Micah 7:14
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Micah 7 belongs to a chapter that is a striking prophecy of last-day conditions. In verse 14 God is seen as the Great Shepherd feeding His people, who are the sheep of His hand and the flock of His heritage, needing and receiving His tender care and provision. They dwell apart as they are shepherded and provided for, and their feeding recalls abundance.
To dwell solitarily in the wood is to dwell apart in the wilderness. To be let to feed in Carmel, Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old is to be brought back to the abundance of former days. The prophecy applies to the recovery of the remnant from captivity after a preparatory wilderness period. In that wilderness-like experience God tests His people before their final inheritance, in a pattern like the exodus from Egypt. In that recovery God shows marvelous things, according to the days of Israel's coming out of Egypt.
The promised feeding comes in the last days when every earthly support is taken away. Then the church stands forsaken of all like Christ, under reproach for small numbers, poverty and insignificance, and under God's correcting reproof. That very forsaken day is a day for building walls. The feeding is God's care and restoration of the humbled remnant who wait for Him.