June 26

The Prophecies of Micah (Continued) - Micah 3:1-12, 4:1-13, 5:1-15

"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,

     though you are small among the clans of Judah,

out of you will come for me

     one who will be ruler over Israel,

whose origins are from of old,

     from ancient times."

Micah 5:2

You wonder what the people of Micah's day made of this prophecy of Christ?  What Micah himself made of it?  

It's no wonder they thought Christ would be a literal king.  Except for the commands and the obvious, I think you have to be mighty careful when you read the Bible literal.  God's ways are not man's ways and God's way of think not man's way of thinking.  We would have missed Christ, too.  So I wonder what we're missing in scripture nowadays?

To understand scripture requires the willingness of the author to explain it to us.

Lord knows.

Oh, and Micah must be picking up the same broadcast because here is the passage I cited from June 24th again:

"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord

      to the house of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us His ways,

      so that we may walk in His paths."

Micah 4:2