SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/26/2015 7:24 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Short Intro
to Micah 4:1-5:5a
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Micah
4:1-5:5a)
Message of
the verses: “1 And it will come about in the last days That the mountain of the
house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains. It will be
raised above the hills, And the peoples will stream to it. 2 Many nations will
come and say, "Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD And to
the house of the God of Jacob, That He may teach us about His ways And that we
may walk in His paths." For from Zion will go forth the law, Even the word
of the LORD from Jerusalem. 3 And He will judge between many peoples And render
decisions for mighty, distant nations. Then they will hammer their swords into plowshares And
their spears into pruning hooks; Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they train for war. 4 Each of them will sit under
his vine And under his fig tree, With no one to make them afraid, For the mouth
of the LORD of hosts has spoken. 5 Though all the peoples walk Each in the name
of his god, As for us, we will walk In the name of the LORD our God forever and
ever. 6 “In that day,"
declares the LORD, "I will assemble the lame And gather the outcasts, Even
those whom I have afflicted. 7 “I will make the lame a remnant And the outcasts
a strong nation, And the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion From now on
and forever.
8 "As for you, tower of the flock, Hill of the daughter of
Zion, To you it will come-Even the former dominion will come, The
kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. 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. 11 “And now many nations have been assembled against you
Who say, ’Let her be polluted, And let our eyes gloat over Zion.’ 12 "But they do not know the thoughts of
the LORD, And they do not understand His purpose; For He has gathered them like
sheaves to the threshing floor. 13
"Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, For your horn I will make iron
And your hoofs I will make bronze, That you may pulverize many peoples, That
you may devote to the LORD their unjust gain And their wealth to the Lord of
all the earth.
1 ¶ "Now muster yourselves in troops,
daughter of troops; They have laid siege against us; With a rod they will smite
the judge of Israel on the cheek. 2 “But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Too little to be among the clans
of Judah, From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings
forth are from long ago, From the days of eternity." 3 Therefore He will give
them up until the time When she who is in labor has borne a child. Then the
remainder of His brethren Will return to the sons of Israel. 4 And He will
arise and shepherd His flock In the strength of the LORD, In the majesty of the
name of the LORD His God. And they will remain, Because at that time He will be
great To the ends of the earth. 5 This One will be our peace.”
We have mentioned a number of things about end time
prophecies as we have been studying the OT prophets and also the book of
Revelation. I have had it explained to
me that when one looks at the OT prophets which tell of the coming Messiah that
it is like looking off into the distance and seeing two mountains, but from
that vantage point one does not see the valley between the two mountain
peaks. In that valley is the church age,
which is what we are in. The first
mountain represents the Lord Jesus Christ coming to pay for our sins, the
valley is the church age, and the second mountain is the Lord returning as King
of Kings and Lord or Lords as we learned while studying the end chapter from
the book of Revelation. As we begin to
look at the sections that I have quoted we will see scenes from both mountains
and the valley between.
Dr. Wiersbe writes”
Micah moved from the destruction of Jerusalem (606-586) to ‘the last
days’ when there will be a new Jerusalem and a rebuilt temple at the heart of
the righteous kingdom of Messiah. The
period known as ‘the last days’ began with the ministry of Christ (Heb. 1:1-2)
and they climax with His return to establish His kingdom on earth. The Lord gave His people four wonderful
promises.” We will begin to look at the
first of these four promises in our next SD from the book of Micah.
12/26/2015 7:38 PM
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