, your Holy One,
Israel’s Creator, your King.”
God creates Jacob and Israel, yet neither were created ex nihilo, at least not in any material way. Jacob was born of his mother, he didnt appear out of thin air. So when God says that He created Jacob, it's not talking about matter appearing out of nothing. Jacob is already there.
Why exactly are you so hung up on 'ex nihilo' again?
Can you explain that to me, please?
The point is, Jacob and Israel did not exist before God created it. That is the point.
The earth existed before God separated the waters, so the earth was already created. That is the point.
You did not answer my questions.
Can you do so now, please.
- If the earth did not have humans, is it a created earth?
- Take away the animals along with humans. Is it a created earth?
- Take every green thing off of it... that would be, every plant, along with the animals and humans. Is it a created earth?
- Drain the water off of it, and collapse every hill and mountain. Is it a created earth?
What exactly do you think the earth is?
Materially, it did. It is not as though God snapped his fingers and buildings appeared out of thin air. The matter was already there.
You are saying that the bark of a tree is a house?
No. That's ridiculous J. The existing ingredients which you make your pizza from, is not your pizza.
Your pizza, is not the flour in the bag you brought from the Supermarket, along with the onions, and other vegetables and stuff.
Your pizza does not exist until you make it.
Only then does it exist.
You know this, J.
Materially, we do. Your human body did not appear out of nothing. You were born from your mother, formed out of matter that already exists.
Your mother existed J, but that doesn't mean you existed, because she exists.
If she never got pregnant, would you exist?
You only began to exist... how old are you? Count backwards and add 9 month, and that is when you existed.
What matter made you, J?
When God created Adam, Adam didn't appear out of nothing; he was made from dust of the ground.
So, Adam was the dust?
Materially, he did; he did not appear out of thin air, nor did the weapons he forged. He made his tools using matter that already existed.
I'm done.
Materially, the sign was already there. Ezekiel didn't make physical matter appear out of nothing. Ezekiel is not God, he cannot make matter appear out of nothing.
Finito.
When God creates the earth, the material, just like in every other instance in which God creates in the Old Testament, is already there. There is no material matter appearing out of nothing.
Already said that God used energy.
The ex nihilo business has taken its toll.