Calvin on Micah

Micah 4:11-13 (NASB)

11"And now many nations have been assembled against you
Who say, 'Let her be polluted,
And let our eyes gloat over Zion.'
12"But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD,
And they do not understand His purpose;
For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
13"Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion,
For your horn I will make iron
And your hoofs I will make bronze,
That you may pulverize many peoples,
That you may devote to the LORD their unjust gain
And their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Here is a portion of John Calvin's commentary on the passage from which Pastor Allen preached this past Sunday:

As soon as any one of the wicked derides us, and laughs at
our simplicity, threatens ferociously, and spreads forth his
terrors, his words, as I have said, are like a cloud intervening
between us and God. This is the reason why the Prophet says here,
that the thoughts of Jehovah are different, and that his counsel is
different: in short, the Prophet's object is to show, that whenever
the ungodly thus proudly despise us, and also reproachfully threaten
and terrify us, we ought to raise our thoughts to heaven. - Why so?
Because the design of God is another. Their boastings then will
vanish, for they arise from nothing, and they shall come to nothing,
but the purpose of God shall stand.