articlesforchristians

Author

• Micah
• Micah means “He who is like Yahweh”

Date

• 704-696 B.C.

Theme

• The greatness of God’s compassion
  • Micah 7:18(NKJV) Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He
    delights in mercy.

Purpose

• Micah prophesied to both the northern and southern kingdoms; Jerusalem the capital of the southern kingdom Judah and Samaria the capital of the northern kingdom Israel.
• He was popular among the common people of the land.
• Ever since the divided kingdom began, Samaria negatively influenced Judah by setting up many high places of worship.
• Micah prophesied of God impending judgment because of false worship. He was a contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea.

Content

• Judgment against Samaria and Jerusalem: Micah 1:1-16
  • Micah 1:2,3(NKJV) Hear, all you peoples! Listen, O earth, and all that is in it! Let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, The Lord from His holy temple. For behold, the LORD is coming out of His place; He will come down And tread on the high places of the earth.
• Leadership guilty of oppression: Micah 2:1-3:12
  • Micah 3:1(NKJV) And I said: “Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know justice?
• Divine restoration: Micah 4:1-5:15
  • Micah 4:1-2 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
• Judgment and mercy: Micah 6:1-7:20
  • Micah 7:19-20 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

Christ in the Book of Micah

• King Jesus
  • Micah 2:13(NKJV) The one who breaks open will come up before them; They will break out,
    Pass through the gate, And go out by it; Their king will pass before them, With the LORD at their head.”
  • Micah 5:2(NKJV) But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth
    are from of old, From everlasting.”