CLAIM: Messiah will reign and shepherd His people after the Antichrist has been defeated. The ruler who comes out of Bethlehem is Jesus (v. 2). Jesus’ deliverance of Israel is also described. There was a partial application of this defeat in Micah’s day (vv. 5-6), when the Assyrian king Sennacherib was defeated by the angel of the Lord at Jerusalem (Isa. 37:36). However, the “cutting off” of Israel’s enemies, wherever the Jews are scattered in the nations, will occur at the end of the age (vv. 7-9).
False.
This points mostly to the Lord Jesus, coming from Bethlehem, even as the Jews of that day understood. Verse 9 does seem to indicate that all the Jews enemies will be cut off, however, one verse in the chapter does not make the entire chapter an end-times (again, the list indicated that greater 51% of the verses would point to the end times. Most of the questionable ones are marked mixed, but one verse in 15 is not enough for me in this chapter).