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Micah 1
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Micah 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah
the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of
Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
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Micah means
Who is like God
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Referring to both tribes Israel and Judah
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Samaria = watch mountain = 10 tribes
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Moresheth-gath = verse 14 now Tel Sandahanna, in
the Shephelah, or plain, between Judea and
Philistia
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In the excavations at Sandahanna the ancient
name is seen as Marissa.
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Marissa was a Sidonian colony and was afterward
used as the capital of Idumea by the Edomites
during the captivity of Judah
2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and
let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come
down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
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When is the Lord going to tread upon the earth?
4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be
cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a
steep place.
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7th vials = The Elements is to destroy the evil things, the works of
this earth age that is evil.
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2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in
the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and
the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and
the works that are therein shall be burned up.
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Melt means be dissolved
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Hebrews 12:29 For our
God is a consuming fire.
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A thief in the night = They don't know God's
Word, they don't have the seal of God in
their forehead.
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They don't know = the seals, trumpets or
vials = God' Plan
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Darkness means opposite of the truth = deception and
confusing
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4th trump = 1/3 of the Christians are
spiritually dead to GOD'S WORD.
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4th trump = It's to make a choice, choose to follow
God or Satan
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1 King 18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye
between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then
follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
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Revelation 18:23 And the
light of a candle shall shine no more at all
in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard
no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the
earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
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Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let
him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:
for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six
hundred threescore and six.
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What did this verse say? The number is the number of a man.
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The name of the man is Satan = Satan's
number is 666
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His number is
666 = to know what happens at the 6th seal, 6th trumpet and 6th
vial.
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The sixth seal = Who is able to stand against Satan and his false
angels
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What's happen at the sixth trumpet?
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Satan has been cast out with his angels for five months = Satan's
tribulation
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What happen at the sixth vial?
- 6th vial - Satan's spirits of devil poured
out on the earth.
- Revelation 16 and 17 Satan lies, deception and
confusion poured out on the people, those that have not the seal of
God in their forehead.
5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the
house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria?
and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
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Most of Jerusalem = as Samaria's Idolatry
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Is it not Samaria? = is it not Samaria's
idolatry?
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Its were the 10 tribes worshipped the gold
calves
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1 Kings 12:28 Whereupon the king took
counsel, and made two calves
of gold,
and said unto them, It is too much for
you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O
Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of
Egypt.
6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as
plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into
the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
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I am going to turn Jerusalem upside down
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Matthew 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed
from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him
the buildings of the temple.
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The Temple Mount is the ancient
site of Solomon's Temple
2 And Jesus said unto them,
See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall
not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be
thrown down.
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when
shall these things be? and
what shall be the
sign of thy coming,
and of the end of the world?
The
disciples are asking Christ, What shall be the signs when all these
things shall be fulfilled?
What shall be the signs
of the
end
of the world and what shall be the
sign of thy coming?
This question is on the mind of many people.
What must happen before Jesus returns at the second advent?
7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all
the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols
thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an
harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
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Satan will come to take all the things
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They shall return = the wealth gained by
idolatry shall be taken away by the Assyrian
idolaters
8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will
make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto
the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
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Her wound = Is the wound to the head
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Luke 21:20 And when ye shall see
Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation
there of is nigh.
10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all:
in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
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Aphrah = OT:1036 house to dust; a place in
Palestine = "In Dust-house roll thyself in dust
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Gath was where David and Goliath
were.
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2 Samuel 1:20 Tell us it's not
in Gath. Publish it not in the streets of
Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines
rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised
triumph.
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Joshua 11:22 There was
none of the Anakims left in the land of the
children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and
in Ashdod, there remained.
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This town now =
Gath, Gaze Strip
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"In Dust-house roll thyself in dust''
11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the
inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he
shall receive of you his standing.
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Saphir means beauty town, hang your head in
shame
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Some will Hang their head in shame
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Gath is where the Goliath
came from
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came
down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
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Maroth, means bitter
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Bitter town = no good came from it
13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast:
she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the
transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
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She =
Samaria = watch mountain
14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the
houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
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Moresheth-gath means =
Gath means OT:1660 (in the sense of
treading out grapes); a wine-press (for holding
the grapes in pressing them)
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Achzib = lies
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Lies will mislead the king of Israel
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This is where the deadly wound will happen, from a lie
15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah:
he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
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He shall come = The glory = the nobility of
Israel shall go (or flee) unto the cave Adullam;
as David had done
16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children;
enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into
captivity from thee.
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This is addressed to Judah.
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It was forbidden under the
law (Deut 14:1).
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Deut 14:1 Ye are the
children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your
eyes for the dead.
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Judah had become as the
heathen: let them mourn as the heathen.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
• The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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