Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
God's people overcome their adversaries in this verse, with their hand lifted up upon them and all their enemies cut off and brought to an end. The verse stands in Micah's fourth and fifth chapters, which contain definite prophecies about Jesus' birth. Its particular application beyond that setting is left unspecified.
Read 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 antagonistic to God. That power begins at the time the kingdom was taken away from Judah. It begins when Judah went into captivity to Babylon.
God's people overcome their adversaries in this verse, with their hand lifted up upon them and all their enemies cut off and brought to an end. The verse stands in Micah's fourth and fifth chapters, which contain definite prophecies about Jesus' birth. Its particular application beyond that setting is left unspecified.
Read 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 antagonistic to God. That power begins at the time the kingdom was taken away from Judah. It begins when Judah went into captivity to Babylon.