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Pamphlet 1656
Micah kc 14-2
I've
got news for you! Good News! God's elect are busy right now "marching and
blowing the trumpets" and we are soon taking over "Babylon the Great, that
great city, the Mother of Harlots (Rev. 17:5, 18)", for we are going to
bring her walls down and the mountain of the house of Lord shall be established
in her stead. Yes, at the sound of the last
trump! Looks like the blowing of the trumpet by the priests, God's elect,
does some good, doesn't it? Here is the shout at the last trump (i.e. the
7th trump just as it was in the time of Joshua) when Christ returns.
Micah 7:10
Then she that
is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me,
Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be
trodden down as the mire of the streets.
The "she" who is our enemy refers to Assyria (vs. 12). In
other words, the whole corrupt one world political, economic and religious
system headed by the false-christ is coming down! And what is so amazing
is that you can read about and preview the details of that great fall,
i.e. of Babylon the Great, in the 18th chapter of Revelation. Actually,
what is even more amazing and wonderful is that God's elect have a part
in bringing her down!
Micah
7:11
In the day that
thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
In the day (of calamity) your walls (the walls of that great
city on Mount Zion) shall be built (in place of the walls of Babylon the
Great which are coming down), when the "decree", which is the appointed
time of our captivity, is far removed, as in removed forever!
"The day comes for your walls to be mended, the
day for frontiers to be far extended, the day when folk come home to you
from Assyria and from Egypt even to the Euphrates, from sea to sea, from
range to range, though all the world lies desolate in retribution for its
pagan ways." (Moffat)
By the way, those spiritual "walls" of that great city will
come down after the same manner as the physical walls of Jericho came tumbling
down. In other words, when the seven priests (God's 7,000 elect,
the seven shepherds) march around the city and "blow the trumpets",
if you understand the analogy.
Joshua
6:13
And seven
priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark
of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets:
and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark
of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
Now notice what happens at that day, the last day, at the
sound of the 7th Trump:
Joshua
6:16
And it came
to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua
said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you
the city.
Joshua is the same as "Yeshua" in Hebrew and he was a type
of the savior leading his people into the promised land just as Jesus leads
us.
Joshua
6:20
So the people
shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when
the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the
people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat,
so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him,
and they
took the city.
I've got news for you! Good News! God's elect are busy right
now "marching and blowing the trumpets" and we are soon taking over "Babylon
the Great, that great city, the Mother of Harlots (Rev. 17:5, 18)", for
we are going to bring her walls down and the mountain of the house of Lord
shall be established in her stead. Yes, at the sound of the last trump!
Looks like the blowing of the trumpet by the priests, God's elect, does
some good, doesn't it? Here is the shout at the last trump (i.e. the 7th
trump just as it was in the time of Joshua) when Christ returns.
1 Thes.
4:16
For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and
the dead in Christ shall rise first:
The Assyrian and his beastly friends are not going to like
the shout of God's people, are they?
Let us return to Micah.
Micah
7:12
In that day
also he* shall come [read "come home"]even to thee from Assyria, and from
the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from
sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
* This should read "they" as is "thine exiles". See the note
on this verse in the Companion Bible.
This is the future gathering back of His people, those
"exiles" taken in the great captivity of the Assyrian (the false-christ)
in these last days. They shall come out of the fortified cities, i.e. bondage
also symbolized by Egypt, and gather unto Him. That is really good news!
But first (which is what "notwithstanding" means in the next verse) the
desolator, that death angel (of spiritual death) shall come upon the land
and make it spiritually desolate. Do you remember "Why" from the very first
chapter of this great Book of Micah?
[13]
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein,
for
the fruit of their doings.
The fruit of their doings is all the injustice and perversion,
etc., which we have read about in this book of Micah. It is the fruit,
very bad fruit, which is produced by straying from the Word of God and
following the traditions of men, which is the "Sin of Samaria", remember?
Micah
1:5
For the transgression
of Jacob is all this, and for 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?
The corruption and profaning of the high places all stem
from that "woman", the mother of harlots, which is that great city of Jerusalem.
Rev. 17:18 "And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth
over the kings of the earth."
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