Look Who's Coming

O. T. #2189  Look Who's Coming"

May 11, 2022

Micah 5

LET IT GLOW

My grandmother must have been quite a strong Christian lady. (She passed away 7 months before I was born.) She played the guitar and sang hymns on our local radio station, along with some of her children. If my aunts were a tenth of how she was, she was a pillar of faith in my dad's family. I am looking forward to sitting down and talking with Grandma Mary in heaven!

Micah was prophesying a promised kingdom, a promised deliverance, a promised conquest, and a promised King. The Babylonian siege of Jerusalem lay ahead. Babylon would take captive Zedekiah, the last king of Judah. His son's eyes would be put out, so this looked like the end of the Davidic lineage, but not so. (2 Kings 25:2) Zed was not in the direct line.

According to McGee, Jehoiachin was put on the throne, taken captive, as well as his family. He was installed as king of Jerusalem while in Babylon. He was of the Davidic lineage, so out of this line came a couple from Nazareth. Guess who.

Do we see how God preserved the lineage of David so He could fulfill His promise to David, that a King would reign on the throne forever? How exciting!

Do we realize that God has put us in our family because it is His will? Do we understand that we are important to our Everlasting Father? Don't say how insignificant you are, for God can use your family to share the gospel.

 

LET IT GROW

Who is Micah speaking of in verse 2?

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be Ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

Micah foretold of the birthplace of Jesus Christ, the Messiah and Savior to be born in Bethlehem, so God had to work on Caesar Augustus to call for a census. That meant Joseph, with Mary, had to travel from Nazareth, uphill to Jerusalem, and downhill 6 miles south there. It was because Joseph was of the house and lineage of David. Recall that David was from Bethlehem.

Now this prediction was about 700 years before it actually occurred. God had revealed it to Micah. What a privilege! Can we see the hand of God in the circumstances surrounding Jesus?

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. (Luke 2:11)

Friend, not only is your family lineage planned, but where you are born and live now. That ought to make us shout, Praise the Lord!

LET IT GO

Dear one, are you a part of the family of God? That family is the only one that will last throughout eternity!

Jesus came to provide eternal life for us, because we could not meet God's standard of perfection. Jesus knew no sin, the perfect Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.

It is by faith that we are saved, not of works, not of family name. Will you ask Jesus to be your Savior today, if you have not yet done so? Then we will meet in heaven one day.