SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/29/2015
12:23 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
A Promised Deliverance
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Micah 4:9-10
Message of
the verses: “9 “Now, why do you cry out loudly? Is there
no king among you, Or has your counselor perished, That agony has gripped you
like a woman in childbirth? 10
"Writhe and labor to give birth, Daughter of Zion, Like a woman in
childbirth; For now you will go out of the city, Dwell in the field, And go to Babylon. There you will be rescued;
There the LORD will redeem
you From the hand of your enemies.”
The first thing we want to explain is that “Daughter
of Zion” is the city of Jerusalem as seen in verse ten, so we know that Micah is
speaking of the Southern Kingdom, especially those who dwell in their capital
city of Jerusalem. It is no wonder that
Jerusalem is given this name for most cities are usually classified as feminine
in name, which make it a term of endearment which assured the people of God’s
loving care no matter what will happen to them.
However we see in this section that the city was in travail, similar to
a woman who is about to give birth, and only a woman who has gone through that
will understand the words the Micah is saying here. Why is this city in travail? Well Babylon is about to capture them in what
was a very bad scene as we read about what this happened that families would actually
eat their offspring because food was so short.
God is showing them through this prophet that the exile to Babylon would
not be the end for them as God will bring them back to their city and He did as
He promised them that He would.
When we studied the book of Jeremiah we learned that
if the leaders would have listened to Jeremiah then Babylon would not have had
to destroy the city of Jerusalem nor the temple, but these leaders were
influenced by the false prophets who were telling them that God would not
destroy the city nor the temple because of the covenant that He had made with David. We also learned from Jeremiah in 25:11 and
29:12 that the exile would only last for seventy years and at the end of 2nd
Chronicles why it was seventy years of captivity: “2Ch 36:21 to fulfill the word of the LORD by
the mouth of Jeremiah, until
the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it
kept sabbath until seventy years were complete.” Israel was suppose to let the land lie
without planting it every seven years and they had missed 70 of these sabbaths
or for 490 years and that is the reason that Jeremiah said they would be in
Babylon for 70 years.
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