Micah 6



Micah 6
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Micah 6:1 Hear ye now what the Lord saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

2 Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
  • God loves all His children
3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
  • God's saying, I'm here for you
  • My people have rejected Me
  • Testify = You have answer against Me
4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
  • You were in bondage and I heard your cries.
  • I sent Moses for you and brought you out of Egypt
  • Exodus 12:51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
  • House of servants = house of bondage
5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord.
  • Righteousness = righteous acts
  • Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
  • I want your loving kindness, I want you to study My word
  • I want you to love Me, If you love Me keep My commandments
  • Matthew 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
  • Revelation 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
  • All things were created specifically for God's pleasure.
  • He alone is counted worthy to receive honor, glory and power, because in Him alone resides the power to create.
6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
  • Transgression = rebellion
8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
  • Mercy = loving kindness, or grace
  • Walk humbly = This verse embodies the principles governing God's administration under the Law, but not under the Gospel.
  • Now, He requires faith in the Substitute Whom He has provided for the sinner; and His righteousness must be imputed in grace.
9 The Lord's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
  • City = for the inhabitants
  • The man of wisdom shall see Thy name = have true stability (or safety) will regard Thy name.
  • Wisdom = The wisdom of God
  • Proverbs 2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
  • Thy =  He (the LORD) will save such as revere His name
  • Rod = Hebrew. matteh = staff (for support or chastisement) for the chastisement inflicted, or supply
  • Ellipsis thus = hear ye the rod, and Him Who hath appointed = the chastisement
  • It = is feminine; while "rod" is masculine.
  • Therefore we may supply "chastisement "(Hebrew. tokahath), which is feminine.
10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
  • Scant measure = crooked scales = people that rip-off My people = false set of scales
11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
  • Deut 25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
    14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
    15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
    16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
  • God said, don't go out and rip off My people = false set of balances
  • Them = Supply = her =  the wicked city
  • The wicked balances = Hebrew balances of wickedness
12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
  • They're unbalance = they are never happy or satisfy = they are always thinking = they need more money
13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
  • Lev 26:16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
    17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
  • He saying you will work and I will take all you have from you because of your sins
15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
  • My people walk in their counsels, not in My Ways
  • The statutes = Hebrew word  hukkoth = in a religious sense
  • Lev 20:8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.
  • Omri = as to the worship of Baal
  • 1 Kings 16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
    32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
  • Kept = strictly kept
  • The house of Ahab = 1 Kings 16:30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.
  • That I should make = Deut 28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
 
• 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.

(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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