How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Future glory because of past promises.

That's what we're learning about as our study in the Old

Testament book of Micah continues here on through the Bible. I'm Steve Schwetz, welcoming you aboard the

Bible bus. Our teacher, of course, is Dr. J. Vernon McGee, and we're learning about one of the most

remarkable prophecies in the Old Testament, that is, of the first coming of Christ in Micah 5, verses 1 and 2.

But first, here's an introduction by Dr. McGee recorded some years ago about the United States

and prophecy.

Before we get into our study proper, I want to give a preliminary study that ought to be

helpful to us in this section that we're coming through now

in Micah. We believe that by careful and considered interpretation of prophecy that conforms to a

systematic interpretation of all scripture, we can find an application of prophecy that is a warning to the United States.

It's not by some hairbrain superficial view or some wild-eyed sensational scheme of prophecy

designed to satisfy the curiosity of the many, and neither would it be an oversimplification

of prophecy. We believe but by a systematic interpretation, and we are prepared now to look

at the evidence that is a definite warning to our nation. The United States is not in prophecy. We want to repeat that again

and again. No scripture that speaks specifically of the United States. It's great distortions

have been made to come up with that interpretation, but no sound science of hermeneutics would permit that at all. And hermeneutics

is the science of the interpretation of the Bible. Now, God does judge all nations. They are

responsible to him. The scripture makes that very clear. He's the judge of all the earth, and he'll do right. Now,

he judged Egypt. He judged Babylon. He judged Edom. He judged Assyria. And he judged Greece, the

Gricot Macedonian Empire, and also the Roman Empire. And also he judged his own people, Israel and Judah. And we've

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