The prophet Micah gives us a profound double witness concerning the barren bride. God always confirms true doctrine in the Scripture, often over and over again. Once the Holy Spirit opens our eyes to see a new truth we will usually find examples of it throughout the Bible. Concerning this idea Peter wrote,

16 For we did not follow (Z)cleverly devised (AA)myths when we made known to you (AB)the power and (AC)coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but (AD)we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, (AE)“This is my beloved Son,[i] with whom I am well pleased,” 18 we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on (AF)the holy mountain. 19 And(AG)we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention(AH)as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until (AI)the day (AJ)dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, 20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. 21 For (AK)no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God (AL)as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:16-21 ESV)

For example, we see the idea of the barren bride played out in key Biblical character’s like Sarah, mother of Isaac, Rachel, mother of Joseph, Hannah, mother of Samuel, and Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist. Isaac and Joseph were both types of Christ and all four of these men were types of overcomers (sons of God). Each was born of a barren bride, just as the first fruits sons of God shall be born of the present barren bride of Christ before she too ultimately overcomes.

Chapters 4 and 5 of Micah speak of the barren bride and God’s promise to her. The prophecy begins with a remarkable passage which God also gave almost word for word to Isaiah. We can find Isaiah’s prophecy in his second chapter. Here is Micah’s:

It shall come to pass (A)in the latter days
    that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and it shall be lifted up above the hills;
and peoples shall flow to it,
2     and many nations shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,[a]
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3 He shall judge between many peoples,
    and shall decide for strong nations far away;
and they shall (B)beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war anymore;
4 (C)but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,
    (D)and no one shall make them afraid,
    (E)for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
5 For (F)all the peoples walk
    each in the name of its god,
but (G)we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
    forever and ever. (Micah 4:1-5)

The “mountain of the house of the Lord” here speaks of the Kingdom of God. In Scripture “mountains” are governments. Micah and Isaiah both prophecy that the day will come when God’s government on earth supersedes every human or satanic government. Today we see exactly the opposite. Satanic governments today work overtime obliterating the memory of God from the earth. This is about to change. The next passage from Micah shows that the timing of the ascendancy of God’s kingdom corresponds to the timing of the barren bride’s labor and birthing of the sons of God.

6 “In that day,” declares Yahweh,[b]
    “I will assemble the one who limps,
and I will gather the one who has been scattered,
    and those whom I have mistreated.
7 And I will make the one who limps a remnant,
    and the one driven far away a strong nation,
and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion
    from now to forever.
8 And you, O Migdal-Eder,[c]
    hill of the daughter of Zion,
to you it will come,
    and the former dominion will come,
    the reign of the daughter of Jerusalem.
9 So then, why do you shout a loud shout?
    Is there no king in you?
Has your counselor perished
    that pangs like a woman in labor have seized you?
10 Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion,
    like a woman in labor.
For now you will go forth from the city,
    and you will camp in the field;
    you will go to Babylon.
There you will be rescued;
    there Yahweh will redeem you
    from the hand of your enemies. (Micah 4:6-10 Lexham English Bible)

This passage begins with the phrase “in that day” and speaks of the day when God establishes the house of the Lord as the highest mountain on earth. He tells us here that on this day he “will assemble the one who limps,”  and “will gather the one who has been scattered,” and will bring “those whom [he has] mistreated.” In other words, he will establish she whom he afflicted, his bride who remained barren for so long, for two thousand years! It is she who is “the daughter of Zion.” It is she who is “the daughter of [New] Jerusalem.” It is she who will soon enter into her labor and it is she who will soon “go forth from the city [Babylon] and “will camp in the field [the wilderness].” It is there in the wilderness where Christ’s Bride will be “rescued” and “redeemed from the hand of [her] enemies.” This passage actually predicts the same things John does in Revelation 12.

And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun and with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars, 2 and who was pregnant[a] and was crying out because she[b] was having birth pains, and was in torment to give birth. 3 And another sign appeared in heaven, and behold, a great fiery red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven royal headbands.[c] 4 And his tail swept away a third of the stars from heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, in order that whenever she gave birth to her child he could devour it. 5 And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is going to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod,[d] and her child was snatched away to God and to his throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared there by God, so that they could feed her there for one thousand two hundred sixty days. (Revelation 12:1-6 LEB)