Arise and thresh

3/28/2014
Micah 4:1-13
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.”
He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide.
All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor. “Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion, for God will makes your horn iron, and God will make your hoofs bronze.
Why?
New Jerusalem, from which God's word goes out to all people, and to which the nations flock, in an era and plenty.
God will bring home a remnant of his people. Salvation-rescue and restoration- will come : but only on the other side of suffering, after the trauma of the Assyria invasion and the exile in Babylon. Then God will judge, not his people alone, but all the nations massed against them.
How?
Do not afraid, arise and thresh, Jesus Christ has conquer the dead and evil.