No Cavalry Needed

Micah 5:10 KJV

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:

That Micah chapter five is prophetic of Christ is obvious from verse two. What is not so obvious is that the remainder of the chapter provides a description of the early years of Christianity, complete with the Apostles[1] and the missionary success of those churches.

I am sure there is a message for the Jews in this chapter, but there is also a message Christians may take to heart. And one of them has to do with horses. God says he will cut off their horses and their chariots. Israel was instructed of the Lord not to assemble a cavalry of horses and chariots; an instruction Solomon ignored. The cavalry was a symbol of power without God. In effect if they had a cavalry they did not need to trust the Lord. For the Christian this translates into anything that we might place trust in rather than God. God's promise is to strip us from false hope. God's promise is to leave us with nowhere else to lean but upon Him.

And it is a good promise because no other source can possibly hold us up.

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[1] According to Jamieson Fausset and Brown, “Seven” expresses perfection; “seven and eight” is an idiom for a full and sufficient number.