God's New Revelations

The Prophet Micah

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- Chapter 5 -

(Matthew 2:1–12)
1
You people of Jerusalem, gather your troops together. Even though you have a wall around your city to protect it, enemy soldiers are surrounding the city. Soon they will strike your leader on his face with a rod.
2
But you people of Bethlehem in the district of Ephrathah, even though your town is a very small one among all the towns in Judah, someone who will rule Israel will be born in your town. He will be someone whose family existed a very long time ago.
3
Now God will allow your enemies to conquer you, you people of Israel, but it will be for only a short time, like the short time that women have great pain while their babies are being born. After that, your fellow countrymen who were exiled will return to their own country.
4
And that a man who will rule there in Jerusalem will stand and lead his people well, because Yahweh, his God, will cause him to be strong and greatly honored. Then the people whom he rules will live in Jerusalem safely; he will be greatly honored by people all over the earth so no one will dare to attack Jerusalem.
5
And he will cause things to go well with his people. When the army of Assyria attacks our country and breaks through our fortresses, we will appoint seven or eight leaders to lead our army to fight against them.
6
With their swords our army will defeat the army of Assyria, whose capital Nimrod founded long ago. Our army will rule their cities. So our army will rescue us from the Assyrian army when they invade our country.

The Remnant of Jacob

(Micah 2:12–13)
7
The descendants of Jacob who survive will be a blessing to the people of other nations like dew and rain sent by Yahweh do good to the grass. They will not trust in humans to help them; instead, they will rely on Yahweh.
8
In the midst of their enemies in many people groups, the descendants of Jacob who remain alive will be like a lion among the other wild beasts of the forest, like a strong young lion that attacks sheep in a flock, and no one will be able to rescue their enemies.
9
You Israelites will defeat all your enemies and completely destroy them.
10
Yahweh says, “At that time, I will destroy you Israelite people’s horses that your soldiers use in war, together with your chariots.
11
I will tear down your city walls and destroy all your fortified cities.
12
I will get rid of all those among you who practice magic and the fortune tellers.
13
I will destroy all your idols and stone pillars, and then you will no longer bow down and worship things that you yourselves have made.
14
I will get rid of your poles that represent the goddess Asherah, and I will also destroy all your idols.
15
Because I will be very angry, I will also punish the people of all the nations who have not obeyed me.”
(Matthew 2:1–12)
1
Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
2
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
3
Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
4
He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. They will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
5
He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men.
6
They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he invades our land, and when he marches within our border.

The Remnant of Jacob

(Micah 2:12–13)
7
The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man nor wait for the sons of men.
8
The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.
9
Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.
10
It will happen in that day”, says the LORD,that I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots.
11
I will cut off the cities of your land and will tear down all your strongholds.
12
I will destroy witchcraft from your hand. You shall have no soothsayers.
13
I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars from among you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
14
I will uproot your Asherah poles from among you; and I will destroy your cities.
15
I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”