Click on the “Notes” link (Adobe icon) above to download the outline.
Click here for next sermon.
Micah 4:1-7
- Micah prophesied in Mic 4:1-7 of a time to come in the “last days” when the following things would happen.
- The house of the Lord would be established in the top of the mountains (v.1).
- People would flow into it (v.1).
- Many nations would come to the house of God to be taught the Lord’s ways (v.2).
- The word of the Lord would go forth from Zion and Jerusalem (v.2).
- God would judge among many people and rebuke strong nations afar off (v.3).
- The nations would beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks (v.3).
- There would be no war anymore (v.3).
- They would no longer be afraid (v.4).
- All of the people would walk every man in the name of his god (v.5).
- God’s people would walk in His name (v.5).
- God would assemble His halted, driven out, and afflicted people and make them a strong nation, and He would reign over them in mount Zion forever (v.6-7).
- Many people assume that this prophecy describes a time yet future in the “millennium.”
- They believe that it tells of a time when Jesus will return to setup His earthly kingdom in Jerusalem.
- The Jews will be re-gathered in their land and will rule over all nations.
- It will be a time of political peace.
- But was that what Micah prophesied of?
- Is the fulfillment of this prophecy yet future?
- Or was it fulfilled long ago?
- Let’s walk through it verse by verse and compare scripture with scripture (1Co 2:13) to understand the interpretation.
Micah 4:1
- But in the last days it shall come to pass,
- The last days began in the 1st century when Christ came (Heb 1:2).
- The Holy Spirit was poured out on the church in the last days in 33AD (Act 2:16-17).
- that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills;
- The kingdom of God was set up in the days of the Roman Empire (Dan 2:44 c/w Mar 1:15).
- Jesus, using the kingdom of God, destroyed the Roman Empire and it (His kingdom) became a great mountain that filled the whole earth (Dan 2:34-35 c/w Dan 2:44).
- The kingdom of God is the local church that came at Christ’s first coming (Mat 16:18-19 c/w Luk 22:29-30 c/w 1Co 10:16-17, 21).
- The local church is the house of the LORD (1Ti 3:15).
- It’s called Mount Sion (Heb 12:22-23).
- Therefore, the NT church was established in the top of the mountains and was exalted above the hills.
- and people shall flow unto it.
- Jews from all over the world flowed into the church (Act 2:5; Act 2:36-42).
- Men pressed into the kingdom (Luk 16:16).
Micah 4:2
- And many nations shall come,
- Nations is synonymous with Gentiles (Deut 32:43 c/w Rom 15:10).
- Gentiles from many nations came into the church when they heard and believed the gospel and were baptized (read the book a Acts).
- The gospel was preached in all the world (Mar 16:15, 20; Col 1:6, 23).
- and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob;
- These Gentiles were brought into the house of God (1Ti 3:15 c/w 1Ti 1:3 c/w Eph 3:1).
- They were made part of the commonwealth of Israel (Eph 2:11-22).
- and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths:
- In the church they were taught God’s ways (1Co 11:1 c/w 1Co 4:17; Act 18:26).
- They no longer walked as other Gentiles walked (Eph 4:17).
- for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
- The church is Zion and Jerusalem (Heb 12:22-23).
- The New Testament scriptures issued from the apostles of the NT church (2Pe 3:15-16; Heb 2:3-4).
- Therefore, the law and the word of God went forth from Zion and Jerusalem from the apostles in the NT church.
Micah 4:3
- And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off;
- The gospel of Jesus Christ judged and rebuked the Gentile nations (2Ti 4:2; Tit 1:12-13).
- They were commanded to repent and obey the gospel (Act 17:30; 1Jo 3:23).
- and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:
- Those that had been violent were made peaceful by the grace of God (Tit 3:3-7).
- They became peacemakers (Mat 5:9) who followed the Prince of peace (Isa 9:6).
- nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
- There was peace made between Jews and Gentiles (Eph 2:14-17 c/w Act 10:28).
- There are no national or racial distinctions in the church (Col 3:11).
- The NT church is characterized by love not war (1Jo 4:11-12, 20-21).