Micah 2:7

There is power in the Blood of the Lamb. He gives His Holy Spirit, His power within you, to guide you in ALL things. He turns anything formed against you by the principalities of darkness into your good and the good of all of His Body, the Church. 

Christ within is our promised hope!

Micah calls the peoples of earth to come to hear the Lord’s case against Israel, for the nation had broken the covenant. The language recalls the language of the covenant or contract the Lord established with His people. The Lord was judging His people according to the terms of the covenant. But in the middle of the oracles of judgment, Micah reveals the Lord’s wonderful promises of a glorious future. There would be a time when the coming King would gather His people together, when He would establish peace, and when He would bring justice to the earth. Remarkably, Micah prophesies that this coming Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. The fulfillment of this prophecy in Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem gives us confidence that the prophecies of Jesus’ glorious future will also be fulfilled. Although the judgment of Jerusalem was postponed, it was finally realized in the destruction of the city by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.

From the time he verbalized God’s rebuke at the way the Jews were treating the poor until the time a poor carpenter and his fiancée arrived in Bethlehem, devout Jews knew that King David’s birthplace was where the Messiah would also be born.

Micah wrote the following about the town of Bethlehem seven hundred years before Jesus was born: “Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting”. And of that Ruler, he prophesied, “He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.… Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore”.

The words of God bring good to the righteous even as they bring judgment against the wicked.

Micah 2:7

⁷ You who are named the house of Jacob:

“Is the Spirit of the Lord restricted?

Are these His doings?

Do not My words do good

To him who walks uprightly?

¹⁰ Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, Like a woman in birth pangs. For now you shall go forth from the city, You shall dwell in the field, And to Babylon you shall go. There you shall be delivered; There the Lord will redeem you From the hand of your enemies. 

Micah 4:10

³ For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 

2 Timothy 4:3

⁴ and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 

2 Timothy 4:4