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Through the message of the Messiah God offers His people hope for the future.
How does God’s message of the Messiah in the minor prophets offer us hope?
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The message of the Messiah in Hosea offers hope through reversal
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The message of the Messiah in Amos offers hope through restoration
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The message of the Messiah in Micah offers hope through security
Micah ministered just after Amos, from 750-700 BC.
His ministry was to both Isreal and Judah.
His primary message was that God judges and forgives sin.
His name means “Who is like Yahweh?”
He most likely ministered during the same time as Isaiah, Amos, and Hosea.
The structure of Micah is cyclical.
It is based on two themes that repeat themselves- judgment and salvation.
One of the ways Micah preaches the message of salvation is to highlight the coming Messiah.
In Micah’s day there was anything but peace and security.
Micah began his ministry around 750 B.C.
In 722 B.C. Assyrian conquered and exiled the nothern capital of Samaria.
During Micah’s ministry the Assyrian armies would have been roaming the country.
There was spiritual and political corruption and unrest.
It would have been a very fearful time to be a Jew.
In fact much of Micah’s message would only have added to that fear.
Before Micah preached about peace and security he first preached a message of sin and judgment.
In Micah 3:12 he prophesied that God would grind Jerusalem to nothing more than a pile of rubble!
Why did God prophesy such great destruction and judgement?
Because the sin of the people, especially the rulers, was very great.
“Micah compares these oppressors to cannibals who strip off the flesh of the poor and cook them in a pot.
Exploitation of the poor was the same as physical violence in God’s eyes because it deprived the poor of both their land and their livelihood.”
Fuhr, Al; Yates, Gary.
The Message of the Twelve (p.
193).
B&H Publishing Group.
Kindle Edition.
Yet, there God always preserved a small remnant who remained faithful to Him.
And God offers them hope for security in the coming Messiah.
A. Messiah was Israel's hope for security
There is coming a day when Messiah will establish His kingdom, and it will be a kingdom of great security!
In what way will his kingdom be secure?
Messiah’s kingdom will be greater than all other kingdoms!
Both physically (probably) and in terms of importance (significance).
Jerusalem will be the center of the entire world.
Nations will come to Jerusalem, to the throne of David, so that Messiah will teach them His ways and so that the nations will walk in His paths!
What a contrast to the kingdoms of earth today!
Illustration: Man going to a Pride parade in Washington state, and simply reading the bible.
Insulted, assaulted, bible kicked around on the ground and thrown in the toilet.
10 police officers showed up and arrested the preacher!
Folks we are strangers and exiles in this world.
We don’t belong.
The world hates us and ungodly people want to destroy us.
All those who live godly will suffer persecution.
But there is coming a day when Messiah will set up his kingdom.
It will be a secure kingdom and all the nations will travel to Jerusalem to learn his ways and walk in his paths!
For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the world of the Lord from Jerusalem!
Micah 4:3 (ESV)
3 He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away;
“He shall judge between many peoples and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away.”
We won’t need supreme courts, we won’t have to worry about the filibusterer being abolished, or who gets elected to congress.
Jesus will bring perfect justice and perfect judgement to the people.
He will decide disputes for the nations.
No need for litigation or prosecuting attorneys.
Jesus will reign in righteousness!
What security that will bring!
Isaiah 11:3–4 (ESV)
3 And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear, 4 but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
His justice will be so complete that nations will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
We won’t have to worry about the Putins starting WWIII, or Iraq developing nuclear weapons.
There will be worldwide, absolute peace because of Jesus!
This kind of security has been unknown in the history of the world.
The security that Jesus will bring will be greater in its extend (every nation on earth), and in its degree (all weapons of warfare will be repurposed, and nations will never learn war anymore!
No military, no weapons development- the arms race will be over, no thought of war at all!) When Messiah reigns and judges the earth there will be peace and security unlike anything we can begin to imagine.
But this kind of peace and security will only happen when Messiah comes.
Until that time Jesus told us what we can expect.
But when Jesus comes and establishes His kingdom that will all be gone!
What will the people of the nations do instead of warfare?
We will sit under our own vine and under our own fig tree.
We will not have to worry about food or our property being stolen.
There will be nothing on the entire earth that will make us afraid.
Micah brings us back to present day reality with this verse- right now all the people walk in the name of its god (humanism, secularism, individualism), but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.
We can look forward to the coming kingdom and focus on it, because when we do it effects our walk right now- and on into forever and ever.
The kingdom of Messiah will be forever and ever.
Peace, safety, security forever and ever, Amen!
Even for the most vulnerable of people!
Jesus will be our shepherd and we will dwell secure in his care forever.
Micah 5:4–5 (ESV)
4 And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.
And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.
5 And he shall be their peace.
B. Jesus is our hope for eternal security
As believers we too hope in Jesus.
He is our hope for eternal life, eternal security!
Your hope / your inheritance cannot perish, it cannot be defiled, and it will never fade away.
How do we know that?
Because it is being kept in heaven for you and it is being guarded by God’s power all the way to the end!
Here is our security!
We will reign with Jesus, with the Messiah, forever and ever!
Application: What is your hope?
What are you trusting in for security?
Is your hope in your bank account or your 401k?
Is it in your elected officials?
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