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Who is Like the Lord?

• Micahs Prophecies of the Kingdom to
  Come

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no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of ones
own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made
by an act of human will, but men moved by the
Holy Spirit spoke from God. (2 Pet. 120-21)
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Gods Influence among the Nations

• (Micah 41-5)

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The Background

• Now hear this, heads of the house of Jacob and
  rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice
  and twist everything that is straight, who build
  Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with violent
  injustice. Her leaders pronounce judgment for a
  bribe, her priests instruct for a price, and her
  prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the
  Lord saying, Is not the Lord in our midst?
  Calamity will not come upon us.

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• Therefore, on account of you, Zion will be plowed
  as a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of
  ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become
  high places of a forest. (Micah 39-12)

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Features of Micahs Prophecy

• Mount Moriah (Zion) would be established as the
  chief of the mountains
• And it will come about in the last days that the
  mountain of the house of the Lord will be
  established as the chief of the mountains. It
  will be raised above the hills, and the peoples
  will stream to it. (Micah 41)

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Features of Micahs Prophecy

• People of all nations would look to the God of
  Israel for instruction.
• and the peoples will stream to it and many
  nations will come and say, Come and let us go up
  to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of
  the God of Jacob, that He may teach us about His
  ways and that we may walk in His paths. For from
  Zion will go forth the law, even the word of the
  Lord from Jerusalem. (Micah 42)

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Features of Micahs Prophecy

• Gods word would provide the principles by which
  the nations would conduct themselves toward one
  another.
• And He will judge between many peoples and render
  decisions for mighty, distant nations. (Micah 43)

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Features of Micahs Prophecy

• The nations would live in peace with one another.
• Then they will hammer their swords into
  plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks
  nation will not lift up sword against nation, and
  never again will they train for war.

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Features of Micahs Prophecy

• As a result the people of each nation would enjoy
  peace and security.
• And each of them will sit under his vine and
  under his fig tree, with no one to make them
  afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has
  spoken. (Micah 44)

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Conditions Today!

• Jerusalem is still despised and insignificant.
• The temple of the Lord no longer exists.
• The nations have little if any interest in what
  the God of Israel says about anything.
• War and violence is rampant in our world as it
  has been in every century since the time of
  Micah.

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Questions

• Have the words of God failed?
• Is there yet to be a reality that fulfills these
  sublime pictures?
• Are we to expect a millennial kingdom?
• Are these the pictures of an earthly paradise yet
  to be created?
• Or is there another solution?

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The Key that Opens the Scriptures

• Now He said to them, These are My words which I
  spoke to you while I was still with you, that all
  things which are written about Me in the Law of
  Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be
  fulfilled. Then He opened their minds to
  understand the Scriptures, and He said to them,
  Thus it is written, that the Christ should
  suffer and rise again from the dead the third
  day and that repentance for forgiveness of sins
  should be proclaimed in His name to all the
  nations, beginning from Jerusalem. (Luke 2444-47)

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Couched in the language of the old reality, Micah
speaks of a new realitythe kingdom or church of
Jesus Christ.
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The Fulfillment

• Jesus established Himself as the Christ of OT
  prophecy and Jerusalem as the seat of His
  kingdom. From it He sent forth His apostles with
  the message of salvation to all the nations.
• repentance for forgiveness of sins should be
  proclaimed in His name to all the nations,
  beginning from Jerusalem. (Luke 2444-47)

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The Fulfillment

• The teaching of the God of Israel became the
  instruction for people of all nations.
• Go therefore and make disciples of all the
  nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
  and the Son and the Holy Spirit, (Matthew 2819)

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• repentance for forgiveness of sins should be
  proclaimed in His name to all the nations,
  beginning from Jerusalem. (Luke 2444-47)

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The Fulfillment

• People from all the nations coexist together
  based on the principle of love and peace as
  demonstrated by Jesus Himself.
• For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups
  into one, and broke down the barrier of the
  dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the
  enmity, which is the Law of commandments
  contained in ordinances, that in Himself He might

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• make the two into one new man, thus establishing
  peace, and might reconcile them both in one body
  to God through the cross, by it having put to
  death the enmity. And He came and preached peace
  to you who were far away, and peace to those who
  were near for through Him we both have our
  access in one Spirit to the Father. (Ephesians
  214-18)

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The Fulfillment

• Within the framework of His kingdom, all the
  nations can enjoy the peace and prosperity of a
  life in submission to God.
• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
  blessing in the heavenly places in Christ (Eph.
  13)

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The Wonder of Micahs God

• Who is a God like Thee, who pardons iniquity and
  passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of
  His possession? He does not retain His anger
  forever, because He delights in unchanging love.
  (Micah 718)