Micah 4:7

"And I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast off a strong nation: and Jehovah will reign over them in Mount Zion from henceforth even forever."

That portion of the old Israel which was "lame" and "cast off," as for example the hated and hunted minority in the times of Elijah, will become, through God's power, "the remnant," that is, the only part of old Israel that will partake of the everlasting kingdom in Christ. The nucleus of the New Israel of God would be precisely those persons in the old order who were disowned and cast out as evil by the Pharisees.

"Mount Zion ..." The only "Jerusalem" in this passage is that of the "new Jerusalem" which the apostle John saw descending out of heaven. There is nothing here about any construction of a secular monarchy in the literal Jerusalem. "It refers to the establishment of Christ's spiritual kingdom."[26]