The book of Micah deals almost entirely with personal religion and social morality. For the next seven days we will read one chapter a day.
Outline
General Prediction of Judgment, Ch. 1—3
The Coming Messianic Kingdom, Ch. 4 –5
The Lord’s Controversy with His people and Final Mercy, Ch. 6 – 7
(Unger's Bible Handbook)
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Book of Micah Challenge – Day 17 Micah 1 (Please click on the blue links to be directed to the Readings)
The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. (Micah 1:1)
The prophet Micah lived around the same time as the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 1:1). God uses different types of people to speak to His people. While Isaiah was a court poet, Micah was a rustic from an obscure village. Isaiah was a statesman; Micah, and evangelist and social reformer. Isaiah was a voice to kings; Micah, a herald for God to the common people.
We don’t have to compare ourselves to other people in the sharing of the Gospel. The Lord Jesus places all of us in his church to fulfill his Great Commission. “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:19-20)
May the Lord richly bless you!
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Book of Micah Challenge – Day 18 Micah 2 (Please click on the blue links to be directed to the Readings)
Woe to those who plan iniquity,
to those who plot evil on their beds!
At morning’s light they carry it out
because it is in their power to do it.
2 They covet fields and seize them,
and houses, and take them.
They defraud people of their homes,
they rob them of their inheritance. (Micah 2:1-2)
God is faithful even when his people are not. He wants righteousness from his people. Are they willing to convert from a life of self-centeredness to a life of love of God and of their fellowmen? Had anyone done you some injustice? God knows about it, and he will take care of it. “Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! (V. 1)”. Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay, says the Lord (Romans 12:19).”
May the Lord richly bless you!
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Book of Micah Challenge – Day 19 Micah 3 (Please click on the blue links to be directed to the Readings)
And I said:
Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
Is it not for you to know justice?—
2 you who hate the good and love the evil,
who tear the skin from off my people
and their flesh from off their bones,
3 who eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron. (Micah 3:1-3)
Only the return of our Lord Jesus will put an end to the madness of corrupt leadership. One of the worst headlines in the news a few days ago was: Haitian officials accused of embezzling $2 billion in loans from Venezuela. That someone would steal money from the Haitian people, a people who suffer so much, is incomprehensible. Looking at such injustice, we are pushed to ask, “O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult (Psalm 94:3)” “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord (Romans 12:19)
May the Lord richly bless you!
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Book of Micah Challenge – Day 20 Micah 4 (Please click on the blue links to be directed to the Readings)
3 He will judge between many peoples
and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore.
4 Everyone will sit under their own vine
and under their own fig tree,
and no one will make them afraid,
for the Lord Almighty has spoken. (Micah 4:1-4)
We live in a time of fear. Nations are fighting against nations, civil wars, and even threats of nuclear annihilation hang over humanity. How should the Christian view this situation? We will do whatever in our capacity to work toward peace, even world peace. But in the end, we know only the Prince of Himself can bring peace to mankind. The prophet Micah saw it, and prophesized:
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore.
Come quickly Lord Jesus!
May the Lord richly bless you!
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Book of Micah Challenge – Day 21 Micah 5 (Please click on the blue links to be directed to the Readings)
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,
from you shall come forth for me
one who is to be ruler in Israel,
whose coming forth is from of old,
from ancient days. (Micah 4:2)
Since we are approaching the Christmas season, it is important to remember that the birth, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus are the greatest events in the history of humanity. Hundreds of years before Christ’s birth, Micah prophesied the exact town where Jesus was going to be born. Nothing was left to chance, God put to fruition his plan of salvation for mankind. Jesus is the Savior of the world.
May the Lord richly bless you!
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Book of Micah Challenge – Day 22 Micah 6 (Please click on the blue links to be directed to the Readings)
6 “With what shall I come before the Lord,
and bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
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?”
8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:6-8)
Can people try too hard pleasing God? No matter how hard we try, we will never measure up to God’s holiness. The only recourse is to surrender our lives to the Lord, and to accept as a gift the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross for us. We must remember that Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (Jon 14:6).
May the Lord richly bless you!
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We have come to the end of the Book of Micah Challenge. Tomorrow we start the Book of Malachi Challenge - 1 chapter a day.
Book of Micah Challenge – Day 25 Micah 7 (Please click on the blue links to be directed to the Readings)
18 Who is a God like you,
who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy.
19 You will again have compassion on us;
you will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:18-19)
Unless we understand the reality of sin and the necessity for God to punish sin, we cannot have a thankful heart. A thankful heart comes from a forgiven heart. “Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression?”
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5)
May the Lord richly bless you!