And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:
Micah 5:11 belongs to a prophecy in which God brings judgment upon Israel because of its sins, and the destruction of cities and the throwing down of strongholds is given without further explanation of what that specific image signifies. It stands within Micah 4 and 5 among very definite prophecies concerning the birth of Jesus.
Together with Micah 4 and the birth of the Man-child in Revelation 12, Micah 5 shows that Babylon is the very beginning of the seven-headed church-and-state beast power. That beginning is dated from the time the kingdom was taken away from Judah and Judah went into captivity to Babylon.
Micah 5:11 belongs to a prophecy in which God brings judgment upon Israel because of its sins, and the destruction of cities and the throwing down of strongholds is given without further explanation of what that specific image signifies. It stands within Micah 4 and 5 among very definite prophecies concerning the birth of Jesus.
Together with Micah 4 and the birth of the Man-child in Revelation 12, Micah 5 shows that Babylon is the very beginning of the seven-headed church-and-state beast power. That beginning is dated from the time the kingdom was taken away from Judah and Judah went into captivity to Babylon.