Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Micah 2-7

Micah has a prophecy similar to that of Isaiah's concerning Israel. In short as far as I can tell, Israel will go through a reaping season because of its sins. However, God will later redeem them, lift them up, and the enemies that they feared will come to them. It even has the famous phrase of beating swords into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks.

Looking back at history, a lot of this would seem to apply to the years of Babylonian exile, the return, and then the Biblical intermission between Malachi and when the New Testament begins. An open question would be how much of this applies to the New Testament ministry of Christ and events yet to occur in the future. Given the couched and figurative language, I think it is hard to tell.

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