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Warren Wiersbe · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Wiersbe - Micah hoped that the people of Judah would learn from the sad experience of Israel, but they did not. His is a message of judgment mingled with mercy and hope. Micah’s name means “who is like the Lord?” The prophet Jeremiah’s life was saved by a quotation from Micah (Jer. 26:18; Mic. 3:12). The Lawsuit = Micah 1:1-7; The Lament = Micah 1:8-16 Micah 1:1-16 - TODAY IN THE WORD - It's a scene straight out of a Leave It to Beaver rerun. Two brothers are misbehaving, both equally at fault. But when Dad arrives he ignores one of the boys and heads for his brother, saying something like, "I saw what you did!" In the meantime, the first brother breathes a quiet sigh of relief, thinking dad was overlooking his part in the fiasco. His relief melts away when his father suddenly turns to him and says, "And now for you, young man!" The kingdom of Judah may have felt relief when God miraculously delivered Jerusalem from Sennacherib, king of Assyria (2Kings 18:13-19). This occurred in 701 B.C., a full twenty years after Israel and its capital had fallen to Assyria. But God had a message of judgment for Judah as well. One of the prophets charged with delivering that message was Micah, a messenger to the common people. He served as a prophet during the reigns of three kings. Jotham was generally a good king, although he failed to remove Judah's "High Places" where God's people practiced idolatry (see 2Kings 15:35). God would take care of these evil places Himself when He came in judgment (Micah 1:3). Jotham's son Ahaz, a wicked man, inherited a kingdom that was strong both militarily and politically. But Ahaz greatly corrupted God's people, adopting the evil worship practices of the northern kingdom. Ahaz's son Hezekiah was one of Judah's greatest kings. He turned the nation back to serving the Lord. Although Micah prophesied primarily to Judah, his frequent references to Israel show that God had given Micah a word of warning for the entire nation. APPLY: Americans are fond of pointing to 200 years of God's blessing as evidence that He will not really judge us in the same way He judged His ancient people. (Ed: Clearly those who point to God's past blessing have not read or understood Pr 14:34! Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin [Ed: "unrighteousness"] is a disgrace to any people!) Micah 1:2 Hear, O peoples, all of you; Listen, O earth and all it contains, and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple. all ye people Heb. ye people all of them. hearken. Micah 6:1,2; Deuteronomy 32:1; Psalms 49:1,2; 50:1; Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 22:29; Mark 7:14-16; Revelation 2:7,11,17,29; 3:6,13,22 all that therein is Heb. the fulness thereof. Psalms 24:1; 50:12 let Psalms 50:7; Jeremiah 29:23; Malachi 2:14; 3:5 the Lord from Psalms 11:4; 28:2; Jonah 2:7; Habakkuk 2:20 I. (Micah 1:2-7) THE COMING DEVASTATING JUDGMENT OF A HOLY GOD LAYS BARE THE IDOLATRY OF HIS OWN REBELLIOUS PEOPLE (Paul Apple) Warren Wiersbe's Summary of Micah 1 Micah 1:2 The court is convened Micah 1:3-4 The Judge arrives Micah 1:5-16 The Judge names the defendants Hear...listen (cp Isa 3:13) - These are divine commands, not suggestions! God's commandments always include His enablements. Hear and listen sound very similar. It is as if God knows He has to speak twice to get their attention, like we so often have to do with our children! However God is always a "Gentleman" and will not force rebels to do something they are not willing to do! Patterson - This imperative verbs (hear...listen) introduces a summons-to-listen formula (cf. Deut 4:1; 6:4; Hos 4:1; Amos 3:1). In prophetic contexts the word typically means “listen to, heed by acting upon, or putting into practice what has been said” (NIDOTTE 5.178). The formula signals that an important message is forthcoming or a divine truth is about to be revealed. Micah uses the imperative “listen!” elsewhere in 3:1, 9; 6:1, 2, 9. Peoples...all of you...earth...all it contains (Hebrew, “whatever fills it”) - Note that this description of God's judgment relates to the entire world! So while this is a book addressed to Israel, it is clearly a message to which all peoples throughout the world need to pay heed! Are you listening earth? Matthew
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Wiersbe: "Beth Ezel means “house of taking away,” and the city would be taken away." Micah 1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth becomes weak waiting for good, Because a calamity has come down from the LORD To the gate of Jerusalem. waited carefully or, was grieved. 1 Samuel 4:13; Job 30:26; Isaiah 59:9-11; Jeremiah 8:15; 14:19 but 9; Isaiah 45:7; Amos 3:6 See Spurgeon's Sermon - Maroth-or, The Disappointed (3184) - Micah 1:12 ESV Study Bible says - "Maroth (Micah 1:12) conveys the concept of bitterness. Thus a "bitter" town longs for good." (Hebrew word for bitter = marah 04785 - see Ex 15:23. Maroth would desire "sweet" but would experience "bitter" from the hand of Jehovah in the day of her calamity. Calamity has come down from the LORD - Jehovah Himself is behind the destruction! They may have been His chosen people, but when chosen people (and this applies to believers today) choose sin, they are choosing to begin to walk on the path of destruction! Yes, we can always confess our sins (1Jn 1:9-note, Pr 28:13-note), but we must remember that God is an Impartial Judge judge Who does not play favorites and Who does not change His laws of sowing and reaping (cf Gal 6:7-note,Gal 6:8-note; See also the "painful" passages - Heb 12:5-10-note, Heb 12:11-note regarding the disciplining hand of Jehovah). Calamity (07451) (ra') first use in the eternal contrast = Ge 2:9!) describes that which is opposite of good and is a key word in Micah used 7 times in 6 verses - Mic 1:12, Mic 2:1 (evil), Mic 2:3 (used twice - "calamity" and "evil"), Mic 3:2 (evil), Mic 3:11 (calamity), Mic 7:3 (evil). Upshot? Sow evil, reap calamity! Why do we so often discount (fail to believe) this truth? (Jer 17:9 is probably the best answer!) To the gate of Jerusalem - Davis - "Jerusalem comes like a thud at the end of Micah 1:10–12, for if Jerusalem goes under the whole show is over, the game is up for everyone. What hope can these outlying communities have if the premier city is herself under assault?" Micah 1:13 Harness the chariot to the team of horses, O inhabitant of Lachish-- She was the beginning of sin To the daughter of Zion-- Because in you were found yhe rebellious acts of Israel. Lachish Joshua 15:39; 2 Kings 18:13,14,17; 2 Chronicles 11:9; 32:9; Isaiah 37:8 bind Genesis 19:17; Isaiah 10:31; Jeremiah 4:29 she Exodus 32:21; 1 Kings 13:33,34; 14:16; 16:31; Revelation 2:14,20; 18:1-5 for 2 Kings 8:18; 16:3,4; Jeremiah 3:8; Ezekiel 23:11 Harness the chariot to the team of horses, O inhabitant of Lachish – "Team of horses" is the Hebrew phrase larekesh ("team of horses"). Lachish would need riding steeds for a fast getaway. Davis - Lachish guarded important access routes into the interior of the land. It was heavily fortified—during the divided kingdom it had double defensive walls, the upper one nineteen feet (just under six meters) thick, the lower thirteen (four meters). When Sennacherib finally took Lachish in around 701 BC, he took up seventy linear feet (over twenty-one meters) of his palace wall to depict his conquest. (What else could he do? He had failed to conquer Jerusalem.)...Sadly, the prophet accuses Lachish of being infectious—she had apparently embraced the ‘rebellions of Israel’, the twisted, syncretistic worship of the northern kingdom, and then became a conduit that transmitted this corrupt worship into the life of the southern kingdom. I take ‘Israel’ here as referring to the northern kingdom. Wiersbe: Since Lachish sounds like the Hebrew word for “a team of swift horses,” he warned them to harness their horses to the chariots and try to escape. She was the beginning of sin -
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Wiersbe: Moresheth Gath sounds like a Hebrew word meaning “betrothed”; and brides were given farewell gifts. In other words, the town would no longer belong to Judah but would “leave home” and belong to the invaders. Achzib - Davis- "Achzib (from kāzab, to lie; hence, ‘Deceitville’)...The houses of Deceitville [Achzib] have proven deceitful to the kings of Israel." Though it promised help, Achzib ("deception") would not come through. David