Micah 1-4

“For now you will go out of the city … and go to Babylon. There you will be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you” (4:10). Micah prophesied that “Samaria and Jerusalem” (1:1) would be conquered and their people exiled. Kings, priests, and prophets had led the people astray, seeking power and wealth, not righteousness (ch 1-3). But Micah said that even in Babylon, God would not abandon His people. Israel’s enemies “do not understand His purpose” (4:12).

God’s purpose is always to redeem. Ephesians 1 says that His “kind intention,” through all history, is “the summing up of all things in Christ.”