“There you will be rescued. There the LORD will redeem you”
This is from Micah 4:10. At Preachers’ Workshop, we embarked on a summer project, each of us picking a book of the Bible we’d study and present to the others briefly. I have chosen Micah — and this verse has arrested me.
It is surprising, to say the least. “There” is the shock factor. For it refers to the captivity in Babylon, where the Lord will send his people for their sins (see the first three chapters). And yet this will not only mean judgment for them, but salvation through that judgment (one of the themes running through the Bible, which we are studying with Matt and Rich). It is the same message that Jeremiah (Micah’s contemporary) preached, and got him into hot water. “Bow your neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and you will live.” (Jeremiah 27:12).
God will not be mocked; His justice is swift and uncompromising, however false prophets in Micah’s day and ours want to play God’s love against it. “Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.” (1 Corinthians 13:13)
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