Miquéias 4

Miquéias 4

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 4:1 And it will come about in the last days that the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains. It will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it. in the last Genesis 49:1; Isaiah 2:1-3; Jeremiah 48:47; Ezekiel 38:16; Daniel 2:28; 10:14; Hosea 3:5; Acts 2:17; Hebrews 1:2; 2 Peter 3:3 the mountain Mic 3:12; Ps 68:15,16; Isaiah 11:9; 66:20; Ezekiel 17:22-24; 40:2; 43:12; Daniel 2:35,44; 7:14,18,22,27; Zechariah 8:3; Revelation 11:15; 20:4; 21:1-8 and people Genesis 49:10; Psalms 22:27; 68:29-32; 72:7-11,16-19; 86:9; 110:3; Isaiah 11:10; 27:13; 43:6; 49:6,19-23; 54:2; 60:3-14; 66:18-23; Jeremiah 3:17; 16:19; Zephaniah 3:9,10; Zechariah 2:11; 14:16-21; Malachi 1:11; Romans 11:25,26; Revelation 15:4 In the interest of full disclosure, the reader is hereby informed that my approach to the Scripture is to interpret it literally. I do not adhere to a specific human system of theology or interpretation (reformed, covenant, dispensational, etc). If the text (in context) makes good sense in its natural, literal reading, then I seek to make no other sense out of it, lest it potentially result in nonsense. In short, if I am to be categorized, it should be as a literalist. To take prophecies which Micah clearly spoke to the literal nation of Israel, at a literal time and a literal place, and attempt to interpret them as relating to some other group or some other time is fraught with the potential for inaccurate interpretation. The OT scholar Walter Kaiser considers Micah 4:1-5:15 to be "one of the truly magnificent portions of Scripture that takes us deep into the doctrine of the coming Messiah and His kingdom." Charles Simeon says that while God through His prophet Micah "announced to the Jews God’s determined purpose to punish them (the Jews) in this awful manner, he foretold also his intention at a future period to restore them (the Jews) to his favor, and to make them (the Jews) a source of blessings to the whole earth." (Sermon) Keil and Delitzsch state that "Zion will eventually be exalted from the deepest degradation to the highest glory." (Commentary) F B