SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/13/2016
9:59 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
The Voice of the Prophet
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Micah
7:11-14
Message of
the verses: “11 It will be a day for building your walls. On that
day will your boundary be extended. 12 It will be a day when they will come to you From
Assyria and the cities of Egypt, From Egypt even to the Euphrates, Even from
sea to sea and mountain to mountain. 13 And the earth will become desolate
because of her inhabitants, On account of the fruit of their deeds. 14 Shepherd Your people with Your scepter,
The flock of Your possession Which dwells by itself in the woodland, In the
midst of a fruitful field. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead As in the days of
old.”
You know that as we read the OT prophets we have to
admire the great courage that they had, and also the things that they saw in
visions and what seems to be other ways that the Lord spoke to them they must
have been troubled over what they heard and saw. However this time when we look at verse
fourteen we see Micah asking the Lord to “Shepherd Your people with Your
scepter.” Micah is being thankful to the
Lord for the promises that he is receiving from the Lord, that one day
Jerusalem would be a city that prospers and that will happen during the
Millennial Kingdom headed up by our Lord Jesus Christ as seen in the OT
prophets and also in the book of Revelation.
In the first three verses of this section Micah is
speaking to the city of Jerusalem and he is assuring them that even though she
is destroyed that she would one day be rebuilt.
Now this certainly did not happen in Micah’s day as we learned he was a contemporary
of Isaiah, so this would all be future to him, but none the less he knew it
would happen. Another thing and that is
that after being in captivity for 70 years the Jews would return to Jerusalem
and build up the walls and build a new temple on the same sight that Solomon’s
temple was built. I actually believe
that Micah’s prophecy here speaks of the time of the Millennial Kingdom, but
these kind of things happened in the OT prophets as we have seen when they
spoke about the “Day of the Lord.” That
will happen during the last half of the tribulation period as God takes His
wrath out on the sinful nations of the world, however when the prophets wrote
of this there were times when they had something nearer that would happen to
Israel do to sin and so there was a near time and a far away time when the real
“Day of the Lord” will happen.
Let us look at a couple of verses that speak of a
new city and temple: Isaiah 2:1-5 “1 The
word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 Now it
will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD
Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the
hills; And all the nations will stream to it. 3 And many peoples will come and
say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the
God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in
His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD
from Jerusalem. 4 And He will judge between the nations, And will render
decisions for many peoples; And 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 learn war. 5 Come, house of Jacob, and let us
walk in the light of the LORD.” Next I
will mention this one as there are eight chapters that speak of the rebuilding
of the Millennial temple and we studied this when we looked at Ezekiel chapters
40-48.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “In the light of this great
promise, the prophet lifted his heart to the Lord in prayer (Micah 7:14) and
asked Him to be the faithful Shepherd of Israel and care for His people (see
5:4; Isaiah 40:11; Ps. 80:1). Micah
longed for ‘the good old days’ when the land was fruitful and peaceful and the
people were like obedient sheep who followed their Shepherd.”
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