fulfillment, for example, in Israel’s return from exile and in the life of our Lord, his birth, ministry, death, and resurrection. With Christ’s ascension from earth to heaven and the outpouring of his Holy Spirit from heaven to earth, and with the transformation of his body from an earthly physical body to a heavenly spiritual body, the earthly material symbols were done away and the spiritual reality portrayed by the symbols superseded the earthly shadows. Micah does not have in view a universal
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