Come, Let Us Go...

 Micah 4:1 It shall come to pass in the latter days
    that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and it shall be lifted up above the hills;
and peoples shall flow to it,
2     and many nations shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3 He shall judge between many peoples,
    and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war anymore;

Micah steps away from the current situation, with God's people facing judgment, to a future time when Jerusalem will be a place people from around the world come to hear from God and worship Him.  In the last chapter, the high places, including Jerusalem, would be laid low, but here it is exalted above all others.  Instead of Israel being a place where war was a constant, it will be the calming influence of the world.  There is hope, even in the midst of most terrible times. Let us go to the house of the LORD. It's the place you'll want to be.