Micah 2
Outline:
I. \\#Mic 1:1-16\\ A Nation Destroyed
A. \\#Mic 1:1\\ An Introduction
B. \\#Mic 1:2-7\\ The Coming Judge
C. \\#Mic 1:8-9\\ Micah’s Reaction
D. \\#Mic 1:10-15\\ The Sin Belt
II. \\#Mic 2:1-13\\ Loss of the Land
A. \\#Mic 2:1-5\\ Sins and Consequences
B. \\#Mic 2:6-13\\ A Message to the People
III. \\#Mic 3:1-12\\ Judgment on the Leaders
IV. \\#Mic 4:1-13\\ A Bright Future
Notes:
I. \\#Mic 1:1-16\\ A Nation Destroyed
II. \\#Mic 2:1-13\\ Loss of the Land
A. \\#Mic 2:1-5\\ Sins and Consequences
1. \\#1-2\\ Their Sins
a. \\#1\\ "Woe to them" - Woe is an extreme sadness
and sorrow that will come due to the coming judgment.
b. This woe will come because the people lay "upon their
beds …devising iniquity" and "they practice it
…when the morning is light."
c. \\#2\\ "they Covent fields …and houses …and take
them," knowing "they oppress a man and his house."
d. It is sad to see how hurtful man can be to another
simply because he can.
2. \\#3\\ God’s Response
a. "I will devise an evil"
(1) God is speaking. He will bring a judgment upon
the people which will be so devastating that it
could only be called "an evil."
(2) Micah is speaking of the Assyrian conquest.
b. "ye shall not remove your necks" - Judah would not
escape from it.
c. "neither shall ye go haughtily" - Haughtiness speaks
of pride.
(1) The implication is that the Jews will be so
outmatched by the Assyrians that they will not
even be able to offer a suitable defense.
(2) Neither will there be anything left in which the
Jews might boast.
3. \\#4-5\\ A Parable of Destruction
a. The people will mourn.
(1) \\#4\\ The people will "lament with a doleful
lamentation."
(2) "We be utterly spoiled." - The people will
acknowledge that they have been completely
destroyed.
b. The land will be removed. All of the statements in
this section indicate that God will remove the land
from Israel during the coming Assyrian conquest.
(1) "he hath changed the portion of my people; how
hath he removed it from me!"
(a) The "he" is God.
(b) God will change the portion of what He had
given to the Jews.
(c) God will remove it from the people.
(d) One must always remember that God placed
conditions on the land when He gave it to
the Jews, conditions which the Jews refused
to obey. Hence, God removed the Jews right
to the land.
(2) "turning away he hath divided our fields"
(a) God, having turned away, had RE-divided
what had been the Jews’ fields.
(b) In the new allotments, the Jews had no
possession.
(3) \\#5\\ "none that shall cast a cord"
(a) In the context, the cord would be a string
or rope that would be used on some kind of
map of the land to mark boundaries.
(b) No one "in the congregation of the Lord"
would be laying down a string for no one
would have a right to the land.
c. God makes it clear by Micah that He was removing the
Jews’ right to the land from Israel for a time
period, a condition which God repeated after the Jews
rejected Christ. However, it should also be noted
that while possession was removed from Israel it was
not given to any others. The land belongs to God and
He has determined that the Jews will possess it when
they will abide by the covenant.
B. \\#Mic 2:6-13\\ A Message to the People
1. \\#6\\ The People’s Response
a. "Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy"
The people do not want to hear God’s warnings.
b. "THAT they shall not take shame"
(1) The word THAT has been added by the translators
because they felt it necessary for the passage
to be understood.
(2) If that is the case, God was saying, "Do not
prophesy to the people SO THAT they will not
be ashamed of their deeds and stop."
(3) God stopped sending preachers and prophets to the
people so that they would not be able to repent.
2. \\#7-11\\ God’s Message
a. \\#7\\ God asks a series of questions all to point out
that He is easily able to plot a much better course
for Israel, but they won’t allow Him to do so.
(1) "is the spirit of the Lord straightened?" - Is
God limited?
(2) "are these his doings?" - Is God the cause of
what is being done?
(3) "do not my words do good to him that walketh
uprightly?" - Is God not the One who would
rather bless?
b. \\#8-9, 11\\ "of late my people is risen up as an
enemy" - Israel acts alike an enemy, either as an
enemy to God or as their own enemy, causing God to
judge them.
(1) \\#8\\ "ye pull off the robe with the garment"
(a) They strip naked those who pass by.
(b) "pass by securely as men averse from war"
The remainder of the verse details that the
victims are people devoted to peace (i.e.,
averse from war).
(2) \\#9\\ "The women of my people have ye cast out"
(a) This is a reference to men divorcing their
wives, casting them out of "their pleasant
homes" and "from their children."
(b) "have ye taken away my glory for ever"
When husbands abuse their authority, they
destroy the glory God intended the home to
display.
(3) \\#11\\ "a man walking in the spirit and
falsehood do lie" -
(a) Men who walk in a lying spirit are made
"the prophet of this people."
(b) Israel does not want to hear a word from
God. \\#Mic 2:6\\
c. \\#10\\ "Arise …depart, for this is not your rest"
(1) This is another reference to the God removing the
land from the Jews. \\#Mic 2:3-4\\
(2) There is no longer any possibility of it being a
land of "rest" for this generation of
Israelites. From the description of God’s
judgments, it will be a land of war and death.
d. \\#12\\ A Good Future Word - This is another single
verse of future prophesy promising a good end for
Israel.
(1) "I will surely assemble …all of thee"
(a) God is speaking as the One who will perform
this promise.
(b) God will one day gather "all" of Jacob, even
the remnant of those ten lost tribes.
(2) "I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah"
As a herd of sheep are allowed to wander in a
wide safe field but are gathered back into one
fold by the shepherd, so will God allow Israel
to be scattered but will one day regather them.
(3) "they shall make great noise by reason of the
multitude of men" - In that day, they will be a
great host.
(4) This prophecy may have had a partial fulfillment
in the Jews being regathered in Israel after the
Babylonian captivity but it has a greater end
time fulfillment which is millennial.
e. \\#13\\ A Bad Present Word - Micah records what the
Assyrians will do in present time.
(1) "The breaker is come" - The Assyrians are the
breakers who are come to destroy and break the
nation.
(2) They "have passed through the gate and are gone
out" - They walk through the gate, probably of
Jerusalem, as though there was no resistance.
(3) "their king shall pass before them" - The
Assyrian king will lead the people to victory
over Israel.
(4) "the Lord on the head of them" - But God will be
the One leading them to defeat Israel.
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