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Retrobyter -> RE: The Horn Iron (9/7/2008 8:31:02 PM)
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Shalom, friends.
I think you would get a better perspective on Scriptures like these if you had a better handle on the Jewish roots of your Christianity.
The daughter of Zion (bat Tsiown) is a female inhabitant of the mountain range of Tsiown in the Yerushalayim area of Isra'el. It's just another way of talking to the female inhabitants of Yerushalayim and the surrounding countryside.
Without a doubt, the passage in Micah 4:10-7:20 is prophetic about a time that has not completely been fulfilled, yet.
Micah 4:10-5:3
10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
5:1 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
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.
3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
KJV
So, what's being said? Simply this: Although Isra'el, particularly Y'hudah (Judah), was about to go into captivity to Bavel (Babylon) but that they would be preserved and ultimately brought back to the land. Remembering that chapter numbers and verse numbers were not in the original text, notice in "verse 2 of the next chapter" we have a prophecy of the first advent of Yeshua` (Jesus) with the warning that He would reject them until a future date at which time He brings back the remnant of His brothers. The rest of chapter 5 and chapters 6 & 7 go on to describe a glorious future for Isra'el.
They were being promised that, although they were about to go into captivity, God would bring them home again, ultimately plundering their captors. Although their king would be killed, YHVH's Messiah would be his replacement and that He would come from Beit-Lechem Efratah, the Bethlehem ("House of Bread") Ephrathah ("Fruitfulness") in the land of Y'hudah (Judah) where Rachel gave birth to Bin-Yamin (Benjamin), dying in childbirth.
Therefore, verse 13 is reminiscent of the prophecy of Psalm 2:
Ps 2:6-9
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
KJV
These verses will all be fulfilled in the future when God's Messiah Yeshua` comes again as the victorious King of Isra'el.
Retrobyter
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