The Reign Of God

Micah 4

From Orr:

EXAMINE - Micah described the 1000-year reign (The Millennial Reign) of Jesus Christ upon the earth “in the last days” (Micah 4:1). Isaiah recorded similar words in Isaiah 2:2-4. Our Messiah-King, Jesus Christ, will reign from His temple located on the highest mountain and people will stream there to worship (Micah 4:1). There will be a hunger for worship and the Word of God (Micah 4:2). There will be peace and prosperity for everyone and all nations (Micah 4:3-4). Despite what the nations were doing around them, Micah stated that Israel would follow the LORD forever (Micah 4:5). APPLY - Streaming is in the Bible! Micah 4:1 says that “people from all over the world will STREAM there to worship” (lol). On a serious note, worship was a priority in the Millennial and worship should be a priority today. They invited others to come to worship; they were instructed in worship; they were inspired to walk in obedience to the Word (Micah 4:2). Even after worship, there was a lot of witnessing going on as the “Word went out from Jerusalem” (Micah 4:2). Start inviting people today to join you in worship this weekend. If you are able, don’t just “stream online” but “stream to the place to be in worship.” PRAY - Father God, we need a Word from You to bring peace to our hearts and communities. Please transform weapons of violence into tools of healing. In Jesus’ Name, Amen!

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The messianic reign will allow us to

Path (walk in his)

Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah (1) Zion’s Future Exaltation (4:1–5)

In this salvation (or deliverance and restoration) oracle Micah announces the future glory of the temple mount and the ideal happiness and security of God’s worshipers (both Jew and Gentile). Sailhamer, in his comments on the parallel in Isaiah 2, agrees: “From the very beginning the passage appears to have been understood as a picture of a future age when Jerusalem would be restored and would become the center of the worship of God among all nations.”

The time of the prophecy’s fulfillment is set in “the last days.” The phrase can refer to the general or undetermined future

excitement about Worship

educated in the Word

expeditions in His ways

Peace (witness his)

Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah (1) Zion’s Future Exaltation (4:1–5)

The effect of this reception of true religion shall be universal peace.” Instead of nations going to war against one another, the Lord himself will judge between them and settle their differences

and

Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah (1) Zion’s Future Exaltation (4:1–5)

stated, so that the waw consecutive prefixed to the Hebrew perfect tense could be translated “So” or “Then”: “So they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” Because of the Lord’s direct intervention, weapons of warfare will become useless. “Here is synecdoche where the abandonment of two weapons—swords and spears—stands picturesquely for total disarmament.”

God will be the Judge

Prosperity (weigh his )

Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah (1) Zion’s Future Exaltation (4:1–5)

4:4 The vine and the fig tree are intended to picture proverbially the security, prosperity, and contentment of God’s peaceable kingdom (1 Kgs 4:25; Zech 3:10; cf. Isa 11:6–10; 16; 65:20–25). Fear will be a thing of the past (Zeph 3:13). “Fig trees were valued for their fruit and for their shade. Like the vine, fig trees became a symbol of security and of prosperity.”

The end of Covetousness

Obadiah, Jonah and Micah: An Introduction and Commentary d. Zion to Be Exalted (4:1–5)

4a, b. The dream of disarmament is backed up by the dream of agrarian well-being. The two dreams are inseparable: those who have the swollen appetites of consumerism covet the vines and figs of others, and therefore wage war to obtain them. Accordingly they must live in fear of dying by the sword. But those who live according to the law are content with a modest life-style and with living by their own produce, having the happy prospect of peace and domestic felicity. If the nations could trust each other not to exploit one another, they could dismantle their military machines. The ideal of not coveting is fulfilled only in the kingdom of God.

4c. Micah uses the military title for God, YHWH. Ṣĕbā’ôṯ (JB), to underscore the certainty of the promise and to focus our attention not so much on the prediction as on the one who made it.