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Micah 3
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Micah 3:1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the
house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
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Jacob = all tribes
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Children should know right from wrong
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Princes = judges
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Hear = This is a continuation of the threatening
against the rulers
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The leaders doesn't know right from wrong, all
knowledge is gone
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God's saying they need to be punished
2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them,
and their flesh from off their bones;
3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and
they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh
within the caldron.
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This is spiritual = it through taxation, etc..
4 Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but
he will not hear them:
he will even
hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill
in
their doings.
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If My people won't hear Me, I am NOT going to
hear them
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He's saying, let the sputters help them
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Why?
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Because the people love to hear false teaching.
They don't study My Word
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Hear = God's not going to answer those that
follow other gods
5 Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite
with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths,
they even prepare war against him.
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The sputters = through false teaching = they
cause My people to go astray from Me
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Err = go astray
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They cry peace but they prepare war against
Him
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If you listen to false teaching. God's not going
to be there for you when you cry out to Him
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Bite with their teeth = Alluding to the
idolatrous practices of the heathen round the
altars of Baal, biting an olive in their mouths
and crying "peace", of which the olive was the
symbol.
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Genesis 8:11 And the dove came in to him in the
evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf
pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were
abated from off the earth.
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Zech 9:7 And I will take away his blood out of
his mouth, and his abominations from between his
teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be
for our God, and he shall be as a governor in
Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
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And he = but against him that putteth not (the
olive) into his mouth they declare war.
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War = crusade
6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it
shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over
the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
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The famine in the end times = hearing the word
of God
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Amos 8:10 And I will turn
your feasts into mourning, and all your songs
into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth
upon all loins, and baldness upon every head;
and I will make it as the mourning of an only
son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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Your feasts into mourning = Easter Egg Hunts,
Santa Clauses, your images, etc.. They do it
right in the house of God.
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that
I will send a famine in the land,
not a famine of bread,
nor a thirst
for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall
all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
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They were not praying to God
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They were praying to Baal
8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and
of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the
house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
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Abhor = They hate judgment
10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire,
and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and
say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
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False teachers = They take money
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If your giving money to false teachers = you are
part of the false teaching
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2 John 11 For he that biddeth him God
speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
12 Having many things to write unto you, I would
not write with paper and ink: but I trust to
come unto you, and speak face to face, that our
joy may be full.
13 The children of thy elect sister greet thee.
Amen.
12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall
become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
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Jerusalem = The city proper, on Mount
Moriah
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The mountain of the house = Moriah and the Temple
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The high places of the forest = a height of a jungle
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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
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7th trump = Christ returns and gathers His very
elect (Rev 11:15-19) (Rev 15) (Matt 24:29-31)
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7th vial = The cup of wrath poured out (Rev
16:17-21)
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?
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of
Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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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.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt -
page 25
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