Micah 4
Pray for World Peace!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, September 20.
The angelic host proclaimed a specific message that first Christmas morning, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased” (Luke 2:14). The first Christmas came with the promise of world peace through the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). Recently, I asked a friend of mine what he wanted for his birthday, and without hesitation he said, “world peace.” His answer reflects the heart of God. We deeply desire to experience the promise of world peace through the coming of the Immanuel child of Isaiah 7:14, fulfilled in Matthew 1:23. As a contemporary of Isaiah, Micah would have known these messianic prophecies, and, in Micah 4:1-4, the prophet declared world peace through God’s sovereign rule:
And it will come about in the last days that the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established as the chief of the mountains. It will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it. … Then they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they train for war. Each of them will sit under his vine and under his fig tree, with no one to make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
In the kingdom of God, military weapons are transformed into farming equipment – swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. Rather than men fighting one another, they will work together to steward creation, as God intended from the beginning (Genesis 1:26-28).
Seize the moment and pray for world peace, recognizing that the Prince of Peace will start by stewarding your heart as His throne, then, through you, He will bring peace to the nations as His peacemaker (Matthew 5:9; Romans 12:18; 2 Corinthians 5:17-20).
God bless you!
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