The Mountain of the House

Micah 4:1

But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

Gill claims that this passage must be kept in connection with the preceding one and therefore teaches that, though Israel would be plowed under, yet God's mercy would move forward through a new and different avenue. He then draws a line from that claim to what in fact did happen; Israel became a land of desolation while Christianity progressed across Europe and to America.

Barnes writes, "God’s promises, goodness, truth, fail not. He withdraws His Presence from those who receive Him not, only to give Himself to those who will receive Him. Mercy is the sequel and end of chastisement. Micah then joins on this great prophecy of future mercy to the preceding woe, as its issue in the order of God’s Will."

Where God withdraws from one, He moves toward another. His mercy never fails and, if :

·       One person

·       One nation or

·       One generation

refuses His mercy, He has found others who will receive it.