Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of

redemption and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it

points to Jesus. Hey everybody welcome back to a year in the Bible with daily grace. My name is

Jenny and today we are concluding the book of Micah. Yesterday you met a man named Micah who was a prophet that lived

around the same time of Isaiah. In his book he warns the people of Judah that

if they do not turn from their wicked ways then God's wrath will be upon them.

Today we pick up in Micah chapter 4. In this chapter we see Micah shift from talking

about God's wrath to talking about hope. God was pleading through the Prophet Micah for his people to return to

him. God wants to be in relationship with his people. He loves them and cares for them and as they return to him

he will redeem and restore them. The Lord reveals he would one day lift Jerusalem up and allow people from across the globe to come there

to learn to walk in his ways. This is the foreshadowing of the new Jerusalem, our heavenly home. However, the Lord does not stop there with giving us glimpses

of our hope. In Chapter 5, Micah prophesied Christ's coming by saying that the Messiah would come from Bethlehem to deliver his people and shepherd the nation.

He says that this Messiah would be from ancient times and that he would stand and shepherd them in the

strength of the Lord. Chapter 5 also gives a description of how the faithful

remnant of Judah will be purified.

It is interesting to note that part of their purification

sounds a lot like a loss.

God promises to remove their horse, wreck their chariots, remove their cities, and tear down all of their

fortresses. He also promises to remove carved images and sacred pillars so that people will no longer

worship the work of their hands. This leads us into chapter 6 where God

brings a lawsuit against Judah. Now just to clarify this isn't a lawsuit in the way we think

about today. Rather this is God's explanation of all the things Judah has done wrong. This is a gift to us as modern day readers because it helps us understand God's heart, his justice, but also his love for his people. He explains that they continue to try to please

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