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*Who is like **יהוהּ**?*
*When **יהוהּ** speaks from His holy temple!
(v.1, 2)* What is יהוהּ like?
What is your concept of what He is like?
Who would you liken Him to?
There is no one like Him. (*Exodus 15:11** */“Who is like You among the gods, O Lord? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders?/).
Who is like יהוהּ?
That is what the name “Micah” means.
He closes his writing by exclaiming (*Mic 7:18* /who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession?
He does not retain His anger forever; because He delights in unchanging love./).
Micah - one of the Minor Prophets - it is prophecy, a message from יהוהּ!
What makes a man prophesy?
The Spirit of God - but יהוהּ gives a man His message for a reason [*Amos 3:7** */Surely the Lord God does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets./].
יהוהּ was about to do something!
The nation of Israel would soon be no more!
If you knew that N.Z.
was coming to an end would you not have an urgency to speak to the people of God and what He requires, try and turn them from imminent disaster?
Micah's message concerned Samaria (capital of Israel) and Jerusalem (capital of Judah).
יהוהּ showed Micah this message visually - he actually saw it taking place so he could describe it with vividness - the message was real to him!
Micah was a prophet who portrayed יהוהּ to the people and He was far different to the concept that was around in his day.
He portrayed a God of judgement, righteousness, justice, holiness yet compassionate and full of loving-kindness, restoring His people with whom He had made a covenant.
*- *Micah was from Judah, he began prophesying 17-18 years after Isaiah.
Isaiah was prophesying in Judah and Hosea in Israel, but Micah’s message was addressed to both nations.
Whereas Isaiah was a statesman; Micah was an evangelist and social reformer.
Isaiah was a voice to kings; Micah, a herald for God to the common people.
Isaiah addressed himself to political questions; Micah dealt almost entirely with personal religion and social morality.
He was from the country but his ministry was principally to the cities
- It was the 8th century B.C., just before the fall of Israel to the Assyrians who also invaded Judah pressing right up to the walls of Jerusalem itself.
Micah’s name is an index to his character – “Who is like יהוהּ?”
To him God was everything.
He had an exalted view of the holiness, righteousness and compassion of God.
Primarily he denounced ethical sins – the rich were oppressing the poor, merchants cheated their customers, the religious and judicial leaders were corrupt, and the true prophets were silenced.
Many people were so insensitive to the problem that they believed that God would still defend them (cf.
church of Laodocia who said *Rev 3:17* “/I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and did not know that they were wretched and miserable and poor and blind and nake/d.)
– Just like today!
Micah’s message reminded the people of the consequences of national sin – he foretold the fall of both Samaria and Jerusalem and even the Babylonian exile.
*v.1* - The message is not Micah’s - it is the WORD OF יהוה HIMSELF!
Let us therefore take heed and receive it as such (cf. 1 Thess 2:/13// //when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe./).
The message from יהוה begins pronouncing judgment upon Samaria (v.2-7).
Samaria fell to the Assyrians in (722 B.C.) during the period of Micah’s ministry - he saw his prophecy fulfilled before his very eyes – the Assyrians captured Israel and led them into exile.
The city of Samaria was founded by Omri (1 Kings 16:24) about 857 B.C.
So prosperous did this new city become that it soon gave its name to the entire northern kingdom, of which it was the capital.
This splendid city would become a heap of rubble and her stones rolled down the hill of Shemer upon which it was built.
This happened in 722 B.C. when Sargon of Assyria took the city.
In his Khorsabad annals Sargon says: "At the beginning of my rule, in my first year of reign . . .
Samerinai [the people of Samaria] . . .
27,290 . . .
who lived therein, I carried away.
..." (cf.
v.6,7) - When יהוה speaks from His holy temple His word does not fail!
*V.2* Micah's message concerned Samaria and Jerusalem but who is it addressed to? "Peoples", "the earth" - this is a message of judgement - Israel and Judah reaped the consequences for their sin BUT it is a lesson for us.
יהוהּ is testifying against the whole earth!! Jesus is coming!
Coming in judgement!
Judgement is coming!
He will tread down the high and lofty - the great, the proud, and the important - none can stand before Him!
Even the mountains well melt before Him!
The most lasting and secure things will be shaken - there will be no place of refuge to be found.
Man calls for the mountains to hide him (*Revelation 6:15-17** */Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; and they ~*said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”/) but there will be no hiding!
This prophecy concerns Israel and Judah but its message is for all of us!
The small judgement that befell them pictures a greater judgement to come on all.
We should heed the lesson of what Israel went through.
The KING of the universe is testifying!
We must listen!
He goes on to describe the judgement against Israel - how is this a witness against the nations?
- it seems more like He is testifying against Israel and Judah.
God’s dealings with His people are His witness to the nations.
We are to take note of יהוה’s dealings with His chosen people and learn from them.
If יהוה is bringing judgment on His own people, to the people of God, how much more will He bring judgement on the heathen nations who have ignored Him! Judgment starts with God’s people (1 Peter 4:17) - the nations are to see, take heed - the lesson inherent in God’s judgement of Israel is /repentance/ - if God judged them, He will not spare us, therefore let us turn to Him in repentance before judgement comes (cf.
Luke 13:1-5; Rom 11:19-22).
*יהוהּ** is coming in judgement!
Who can stand?
(v.3, 4)* *v.3* - The reason we are to take heed is that יהוה is coming!
God is coming from His place to earth!
He is going to intervene in the affairs of man!
He is not going to allow us to continue on in our own way.
יהוה Himself is coming down!
Let the nations tremble!
Let the earth quake!
(cf.
*Psalm 97*/ The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice …. righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.
Fire goes before Him and burns up His adversaries round about.
His lightnings lit up the world; the earth saw and trembled.
The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
The heavens declare His righteousness, and all the peoples have seen His glory.
Let all those be ashamed who serve graven images/).
יהוה will trample on the high places - the high places are where idolatrous worship of fertility cults were carried out.
יהוה is coming trampling the wickedness of man (cf.
*Revelation 19:15** */from His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty./).
He is coming in judgement!
Indeed!
Heed, Oh peoples!
*v.4* - יהוה Himself is coming down in judgement!
How terrified the earth is at His coming.
It reels, it trembles, it melts - not even the age old mountains can remain before the LORD; none can stand in His presence.
The mountains melt like was when יהוה treads upon them (cf.
v.3) - all the high, mighty and proud will be brought to nought (cf.
Isaiah 40:4, 5).
The valleys will be split at the coming of the LORD - the earth will be in turmoil, great earthquakes and terrifying geological turmoil.
Things that we had assumed would always be, the permanent age old mountains, are no more.
The solid and secure turns to liquid and runs rapidly from its place.
All that we relied upon will prove vain hope (cf.
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