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From:
Short Sketches of the Books of the Bible
By:
Nicolas Simon
The Lord speaks in this book from His holy temple, addressing all people of the earth (
Mic. 1:2
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. (Micah 1:2)
). We have similar expressions in Psalm 11, Habakkuk 2, and in Revelation 15-16. When the Lord speaks from His Holy Temple,
“let all the earth keep silence before him”
(
Hab. 2:20
20
But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. (Habakkuk 2:20)
).
Jehovah will not always remain on high; He will come forth out of His place to
“tread upon the high places of the earth”
(
Mic. 1:3
3
For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. (Micah 1:3)
). Samaria would become a heap and evil would come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem—the Assyrian invasion as detailed in Isaiah (
Mic. 1:4-9
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.
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?
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.
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.
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. (Micah 1:4‑9)
).
The second chapter addresses the moral state of the people, while the third takes up the princes and prophets of Israel. Zion would be plowed as a field and Jerusalem would become heaps (
Mic. 3:12
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. (Micah 3:12)
)—as was the case upon its destruction by Titus and Hadrian.
In the fourth chapter, we move from the destruction of Jerusalem to her millennial glory!
“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”
(
Mic. 4:1
1
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. (Micah 4:1)
).
In the fifth chapter, we have introduced the Judge of Israel (
Mic. 5:1
1
Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. (Micah 5:1)
; verses one and three are continuous, while verse two is parenthetical). Because the Judge of Israel was smitten on the cheek with a rod, Israel must be given up for a time. She must pass through deep travail and be brought to a state suited for the manifestation of her King (
Mic. 5:1, 3
1
Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. (Micah 5:1)
3
Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. (Micah 5:3)
). In that day, He will feed His flock, and when the latter-day Assyrian—the king of the North—comes into the land, He will be their peace (
Mic. 5:5
5
And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. (Micah 5:5)
).
In the parenthesis between verses 1 and 3, we have a detail concerning the Messiah not found elsewhere in Scripture:
“But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting”
(
Mic. 5:2
2
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. (Micah 5:2)
;
Matt. 2:5
5
And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it is written by the prophet, (Matthew 2:5)
).
In the final two chapters, Jehovah resumes His pleading with His people:
“Hear ye now what the Lord saith; ... for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel”
(
Mic. 6:1-2
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. (Micah 6:1‑2)
). Chapter six begins as a dialog between Jehovah and the remnant, and in the seventh chapter the prophet speaks for the remnant:
“I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness”
(
Mic. 7:9
9
I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. (Micah 7:9)
).
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