Study in the Book of Micah,2

                                            Study From the Book of Micah,2

Today is the second part of the series of this Old Testament book of Micah. We  study two biblical principles in chapter one of the book.

Chapter one deals with the judgment of the Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, and Jerusalem, the capital of the southern kingdom of Judah due to their sins.

It is like a court, God told Micah the verdict that the judgement is evidential  based on the evidence of  the sins of His people whicha are full. Chapter one describes the sins committed against  God , as the Israelites refused to repent, and chapter two describes the sins of the people of Israel against each other, with social injustice among them.

Sins against God as the Israelites had forsaken Him and instead they turned to worship pagan gods with sexual adulteries rituals connected.  

Principle 1 (1:7)  “And all her craved images shall be beaten to pieces, And all her pay as a harlot shall be burned with fire; And all her idols I will lay desolate, For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot, And they shall return to the pay of a harlot. “    

Lesson 1: The metaphor here is an unfaithful wife who turned against her husband and went for another man. It is the spiritual adulteries. However the picture here is not a just as it, but the word idols here has a sense of disguising images of explicit sexual nature of these idols. So these idols will be used by the Assyrians in their own debased temples.

In our time, any religions   deny that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord are regarded as pagan religions and usually these religions are connected to sexual immorality rituals.  

Principle 2 (1:8): “Therefore I will wail and howl.... And a mourning like the ostriches.”

Lesson 2 : Here Micah had a sympathetic heart  for his people. He knew that the judgment of his nation of Samaria will happen after many years of his prophecy and anyway,he was not living there and about two hundred years for Judah after he dies, but that did not prevent him from mourning before God asking for His mercy, however because the Israelites  did not repent, the judgment had to come to pass.