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Micah
Micah
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Micah 2
Micah 2:1 "Woe to those who are scheming what is harmful, and to those
practicing what is bad, upon their beds!..." Interesting phrase, "practicing
what is bad, upon their beds!". We know people can think up hurtful schemes
while in bed but this may denote adultery - That is spiritual adultery
concerning God's people. They are no longer following Jehovah.
Micah 2:3 "Therefore this is what Jehovah has said, 'Here I am
thinking up against this family a calamity from which YOU people
will not remove YOUR necks, so that YOU will not walk haughtily;
because it is a time of calamity."
Micah 2:12 {"I shall positively gather Jacob, all of you; I shall
without fail collect the remaining ones of Israel together. In unity
I shall set them, like a flock in the pen, like a drove in the midst
of its pasture; they will be noisy with men.'} See
Revelation 6:9-11 comments about the
two groups being joined together. - See also 4:6
Micah 3
Micah 3:5-7 "This is what Jehovah has said against the prophets
that are causing my people to wander, that are biting with their
teeth and that actually call out, 'Peace!' that, when anyone does
not put [something] into their mouths, also actually sanctify war
against him .... And they will have to cover over the mustache, all
of them, for there is no answer from God.' "
Micah 3:8 "And, on the other hand,
I myself have become full of
power, with the spirit of Jehovah, and of justice and mightiness,
in
order to tell to Jacob his revolt and to Israel his sin."
Micah 4
Micah 4:6,7 The EMPHASISED BIBLE; "< In that day > Declareth
Yahweh~ Will I take up her that is lame, And < her that hath been an
outcast > will I carry, -- Even whomsoever I have afflicted; (vs.7);
And will make of her that was lame' a residue, And of her that was
removed far away' a strong nation, -- And Yahweh |shall be king|
over them, in Mount Zion, From henceforth, even unto times
age-abiding." (Substituted some grammar markings) Notice two groups.
- See 2:12 comments.
Micah 5
Micah 5:2 "And you, O
Bethlehem Ephrathah, the one too little to get to be among
the thousands of Judah, from you there will
come out to me the one who is to become ruler in Israel, whose
origin is from early times, from the days of time indefinite."
- This positively identifies where the future ruler was to come
from. That being, from Bethlehem and "from the days of time
indefinite". It could only be Jesus.
Micah 5:15 "And in anger and in rage I will
execute vengeance upon the nations that have not obeyed." Compare
Psalms 2:12
Micah 6
Micah 6:10-12 "Do there yet exist [in] the house
of a wicked one the treasures of wickedness, and
the scrimped ephah measure that is
denounced? Can I [morally] clean with wicked scales and with a bag
of deceptive stone weights? For her own rich men have become full of
violence, and her own inhabitants have spoken falsehood, and their
tongue is tricky in their mouth." Compare
Zechariah 5:6-8
Micah 7
Micah 7:2 "The loyal one has perished from the
earth.."
Micah 7:16,17 "Nations will see and become
ashamed of all their mightiness...To Jehovah our God they will come
quivering, and they will be afraid of you."
Micah 7:18 "Who is a God like you, one pardoning
error and passing over transgression of the remnant of his
inheritance? He will not certainly hold onto his anger forever, for
he is delighting in loving-kindness." Compare
Isaiah 12:1,2
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