Micah of Old Saw Things of Today - God Knows All

    We trust that all things are known to and under the power of God our creator, and as Christians specifically, that He rules through His Son, Jesus Christ. Over the ages God has sent prophets to guide us and speak to us, and it would behoove us to listen to them, heed their words, follow their counsel. 

    Micah prophesied of the last days, which we are living in, that there will be signs or fulfillments of God's promises to His people. His people are those that believe in Him and try to obey Him, do their best to recognize His love, authority, and commands. Some people believe that God does not have organized or very organized faiths or structures that would follow His will. Others, like me, believe that He does authorize and organize His followers.

    Micah has some good foretelling of the "end times" in Chapter one.

    I will list some of them with my interpretations.

4 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

    Some people believe that "the mountain of the House of the Lord" is the temple. The temple of God in the past was established in various ways, including a mobile tent called the tabernacle of the Holies, that was maintained by the Twelve Tribes of Israel as they had come out of bondage in Egypt. These peoples settled the Holy Land of Palestine, where eventually the Temple of Solomon was built in the holy city of Jerusalem, followed by later edifices in the Temple of Zerubbabel and the rebuilt temple of Herod, the one that Jesus cleaned out of the money traders and sellers with a braided whip.

    Some believe that the "top of the mountains" in the last days, as Micah explained, could be Utah, where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been rooted since 1847. This Church and its people built temples that would fulfill the promises, covenants, and blessings of the ancient times of the Bible. Joseph Smith Junior, who was a contemporary of Abraham Lincoln, but dying younger in 1844, learned what was needed to build these modern day holy places, serving all the people, the covenant chosen of God. 

    I met a man who thought it was preposterous that Utah, in the United States, would be the place of God's choosing for the restoration and foundation of God's chosen peoples. Most people see the Latter-day Saints as fanciful and odd, or peculiar, even others go as far as to say that they are delusional or bad, sinful, error prone. By any definition or characterization, the Saints of this American Zion have some unusual and bold claims, but they believe that these are the will of the God of Heaven from long ago, going back to Adam and Eve. I am a part, and we believe that the temple of Salt Lake City and the others in Utah and surrounding the globe are the literal and spiritual fulfillments of these prophecies and words of Micah.

2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, 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 the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

    We, Latter-day Saints, believe that the nations are going to the "Mountain of the Lord", the restored temples of the Church of Jesus Christ, in Salt Lake City, Washington D.C., and across the earth. People of all nations.

3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

    The prophecies or predictions, promises of God or the Lord "rebuking nations from afar off", is open to interpretation. What does this mean? Are some countries or people converting to peaceful ways instead of the ways of war? has this, or is this prophecy coming true yet? Do we have to wait to the Millenium? The thousand years of peace promised in the scriptures, a time when there will be no more for so many generations?

4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.

    Has this happened? What does it mean? What are our "fig trees"? And the people will have no fear? When or what will this be? What will this look like?

5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.

   I know many people of many ages, backgrounds, who believe in this future utopia, a time or place of peace and in effect, heaven. Jewish, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus. We all have future hopes and visions. We all share these goals, even Karl Marx and all the Communists. Apparently Godless, they. But we all have the future hopes of Micah.

    Long live these words, and may they come to fruition!