"But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you One will come forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His times of coming forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity." (Micah 5:2, NASB)
This is an Old Testament version of the "Christmas Story." In time-space language, the New Testament stories tell us that it happened; the Old Testament stories told the ancients that it would happen.
"From days of eternity," is a phrase which you and I cannot comprehend, because we are, as someone once said, "eternity blind." Right now our senses are "enslaved" in the time-space world. So for us the interpretation of our text is most thought of as stated above, viz., that it happened, and that it would happen.
If, "we walk in the light as [Jesus] is in the light," we accept the reality that, "His times of coming forth..," never had a beginning, nor do, "His times of coming forth..," have an end. And, when you and I surrendered our lives to Jesus Christ we entered that eternal dimension, as Strong's defines it, "that which has neither beginning nor end." John 3:16 affirms this.
Christmas and Easter are really, "....days of eternity."
Father, in Jesus' Name, thank You for bringing me into, "....the days of eternity." Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
