Miquéias 2

Miquéias 2

MICAH - WHO IS LIKE JEHOVAH? Chart from recommended resource Jensen's Survey of the OT - used by permission Chart by Charles Swindoll MICAH: WHO IS LIKE JEHOVAH? RETRIBUTION Micah 1:1-2:13 KINGDOM Micah 3:1-5:15 WORSHIP Micah 6:1-7:20 First Message: Judgment Will Come Second Message: Blessing will follow Judgment Third Message: An Indictment of Sin & A Promise of Blessing Judgment Micah 1:1-2:11 Promise Micah 2:12-13 Judgment Micah 3:1-12 Promise Micah 4:1-5:15 Judgment Micah 6:1-7:10 Promise Sin and Judgment Hope and Comfort Controversy and Pardon Sin & It's Outcome Incurable The King & His Kingdom Inevitable First Coming - Mic 5:2-3 Second Coming - Mic 5:4-15 The Lord & His Justice Inescapable Message of Destruction for Samaria & Judah Message of Doom & Deliverance Message of Denunciation God Gathers to Judge and Deliver God Judges Rulers and Comes to Deliver God Brings Indictments and Ultimate Deliverance Question 1: Is God Responsible for the Destruction we face? Question 2: How Do We Know God is with Us? Question 3: What Does God Want from Us? About 25 Years 735-710 BC Approximated Micah 2:1 Woe to those who scheme iniquity, who work out evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, for it is in the power of their hands. to. Esther 3:8; 5:14; 9:25; Psalms 7:14-16; 140:1-8; Proverbs 6:12-19; 12:2; Isaiah 32:7; Isaiah 59:3; Jeremiah 18:18; Ezekiel 11:2; Nahum 1:11; Luke 20:19; 22:2-6; Acts 23:12; Romans 1:30 work Ps 36:4; Proverbs 4:16 when Hosea 7:6,7; Matthew 27:1,2; Mark 15:1; Acts 23:15 because Genesis 31:29; Deuteronomy 28:32; Proverbs 3:27; John 19:11 Micah 2:1-5 - Pronouncement of Divine Judgment on Profiteers (Evil of coveting) Micah 2:6-11 - Confrontation of the False Prophets (Evil of Placebo Preaching) Micah 2:12-13- Promise of Future Divine Deliverance and Restoration This oracle pronounces judgement against the leaders and identifies one of the sins for which they will be judged. Patterson summarizes Micah 2 - It contains three oracles in the prophet’s larger book of doom addressed to the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah (Mic 1:2–3:12). The first message pronounces divine judgment against the wealthy oppressors of the middle class and poor (Micah 2:1–5). The second message is a dispute between the false prophets (perhaps representing wealthy land-grabbers trying to silence Micah) and Micah, God’s true prophet (Micah 2:6–11). The third message shifts abruptly from the theme of judgment to a word of hope promising God’s deliverance and future restoration for a remnant of Israel (Micah 2:12–13). This is in keeping with the kaleidoscopic pattern of the oracle structure in the book. Woe to those who scheme iniquity - How fitting that Micah introduces this section with a "Woe to" which was often used as a cry of mourning for the dead! Many of his listeners would soon be either dead or exiled by the Assyrians! So Micah proceeds to issue a timeless warning! Iniquity frequently refers to the abuse of power so as to cause trouble and thus bring harm on one’s fellow man (Hab. 1:3). Micah's words remind one of Solomon's description of evil men… For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; and they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble. (Pr 4:16) Woe (01945) (hoy) is an interjection (abrupt utterance usually lacking grammatical connection) translated Ho!, Woe!, Ah!, O!, Oh!, Alas! It is generally used to express lamentation or woe (condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief) The prophets often used hoy in announcing judgment (Isa 1:4, 24, Jer 48:1, Ezek 13:18, Amos 5:18). Woe is used to grab the reader's attention (Isa 18:1, Zech 2:6). Hoy is used at funerals in mourning for the dead (1Ki 13:30, Jer 34:5 - where "Alas" = "Woe!"), especially in light of the truth that sin (iniquity) kills (cf Eph 2:1-note, James 1:14, 15-note, James 1:16-note). Puritan John Owen warned "Be killing sin, lest it be killing you!" Dear reader, you’ve probably never fallen asleep plotting an evil act, but you may have drifted off nursing a grudge! (cf the warning from Paul in Eph 4:26-27-note). Next time before you fall asleep avail yourself of great mercy and grace of 1Jn 1:9-note (cf Pr 28:13-note)! Woe is used some forty times as a negative warning of God's judgment (Hab 2:6, Nah 3:1). (See Homily - Deliberate Sins Bringing Predestined Punishments - scroll down for more homilies), six times in mourning for the dead, and on rare occasion in a positive context (Isa 55:1, Zech 2:6-7) The Lxx often translates "hoy" with Greek particle of interjection ouai' which BDAG says is " interjection denoting pain or displeasure, woe, alas" and was used especially by Jesus when addressing the religious hypocrites of His day (cf Mt 24:13, 14, 15, 16, 23, 25, 27, 29) Hoy - 47v - (Note most of uses are in the prophets) 1Kgs 13:30; Isa 1:4, 24; 5:8, 11, 18, 20ff; 10:1, 5; 17:12; 18:1; 28:1; 29:1, 15; 30:1; 31:1; 33:1; 45:9f; 55:1; Jer 22:13, 18; 23:1; 30:7; 34:5; 47:6; 48:1; 50:27; Ezek 13:3, 18; 34:2; Amos 5:18; 6:1; Mic 2:1; Nah 3:1; Hab 2:6, 9, 12, 15, 19; Zeph 2:5; 3:1; Zech 2:6f; 11:17. Usage in the NAS: Ah(2), alas(11), ho(2), ho there(1), woe(34). Barnes on "Woe" in Micah 2:1 - "the woe of temporal captivity; and, unless ye repent, the woe of eternal damnation, hangs over you." Patterson - “to pronounce a ‘woe’ on someone meant to announce their funeral” (Limburg 1988:169). Beloved, Woe, the evil of coveting! Have you fallen into this sticky wicket? Are you coveting something, someone? Remember coveting is idolatry (Col 3:5-note), a sin especially heinous to God (Ex 20:3-5)! Who work out evil on their beds! (Ps 36:4-note, cf Pr 4:16) When morning comes, they do it (They can hardly wait for daylight to carry out their evil plan! Read Hos 7:6. Have you ever been this determined to carry out some evil plan?) - How counter their nocturnal meditations were to those of the psalmist (Read Ps 63:6-note)! Their sin was not some sudden temptation to which they inadvertently succumbed. This was sin that was pre-meditated! Indeed, sin not does just happen by accident. Many of our sins are carefully planned out. Our deceitful heart makes subtle provision for carrying out sin! This reminds me of Paul's exhortation to believers in Romans 13:14 (note) to "put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision (pronoia) for the flesh in regard to its lusts." (Red verbs = commands!) Peter exhorts us "Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain (apechomai - to continually hold oneself away) from fleshly lusts (Only possible as we depend on the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit - cf Gal 5:16-note), which wage war (strateuomai ~ continually strategize!) against the soul." (1Pe 2:11-note) Woe! Scheme (02803)(chasab/hasab) depicts employing one's mind not just to understand, but to create new ideas (in context new ways of working out evil, cf phrase "inventors of evil" in Ro 1:30-note). The Lxx uses the verb logizomai, in the present tense, depicting these evil doers as continually "calculating" how to attain their nefarious ends. The Lxx also adds the word kopos, which depicts exhausting physical or mental exertion! What a picture of the effort these men went to, to commit their prized sins! Beloved, before we were saved, we chased after sins. Now that we are saved, sin chases after us! So as we read this incredible description, we need to be wary and as Paul warned - "Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.(1Cor 10:12) Matthew