Key Verse: "But
thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of
Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler
in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."
- Micah 5:2 KJV
The Lord Jesus had goings forth for His people as their
representative before the throne, long before they appeared upon the stage
of time. It was "from everlasting" that He signed the compact with His
Father, that He would pay blood for blood, suffering for suffering, agony
for agony, and death for death—in the behalf of His people. It was "from
everlasting" that He gave Himself up without a murmuring word—that from the
crown of His head to the sole of His foot He might sweat great drops of
blood, that He might be spit upon, pierced, mocked, rent asunder, and
crushed beneath the pains of death. His goings forth as our Surety were from
everlasting.
