The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:1-5
§ 4. The prophet suddenly announces the future glory of the temple mountain and the ideal happiness of the people read more
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Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:1-8
The Messiah's spiritual kingdom. These verses call us away from the contemplation of sin and its effects as set forth in the previous chapters, and hid us turn our thoughts to the golden age that rose before the prophet's vision, and animated and cheered his heart in the dark days in which his lot was cast. We live in happier times. Much that was to him only distant expectation has become fully realized by us. "Blessed are our eyes," etc. ( Matthew 13:16 , Matthew 13:17 ). Still,... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:2
The prophet further explains his last statement The new revelation shall be so conspicuous and so attractive that all men shall hear, and desire to become partakers of it. Many nations. In contrast to the one nation from whom the Leer emanated. They shall exhort one another to resort to the great religious metropolis, i.e. to the true religion. Of his ways. His plans in the moral government of the world, and the way in which he would have men walk in order to please him. For the law ( ... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:2
Enthusiasm in religion. I. THE SPIRIT OF ENTHUSIASM IN RELATION TO RELIGION IS EMINENTLY DESIRABLE . It is SO : 1 . As indicating the possession of loving devotion to God. 2 . As prompting to endeavour with a view to the spiritual well being of others. ( Micah 4:2 , "Come, and let us go up," etc.; John 1:41 , John 1:42 , John 1:45 , John 1:46 ; John 4:28 , John 4:29 .) 3 . As being contagious. For, all aglow themselves, they will be... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:2
Higher spiritual life. "Let us go up to the mountain of the Lord." We are too prone to be content with living at a very low level of spiritual attainment. We need to hear and heed the voice of God's own Spirit addressing us through our own consciences, and through all the holy influences encompassing us, and bidding us leave the ordinary plain on which we have been content to dwell, and to ascend the mount of the Lord, and thus to rise to the nobler heights of spiritual privilege and... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:2
God our Teacher. "And he will teach us of his ways." How? I. BY WORKING IN OUR HEARTS THE SPIRIT OF TRUE HUMILITY . There must be humility in order that we may apprehend spiritual things. We must become "as little children" would we enter the kingdom of truth. And this disposition is fitting; for what, after all, are we but children in relation to such knowledge? "Embryos we are all." Too many, forgetting this, and cherishing the opposite spirit, misapprehend or... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:2
Obedience to the Divine will. "And we will walk in his paths." The idea is—living obediently to the will of God. Observe— I. GOD HAS REVEALED HIS WILL UNTO MAN . "The Law has gone forth," etc. ( Micah 4:8 ). The revelation of what God requires of his creatures has been given II. TO OBEY THAT WILL INDICATES THE POSSESSION OF TRUE PIETY . Sincere piety does not consist in outward observances, although these have so high a value that we are not to... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:3
The effect of this reception of true religion shall be universal peace. He shall judge among many people; or better, between many peoples . The Lord shall be the Arbiter to whom all disputes shall be referred, as in the next clause. When his reign is acknowledged and his Law obeyed, all war and all causes of war shall cease. The gospel is a gospel of peace and love, and when "the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ" ( Revelation 11:15 ), peace and... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:3-4
The peaceable fruit of righteousness. The wonders of Micah's vision (verses 1 and 2) are not yet at an end. He sees a succession of the most improbable and incredible events, as the nations return from their pilgrimage to the new Mount Zion to their distant capitals and homesteads. With those distant and "strong" heathen nations there are associations of horror and dread in the minds of the Hebrews, especially of the godly among them. Illustrate this from what we know through Hebrew... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:1-4
The gospel age. "But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains," etc. "The last days" is an expression frequently used in the Old Testament. It points to the future, beginning with the Christian dispensation and running on to its close. It means the times of the Messiah. The patriarchal times had passed away, the Mosaic epoch was on the wane, and would soon vanish. The times of the Messiah, or "the... read more