Micah 4
OGCMicah 4:1-5
XION, CENTER OF WORSHIP. Micah 4:1-5
RV. But in the latter days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of Jehovah’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow unto it. And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem; and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken it. For all the peoples walk every one in the name of his God; and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.
LXX. And at the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be manifest, established on the tops of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and the peoples shall hasten to it. And many nations shall go, and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and they shall shew us his way, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth a law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many peoples, and shall rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares; and their spears into sickles; and nation shall no more lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more. And every one shall rest under his vine, and every one under his fig-tree; and there shall be none to alarm them: for the mouth of the Lord Almighty has spoken these words. For all other nations shall walk every one in his own way, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
COMMENTS
(Micah 4:1) It will come to pass gives us transport to the future (from Micah’s day). We leap the centuries far beyond the captivity to Messiah’s day.
In the latter days is the English rendering of the phrase which fixes the time when it shall come to pass. The phrase is reminiscent of Hebrews 1:2. There we are told that God, having spoken to the fathers in the prophets has spoken to us in a Son. No more conclusive evidence is needed to connect Micah’s prophecy with the Messianic age The rabbis so understood this term. (The age was to be final and eternal. Nothing lies beyond it so far as earthly history is concerned. It is itself the final goal of history.) Upon the last of the days is the exact opposite of in the beginning of Genesis 1:1 (LXX) and John 1:1. As Lange points out, it denotes the completion of the world in contrast to its beginning.
John indicates that we are in this end time. (CF. 1 John 2:18 -f) *(See my comment in Hereby We Know, College Press, pp. 59-ff)
In this end time, says Micah, the mountain of Jehovah’s house shall be established on top of (or at the head of) the mountains. In the place of the literal mountain which is to be plowed as a field (Micah 3:12), the ideal of God will be established.
Those who would take Micah literally here see the ultimate establishment of the kingdom with Jerusalem as the capital (The New Scofield Reference Bible). This is, of course, not in keeping with Jesus-’ concept of true Jehovah worship. Just as Micah predicts that all peoples shall flow into God’s exalted mountain, so Jesus said Neither in these (Samaritan Gerazim and Ebal) mountains, nor in Jerusalem (Mt. Zion and Mt. Moriah) shall ye worship the Father. but the hour cometh and now is (italics mine) when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth. God is spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth.
The psalmist used this same metaphor in Psalms 68:17 to indicate the eminence of Jehovah worship on Mt. Zion over the other high places. The emphasis upon and contrast of high places, or mountains, is set against the backdrop of the tension between Jehovah worship on Mt. Zion and Baal worship on the various surrounding high places. In the last times, or Messianic age, true worship is to be firmly and finally exalted above all else.
In Micah 4:5, Micah says all the peoples walk everyone in the name of his god, but we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever. The coming of the Messianic age has not eliminated false religion. The very site of Jehovah’s temple is now the second most holy spot in Islam. But true Jehovah worship, i.e., Christian worship, has been exalted above them all.
(Micah 4:2) Many nations here is not be understood in terms of political empires. The people in the Old Testament are generally all those in covenant relation to God while the nations are all those not in covenant relationship.
Many who in Micah’s day were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenant of promise. (Ephesians 2:12) are now made nigh in the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:13)
Isaiah looked forward to this same glorious day (Isaiah 2:2) when the universal concern of God for all men would be realized.
Significantly, both Micah and Isaiah see the movement of Gentiles toward the exalted mountain of Jehovah’s house as voluntary. The religion of the prophets is of such quality as makes it independent of nationality or election. As the Jews understood election, any interpretation of prophecy which overlooks this basic truth cannot be correct,
The statement … out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem is not to be understood as limited to or even indicative of the law of Moses. Rather it is the law of the Spirit of life. (Romans 8:1-2) It is in keeping with Jesus-’ assertion that thus it is written. that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name unto all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. (Luke 24:45-47) There is little doubt that such passages as this in Micah were in Jesus-’ mind when He taught the apostles to so read and understand the Old Testament.
(Micah 4:3-4) Men are at war with men because men are at war with God. In the Messianic age (our own time included) the ideal is peace based on His judgement. He will judge between peoples. He will decide concerning strong nations. When and if the leaders of nations seek His will together. when His judgement is taken seriously, there can be peace.
History has demonstrated in blood that this peace will not prevail so long as each nation believes God has only its own national interests at heart. When asked if he did not believe that God was on the side of the north, Abraham Lincoln answered that it was more important that we be on God’s side than He on ours. This is the Messianic ideal.
Both in the matter of war as described in Micah 4:3 and the relation of races described in Micah 4:2, the church, as Messiah’s kingdom does not have the answer. The church is the answer. In the true church there is no Jew nor Greek, east nor west, male nor female. We are all one, and until we are all one, we are not truly the church!
The implements of war will be beaten into implements of peace, not by voting funds for welfare rather than warfare, but by seeking the will of God’s Messiah in international relations.
The ideal described in Micah 4:4 of every man in the security and plenty of his own vine and fig tree will come not by civil rights agitation and legislation but by seeking the will of God’s Christ in human relations. God must become the ruler of our economy as well as our church doctrine!
(Micah 4:5) On this verse we noted above that all false religion would not be obliterated in the age of the Messiah. This is obvious to anyone with definite conviction concerning the faith once for all delivered. We would simply add here that this verse is evidence Micah is not describing the final summing up of the ages when all false religion will be forever wiped out. When Micah says … all the peoples walk everyone in the name of his god, and (but) we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God. he is not condoning false religion. He is describing an era of tolerance or religious freedom unknown in the ancient world. It is, after all, better to discuss religious differences than to kill over them, as in the great religious wars of western European history.
Chapter IXQuestions
Future Exaltation and Messianic Hope
Demonstrate that Micah’s prophecy in Micah 4-5 has to do with the day of the Messiah, our own Messianic time.
What does John tell us about this end time? (1 John 2:18 -f)
What is the meaning of the mountain of Jehovah’s house?
Comment on all peoples walk everyone in the name of his god, but we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever. (Micah 4:5)
Discuss many nations. (Micah 4:2)
Discuss … out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. (Micah 4:2 cp. Luke 24:44 -f)
Men are at war with men because ________________________.
God must become ruler of our ____________ as well as our church doctrine. (Micah 4:4)
In that day (Micah 4:6-7) refers us back to ___________________.
That which is lame is the image of ____________.
Discuss her that halted is become a remnant. (Micah 4:7)
Distinguish between that which was lame and that which was driven away.
Discuss I will make. that which was cast far off a strong nation in Micah 4:7 in light of Romans 11:1.
What is meant by tower of the flock? (Micah 4:8)
Discuss Micah 4:11 in connection with Micah 3:12.
In Micah’s own time the nation of ____________ dominated the international scene.
____________ would wipe out the northern kingdom.
____________ would enslave the southern kingdom.
____________ would conquer the Medo-Persian empire.
The Maccabean revolt was against the rule of ____________.
All these powers, and others since have used the land of ____________ as a political pawn and a ____________ state.
Discuss Romans 11, Micah 4:11-13 in light of current events in the Middle East.
The Jews are precious to Jehovah because ____________.
This does not imply ____________.
What New Testament reference is made to Micah 5:2 -ff?
What is the meaning of Ephratah? (Micah 5:2)
Bethlehem nestles on the ____________ slopes of a ridge some ____________ miles ____________ of Jerusalem.
Discuss, the conditions of Jesus birth in contrast to what might have been expected for the birth of a king.
The sheep tended on the slopes of Bethlehem were traditionally intended for _________.
Why did the Roman emperor Harian forbid Jews to live in or near Bethlehem?
Perhaps no other term in the Old Testament has been more grossly misunderstood than _____________.
Humanly speaking, it was the Jews-’ ambitious vision of ____________ that was responsible for the death of Jesus.
It is the failure of many to recognize the kingly office and authority of Jesus that has brought about the ____________ in the modern church.
Discuss the temptation of Jesus (Luke 4:1-12) in relation to the Jewish dream of world power in the Messianic age.
The real issue in Micah 2:6 is the assurance that ____________.
Why do the Jews object that Jesus cannot be the Messiah?
Discuss the pre-existence of Christ in light of Micah 5:2.
God would not, Micah promised, fully vindicate His people and exalt them until ____________,
The Messiah is to be a glorious prince, but His relationship to His people is that of a ____________.
What is the significance of His greatness shall be to the ends of the earth?
Discuss and this man shall be our peace.
Discuss seven shepherds. eight principal men. (Micah 5:5-6)
What is meant by the remnant shall be as dew in a summer morning?
Messiah’s people are to be as bold as _____________.
Micah 5:15 must be almost unbelievable to ____________.
46.
The prophet sees in the age of
____________ God executing vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations which hearken not
Micah 4:6-8
THE RESTORATION OF THE DIASPORA. Micah 4:6-8
RV. In that day, saith Jehovah, will I assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted; and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and Jehovah will reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth even for ever. And thou, O tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, yea, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. LXX. In that day, saith the Lord, I will gather her that is bruised, and will receive her that is cast out, and those whom I rejected. And I will make her that was bruised a remnant, and her that was rejected a mighty nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. And thou, dark tower of the flock, daughter of Sion, on thee the dominion shall come and enter in, even the first kingdom from Babylon to the daughter of Jerusalem.
COMMENTS
(Micah 4:6-7) In that day refers us back to Micah 4:1. What Micah is about to say is to take place during the same last of the days which, as we have seen, is the Messianic age,
(Micah 4:6) That which is lame. Micah uses here the image of the covenant people as God’s flock. His sheep are pictured as limping or halting as the result of much wandering. These will be assembled. Part of the worship of Baal, the chief cause of their impending captivity, was a limping, halting dance about the altars of Baal in the high places. When God finished punishing them they will have real cause to limp!
HER THAT HALTED IS TO BECOME A REMNANT. Micah 4:7
The covenant people are no longer identified with the race of Abraham’s descendants nor the political commonwealth which was national Israel. From this point forward, true Israel is the faithful remnant. (See above on Micah 2:12)
There is a distinction here between two groups. The one Micah calls that which was lame (LXX bruised). The other he styles that which is driven away. afflicted. cast off. The lame or bruised are the faithful obedient few. Although they will be bruised in the captivity and dispersion of the nation, God will make of them a remnant. Through them He will yet fulfill His covenant promise.
That which is cast off He will make a strong nation. Paul informs us emphatically (Romans 11:1) that God has not (from Micah’s point of view, will not) cast off His people. His people are the remnant. Those whom He cast off are the rebellious majority.
Of both, the remnant and the strong nation composed of those cast off, Micah says, Jehovah will reign over them.
TOWER OF THE FLOCK. Micah 4:8
The flock is the remnant, God’s faithful covenant people, Zion out of whom shall proceed the law of God to all people. (Cf. Micah 4:2 above.) The tower of the flock. the hill of the daughter of Zion (not Zion herself) is the cast-off ones who shall become a strong nation, As the tower of the flock was a lookout post to guard the shepherd’s flock, so the nation would shield within her the covenant remnant until the time of Messiah’s coming.
The term tower of the flock is literally the tower of Ophel. Ophel is not Mt. Zion, but a percipitous slope on the south of the temple mount. This brings to sharper focus the distinction between Zion, the remnant, and the tower, the nation.
It is to the nation that the former dominion shall come. The remnant shall become the nucleus of the Christian church.
Chapter IXQuestions
Future Exaltation and Messianic Hope
Demonstrate that Micah’s prophecy in Micah 4-5 has to do with the day of the Messiah, our own Messianic time.
What does John tell us about this end time? (1 John 2:18 -f)
What is the meaning of the mountain of Jehovah’s house?
Comment on all peoples walk everyone in the name of his god, but we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever. (Micah 4:5)
Discuss many nations. (Micah 4:2)
Discuss … out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. (Micah 4:2 cp. Luke 24:44 -f)
Men are at war with men because ________________________.
God must become ruler of our ____________ as well as our church doctrine. (Micah 4:4)
In that day (Micah 4:6-7) refers us back to ___________________.
That which is lame is the image of ____________.
Discuss her that halted is become a remnant. (Micah 4:7)
Distinguish between that which was lame and that which was driven away.
Discuss I will make. that which was cast far off a strong nation in Micah 4:7 in light of Romans 11:1.
What is meant by tower of the flock? (Micah 4:8)
Discuss Micah 4:11 in connection with Micah 3:12.
In Micah’s own time the nation of ____________ dominated the international scene.
____________ would wipe out the northern kingdom.
____________ would enslave the southern kingdom.
____________ would conquer the Medo-Persian empire.
The Maccabean revolt was against the rule of ____________.
All these powers, and others since have used the land of ____________ as a political pawn and a ____________ state.
Discuss Romans 11, Micah 4:11-13 in light of current events in the Middle East.
The Jews are precious to Jehovah because ____________.
This does not imply ____________.
What New Testament reference is made to Micah 5:2 -ff?
What is the meaning of Ephratah? (Micah 5:2)
Bethlehem nestles on the ____________ slopes of a ridge some ____________ miles ____________ of Jerusalem.
Discuss, the conditions of Jesus birth in contrast to what might have been expected for the birth of a king.
The sheep tended on the slopes of Bethlehem were traditionally intended for _________.
Why did the Roman emperor Harian forbid Jews to live in or near Bethlehem?
Perhaps no other term in the Old Testament has been more grossly misunderstood than _____________.
Humanly speaking, it was the Jews-’ ambitious vision of ____________ that was responsible for the death of Jesus.
It is the failure of many to recognize the kingly office and authority of Jesus that has brought about the ____________ in the modern church.
Discuss the temptation of Jesus (Luke 4:1-12) in relation to the Jewish dream of world power in the Messianic age.
The real issue in Micah 2:6 is the assurance that ____________.
Why do the Jews object that Jesus cannot be the Messiah?
Discuss the pre-existence of Christ in light of Micah 5:2.
God would not, Micah promised, fully vindicate His people and exalt them until ____________,
The Messiah is to be a glorious prince, but His relationship to His people is that of a ____________.
What is the significance of His greatness shall be to the ends of the earth?
Discuss and this man shall be our peace.
Discuss seven shepherds. eight principal men. (Micah 5:5-6)
What is meant by the remnant shall be as dew in a summer morning?
Messiah’s people are to be as bold as _____________.
Micah 5:15 must be almost unbelievable to ____________.
46.
The prophet sees in the age of
____________ God executing vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations which hearken not
Micah 4:9-13
DISTRESS AND REDEMPTION. Micah 4:9 to Micah 5:1
RV. Now why doest thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail? Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city; and shalt dwell in the field, and shalt come even unto Babylon: there shalt thou be rescued; there will Jehovah redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see our desire upon Zion. But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither understand they his counsel for he hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain unto Jehovah, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us; they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. LXX. And now, why hast thou known calamities? was there not a king to thee? or has thy counsel perished that pangs as of a woman in travail have seized upon thee? Be in pain, and strengthen thyself, and draw near, O daughter of Zion, as a woman in travail: for now thou shalt go forth out of the city, and shalt lodge in the plain, and shalt reach even to Babylon: thence shall the Lord thy God deliver thee, and thence shall he redeem thee out of the hand of thine enemies. And now have many nations gathered against thee, saying, We will rejoice, and our eyes shall look upon Zion. But they know not the thought of the Lord, and have not understood his counsel: for he has gathered them as sheaves of the floor. Arise, and thresh them, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horns iron, and I will make thine hoofs brass: and thou shalt utterly destroy many nations, and shalt consecrate their abundance to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of all the earth. Now shall the daughter of Zion be completely hedged in: he has laid siege against us: they shall smite the tribes of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
COMMENTS
WHY DOST THOU CRY ALOUD?. Micah 4:9-10
The term tower of the flock (Micah 4:8) appears also in Genesis 35:16 -ff. There is the record of Rachel, beloved of Jacob, dying in childbirth as they journeyed from Bethel to Bethlehem.
Just as Rachel died in childbirth, so the nation of Israel would die at the hands of Titus (70 A.D.) and Hadrian (135 A.D.) in the height of her Messianic expectancy. First century Israel looked for a king, but could find none. Micah’s question is pertinent, Is there no king in thee? The king would indeed be in her, but she would die in travail without seeing (recognizing) Him just as Rachel died. The nation, even in Micah’s time, in pain would go away into Babylon. there to be rescued. To all outward appearances the Hebrew nation was dead when they were led away into Babylon. In truth, however, it was there they were molded into a people who never again forgot God. True, their national ambition blinded them to the Christ. He was recognized only by the remnant, not the nation. Nevertheless, there is a real sense in which Micah can truly use the plural, both the remnant and the nation (Micah 5:7) shall be ruled over by Jehovah.
In all this, Micah is looking beyond the Assyrian Dynasty to the supremacy of Babylon, and through Babylon to the Persians, and beyond Persia to the Messianic Age.
(Micah 5:11) It is the prophet’s purpose in these verses to return to the warnings of Mic 3:12, Before there can be a national restoration and a deliverance of the remnant there must be the captivity.
Having projected hope which lay nearly two centuries in the future in its first instance* i.e.* the deliverance from Babylon, and some eight centuries in the future in its Messianic fulfillment, Micah returns in Micah 5:11 to the situation immediately before him. Between the present and the blessed future was an array of enemies bent on Israel’s destruction.
In Micah’s own time the Assyrians dominated the international scene, They would wipe out the northern kingdom and in their turn be replaced by Babylon. Babylon would enslave the southern kingdom, only to be destroyed by the Persians. The Medo-Persians would themselves yield to Alexander and the Greeks. Against the oppression of the Greeks would rises a blood bath known to history as The Maccabean Period, including a Jewish civil war, to be ended only by Roman occupation.
(Micah 4:12 to Micah 5:1.) This array of foreign powers who, from the beginning of recorded history, have used the land of Israel as a military pawn and buffer state have reckoned without God’s thought and counsel. He has gathered them, i.e. the nations arrayed against Israel, as sheves to the threshing floor. Jerusalem, daughter of Zion, is called to arise and thresh. Jehovah will make her horn iron and her hoofs brass.
Thus, against the figure of oxen treading out grain, God promises power which will beat many people in pieces. Nothing in history to date, fully accords with the prediction. The only period of history since Micah in which Israel has had any military power was the Maccabean period of victory over Antiochus Epiphanes and that victory was on nothing like the scale indicated here in the threshing of many nations.
To find the fulfillment of this prophecy, we must look to more recent history. We have previously referred to Romans 11 in reference to the first group here presented by Micah i.e., the true Israel, the covenant people called the remnant. But what of the cast off ones who are to become a strong nation to whom the former dominion shall come?
It is concerning them that Paul writes as touching the Gospel, they are enemies for your (Christians) sake, but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father’s sake. For the gifts and calling of God are not repented of. For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown you they also may now obtain mercy. (Romans 11:24 -ff) (See Don DeWelt, Romans Realized, p. 174-f)
The Jews are precious to Jehovah because of His past relations with them. There is little doubt that the Bible predicts another period of national life and prosperity. To recognize this ought, not, however, to engender in us such earthly, material and sordid hopes as proved their undoing in the rejection of Christ two thousand years ago. Whatever is in store for the Jewish nation in terms of earthly identity, it can in no way preclude the longing of God and His church to win them to Christ.
It is my opinion that in our day, which is called the latter days, the time of the Messiah (Cp. Micah 4:1; Micah 4:6), we are seeing the fulfillment of Micah 4:9 to Micah 5:1 in the present history of the Israeli nation. As we have previously indicated, no time in the interval between Micah and the present has met the fullness of this passage. From Assyria to now many nations have been assembled against the Jews (Micah 5:11). In all this historic desire to see these people defiled, the nations have not considered God’s will nor known His counsel (Micah 5:12). The present Arab-Russian-Chinese coalition against modern Israel certainly takes none of this into account.
Yet, in a strength unbelievable, reported by every news media of our time, this little postage stamp country has not once but four times in turn defied the strength of Britain and all the Arab world could hurl against her and has each time threshed them soundly (Micah 5:12). In six days in June, 1967, Israel literally beat in pieces many people.
Micah promised this would come to pass during the Christian era. It ought be no great source of amazement that we are seeing it happen!
(Micah 5:1) But before the remnant shall be gathered by Messiah, before those cast off can become a strong nation, the inevitable must happen. The kingdoms will gather their armies together and attempt in vain to hold off the armies of Assyria and of Babylon. But it will be to no avail. The price of their apostacy must be paid.
Chapter IXQuestions
Future Exaltation and Messianic Hope
Demonstrate that Micah’s prophecy in Micah 4-5 has to do with the day of the Messiah, our own Messianic time.
What does John tell us about this end time? (1 John 2:18 -f)
What is the meaning of the mountain of Jehovah’s house?
Comment on all peoples walk everyone in the name of his god, but we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever. (Micah 4:5)
Discuss many nations. (Micah 4:2)
Discuss … out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. (Micah 4:2 cp. Luke 24:44 -f)
Men are at war with men because ________________________.
God must become ruler of our ____________ as well as our church doctrine. (Micah 4:4)
In that day (Micah 4:6-7) refers us back to ___________________.
That which is lame is the image of ____________.
Discuss her that halted is become a remnant. (Micah 4:7)
Distinguish between that which was lame and that which was driven away.
Discuss I will make. that which was cast far off a strong nation in Micah 4:7 in light of Romans 11:1.
What is meant by tower of the flock? (Micah 4:8)
Discuss Micah 4:11 in connection with Micah 3:12.
In Micah’s own time the nation of ____________ dominated the international scene.
____________ would wipe out the northern kingdom.
____________ would enslave the southern kingdom.
____________ would conquer the Medo-Persian empire.
The Maccabean revolt was against the rule of ____________.
All these powers, and others since have used the land of ____________ as a political pawn and a ____________ state.
Discuss Romans 11, Micah 4:11-13 in light of current events in the Middle East.
The Jews are precious to Jehovah because ____________.
This does not imply ____________.
What New Testament reference is made to Micah 5:2 -ff?
What is the meaning of Ephratah? (Micah 5:2)
Bethlehem nestles on the ____________ slopes of a ridge some ____________ miles ____________ of Jerusalem.
Discuss, the conditions of Jesus birth in contrast to what might have been expected for the birth of a king.
The sheep tended on the slopes of Bethlehem were traditionally intended for _________.
Why did the Roman emperor Harian forbid Jews to live in or near Bethlehem?
Perhaps no other term in the Old Testament has been more grossly misunderstood than _____________.
Humanly speaking, it was the Jews-’ ambitious vision of ____________ that was responsible for the death of Jesus.
It is the failure of many to recognize the kingly office and authority of Jesus that has brought about the ____________ in the modern church.
Discuss the temptation of Jesus (Luke 4:1-12) in relation to the Jewish dream of world power in the Messianic age.
The real issue in Micah 2:6 is the assurance that ____________.
Why do the Jews object that Jesus cannot be the Messiah?
Discuss the pre-existence of Christ in light of Micah 5:2.
God would not, Micah promised, fully vindicate His people and exalt them until ____________,
The Messiah is to be a glorious prince, but His relationship to His people is that of a ____________.
What is the significance of His greatness shall be to the ends of the earth?
Discuss and this man shall be our peace.
Discuss seven shepherds. eight principal men. (Micah 5:5-6)
What is meant by the remnant shall be as dew in a summer morning?
Messiah’s people are to be as bold as _____________.
Micah 5:15 must be almost unbelievable to ____________.
46.
The prophet sees in the age of
____________ God executing vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations which hearken not