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The Birthing of Zion’s Sons
Micah then goes on to explain that the Messiah will have two Comings,
and that he will not return the second time until AFTER the Bride of
Christ has “given birth.” “But you Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you
are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth
to Me the one to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth (two comings)
have been from of old, from everlasting (they are established).
Therefore He (the Messiah) shall give them up (by returning to heaven
after his earthly ministry), until the time that she who is in labor (the
Bride of Christ) has given birth; Then the remnant of His brethren
shall return to the children of Israel. And he (Jesus) shall stand and
feed His flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of
the Lord His God. And they shall abide, For now He shall be great to
the ends of the earth; And in this One shall be peace.” (Micah 5:2-5)
Jesus is waiting in heaven to return, but He will not return until the
Bride of Christ has given birth to His life and character through mature
sons. Only after this birth can we begin to start looking for any rapture
or physical return of the man Christ Jesus. Only after this birth will the
nation of Israel begin to be provoked to jealousy and saved. Only after
this birth can we look for the promise of a restored government of God
on the earth. It requires some effort on our part, some pain, some labor,
some spiritual travail. Life comes from travail. Jesus travailed, Paul
travailed, the Early Church travailed, and the Bride of Christ will also
travail to bring forth the "sons of Zion" in our generation.
I have yearned so much just to spend time in the Presence of the Lord
and behold His beauty! Yet at the same time, I have desired so much
for others to see His grace and love that I must get out and show others
His goodness! The tension between these two desires is what has
caused a spiritual travail to begin. The pain, travail and labor are not
fun. But we have a great hope and joy set before us. Jesus said, “a
woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come;
but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer
remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into
the world” (John 16:21). Let’s be like Jesus, and for the joy that is set
before us “endure the cross.” Then, through the power of the Cross,
we can take part in birthing His life and character to be seen by the
whole world as a witness and then Jesus will return in glory: “Christ in
you, the hope of glory.” (Col. 1:27)
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