Micah 4:2

"And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem."

"Many nations ..." This has been gloriously fulfilled throughout the Christian dispensation by the hundreds of millions of souls all over the planet Earth who have found in Jesus Christ their "all in all" and who look to him only for salvation and eternal life. One cannot help but wonder if the thought ever enters the minds of those who attribute this chapter to an imposter as to how such a rascal ever came up with so significant and beautiful a truth as this!

"Mountain of Jehovah ... God of the house of Jacob ..." These expressions were identified with the old Israel; but their spiritual import belongs altogether to the new Israel of God in Christ.

The contrast between "many nations" here and the single nation of secular Israel who constituted the ancient chosen people, absolutely requires that the passage be applied to a new era and a new Israel composed not merely of one race, but of all races, not of one nation alone, but of all the multiplied nations of the world.

"For out of Zion shall go forth the law ..." "These words are of the prophet Micah, not the conclusion of the nations."[11] A number of very significant facts are inherent in this divine word. (1) "The gospel would spring from Jerusalem, where Christ exercised his ministry, died, rose again from the dead, and from whence he commanded his disciples that `repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.'"[12] (2) The gospel was not for the purpose of destroying the law of Moses, but for the sake of fulfilling it. The righteousness of Christ himself consisted, at least in part, of his perfect obedience to the ancient Law; and as Christ's righteousness is that alone which redeems men now, the salvation of every man is surely, thereby, related to it. (3) Note that it will be a law that will go forth from Jerusalem in the new dispensation, confirming exactly what is reiterated again, and again by the sacred writers of the New Testament who referred to the gospel as "the precious law of liberty" (James 2:12), "the perfect law" (James 1:26), "the royal law" (James 2:8), "the law of faith" (Romans 3:27), "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:2), "the law of Christ" (Galatians 6:2), and "not being without law ... but under law to Christ" (1 Corinthians 9:21). No greater misunderstanding prevails upon earth today than the notion that the grace of God has freed God's children from all law. They were, of course, freed from the law of Moses; but they are "under law to Christ."