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Micah 4

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1 But it shall be in the last days, that the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be established on the head of the mountains, and it shall be lifted·​·up from the hills; and peoples shall flow·​·together to it.

2 And many nations shall walk and say, Go, and let us go·​·up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will instruct us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths; for the law shall go·​·out from Zion, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

3 And He shall judge between many peoples, and reprove numerous nations afar·​·off; and they shall beat their swords into mattocks, and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift a sword against nation, and they shall not learn war any·​·more.

4 But they shall sit, a man under his vine and under his fig·​·tree, and none shall frighten them; for the mouth of Jehovah of Armies has spoken it.

5 For all the people will walk each·​·man in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our god to eternity and forever.

6 In that day, says Jehovah, I will gather her who limps, and I will bring·​·together her who is expelled, and to whom I have done·​·evil.

7 And I will set her who limped to be left, and her who was driven beyond, for a numerous nation; and Jehovah shall reign over them in Mount Zion, from now and even·​·to eternity.

8 And thou, O tower of the drove*, the summit of the daughter of Zion, to thee shall it come; and the rule of the first shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

9 Now why dost thou shout with shouting? Is there no king in thee? Shall thy counselor perish? For thou art held·​·firm with travailing as a woman giving·​·birth.

10 Travail, and bring·​·out, O daughter of Zion, as a woman giving·​·birth; for now shalt thou go·​·out from the city, and thou shalt inhabit the field, and thou shalt come even to Babylon; there shalt thou be rescued; there Jehovah shall redeem thee from the palm of the hand of thine enemies.

11 And now many nations are gathered against thee, who say, Let her be·​·contaminated, and let our eyes behold against Zion.

12 But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither understand they His counsel; for He shall bring· them ·together as the sheaves of the threshing·​·floor.

13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will set thy horn as iron, and I will set thy hoofs as bronze, and thou shalt make·​·thin many peoples; and I will devote their gain to Jehovah, and their belongings to the Lord of all the earth.

   


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

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Exploring the Meaning of Micah 4

Napsal(a) New Christian Bible Study Staff

Micah 4:1,2. When a church stops honoring what is good and what is true it comes to an end, and the Jehovah sets up a new church. 1 The prophesy of Micah, like many of the other prophecies in the Bible, tells about such a happening: the end of the Israelitish church, and the start of Christianity. 2 The older words are used because they still mean the same spiritual idea. Jehovah was Jacob's God,, just as He is our God today. Zion and Jerusalem still correspond to the good and truth of the Lord’s church. 3

Micah 4:3,4. In that new church - that "house of God" - everyone will have spiritual truth written on the heart. Changing weapons into farming tools, and not going to war anymore, means that people will agree about the Lord’s truth without any dispute, and - because there are no evils in that house - they will be safe and without fear.

Micah 4:5. The Word uses many names for God, and any name is okay when it means the one creator, savior and redeemer. 4

Micah 4:6. Of those who "go up", all who need help will be given what they need.

Micah 4:7. Jehovah shall reign over all who are walking in his ways. 5 Those who are outcasts mean those who can’t see where to walk. Those that are lame can’t walk. The outcasts will have their eyes opened, and the lame will have their legs healed.

Micah 4:8-10. The "daughter of Zion" 6 means the affection of truths and goods with those of the church. The bringing forth means the multiplication of goods and truths because of the affection for them. Inhabiting the field means that the church will learn truths of many kinds and may even understand what Babylon has spoiled. But there will be no harm there, since the Lord protects.

Micah 4:11, 12. Falsities want to infest those who belong to the Lord, but He protects them. People who hold those falsities will be “threshed”, or judged.

Micah 4:13. The goods and truths that the Lord provides are as “iron” or “bronze”. 7 The falsities that are to be “threshed” aren't as strong, and can’t withstand them.

There are a lot of truths here for us, and there are appealing images. If we "go up" -- try to learn the true ideas in Christianity, and to walk in the Lord's ways, there will be healing, and affection, and understanding, and multiplying good, and protection.

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Micah 4:7

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7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.