A STUDY IN THE BOOK OF MICAH
MICAH
The name Micah means ‘Who is like God?’ and although one would expect a prophet to be a very devout person, Micah seems to have been anything but. In his earlier years he does not appear to have an understanding of the law although he was intent on honouring God in his own way. He came from Moresheth. It is usual for prophets to be identified with their fathers at the start of their prophecies but Micah’s father could well have died as he is not mentioned. In the book of Judges we only learn of his mother. At some time in his life he must have repented of his transgressions realising that his ‘gods’ were an abomination to the Lord as he is so scathing of both the House of Israel as well as the House of Judah regarding their sins of which idol worship was a strong part.
He was a contemporary of Isaiah and lived in Judah although his prophecies mostly concern the House of Israel, ie the ten tribes constituting the northern kingdom, the capital of which was Samaria. In Judah he lived under the reign of three kings, namely Jothan, Ahaz and Hezekiah and Pekahiah, Pekah and Hoshea who reigned over the House of Israel.
Judges chapters 17 and 18 tell us the story of Micah. We learn that he stole 1100 shekels of silver from his mother but later confessed and restored it to her. His mother had dedicated the silver to the Lord by way of a graven image and a molten image having paid 200 shekels to the founder.
In Micah’s house he had several ‘gods’ having made an ephod (a sacred vestment originally appropriate to the high priest), teraphim, which is a plural word denoting images connected with magical rites. (Smith’s Bible Dictionary). Laban, when searching for his images regarded them as ‘gods’ which were used for corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Micah consecrated one of his sons who became his priest. As there was no king in Israel at that time, only judges, the people pleased themselves what they did, seemingly unaware of the mosaic law..
A young Levite from Bethlehem-Judah came looking for lodgings and came to the home of Micah who invited him to stay, offering a father-son relationship. Micah also made him a priest, giving him an annual increment of ten shekels of silver, a suit of clothing and food.
At that time the Danites had not inherited any land, being mostly absent in their ships, and five spies came inland from the coast of Zidon to spy out the land. Having come to Mt Ephraim, they came also to Micah’s house and lodged there where they recognised the voice of the young Levite. They demanded to know who had brought him there, what he did there and what he had there. He had no hesitation in telling them of his relationship and duties. So the Danites asked him to enquire of the Lord as to their future prospects and whether their way would be prosperous. The young man assured them they would be prosperous in that which they determined to accomplish.
The five men came to Laish (a few hundred miles east of Tyre and South-East of Sidon) and found the people quiet and safe; keeping themselves to themselves. They had no laws, or judges to convince them of sin. They were easy prey. So they returned to their own people at Zidon who were eager to know how they had got on. They reported that it would be easy to subdue them, so they could have this land for themselves which was large and very good; no want of anything.
Six hundred armed men, therefore, departed from Zorah and Eshtaeol and after having camped at Kirjath-Jearim, they continued on to Mt Ephraim and to the home of Micah. The five spies told the remainder of the company that in this house there is an ephod and a teraphim as well as a graven and a molten image. Think about what you should do.
The spies called on the home of the young Levite as well as on Micah and greeted them, while the main armed company stood by the entranceway of the property, together with the young Levite priest. When the six hundred went into Micah’s house to take the ephod and the teraphim, as well as the carved image and the molten image, he wanted to know what they were doing. He was told to “mind his own business”, to keep quiet and go with them to be to them a father and a priest. Which would he prefer to be, father and priest to one man and his family, or to a tribe and a family in Israel? The young priest was glad and went with them, children, carriages and cattle placed in the forefront.
After they had departed some considerable while, Micah gathered the menfolk who were his neighbours (possibly employees) and went in pursuit of the children of Dan. The Danites were surprised when they found Micah with such a large crowd having overtaken them and enquired what was wrong with him that he needed such a large company. Micah pointed out that they had taken his gods as well as his priest and gone away with them so he had nothing left and then asked what was wrong.
Evidently Micah had been shouting as they told him to keep his voice down in case angry fellows rose up against him and he lose not only his own life but the lives of his family as well. As the Danites moved away Micah realised they were too strong for him so he returned to his home while the Danites went on to Laish where the people were quiet and secure. They slew them with the sword then set fire to the city. So far from Zidon there was no-one to help them. There the Danites settled using Micah’s images as their gods with the Levite to be a father and a priest to them. Here they stayed until the captivity of the land by the Assyrians.
Micah’s Prophecy
He calls the people to ‘hear’ what the Lord God has revealed to him. He tells the good news that the Lord will come from his place to earth where he will tread upon their high places. According to Smith Bible Dictionary it was customary to erect altars and places of worship in lofty and conspicuous spots in spite of the contrary commandment in Deuteronomy 12:11-14. The second coming will be so fierce as to change the whole topography of the land by the volcanic eruptions which will reduce the mountains to nothing and the valleys will be ripped open (Strongs #1234), the lava appearing like wax before a fire and pouring down the mountains like flood waters descending a steep place. Although this applies to the second coming it is also indicative of the coming Assyrian invasion.
All this will happen because of the sin of Samaria, the capital city of the ten-tribed kingdom, the House of Israel. The one-time beautiful city of Samaria will be reduced to a heap, its stone walls being tossed into the valleys below revealing only the original foundations due to their bribery and corruption. Equally the high places of Jerusalem, the capital city of the two-tribed kingdom, the House of Judah. In the process all the graven images will be battered to pieces and the rewards burned up. The idols will all be decimated because they have been made from the bribes (hires) of the harlots.
Micah is so devastated he will weep and wail with much howling to the point where he rents his clothes and ends up stripped to nakedness. Micah is beyond comfort because he realises their sin is so great as to be compared with a gaping wound which can never be healed by natural means. The Israelites have turned aside from the Lord God to such an extent they fail to appreciate their gross sin. Worse, the sins have reached to the capital of Judah, Jerusalem.
Micah goes on to warn the inhabitants of various villages and to join him in mourning. Don’t bother telling Gath or weep for them; they are the house of Aphrah and should roll in their own dust. As for Saphir it is best for you to disappear to save yourselves embarrassment; the people of Moreth had no knowledge of their sin and the Lord’s displeasure because they were waiting patiently for blessings which did not come. His advice to Lachish is to flee by your chariots with the fastest horses for you were the ones to contaminate Israel.
The prophet encourages them to show their repentance by joining him in shaving their heads as to be bald as the eagle both for themselves and for their children who will be taken from them into captivity.
Micah Chapter 2
This chapter begins with a warning to those in authority who lie awake at night planning their mischief which essentially is to improve their own lot in life to the detriment of those ordinary citizens who have little or no power. In the morning they put their plans into action. James Limburg in his book ‘Interpretation’ suggests these people could also be the well-to-do desirous of acquiring more assets by way of property. Because of their greed they covet what others have. Covetousness is expressly forbidden by the Lord God. They have money and power and have no sympathy for the families they evict and dividing the land between them. They are the same sort of people as King Ahab and Jezebel coveting the vineyard of Naboth. They completely ignore the laws against coveting as well as the law that does not allow the selling of land. These laws are for the protection of all the people for all time.
As they make their plans so does the Lord God make His plans against them. They are to be placed under bondage from which they cannot escape and the assets they gained by dishonesty will be distributed to the invading army. (“Interpretation” by Limburg). Nevertheless, the House of Jacob was not interested in Micah’s prophecy because he only told them bad news which they refused to believe. He embarrassed them by revealing their sin.
He pleads with them and asks if they think the ways of the Lord are too narrow as to be restricting. “Did Jehovah himself bring about all your evil? Surely his words are beneficial to the righteous.” He goes on to say that although they are His people they have become like an enemy to him to the extent of robbing the innocent of their very clothing and evicting women with their children unnecessarily. He tells them to get out as they are not fit to live in the land because of all the pollution they have created. Eventually that same pollution will affect them and utterly destroy them. The false prophets who lie to them promising wine and strong drink are much more popular because they are oblivious to their hidden lies.
The good news is that God will regather his people as a renewed flock of sheep at some future time, even though the enemy will invade to break them up taking them and their king with them into captivity.
Micah Chapter 3
Here Micah is speaking specifically to those who form the government of the House of Jacob as well as their princes of the land. He accuses them of presuming that they are above judgement because of their positions. In no uncertain terms he tells them they hate the good and love the evil. In their desire to better themselves and erect beautiful buildings for their city they oppress the poor. Micah uses a metaphor to point out that in fact they are behaving as cannibals in verses 2 and 3. The oppression of the people is so bad as to leave them emaciated and in such poor health they suffer a variety of diseases and disorders which bring premature death. These verses are not literal in any way as the children of Israel have never been cannibalistic like the heathen. With the oppressed people unable to work, the prosperity of the land fails and the leaders cry out to the Lord. The Lord, however, is so appalled at their continued failing to do that which is righteous he refuses to listen to them and turns his face away from them.
Verses 5 and 7 attack the supposed prophets who only cause the people to stumble and fall. They fail to feed them physically just as much as they fail to feed them spiritually. Therefore, no matter how much the sun is shining it shall be as night time to them. They will have no vision, no understanding of the future to the extent the sun has set over them. Blessings they received in the past are now denied them. The prophets will be so embarrassed they will not speak of anything sacred because they realise they have not received any indication from the Lord as to what will truly happen next.
Micah speaks forthrightly about himself speaking again to the government officials and the aristocracy that he is fully empowered by the spirit of the Lord with justice and might to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin. “Listen, you leaders, you abhor judgement and twist the truth right out of justice. You built Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity.” In other words, they used the people as slaves, working long hours with heavy and hard labour over many years. It is likely the builders’ wages were on the poverty line too. In their weakness they may well have fallen and suffered broken bones; they cut themselves severely on the masonry as to lose their skin; they endured accidents with the tools severing limbs, or parts of limbs, thus fulfilling the metaphor of verses 2 and 3.
The leaders had a habit of judging the people according to their paypackets and the bribes they received. The priests taught according to their stipend and even the prophets would only divine as long as they were paid a handsome fee. They then have the audacity to call upon the name of the Lord assuming He is with them, blissfully believing that no harm can ever come their way.
Therefore, says Micah, Zion shall become as a ploughed field, Jerusalem destroyed to become ruinous heaps, as well as the stronghold of the house like the idolatrous altars in the high places of the forest.
Micah Chapter 4
Metaphorically speaking mountains in biblical prophecy are the great nations of the world while the hills are the smaller nations whose contribution to world politics are considerably less than the bigger nations. Standing on a high point on a clear day one can see for hundreds of miles a vast mountain range. The mountain in the distance may look very close under certain atmospheric conditions. For example, it is possible to walk from the West Hill of Hastings in Sussex, over the East Hill and on to Fairlight Glen, passing Ecclesbourne Glen on the way. Once over the East Hill one can see more hills and yet more hills. You reach a point where the coastguard station is clearly visible and looks a comparatively short distance away – yet it proves so elusive as you toil up one side of a hill and down the other only to discover there are yet more hills between you and the ever elusive coastguard station. So it is with biblical prophecy. Micah was undoubtedly standing on one mountain (in a vision) and viewing an extensive mountain range. He could not see the vast valleys and plains which separated them. Like St Paul hundreds of years later, who thought Christ would return soon, Micah possibly presumed the Lord’s coming to earth would be soon.
“In the last days” announces Micah the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established in the top of the mountains and it shall be exalted above the hills and people shall flow unto it. Two of the greatest nations on earth today are Great Britain and the United States of America. The capital of Great Britain, London, has been a world centre for hundreds of years. Like the parable of the mustard seed which grew into a fruitful tree, many fowl have come to lodge within its branches. What the parable doesn’t say is that some of these fowl will peck the poor tree to pieces.
Verse 2 sheds a different light in that the forecast of the people flowing into it are all of one mind, that is, to seek the Lord our God and to learn of His ways. In verse 1 the people flowing up to the mountain of the Lord are not particularly interested in the ways of the Lord; they come for welfare benefits as much as anything, although not all are fraudulent by any means and genuinely come for reasons of safety, as well as being prepared to work well and honestly.
Once the kingdom is re-established back in the land of Palestine with Jerusalem as the capital and the Lord Jesus Christ has been given the throne of David by God himself (Luke 1.v 32) then the kingdom will flourish greatly for the Lord will bring true justice to the world, keeping heathen nations in their place. Israel will be the example, the true servant-nation, to the world in proving the Lord’s ways to be the healthiest, the most peace loving and the most prosperous. Because the warmongers will be subdued (Satan, at this time, being chained for 1,000 years) men will forge swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks, since war will no longer occur.
Then, everyone will own their own property and enjoy the fruits thereof, nobody being afraid of anything as in the past; all will be peaceful for one reason and one reason only. The Lord of hosts has said so!
Verse 5 says all people will walk everyone in the name of his god and we (Israel) will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever. Could it be that it takes the Lord, the King of Israel, with His chosen servant-nation 1,000 years to convert the rest of the world? Then Satan will be released from his bondage to test the people for a while. (Rev. 20: 7-9)
Nonetheless, before all this happens God will re-gather His Israel people from the four quarters of the earth, those who are lame, and otherwise disabled, those who have felt compelled to emigrate to other countries where they believed they would be better off as well as those whom the Lord himself has purposely afflicted for one reason or another. The lame will be few, and those cast afar off will be a strong nation, the Lord will reign over them from Mount Zion for ever and ever.
The tower of the flock, ie the watchmen, have been the stronghold of the daughter of Zion. The daughter is a branch of a family. Ten tribed Israel after their escape from the Assyrians found their way across Europe and into the Scandinavian countries and became a great nation and a company of nations. Always there have been those who understood their identity and endeavoured to keep to the strait paths both as individuals and for the sake of the nation.
Then, having declared the good news Micah enquires of the people as to why they are crying out loud. What has happened to your king that he does not help you, or where are the counsellors to offer you strength and comfort in your affliction by Babylon. Now you are in pain as a woman in labour bringing forth a child. You must suffer this pain because of your transgressions so go forth out of the city and live in the field. The ‘field’ here are the resting places along the way to Babylon. Eventually you will reach Babylon from where you will be delivered. There the Lord will redeem you from your enemies. Micah in effect is telling the people they must suffer for their sin but to put a brave face on it and to give of their best.
A time comes when the enemy (Esau) is determined to do battle against Israel for once and for all. The opposing nations are convinced they can beat her down yet they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord neither do they understand his counsel. To their surprise and dismay they will be gathered like sheaves of wheat for the threshing floor.
The instruction to rise and thresh is given to the daughter of Zion (ten-tribed Israel) who will be given supernatural strength to beat them down, the glory of which they will consecrate to the Lord.
Micah Chapter 5
Micah having described the future kingdom and mentioned the Babylonian captivity projects himself forward into the last days specifically the battle of Armageddon. He sees the gathering bands of marauding robbers who are about to attack the Israel people and who will smite the Lord at his trial with a rod on the cheek. Then he returns to an earlier time when out of Bethlehem, formerly known as Ephratah, will come the birth of the son of God, the Saviour, our kinsman redeemer.
Even though Bethlehem is one of the smaller towns of Judah, the son of God has been from of old, from the beginning of time. He will allow them to be taken prisoners in order to punish them to such an extent they long for a return to the former days of when they enjoyed prosperity through having followed His laws and those who have been separated from their brethren will return to them.
Then in the kingdom age they will be supreme because they gain their strength by feeding on the living bread and the Lord’s name will be great world-wide. He shall be the peaceful leader that when the Assyrians attack again and rampage throughout the land and possess their palaces then Israel will be given the strength to raise up seven shepherds and eight principal men. That is the priests and the governing authorities will have the power to overcome them and slay the inhabitants of the land as well as the ancient lands of Nimrod.
Meanwhile, those of Jacob scattered afar off are like the dew of the morning and bring refreshment and blessing to the heathen peoples they have subdued. On the contrary we have also been as a lion among the beasts of the forest and as a young lion among the flocks of sheep. Both Australia and New Zealand have brought blessing to the aboriginal people and the maori, yet, we have trodden them down by overcoming them and implementing our own culture upon them. Indeed as in Psalm 2: 8 and 9, “ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for a possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces as a potter’s vessel.”
Yet Australia has apologised to its aborigines for taking their children from them of years gone by, presuming to give them a better life, unaware of the psychological damage they were causing. While New Zealand has taken lands, yet we have given their children the same education as our own. We have paid hundreds of millions of dollars to various tribes in compensation for past wrongs.
The Lord promises that our hand will overpower the adversary and our enemies will be cut off.
“In that day” saith the Lord, ie after Armageddon we will lose our homes and our chariots, that is, all our modern transport, our cities will be cut off and our authorities will be thrown down. All your witchcrafts, images and idols will be destroyed. No more will you worship those things you have crafted. All groves which have been planted close to the Lord’s altars will be uprooted and cities destroyed. Furthermore, the Lord will take vengeance on the heathen with anger and fury such as they have never experienced before.
Micah Chapter 6
In this chapter Micah calls the people to listen to what the Lord has to say to his errant House of Israel and calls on the Lord God to strive with the great nations and let the little nations hear his voice also.
Listen, O House of Israel, you who are the Lord’s controversy, though you be strong foundations for the world politically the Lord is far from pleased with you and He will plead with you.
God asks them what He has done to them that has caused them to wander away from His laws. Has he been too strict with them that they are exhausted. “Tell me”, he says, “I rescued you from slavery in Egypt and redeemed you giving you Moses, Aaron and Miriam to instruct you. Remember who Balak king of Moab consulted and how Balaam answered so that you might know the righteousness of the Lord.”
The people ask how they should come before God. Should they bow down before him with burnt offerings, with heifers, thousands of rams or tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Should they sacrifice their eldest child for their sins?
Micah tells them that God has already shown them which is to be fair and merciful and to walk humbly with Him. The Lord cries out to the city and the wise understand, hear the rod and who has appointed it. The rod is none other than the law of the Lord through Moses. There are still treasures of wickedness in your wicked house as well as underweight measures, all of which are abominable. Do you think I am going to count them pure with the cheating balances and with the false weights. It is the rich men who are full of violence, the inhabitants have lied with their back teeth and been deceitful with their words.
Therefore, you will become extremely ill with epidemics with which I will strike you to desolate you because of your gross sin. You will eat but still be hungry. You will sow your crops but be unable to reap because you are servants. You will tend the olives but the oil will not be yours, neither the sweet wine will you be allowed to drink.
All this because you have followed the laws of Omri and walked in the ways of Ahab. So will I make you desolate to the point where you will be reduced to much derision. You will be nothing more than a laughing stock.
Micah Chapter 7
In his final chapter Micah has become depressed and distressed at the state of his people who have plainly disregarded the messages he has received from the Lord God Almighty.
“Woe is me!” he begins, for he feels like the last few grapes on the vine after the harvest. These grapes left for the grape-gleaners, the poor of the land, who cannot afford to buy the first fruits. Micah longs for the days of the rich harvest. There is no one upright he claims. The righteous are gone from the land. Those who are there are so corrupt they lie in wait for the blood of whom they can find. The princes, judges and the leaders are all charging extortionate fees for their services. As they plan their misdeeds they keep it quiet so that no-one can accuse them. They are dangerous men with such a sharpness of desire as to be wounding as a prickly thorn hedge. Nonetheless there are watchmen who know more about them than they realise and soon they will be visited by the oppressor for their vile deeds which will cause them to be utterly confused.
Micah sends out a warning to the people generally. Don’t put your trust in friends, nor confide to the guides. Maintain silence even from your wife who lies close to you. Even your sons and daughters will betray you, as well as sons-in-law and daughters-in-law.
See Matthew 10. 35-36. And Luke 12.53 Jesus confirms the words of Micah – “a man’s enemies are of his own household.”
Micah gives guidance to the people by saying he himself will look to the Lord and will wait for the God of his salvation who will hear him. He warns the enemy not to waste time rejoicing at his transgressions because he knows that when he falls he will get up again, and even when he is covered with confusion, that is sitting in darkness, the Lord will enlighten him. Nevertheless he knows that when he has sinned he must bear the indignation of the Lord. Whatever the penalty he trusts God to be with him and bring him once again into the light to appreciate and understand the righteousness of God which is supreme.
As for the enemy who witnesses his salvation, he will be so ashamed of his earlier taunts, “where is the Lord your God?” and Micah will see her punishment as she is trodden down like the mud in the street.
The Assyrians, however, are closing in and they will come to take the Captain and leave the land completely desolate because of their waywardness and refusal to change from their sinfulness.
Micah calls on the Lord to feed his people with the rod. That is to teach them the law for they are the sheep of his pasture. Let them feed in the pleasant places of Bashan and Gilead as in past generations. God promises to show them marvellous things just as when they were taken from Egypt.
Other nations will be amazed if not somewhat afraid as they refuse to speak about it and feign deafness. They lick the dust like the snakes and come out of their holes like worms because of their fear of the Lord and fear of his people.
Micah rejoices in the goodness of God as he states in question form who is a pardoning God like thee and overlooks the transgressions of those left of his heritage – his chosen flock. He says that God does not keep his anger for ever but much prefers to be merciful. He assures the people that God will turn to them again with compassion, suppressing their sins and casting them into the depths of the sea. The Lord God will indeed see that His promises of old to Abraham and Jacob will be brought to fruition because He swore to the fathers of ancient times.
Conclusion
Micah alternates between the promise of the best to come in the distant future by means of Christ’s return to earth and the coming invasion by Assyria in the near future. Repeatedly he points out the transgressions of the people. They failed to understand Micah’s teaching to the point they disbelieved him and expected blessings from the Lord which never came.
Some of the more sharp business dealers are so greedy as to covet goods of the less fortunate and steal by legal means regardless of the hardship they impose. They think nothing of robbing the innocent. Those governing the land are riddled with the lust of their own power hating that which is good and revelling in the evil. Isaiah (5: 20) pointed out to them “woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!.
Micah is full of the glories of Israel and their fulfilment of justice and peace under the literal reign of the Lord Jesus Christ and he talks about the coming king from Bethlehem. He talks of those of Israel scattered afar off at the opposite ends of the earth. “Listen, O isles, unto me (Isaiah 49:1) and hearken ye people from far.”
Throughout this prophecy Micah is telling the people the Lord has a controversy with them. They question at one time what offerings they should bring to appease their God but offerings are not what the Lord requires but to follow His laws, to do justly, and walk humbly with Him. He warns them again and again of the coming Assyrian invasion and to a lesser extent of the coming invasion by Babylon to the House of Judah in Jerusalem.
The whole of their sin is centred around their failure to follow the Law of the Lord, which is nothing less than the rod of correction. So it is with us today. The Christian west has failed to live up to the high and uncompromising standards of God’s divine law.
Blatantly we have gone in for same-sex marriages and civil unions to the point where these people are also allowed to adopt children. Two days after the first same-sex marriage in Christchurch, the earthquake struck. Yet our people will harden their hearts today just as they did thousands of years ago. Murderers are sent to prison for “life” which means little more than 17– 20 years. Silly members of the public consider it barbaric to send them to the gallows failing to appreciate that the Lord God almighty knows what is best for society. This is a divine law to rid the nation of such evil and protect the people. Those who have been victims of murderers out on bail can never understand why our justice system is so warped.
We have leaders today who are just as corrupt as in Micah’s day. Be the isles of the north or here in the south governments take by force houses and lands to make way for bigger and better road systems often with less than adequate compensation.
Safety measures are compromised in order to save money. Staffing cuts are made to the point where nurses, doctors, inspectors in all facets of industry are unable to fulfil their roles adequately. Their reports are ignored and often heads of departments claim they have not sighted such documents. In the event of disasters such as Erebus, Pike River, and structural engineering faults etc., lawyers pit their wits to the point where blame is inadequately laid, the perpetrators of poor safety standards are not held accountable and the faults continue unabated.
Our education system struggles not only with oversized classes but with children who have been psychologically damaged – often through poor parenting by divorce, and/or financial mismanagement, – and who cannot control either their anger or their desire for attention, suffering lack of concentration which does not enable them to learn.
Successive governments have achieved nothing in curbing the social ills of the day such as drinking, gambling and drugs, all of which contribute to domestic violence. And what has happened to our once booming industries? Everything now bears a label ‘made in Taiwan’ or ‘made in China’! Giant chain stores are gobbling each other up at a great rate of knots, till eventually the monopoly will be entirely under the control of one organisation! – the New World Order?
Providing homes for our young people is proving ever more difficult as house prices rocket and no government is able (or willing) to solve the problem.
Sadly, it is no different today with our leaders and politicians than it was in those far off days of Micah. Like the children of Israel of old we too fail to fully appreciate our sin and suffer the loss of blessings the Lord would so like to pour out on us.
“Even so, come Lord Jesus “ Revelation 22:20 End
