I thought the messiah will bring peace !!! ~ Cross reference of Matthew 10:34 to Micah 7:6


In Matthew 10:34 Jesus says that he came not to bring peace among people but to bring unrest. 

Unrest and fights among people is not anything new so I guess Jesus was saying either that these fights will continue or that after him this will intensify because of him.

When you read why Jesus calls out son against his father, daughter against her mother and members of family fighting amongst themselves, I think he meant that the person who accepts Jesus will be offended by the others on the family who did not accept Jesus.

But what does this have anything to do with what Micah said?

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This post is not intended to offend anyone's faith but for those people who are Seeking the truth of THE ONE TRUE G-D of the universe to who we owe all our love, gratitude & devotion.

My encouragement to you is that you read the whole chapter of Tanakh that the Greek text quotes so you get the context and understand what G-d actually said.

G-d Bless and Seek THE Truth.

Matthew 10:34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn “‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law 36 a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’[c]

Micah 7:6 For a son disgraces his father; a daughter rises up against her mother; a daughter-in-law, against her mother- in-law; a man's enemies are the members of his household.

Here are a few points I think why it does not make sense for Matthew to cross reference Micah 6:6 to justify what Jesus said in Matthew 10:34.
  1. If Jesus is the messiah as prophesied in Tanakh, he is supposed to come at time when the whole world is at peace and everyone knows who the ONE TRUE G-D of the universe is. See Isaiah 11:10 Jeremiah 31:4,5,9 Ezekiel 34:24-25 etc.
  2. Jesus says just the opposite of what Tanakh says will happen when the messiah comes. 
  3. For 2000 years after Jesus there have been wars and persecution of Jews.
  4. Micah is lamenting that the generation he lives among is evil and are not living by the Torah. This happened 700 years before Jesus was born and is not a prophecy that after Jesus time there will be unrest.
  5. If you read Micah 7:7-9, Micah talks about how he will trust G-d and that G-d will surely be appeased and restore Israel.
Isaiah 11:10 And it shall come to pass on that day, that the root of Jesse, which stands as a banner for peoples, to him shall the nations inquire, and his peace shall be [with] honor.

Jeremiah 30:4,5,9 And these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. 5 For so said the Lord: A sound of quaking we have heard, fear, and there is no peace. 9 And they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will set up for them.

Ezekiel 34:24 And I, the Lord, shall be to them for a God, and My servant David [will be] a prince in their midst; I, the Lord, have spoken. 25 And I shall make with them a covenant of peace, and I shall abolish the wild beasts from the land, and they will dwell securely in the desert and grow old in the forests.

Micah 7:7 But I will hope in the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God shall hearken to me. 8 Rejoice not against me, my enemy; although I have fallen, I will rise; although I will sit in darkness, the Lord is a light to me. 9 I will bear the fury of the Lord-for I have sinned against Him-until He pleads my cause and executes justice for me. He shall take me out into the light; I will see His righteousness.

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