Many of the righteous kings of Judah were content to allow the local shrines on high places remain. Some removed them. The people were presumably worshiping Yahweh at these places, but Yahweh had forbid
Continue reading...Micah mentions a number of kings during whose tenure he prophesied. Kings come and go. Presidents come and go. What remains firm is Yahweh’s word through His prophets, a word that supersedes
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Micah: Steadfast Love 18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Micah: Shepherd’s Staff 11 A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended. 12 In that day they will come to you, from Assyria and
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Micah: Where Is Your God? 8 Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. 9 I will bear the indignation
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Micah: The Day of Our Watchmen Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Micah: Civil Religion 9 The voice of the Lord cries to the city— and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: “Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it! 10 Can I forget
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Micah: Real Repentance 1 Hear what the Lord says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. 2 Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the Lord,
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Micah: Militant Peacemakers 7 Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which delay not for a man nor wait
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Micah: Messiah’s Leadership Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek. 2 But you, O
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Micah: Then, Now and Then 6 In that day, declares the Lord, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away and those whom I have afflicted; 7 and the lame I
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Micah: No Fear and a Fig Tree It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Micah: The Straight Crooked 9 Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight, 10 who build
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Micah: Our Daily Bread 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,
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Micah: Wormtongue or His Tongue? 6 “Do not preach”—thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.” 7 Should this be said, O
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