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Miquéias 4

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1 Mas nos últimos dias acontecerá que o monte da casa do Senhor será estabelecido como o mais alto dos montes, e se exalçará sobre os outeiros, e a ele concorrão os povos.

2 E irão muitas nações, e dirão: Vinde, e subamos ao monte do Senhor, e à casa do Deus de Jacó, para que nos ensine os seus caminhos, de sorte que andemos nas suas veredas; porque de Sião sairá a lei, e de Jerusalém a palavra do Senhor.

3 E julgará entre muitos povos, e arbitrará entre nações poderosas e longínquas; e converterão as suas espadas em relhas de arado, e as suas lanças em podadeiras; uma nação não levantará a espada contra outra nação, nem aprenderão mais a guerra.

4 Mas assentar-se-á cada um debaixo da sua videira, e debaixo da sua figueira, e não haverá quem os espante, porque a boca do Senhor dos exércitos o disse.

5 Pois todos os povos andam, cada um em nome do seu deus; mas nós andaremos para todo o sempre em o nome do Senhor nosso deus.

6 Naquele dia, diz o Senhor, congregarei a que coxeava, e recolherei a que tinha sido expulsa, e a que eu afligi.

7 E da que coxeava farei um resto, e da que tinha sido arrojada para longe, uma nação poderosa; e o Senhor reinará sobre eles no monte Sião, desde agora e para sempre.

8 E a ti, ó torre do rebanho, outeiro da filha de Sião, a ti virá, sim, a ti virá o primeiro domínio, o reino da filha de Jerusalém.

9 E agora, por que fazes tão grande pranto? Não há em ti rei? pereceu o teu conselheiro, de modo que se apoderaram de ti dores, como da que está de parto,

10 Sofre dores e trabalha, ó filha de Sião, como a que está de parto; porque agora sairás da cidade, e morarás no campo, e virás até Babilônia. Ali, porém serás livrada; ali te remirá o Senhor da mão de teus inimigos.

11 Agora se congregaram muitas nações contra ti, que dizem: Seja ela profanada, e vejam o nossos olhos o seu desejo sobre Sião.

12 Mas, não sabem os pensamentos do Senhor, nem entendem o seu conselho; porque as ajuntou como gavelas para dentro da eira.

13 Levanta-te, e debulha, ó filha de Sião, porque eu farei de ferro o teu chifre, e de bronze as tuas unhas; e esmiuçarás a muitos povos; e dedicarás o seu ganho ao Senhor, e os seus bens ao Senhor de toda a terra.

   

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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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3. We must briefly say here, too, what themes concerning the Lord are found in general and in particular throughout the Prophets of the Old Testament, from Isaiah to Malachi:

1. The Lord came into the world in the fullness of time, which is to say, when the Jews no longer knew Him, and when for that reason nothing of the church remained. And if the Lord had not then come into the world and revealed Himself, mankind would have perished in eternal death. He Himself says in John, “If you do not believe that I am [who I am], you will die in your sins” (John 8:24).

[2] 2. The Lord came into the world to execute a last judgment, and by doing so conquer the hells that were reigning at the time. This He did by combats, that is, by temptations or trials, which He permitted His humanity from His mother to undergo, and by continual victories in them then. If the hells had not been conquered, no one could have been saved.

[3] 3. The Lord came into the world to glorify His humanity, that is, to unite it to the Divinity that He had in Him from conception.

[4] 4. The Lord came into the world to establish a new church which would acknowledge Him as its Redeemer and Savior, so as to be redeemed and saved through love for and faith in Him.

[5] 5. At the same time He did so in order to set heaven in order, in order for it to be in harmony with the church.

[6] 6. His suffering of the cross was the last combat, or temptation or trial, by which He thoroughly conquered the hells and fully glorified His humanity.

That the Word deals with no other matters will be seen later in a short work on the Sacred Scripture.

  
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Published by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1100 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 19009, U.S.A. A translation of Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772. Translated from the Original Latin by N. Bruce Rogers. ISBN 9780945003687, Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954074.