Micah 4:1-7 commentary

 

 1: But in the last days it shall come to pass that the mountain of the house of YHWH shall be established in the top of the mountains and it shall be exalted above the hills and people shall flow unto it 2: And many nations shall come and say Come and let us go up to the mountain of YHWH and to the house of ELOHIM OF JACOB and He will teach us of HIS ways, and we will walk in HIS paths for the Law shall go forth from Zion ^[Israel] and the word of YHWH from Jerusalem 3: And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks nation shall not lift up a sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more ^{Isaiah 2:1-4} 4: But they shall sit every man ^{[who otherwise would have been a soldier]} under his vine and under his fig tree and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of YHWH of armies has spoken it 5: For all people will walk everyone in the name of their ^{invisible women} ELOHIM and we will walk in the name of YHWH our ELOHIM for ever and ever

6: ^RR In that day  declares YHWH will I assemble the one limping and I will gather her that is driven out and the one that I have afflicted ^{time of Jacob’s trouble} 7: And I will make her that limped a remnant   and her that was cast far off a strong nation and YHWH He reigns over them in mount Zion from henceforth even forever ^{[6-7 Godhead speaking in first & third persons]}

Comments: Micah 4:1-7 is a prophecy of what happens after Messiah returns and defeats his enemies at the Battle of Armageddon. In verses :1-3, Micah and Isaiah use virtually identical wording to describe the kingdom of The Christ.

In verse six, the one limping, her that is driven out, and the one God has afflicted are all the Nation of Israel. The scattering took place when Titus sacked Israel in A.D. 70. Israel then ceased to be a nation for 2500 years, until, according to the word of prophecy, was miraculously restored. While aliyah flights continue to bring the scattered back home to Israel, the gathering will not be completed until Christ returns and sends his angels to complete it ^{Mark 13:27}.

The gathering is not a resurrection/ rapture of the Body of Christ. It is a physical gathering carried out by angels of the remnant of the Children of Israel, also called the Elect in Isaiah 65:22 and Matthew 24^:22. These are the Children of Israel—Jacob, who followed Christ during the Time of Jacob’s Trouble and who are left alive after the Battle of Armageddon. 

Biblically, the word remnant never refers to the Out-Called (Christians); it always refers to God’s people Israel, Jacob (those descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob). The Body of Christ is never fractured into remnants. It is one single living organism built by Christ, using the living stones of each individual believer, into one single body that he calls the Out-Called ^{Matthew 16:18}.

Verse seven tells us that Micah 4:1-7 is 100% about the establishment, conditions, and permanency of Christ’s Kingdom.

Micah 1:1-6 commentary

 

 1: The word of YHWH that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham Ahaz and Hezekiah kings of Judah which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem 2: Hear all ye people hearken O earth and all that therein is for He is becoming ADONAI YHWH for [a] witness against you ADONAI from temple of His Holiness 3: For behold YHWH going forth from His place and He descends and He treads  on high places of high places of [the] earth 4: And the mountains under him they are melted and the valleys they shall be torn apart as wax before the fire and as the waters that are poured down a steep place 5: Because of the transgression of Jacob is all this and because of the sins of the house of Israel What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem? 6: Because of this I will make Samaria as a rubbish-heap of the field and as plantings of a vineyard and I will pour down the stones of it into the valley and I will uncover the foundations of it

Comments: In Micah 1:2-6, Adonai YHWH is speaking and referring to the Godhead in both first and third persons. Both names, Adonai [a title] and YHWH, are plural, as is the title Elohim.

The man-made phrase “plurality of majesty” cannot be superimposed or juxtaposed onto plural references the Godhead makes of *itself ^{Genesis 1:26}. Scholars attempt this in order to change the meaning of the plural and deny the existence of the Godhead ^{Colossians 2:9}.

*Though the Godhead is comprised of three persons, it is a “being” and not a person ^Martin. Therefore “it” is appropriate to reference to the being we know as the Godhead ^{Colossians 2:9}.

The term “plurality of majesty” is used by earthly monarchs and others who think of themselves as gods [of a sort]. The plurality of majesty could have been first used by those written of in Genesis chapter six, the sons of God (Bene ha Elohim—angels), some of whom, according to Enoch, ruled in concert with one another, and, according to Genesis 6:2-4 mated with human women, who gave birth to hybrid beings, the nephilim. Both the Bene ha Elohim and the nephilim became the false elohim worshipped by ancient peoples.

When Adonai YHWH says “Us,” it is a literal reference to the Tri-unity of the three persons within the Godhead ^{*1 John 5:7} and not a medieval reference to a pompous man-made (or elohim-made) term. Human monarchs created the expression “plurality of majesty.” Our Creator, YHWH ELOHIM, did not.

*The Johannine Comma is present in early Christian writings that pre-date the 16^th Century. If the Comma was not present in any manuscript dating prior to the 16^th Century… ·How could it have been found in a Syriac manuscript dated from around A.D. 170 (2^nd Century), or in a Latin manuscript from around 200 A.D. (3^rd Century)? · How could it have been included in resolutions made at the Counsel of Carthage in A.D. 415 (5^th Century)? · How could Cassiodorus have quoted it in A.D. 480 (5th century) · How could 400 Bishops have quoted, and discussed it at length, in their defense of the trinity in A.D. 484 (5^th Century)?