NOTES for Mic 5:3
As we see, Micah as the others (mainly, before captivity) prophets, connect the Messiah with the gathering of the people of God, who in the days of the Messiah will meet again on the land of the fathers united around Jerusalem. Under "will he give them up, until the time" the prophet, obviously, means this part of the people, who after the destruction of the reign of the North (Israel) was scattered in the huge Assyrian empire: this dispersal was perceived (and not without reasons), as the proof of the abandonment by God, as the punishment of God for this part of the people, who changed the God of their fathers. It is necessary to note that in the South, in the Judea, the regents of the reign of the North were looked as apostates. And there were reasons for that: because they led in their country a religious policy of double faith and in reality, the paganism, officially recognized by a number of heathen cults, along with the cult of Yahweh.
And many in the Judea saw the destruction of the reign of the North, as a natural result of this politic. But it was revealed to the prophet, as we see that in the history of the people of God will come the day, when will come the Messiah and the completeness of the people will be restored. Of course, Micah sees this restoration, as a process rather political, than spiritual. But indeed, the prophetic perception of the spiritual reality is always multifaceted, and behind the historic, public or political reality, there is always the spiritual reality. As and here: Micah sees the spiritual process as a political and governmental.
He sees the renewed Israel such, as it would have been if suddenly, in a supernatural way returned the brilliant time of Salomon. And the period of the Messiah was really brilliant, but not in this sense, that speaks about it the prophet, even the apostles on the day of the Ascension waited another for outward triumph, waited "the restoration of the kingdom of Israel". But the Kingdom did not turn out such as saw it the pre-captivity prophets. And the King also did not turn out such, as waited to see Him many, not only in the time of Micah, but also in the evangelic time. But the completeness of the people of God was really revealed. But without an external greatness, without a strong State with heroic rulers at the head. In the Kingdom, which, according to the words of the King "is not of this world". And which because of that becomes not less majestic.