Micah 4:6-10

The Lord will redeem His people -- Micah 4:6-10: Many times the prophets of God talked first about the physical kingdom of Israel and then moved to talk about the spiritual kingdom, the church. Here Micah reverses the order. He had first talked about the spiritual kingdom or church and now he moves to discuss the restoration of physical Israel from captivity. God gave several predictions through Micah concerning the return of Israel from bondage. "That day" is a well-known term in the Bible. Context usually has to be considered to determine what day is meant. Here it is easy to see that the day under consideration was the time of the return from captivity. God said of the remnant that would be brought back, “I will gather my people, the lame and the outcasts, and all into whose lives I have brought sorrow." The Almighty had used the heathen nations to inflict the chastisement on His disobedient people. God said, "The lame and the outcasts will belong to my people and become a strong nation."

Jerusalem was to be the tower for watching over God's physical kingdom. God had dominion over the same Jewish nation at Jerusalem before. Now He will rule over the nation again. While in captivity the Jews were in sorrow. They were crying like a woman in childbirth with no king or counselor to rely upon. God gave two certain promises to His people. First He promised that they would go into captivity. "Keep on groaning with pain, you people of Jerusalem! If you escape from your city to the countryside, you will still be taken as prisoners to Babylonia." Second, god promised that when the time was right He would bring the remnant out of captivity. "But later I will rescue you from your enemies."