A prediction

Alrighty, so you'll see by the Micah schedule here, we're down to actually the last two verses in chapter two. And this is going to be one of the few times you only have a few verses. There are a few places in Micah we've done that. But these two verses are kind of neat because they kind of look to a prediction of the future regathering of Israel and the Lord leading that and in charge of that regathering.

And actually starting next week, we're going to start into the There's like three sections. I think we've identified as we've gone through They're kind of marked off by this idea of a of a Hero Israel hero people. So let's just kind of get into that and next week. We'll start the new section in that So let's just go to that.

Let me see if I'm my mouse in the right spot and I can be able to control the slides Okay Yeah So far I'm not doing too well at controlling these slides. Okay, come on guys. Just a second here. I am an engineer, that's what they tell me. Okay, let's see if, ah, there we go. Okay, so let me just put the whole outline up here. This is the Constable's outline, which I, I've used Constable's outline for the entire class actually. He had a really good Breakdown of each of the sections.

So this is the first what's called the first oracle So I put the first verse of Micah up there just again just to kind of remind us. This is Michael Morshef in the days of Jotham Ahaz and Hezekiah king of Judah And he which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem so he talked about the word of the Lord that came to him and So we went through those sections. The whole section is this oracle divided into four parts.

We've been through the judgment. If you look at it, it's like judgment, lamentations, and sins is how he kind of phrases it for the three sections we looked at. So we spent quite a bit of time looking at those sections of judgment, lamentations, and then the sins of Israel. But today's gonna be kind of a change where we look to the future regathering and leadership in Israel. Okay, so let's just go on here. All right, so here are the verses. I highlighted the pronouns here. Let me just read this two verses.

I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in the fold. Like a sheep flock in the midst of its pastures, they will be noisy with men. The breaker goes up before them. They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them and the Lord at their head.

Okay, so we're going to see, so we'll just go in and start looking at the first verse. I've kind of chopped it up into different charts here. Hopefully it'll help us here. So let's just look. So the A part, which I have, looks like this. And actually this looks to me like, remember we talked about that people observe that Micah is a poetry, is poetry. I think it is.

And then it kind of follows, so the first statement I will surely assemble all of you Jacob. He's going to come back. The next statement is going to look very much like that, but he's going to have a different aspect. And remember, Miles did a great job on this when he pointed out, you know, Jacob and Israel are many times synonymous. He's talking about either the nation of Israel or the Northern Kingdom. So in this verse, like he did back in verse 5, he talks about Jacob and Israel and he makes statements about them. And we're going to see later, he has the remnant of Israel, he's going to talk about the remnant of Jacob later on. So it's interesting how Micah interchanges Jacob and Israel a lot in his book here. Okay, so this is the first statement.

So I spent a little time, fortunately, the word search version I have for the Bible actually goes down to the Greek level. Let's try Hebrew level, which I haven't done in a long time, so it's kind of challenging. So a couple of interesting Hebrew words show up, but they're virtually synonyms.

This word assemble is the idea to collect, gather, assemble, to gather things together in a single location. Then we have the second part of this, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. And it has another word, and from what I can understand, I read both looking through it, they're basically almost synonyms of one another. This is to gather, to gather in, take away, represents bringing things to oneself.

And if you look at the Hebrew text, which is challenging, it will You know, you think, I look at the Hebrew text and I don't see an I or a will or anything like that. All I see is this word kabah. How's it? Kabash? Is that how they, you know, something like that. Kabah. Kabatz is the first word. Kabatz and asap is the second word.

They were repeated twice in the Hebrew text. And apparently that's enough by repeating it twice to show that that double emphasis, so it is saying the I will comes from the double repetition of that word assemble, it seems like. That's what I, in my limited understanding of the Hebrew.

But the word I will never really is there. It's interesting. So the translators, they know what they're doing, I don't. But I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. Very, very parallel statements. If you have any questions or other thoughts, please.

And then here's what one of the challenges is, and maybe you've noticed that this particular verse, verses, have been quoted by people saying, well, let's think about this. They'll either say that, well, Nation of Israel has gathered currently in our lifetime, since the 40s, Is that what he's talking about here? Is that gathering the gathering that he's speaking of here?

Or I came across this archaeologist, the one that had that video that we watched from Andrew. I like what he does. I've watched many of his episodes, but he connects this verse with when the Northern Kingdom went into captivity, many of the refugees came down to Jerusalem and the size of Jerusalem grew by three times. And they looked at archeological evidence. And so he connects this verse with talking about that. Okay.

So my mind was, is there anything in scripture that will tell us what he's talking about? And I'm not sure whether I, someone I saw this and when I was reading, it made sense to me. But it uses the same two Hebrew words, assemble and gather. But in this case, it gives us a marker on what is he talking about?

So Micah 4.6, which we'll study down the road, says, In that day, which is a pretty significant point, declares the Lord, I will assemble, same word as before, the lame, I will gather the outcasts, even those whom I have afflicted. So I'm going to make the point here, I think this is speaking about the same event which he talks about in 12.

This is this gathering, this assembling and gathering of the nation of Israel. And what's really cool about this is it uses this term in that day. And we've talked about this briefly before, but I believe that day speaks to the day of the Lord. And that's a huge help. It's a huge help in nailing down when verse 12, When is verse 12 occurring? What's the time period he's talking about?

And then I thought, it might be good to kind of define the day of the Lord. This is a tough one. You go back and forth, you look at different authors, they have different opinions. So I went to this gentleman named Pentecost, Dwight Pentecost. He has a book, it's an older book, but it's called Things to Come, about end times.

So this is his definition, which I like. And Bonnie helped me with the definition because it really wasn't complete and she wouldn't let me finish it until I got the last nail and did it correct. She said, Roger, it's got to be correct. And I agreed. So this is a Henderson modified version. Collectively. Okay. The day of the Lord, or that day, or I'd say even the day.

You know, if you look in the old Testament, I didn't do the, look in my computer Bible, but I bet you could find hundreds I might be in that vicinity of references to that day or the day and it always seems like it's focused on the day of the Lord and for Israel that's a significant time period but the broader concept of the day of the Lord which is it's not just a day as he points out it's rather it's a whole program and that program involves the tribulation period, the second advent, the millennial kingdom, And then if you look at 2 Peter 3.10, up into the passing of the heavens and the earth. So that is a long time period.

Maybe Andrew can help me out here. His dad, in one of his many charts, has a pictorial, if you will. He has the first coming of Christ, and he has the rapture, and then sometime after the rapture, the day of the Lord begins. We're a little uncertain of that. And he has a little pictorial on that, so maybe Andrew, when he teaches next time, can show us that. I was trying to find it, I couldn't find it easily. Go ahead.

I found that there's two days, the day of the Lord and the day of Christ. Normally the day of Christ refers to something good that's going to happen. The day of the Lord refers to a judgment. And of course the day of Christ as mentioned in Philippians, as far as the rapture is concerned. Right. But the day of the Lord is judgment. Exactly. No, I agree with you. Roger? Go ahead.

Yeah, you know, having just recently finished all the minor prophets that are covered by J. Vernon McGee, he would agree completely with this definition. Good. It begins with the tribulation and goes entirely through the millennial age. I think that in general, and Jay Vernon, he doesn't walk on water, but I mean the idea of this definition is agreed upon by many, I think. Good, good.

And I actually agree with what Brother Hal talked to. I didn't, but the thing is, Pentecost for some reason, he stopped at the millennial age. And then I said, well, well, Bonnie, I could just tell people that it's not complete. Just no, Roger, you've got to put the rest of it in there. So after a A long discussion we had. I put in. Anyway, it's good to have your wife involved with you. Actually, it's wonderful because that's the opinion you have to listen to. And it's a good opinion. Most of the time. Most of the time. Right. OK. All right. OK.

Any other thoughts on this definition? I don't want to get too far off, but it's important as we go through, I think the day of the Lord will show up, or the day, or that day will show up quite a bit as we go through here. Was there a question? Roger, you say it passes on into the heavens and the earth, but at the end of the millennium you have the great white throne judgment, and that's the end of that judgment, and then eternity starts.

But if you look at what kind of hung us up a little bit, 2 Peter 3.10 actually says, the day of the Lord, you know, as a thief in the knife it says.

If you read, we could just, would someone like to read 2 Peter 3.10? Let's just read that.

Because it mentions the day of the Lord. And that's what kind of got us thinking about making it complete. Whoever has that, mind reading that? But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. Right, right. So, in my mind, we should include that, because it talks about the day of the Lord there. And that's what makes it difficult, is it talks about events within this period. We have, you know, that's one of the events, is passing away of the heavens and the earth.

And just like we're going to see what we're saying in this verse is, he says, I'm going to assemble, based upon the previous chart here, back to Micah 4.6, in that day, declares the Lord, I will assemble the lame, gather the outcasts, even those whom I have afflicted. So I guess my contention is that this verse is speaking to that, that it's within the day of the Lord, this is going to happen. Yeah, Roger, do you see that second Peter verse fitting together with Revelation 20 at the end of the millennium when, you know, heaven and earth flee away and there's no place found for them? And, of course, we know that there's new heavens and a new earth, but are we essentially saying that the day of the Lord begins at the beginning of the tribulation, the 70th week of Daniel, and continues throughout the thousand-year reign, the millennium, and concludes with the passing away of the present heavens and earth.

Yeah, that's what people... I'm happy with that definition, the one I have up here. So that's the time period. It's a long time period, obviously, right? Lots of events, lots of events happening. And if you read different passages, it seems like he just gives you a... This happens in the Day of the Lord, that happens, and all these events occur. The Tribulation happens in the Day of the Lord, the Second Advent happens, the Millennial Age happens, so all those things happen in this long period called the Day of the Lord. Yeah. Okay, good. Okay, great. Okay, one additional point.

So he says, I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob, I will surely gather you, the remnant of Israel. So let's talk about, Pentecost had something to say about the remnant of Israel, which I like. And what he's pointing out here is that the waiting remnant at the second advent of Christ, and he has passages, and he lists some passages here, so I recommend looking at those. And many others indicate clearly that when the Lord returns to the earth, there will be a believing remnant in Israel awaiting his return. I kind of like that because, and then, I left some verses off, he actually has 144,000 that will believe. God is going to preserve this believing remnant, and they'll be there when the Lord returns.

Okay. Say, Roger? Go ahead. I noticed that, getting back to Micah 2.12. Okay.

I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob. I think this is bringing all of Israel back, but then I will share together a remnant of Israel. So he's going to bring back all of Israel, and out of all of Israel, there will be a remnant come out of there. That's right. And I've noticed throughout my study that a lot of times when they refer to Jacob, we're referring to a people that are opposed to God. And when they refer to Israel, the speaker is referring to to people that are for God. Okay, that's good. That's good.

But what we're going to see here, I have some verses that talk about the remnant. Let's look at, here's some verses that will speak to that here. So here's, I'll just put them all up. Here's four verses that, maybe there might be one more. So I did a word search.

I said, well, how many times does a remnant or the remnant, and two of them have the remnant of Jacob, which I thought was kind of interesting. And this is, I'm not sure this is in conflict to what you said, but let's just look at these. The first one is Micah 4, 7.

I will make the lame a remnant, and the outcasts a strong nation, and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion from now on and forever. Okay? The next one, the next two talk about the remnant of Jacob. Wow, he just talked about the remnant of Israel, but now he's going, what's the difference between the remnant of Israel and the remnant of Jacob? I'm not sure I have a no at the moment, but then the remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples like the dew from the Lord, like showers of vegetation, which do not wait for man or delay for the sons of men. Then again in the next verse down from that, the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among the many peoples like a lion. This is really wild, like a lion among the beasts in the forest, like young lion flocks of sheep. which, if he passes through, tramples down and tears, there is none to rescue. So we'll have a chance to look at these in more detail when we get there. And the last one is just a beautiful one, which will be way toward the end here.

Who is like a God like you, who pardons iniquity, passes over the rebellious acts of the remnant of his possession? Notice how the remnant is a personal to him. That's kind of interesting. He does not retain his anger forever, but he delights in his unchanging love.

So remnant shows up quite a bit in Micah. There might be one more verse I don't have in here. So we've seen the majority of the verses about the remnant. So we have the remnant of Israel, the remnant of Jacob. So I didn't come away with any conclusions about other than the fact that there is a remnant and he speaks of it in terms of Israel and Jacob. So I don't know if that helps or hurts I think actually we're going to have a chance to think about this when we get to chapter 4 and chapter 5 a lot more.

Well, Roger? Go ahead. Doesn't scripture indicate that the remnant would be a certain number of members from each tribe? Right. Well, definitely as far as 144,000, right? Right. So that would relate to the entire nation of Israel. So maybe we need to just interpret this in context. The remnant will be a believing group of Jews, right? Exactly. no question, they carry through the tribulation period and are sustained through that period. And I like what you said earlier, Israel's the entire nation, not just the remnant. So we can divide them well here. But why it says a remnant of Jacob, are we relating to the total country of Israel there and in other places?

So anyway, I... That's one of the challenging points here. Because he uses Jacob and Israel somewhat interchangeably makes it tough and I at the moment don't have a clear view of this but it is interesting that in terms of the remnant so something you know something to ponder as we get into chapters four and five and into seven too.

Okay so that's going to finish the A part of this verse so now the B part okay the B part starts I will put them together so now this is cool now he's going to talk about I will put them together like sheep in the fold Okay, so let's think about that for a second. I'll put so actually it our sheep because of its excellent pastures. But if you look back, I look I had a couple of verses that kind of talked about Okay. Okay, just a second here. You guys see that there? Okay. So, 1714... Right guys, sorry. I don't see the slide.

Shepherd your people with your scepter, the flock of your possessions, which dwells by itself in the woodlands in the midst of a fruitful land. through full field, excuse me. 12b, I'll put them together like sheep in the fold. So a couple of verses about, you know, how the Lord is, he's shepherding the flock.

So at this point, I didn't have much more to say about this verse. I was going to go on to kind of the next part of it here. And some of these are tough, you know, you know, the way, you know, in the New Testament, the way I study is I'll look for repeating pattern of words and, you know, does this word occur again? This part is not quite as fruitful, so it makes it a bit challenging sometimes. Okay, so let's go on to the next chart.

Hey Roger, I had a quick comment on sheep in the fold. Okay, good. I was a little confused by this phrase because sheep, when they're content, are very quiet. um sheep on you know on pasture as it talks about they're very very quiet and then but he compares that to being noisy with men and i thought well what does that mean and i realized well people when they're happy are usually quite loud uh right so contented sheep are quiet, but happy and contented people are quite noisy in their joyfulness. That's good. That's good, Miles. I'm sure we never would have had that view without your input. That's incredible.

Okay, that's neat. I hear sheep, you know, at least on TV and stuff like that, or movies, they go ba-ha-ha, a few of that, but that's about all I hear, right? Yeah, they sure can be loud. They can be deafening. Okay. Like a true farmer, Miles. That tends to be when they're upset about something. Yeah, they're irritated. They need the mouse to go to the next slide.

Okay, I was going to see if I can... Do I have it on here? Okay, thank you. Actually, for some reason, I have a hard time trying here. It doesn't like... Okay, now let's see if this works. Yeah, never mind. There's a nip. Anyway, okay. So the middle part of the verse, I'm good. Thanks, Bill.

The middle part of the verse, like a flock in the midst of its pasture, they will be noisy. So I like the Amplified. It's like a sheep in a fold, like a flock in the midst of their pasture. So it's like there's a fold in a pasture going on here, and the Amplified kind of brings that out. And it says, they, the foal and the pasture shall swarm with men and hum with much noise. So that kind of fits what Miles thought. You know, we, when we're, you know, we're noisy, right? So that's, that's kind of the rendering from the Amplified there. Okay.

So then I had a couple of comments from Constable here. He says, and so back to the point where we're saying that this verse 12 is speaking to the time of the regathering of Israel. And he says, this picture is the regathering of the Israelites in the promised land, which is similar to an island in the world. The temple will be full of noise and people because it would be a time and place of great rejoicing, like the city of Jerusalem was during one of Israel's many annual feasts.

Okay. All right, so I think that's, yeah, at this point we're ready to go to verse 13. Any last thoughts about 12? Like I said, it was, you know, these verses are difficult in many ways because you would like to find other phrases, other times that you would talk about some of these events, but this seems to be, you know, the best we have right now. Okay, so let's go on to 13 then.

And this intro is a really cool thing. The breaker goes up before them. So the breaker is literally the word, the Hebrew word is the one that breaks through is a literal translation. The one that breaks through goes before them. And if you look this word, you guys are familiar when Moses was commanding the children of Israel not to go up the Mount Sinai. He says, if you do, you may die. And actually the end of Exodus 19.22b it says, the Lord, using the same word, will break out against them. So a different context, different idea, but the same Hebrew word. So it's used a few times, like in this context, breaking out against something. But in this context, it's used in a really interesting way. So who is the breaker?

Jesus Christ. Amen. I don't think there's any doubt about that. Just by the very context of this verse we see that. So basically this is from, I believe, Feinberg. This is none other than the Messiah of Israel who breaks down every obstacle in the path of his people. So Feinberg kind of talks about two different things.

And this is a book that I kind of got, you know, Andrew kind of got me started on. And it's available, actually, it's free. You know, a lot of these books have been, this is a book from the 40s or something like that, 50s. So they've gone past their, what's the right word, copyright date. So it's available public domain. So I have an electronic copy. Be happy to send it to somebody if they want that. Or I actually ordered the hardbound for $10. So anyway, it's out there.

And it's about all the minor prophets. So what Feinberg points out, in the past he went before them when he went out of Egypt. So here's a cool verse in Exodus 13, 21. The Lord was going before them, saying he's going before them in a pillar of cloud by day to lead them on the way, and a pillar of cloud by night to give them light that they might travel by day and by night. So the Lord is going before them. So that's in the past. And another event in the past is talked about in Deuteronomy. And this is when they're going into the promised land.

And he says, the Lord, your God, who goes before you. So that was easy to search. And here, once again, we're searching or trying to find common phraseology in scripture. Many times helps you to understand things. And this is the Lord your God goes before you. will himself fight on your behalf, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes. Roger? Go ahead.

So is this a theophany? Theophany. Remind me of a theophany, Bob. I don't know why my mind went blank here all of a sudden. I see what you're saying. Remind me of a theophany, Bob. Is this the pre- New Testament appearance of Christ at times throughout the Old Testament to expect carrying out this action. I hadn't thought about that, actually. I don't know.

Roger, I think this is talking about the end of the tribulation when all of Israel, who are right now in exile, will be gathered back together again. Okay, well now, let's just distinguish. Okay, obviously the verse 13, I agree with you. But the verses I'm quoting here from Deuteronomy right before they're going into the... Oh, yes. Yeah, okay. I was getting a little... Okay, we're good. Amen about the verse we're studying is about the... It's about the tribulation period. But this verse here, what I was trying to do, I was trying to show other occurrences of the phraseology.

And the point was that it's showing that this guy, this person, who's the Lord Jesus Christ, the breaker is doing this, he did this in Egypt. He did this before they went into the Promised Land. And that's what 33 is about. It goes before you on your way to seek out a place for you to encamp. And he actually kind of refers back to the Exodus.

In the fire by day and the cloud by night to show the way in which you should go. So those couple of verses and then let's get down to in the future. And here's what you're talking about Bob. Speaking to our verse. The Lord will go before them in the coming day and he will be at the head of them. So this brings up a whole cool thing about the Lord and some of his characteristics. and as being the head. And this verse here, in the future, but you will not go out in haste, nor will you go as a fugitive, for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your, actually He's before you and behind you, and be your rear guard.

I kind of like that. And then, okay. So now we have the phrase that follows that, the breaker goes before them, They break out passing through the gate and go out by it. Boy, that was challenging. I could not find anything directly kind of stating that in other places easily. So, a couple of, you know, I had a couple of comments from Kosovo here on this. And this is just kind of his, you know, his view.

As a shepherd breaks through the obstacles and barriers to lead his sheep in the pleasant pasture, so Israel, good shepherd, will clear the way for his sheep to return to the land. That's certainly true. And here's a psalm that kind of speaks, this is back to the wilderness journey.

But he led them forth, his own people. It's a kind of idea he lead them. He led them forth, his own people, like sheep, and guided them into the wilderness like a flock. He led them safely, so that they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.

So speaking of the Exodus there. Okay. So like I said, it was challenging to find. I was looking for, can I find this idea of breaking out and, you know, with the Lord and that kind of stuff. I couldn't find that easily. So, and then let's get down to the last part. So their King goes on, and this is pretty cool. This was pretty rich here once I got going. So their King, I was surprised they didn't capitalize King.

So their King goes on before them and the Lord at their head. Israel, and this is from Pentecost, will become the subject of Israel will become the subjects of the king's reign. He offers these verses Isaiah 33 22 for the Lord is our judge the Lord is law the lawgiver the Lord is our king he will save us just some really cool verses Isaiah 44 6 thus says the Lord the king of Israel and his Redeemer The Lord of hosts, I am the first, I am the last, there is no God beside me. Then Jeremiah, behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David's righteous branch, and he will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. So pretty amazing.

Just think about what was the charge? They put on a correct charge. They didn't like it. You're a king of the Jews, Christ? He's the king of the Jews. They didn't like that. They didn't want him to be king. I'm sorry. So this is pretty cool. So the king goes before them. He's a rightful king. Could that be the one with, it's not capitalized, could that be David then? Could that be King David? Maybe. I don't know. Well, now remember we're speaking of, you know, this verse 12 and 13 are really, I think, are, you know, I agree. Okay. Roger? Sure.

Go ahead. As opposed to our covenant theologian buddies, Christ is not the king right now. He will not become king until the millennium. Amen. No, I agree with you. I agree. But the picture for Israel, isn't that a cool picture for Israel? He is their king. He always will be their king. Never him.

But you're right. Yes. You're right. Roger. Here, go ahead. Just a brief comment here. Notice the word LORD is L-O-R-D capitalized. The translation from the Hebrew of Yahweh. Exactly. Exactly. I thought that was neat. I am that I am. I am that I am. That's great.

No, thank you, Roy. I didn't spend a lot of time on that, but you're absolutely right. When that's, you know, in this translation, this is New American Standard, when they have all, you know, block caps, it's usually Yahweh. Yahweh. Good. That's great, Roy. Thanks. And then, okay, here's just a quick Summary I like from Feinberg.

Three times in this verse, verse 13, we have the blessed assurance that He went before them when they went out of Egypt. He, the Lord, will go before them in the coming day. He will be at their head. A trifecta of a blessedness for, you know. He went before them when they were in Egypt, the nation of Israel. He is the Lord that will go before them in the coming day. and he is what will be up their head. And then at the very last here I just have a few more comments.

Most from Feinberg and Makonsky. I'm not sure how to pronounce it. Makonsky. Makonsky. He's actually, that's quoted by Constable. The first couple ones here. He is seen here in a three-fold fullness for Jesus Christ, the Breaker, the King, and Jehovah, or Yahweh. And actually what he should have here, I should have corrected that, And based upon Roy's comment, that should be Yahweh. Jehovah is kind of the less emphatic name, wasn't that the name that, I'm right about that, isn't that the name they wanted to put in place of Yahweh, they wanted to pronounce it? Don't take me as exacting on that, but I think it should say Raker, King, and Yahweh. I would be happier with that.

Okay, no one will be able to hinder his restoration for the work of their promised Messiah will be effective on their behalf. All Israel's blessings for all time are inseparably bound up with the blessed one, the blessed one of the Lord, the Lord Christ.

And a couple of points, and this is just what I was talking about earlier. This is where people try to take, especially 12, they'll try to take 12 and they'll try to say, well 12 is being fulfilled either in the time when the Northern Kingdom went into captivity, or they'll try to say it's being fulfilled now in the current nation of Israel.

And I'm hopefully convinced that that's not the case. From the text we can see that it's happening right now. He just basically says, if you take this verse in isolation, and that's just what this guy on YouTube did, he said, I like the guy a lot, he said, here we have archaeological evidence, and he says, Look at Jerusalem, it expanded three times. All these people from the northern kingdom came down and went there. Look at verse 12, that's what it says it did. And I said, hmm, interesting. That's what got me going. I said, no, I don't know about that.

But, and I like this last bit, but this is an adequate view of the broad background of Micah's concept of the future. And Micah's talking about, you know, God's whole plan of salvation for Israel. Talking about their future plans, including what he's going to do in the tribulation period, Millennial Kingdom. So he has a much broader view than just the near times of going into captivity and then returning from captivity.

So, I don't know, that was, those are cool verses, but I find it a lot more challenging, I know all the teachers have, a lot more challenging in Micah. So, any other thoughts? Roger? Go ahead. Scripture is not going to be fulfilled until after the rapture, but there are trends going on. I agree. By starting in 1948. No, I'm not saying that's not true. Don't get me wrong.

And there are more Jews living in Israel now than there ever have been since before going to Babylon. So there are trends. Now that doesn't mean Christ is going to come back next year. He may not come back for a hundred years. But we certainly do see great trends with Israel today. Well, I'm amazed at how Israel, even in their unbelief, is being preserved. I mean, you look at these wars. Look at the number of missiles that were shot at Israel. Any normal country would have been done in and blowing up in history, but not Israel. You think, wow, maybe God's preserving them. There's one other comment that really surprised me.

There's all kinds of different titles for Christ. He's the Lamb of God. He's the Messiah. He's the Bread of Life. He's the Good Shepherd. He's the Lord. He's the Savior. He's Emmanuel. He's the Redeemer. He's the King of the Jews. He's the Prince of Peace. He's the Word. He's the Light of the World. He's the Son of God. He's the Man of Sorrows. He's the Cornerstone. He's the Vine.

And He could be a dozen more things, but I never realized until this study that He's the Breaker. Isn't that neat? I'm with you on that. Until I studied my God, I had not realized that term for our Savior. And I thought, you know, it's a blessing to see the multitude of names for Christ just kind of boggles your mind. Because you don't realize the completeness of our Savior, what He does. And it takes all these names to describe totally who He is.

No, I agree with you. I mean, it's been a blessing just to realize He's the breaker. And you think, Lord Jesus Christ is a breaker? What does that mean? Read the text. Go ahead. Hey, and could the breaker be a military term, too? If you think about it, when an army, let's say, let's say the United States, they send in B-1 bombers and F-16s to break things, take out anti-aircraft missile, break things before they send in an army. Right. And that's what you do in war. You break things and then you go in. Just military. Whenever I think of Christ and the breaker, I think of him coming in with a sledgehammer. He's a George Patton. God is in control. He's in control of everything. Amen. That's great. Right.

Oh, and it's about to get interesting. It's about to get interesting because Syria just fell yesterday or within the next couple of days. You don't have to wait too long. It's good for Israel, but in our time, you don't have to wait too long until something more incredible happens, right?

So, well, thanks guys. It was great. I think all the teachers are really, we're learning a lot through Micah. Well, thanks Bob for challenging those things. going into Micah. It's been great. Yeah, well, good. We're blessed. Thank you. Amen. Okay, let's close in prayer then. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you so much, Lord. We thank you for your word, Father.

We thank you that we look at your word, Father, and we find a little tiny book called Micah, one of the twelve minor prophets, as we call them, Lord. But you're there, Lord, in the midst of all that. You're the breaker that goes before your people. And you're our Savior, our Lord, and we thank you for how you direct us in the path we should go. In Christ's name, amen.