LORD’S DAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25
Micah 2:1
Psalm 47

"…the LORD…is
a great King…"

INDICTMENT AND DELIVERANCE

Micah having denounced both Samaria and Jerusalem for their idolatries then proceeded to indict them on other counts. The crimes were exposed here for our admonition:
1. Plotting and conspiracy night and day (Mic 2:1).
2. Encroachment by force and fraud (Mic 2:2).

To these devourers of the weak, God answered with poetic justice. When the Assyrian captors came into the land, would they not do the same to these wicked landlords who had swallowed up others? It would be a day of brutality over the brutal.

In Micah 2:6-7, the scornful reply to the prophet’s threat: Don’t prate to us with such idle talk. We would not be embarrassed. Jehovah won’t be so impatient to do such things. Had He not promised to deal with Israel graciously, whose ways were upright? Micah countered: "You strip the garments off the back of unsuspecting peaceful wayfarers like taking booty in war. You drive women away from their children. For a tiny thing you exact an exorbitant pledge" (Mic 2:8-10). Such demands were like the Shylockian pound of flesh (Shakespeare).

What a contrast was Micah’s message with the false prophet’s talk of wine and strong drink. Can a drunkard speak God’s Word?

Despite the condemnations, the prophet saw a day when God the Good Shepherd will gather His children like the sheep of Bozrah (a sheep centre). The Messiah in the role of "the breaker" (Mic 2:13, that butts open the door) will demolish every obstacle. Jehovah will go before His flock to lead them to peace. What grace, what mercy, that cannot be manifested but by a loving Father. So does He deal with His wayward Church today.

THOUGHT: "Thy Blood was shed for me."
PRAYER: Thou hast died for me. My life belongs to Thee, O Lord.

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