00:00 Introduction and Announcements

00:10 Celebrating Pastor Rod's Anniversary

00:54 Fun Facts About July 12th

02:54 Crumble Cookie Temptations

04:29 Vacation Bible School Preparations

05:24 Introduction to the Book of Micah

05:49 Micah's Prophecies and Judgments

12:26 Hope and Deliverance in Micah

20:15 Micah's Final Messages and Conclusion

25:15 Closing Prayer and Reflections

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another episode

of the daily Bible podcast.

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This one's a little different

because this time I'm solo.

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There's no pastor rod with me today.

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He is away with his bride.

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As they are celebrating

their wedding anniversary.

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I believe it's their

60th wedding anniversary.

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July 12th, 2008, 16 years ago.

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So think back, where were you?

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16 years ago?

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Uh, what did that, uh,

what were you doing?

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I know for me, I was, I was married and

my wife and I were here in the Dallas

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area had just come back up here from.

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The hill country actually spent

a year down there and we were

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up here to, to pursue seminary.

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So I had started at Dallas seminary

and thought I knew everything

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when I really knew nothing.

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And I feel like I'm gonna look back 16

years from now and say, you know what?

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I thought I knew everything

when I really knew nothing.

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So.

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Uh, hopefully not, but we'll see.

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We'll see.

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Anyways, where were you?

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16 years ago?

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What were you doing?

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Pastor rod and his broad Kristin we're

getting married, which is exciting.

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And I looked up on this day in history.

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Uh, and, uh, on, in 2008 they actually

share a wedding university with one

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of the members of the black eyed peas.

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So there you go, pastor, rod, he

got married in Pasadena there.

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I don't know where you and Kristen got

married, but they got married in Pasadena.

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So you and.

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Uh, one of the members of the black

IPS, you guys share an anniversary.

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So congrats on that.

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And a few other things happened, but

nothing massively, nothing as notable as

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pastor, rod in Kristin getting married.

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We're sure.

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Thankful for them.

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Thankful for their marriage,

thankful for their family.

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He had, uh, just glad that they get

some time away, some other things

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in case your curiosity has been

wet now by this history lesson.

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What else happened on July 12th,

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That began on July 12th.

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In 1976, July 12th, 1976.

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So there go, hopefully, uh,

there's no feuding going on.

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In that family right now, but, uh,

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Uh, the rolling stones performed their

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Uh, and then I think everything else is

going to just predate anybody who might

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be listening to this at this point.

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So there you go.

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There's some facts about July 12th,

but we're thankful for pastor, rod and

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Kristen glad they get some time away.

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Uh, to celebrate their marriage 16

years of God's faithfulness there.

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And I know that, uh, They're

looking forward to many more.

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Should the Lord.

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Uh, Terry in his return and allow them to

enjoy those years, work grateful for them.

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Thankful for all that pastor, rod

does for us with leading worship and

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everything that he does for our student

ministry and just I'm grateful for

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everything that he does just behind the

scenes here in the offices from the.

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Kind of administrative side of things

and, and a lot of other things that

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he just has a particular giftedness

in that, uh, That complements

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areas that I'm not as strong in.

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And so he's a great teammate.

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I'm glad that God brought

them into my life.

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And I know that Kristen is glad that

he brought him into her life as well.

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So happy anniversary, pastor,

rod, and Kristen hope you

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guys are having a great time.

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I know they came by a crumble cookie

this morning, which is right by

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our office, which is dangerous.

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Can I just tell you guys it's.

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It's dangerous that

there's a crumble cookie.

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That's now.

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Within, it's not even walking distance.

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It's like you could shuffle there, like

you could, you could army crawl there

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if you needed to it's it's that close.

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And today they're giving away free

chocolate chip cookies, which this is

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a Friday that I'm recording this on.

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So.

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Uh, it doesn't really count because

you can't go there today and ask for

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one as you're listening to this on

Sunday, because they're going to say,

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well, that was on Friday, but anyways,

today on Friday, giving away free

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chocolate chip cookies and not just the

small ones, like these are full blown,

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full sized chocolate chip cookies.

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And on top of that, they're just a little

bit under baked, which makes them perfect

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because they give them to you in the bag.

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They're still warm and you kind

of need a spoon to eat the cookie.

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Like w that's when you know the cookies.

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Good.

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If you need a spoon to eat

the chocolate chip cookie.

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Game over.

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They win.

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So my family showed up at the office.

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We walked over there.

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We got our cookies too.

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I think the Cogans are

doing the same thing.

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I know Kelly got a cookie too.

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And it's, it's just cookie city over

here and it's going to be dangerous.

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It's going to be dangerous.

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Thankfully, they charge a lot

for their cookies normally.

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And so we're just not gonna be

able to afford to go over there

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and get cookies all the time.

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But if they do free cookie days,

That's going to be a problem.

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That's going to be a problem.

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Just letting everybody know

that's going to be a problem.

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But as you listen to this

today, it's not Friday.

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It's Sunday.

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So happy Sunday, everybody.

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Glad that you are with us

at church or planning to be

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there, or you've already come.

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Uh, to church and you are

now on your way back home.

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We, well, maybe not, maybe you're

setting up for what's coming

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because what's coming up this week.

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It comes to Bible.

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Church is vacation Bible,

school VBS, so excited for it.

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So actually today after church, We're

going to be transforming founders

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classical academy from that into a

jungle, it's going to be a totally

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different place when our kids show

up for VBS on Monday night and we

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are going to have a great week.

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It's going to be awesome.

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I heard numbers from mark today.

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Uh, on Friday, that is, I

think we have 80 or 85 kiddos.

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Registered for this event, it's going to

be so great, such a great opportunity for

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us to impact the community, but that's

what we're going to be doing on Sunday.

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We're going to be setting up

our gymnasium for our first.

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Uh, official as a church, at least VBS

at compass Bible church, north Texas.

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So if you're part of that team,

Uh, thank you for all the hard

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work that you've been doing.

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If you're not part of that team, but you

want to stick around and serve on that.

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Uh, to help us.

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I'm sure we could use the extra

hands Sunday, getting that done.

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So happy Sunday.

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And a happy VBS prep day as well.

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All right.

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Well, let's jump into our

Bible reading for the day.

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And we are going to be

in the book of Micah.

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The book of Micah, uh,

the, the whole thing.

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So this is another one of the

situations with this particular

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Bible reading plan where you like.

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Really.

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We had a Psalm that was like

three verses and you're giving

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us seven chapters of prophecy.

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Oh.

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Okay.

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Okay, fine.

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Let's do it.

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Uh, and, and we're going to do it.

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Let's do it.

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Uh, Micah.

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Okay.

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Who was Micah?

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Well, Micah was a prophet

to the Southern kingdom.

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Uh, and when we talk about the prophets in

the old Testament, a lot of times we talk

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about two different classes of profits.

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You have the minor profits and the major

profits, and it's not about their worth.

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It's not about the

quality of their content.

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It's really, it's not even so much about.

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Whether they prophesied during a

significant time or an insignificant time.

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It's not that at all.

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It has to do, and this sounds

simple and it is simple.

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It has to do really with

the size of the book.

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So Micah is a shorter one of

the profits, not the shortest,

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but one of the shorter profits.

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And so he's a.

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A minor prophet in that sense that he

prophesied to the Southern kingdom.

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He was a contemporary of Isaiah

prophesying around the same time.

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And his prophecy spanned.

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Uh, the rains of Jotham.

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Uh, king Jotham who we've read about

recently a has a, not a good dude.

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A has.

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Okay.

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And then Hezekiah.

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Uh, so Micah is prophesying

during those three men.

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Uh, the, the reigns of those

three Kings in Judah there.

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And, uh, and he's prophesying during a

time of relative peace and prosperity.

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Uh, generally speaking,

now it has had some.

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Some turmoil that that comes upon him.

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But, uh, by and large,

there's not a lot going on.

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Uh, that's, that's problematic,

at least for Jotham and Hezekiah.

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Again, he has, has his own issues.

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The book itself kind of alternates between

judgment and the, the forward-looking

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anticipation of deliverance and especially

the, the millennial kingdom here.

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So.

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Uh, as we get into the book that the,

the name Micah means who is like the Lord

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it's, uh, uh, Uh, a word it's a name.

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That means who is like the Lord, who is

like, Uh, Yahweh and that's going to come

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out in Micah chapter seven, verse 18.

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So when we get to Micah chapter

seven, verse 18, he includes a plan

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of his own name in his prophecy.

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There.

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But let's jump into Micah

chapter one, Micah chapter one.

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Uh, for seven verses here comes

God's judgment upon Israel.

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Uh, God is going to bring

judgment for their transgressions.

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Verse five, all this for the

transgressions of Jacob, for

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the sins of the house of Israel.

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What is the transgression of Jacob?

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Is it not Samarria?

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And so, again, we're talking

about, uh, the sins of the Northern

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kingdom, but then he also is

going to say, but you know what?

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It's not just some area.

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It's also the south.

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Look at this.

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He says in verse five, And what

is the high place of Judah?

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Is it not?

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Uh, that's, that's a staggering sentence

because the high places remember

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were places of idolatrous worship.

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Zion or Jerusalem was a mountain.

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It's the mountain of the Lord.

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It's a high place.

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It's an exalted place that was meant to

be the place of the worship of Yahweh.

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But instead it would become the place

of the worship of false gods and idols.

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And so Micah begins talking about Israel,

but he quickly shifts to Judah here.

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And he's going to say, you know, what the

sins of Israel had now infected Judah.

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In fact, that's what

he says in verse nine.

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And he says, her wound is

incurable and it has come to Judah.

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Some areas wound.

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The idolatry of Israel, it was sealed.

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Their fate was sealed and you

know what, it's incurable.

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And unfortunately, man, They're seeing

their idolatry has come down into Judah.

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It's reached the gate of my people.

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Verse nine, all the way down to Jerusalem.

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He goes on here to talk about some of

these other key cities that God was going

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to judge here in Judah inclu, including

lucky in verse 13, the Kesha was a key

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defensive outpost for Judah, but it

was also apparently the gateway for the

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sins of Symeria to infiltrate Judah.

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It was through Lakeesha that it came.

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And so.

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He talks in verse 13, he says,

harness the steeds to the chariots

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inhabitants of the quiche.

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It was the beginning of sin

to the daughter of Zion.

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So again, it was the gateway.

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Through the quiche came the sin that

spread eventually into Judah verse 14.

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Uh, Judah was going to end up

paying tribute that his taxes to

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her invading foes, the Assyrians,

and that's going to happen during

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a hazardous rain specifically.

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And she's going to forfeit the income

that she had enjoyed from the towns that

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would fall under enemy control during a

hazardous rain is we're going to see in

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a few days here and things are horrible.

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They're just bad.

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You've got some Maira.

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You've got, uh, you've got the, the

Syrians that are attacking Judah there.

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And so the king has, is going

to reach out to the us Syrians.

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And he's going to say, Hey, if I

pay you, can you come to my defense?

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And they're going to do it a little bit,

but they're going to kind of deceive.

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It's just a mess.

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And that's what the

prophet is talking about.

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There.

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Verse 14, Jude is going to

end up paying tribute to the

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invading foes, the Assyrians.

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Um, and, and it's not going to be good.

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Verse 15, then the word of the Lord or,

or the word for, for conquer of rather.

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And verse 15 is the same as the

word dis possessor dispossessed.

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So in verse 15, it says

I will bring a conquer.

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I will bring a dispossessed to

you, inhabitants of a Manasseh.

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The glory of Israel shall

come to Agilent now.

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Uh, there's some things going on here

that the dispossess her is going to

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come to Judah who had once dispossessed

the Canaanites of their land.

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And now they're going to be

dispossessed of it themselves.

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And so her Nobles, the Nobles of

Israel are going to flee to a city

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called agile, agile, and may sound

familiar to you because it was

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David the first true, the first good

king of Israel after Saul there.

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Right.

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God's king, the king that represented

the future deliverance that the second

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David would come from this line and

BD the greater David Jesus in the

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future and the millennial kingdom.

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Anyways, the Nobles just like

David had fled from salt.

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They're going to flee to Agilent,

just like David had fled to Agilent

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and taken refuge there to avoid.

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Uh, the threat of Saul.

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So Micah chapter one, he's coming at

Judah coming at them, warning them

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about the things that are coming chapter

two, then verses one through five.

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Those who once oppressed others and

took land that was not theirs would

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have the same land taken from them.

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And they would be humbled

before their enemies.

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So now he's, he's coming at the

inhabitants of Judah for some of

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the things that they had done.

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They had oppressed the needy,

they had taken things, not theirs.

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They had not cared societaly for the

people that were were under their charge.

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And Mike is saying the same.

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Thing's going to happen to you now.

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Uh, Mike, a two, six through 11, then.

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It depicts the spiritual decay.

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Verses six and seven, the

rejection of God's word.

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And God's prophet verses eight

through 10 that the wicked oppressing

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in the vulnerable and make Israel

an unwelcome place for them.

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And then verse 11, the people want

to profit to just tickle their ears.

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They don't want to hear from Mike anymore.

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They don't want to hear from,

from God's prophet anymore.

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They just want the profits that

are going to tell them good things.

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And so Mike is saying, this is not a

good thing that your state is like this,

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the state of the nation is like this.

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Then in verses 12 through 13, Micah

turns a corner in and gives us the

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first little bit of a glimpse of hope.

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Like I said, there's kind of this.

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Uh, cyclical pattern of

judgment and yet deliverance.

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Uh, that that comes in this book.

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And so in verses 12 through 13,

deliverance is going to come

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still, even in spite of all this,

there is going to be a deliver.

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This section concludes with the prophet,

looking forward to the shepherd deliver.

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Who's going to regather the people.

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And lead them out as they're triumphant

king, the shepherd imagery would

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have called the mind the Exodus.

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They would have thought about the Exodus

because in Psalm 78, 52, Psalm 78 52.

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It says then he led his people

out like sheep and guided them

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in the wilderness, like a flock

talking about the Exodus time.

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So they're looking forward

to this deliverance.

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That's going to come as

they're going to be oppressed.

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It's also possible here.

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So what is the fulfillment of this?

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That that's, that's the question here.

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Right?

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So.

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So two possibilities.

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Number one, this is looking forward

to Jesus in the millennial kingdom and

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Jesus rules, the ultimate shepherd king.

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That's where I land.

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I think that's what Micah

is anticipating here.

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It's also possible though, that there was

a short term fulfillment of this as well.

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That applied to, uh, what took

place when, when snack room.

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Came in and, and attacked and,

and he, and the Assyrian armies,

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elite siege to Jerusalem.

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And yet, you know, it has a Kaia

prayed in Hezekiah, went to the

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Lord and the Lord spared Israel,

spare Jew, Judas, spare Jerusalem.

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At that time.

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And has a CA ended up leading the

people out after they had been besieged.

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So it's possible.

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That was a short time fulfillment

of this, but I think the ultimate

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anticipation of Micah to.

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Uh, 11th or 12th, 13, there is looking

forward to the millennial kingdom

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when Jesus is the one that leads

out the people out of the breach

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that he's the ultimate deliver in

that day is obviously yet future.

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All right, Micah chapter three.

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Micah chapter three, verses one

through four, Micah gets in here

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and he's back to judgment and

back to the theme of judgment.

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So in verses one through four, he

denounces the selfish and corrupt rulers

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of God's people who had turned the people

into a source of profit for themselves.

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And that's why you pick up on some

of the cannibalism imagery here.

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Uh, that he talks about here with

tearing the skin from the PA.

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It's it's graphic in the

flesh, off their bones.

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They eat the flesh of my people.

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This is not literal.

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This is spiritual, the spiritual abuse

from the religious leaders there.

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In Micah's day and he

saying, this is wrong.

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What you're doing here?

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Versus five to eight.

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He denounces there.

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This.

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The selfish and corrupt profits.

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So not only the rulers, but also

the, the profits that, that were

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prophesying to God's people only

messages that would benefit them

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and, and bring curses to those that

would refuse to play their game.

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So the profits were there.

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You know, if people line their pockets,

they would give them a good word.

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We see that today.

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Don't we in a health, wealth

and prosperity churches.

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Man.

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If, if you get, if you tie then your

God's blessing is going to be upon you

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and, and you're going to have blessings

return your time, 10 times on you, right?

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I mean, This is not, uh, something

that, unfortunately this is not

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something that is left the church

and, and those that didn't do it, man.

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They got curses from these profits.

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And so what does Micah say says,

you know what, you're going to be

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darkened in your understanding.

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Eh, but contrast that Mike,

his message was one of power

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by the spirit of the Lord.

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That's verse eight, but as from me.

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I am filled with power with the

spirit of the Lord and justice.

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And my, and so Mike is saying.

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Your false profits there.

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There look at them.

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They're exposed for who

they are, but, but hear me.

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Because my message comes from God.

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Chapter three chapter four, then.

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The prophet continues

again, coming at Judah.

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And now we're going to come back to a,

uh, uh, anticipation of deliverance here

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and in the mountain of the Lord is the

ESV heading, says, this is all about,

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this is an anticipation of the millennial

kingdom verses one through five.

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By contrast to what he's been talking

about with the corruption in the.

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The abuse of the leaders and

the profits by contrast, the

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millennial kingdom is coming.

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So even under the threat of the impending

judgment, there's a hope for the faithful.

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That's what Mike is doing here.

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He's holding out hope for those.

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That would be faithful.

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And, and that's what he's depicting for

us here in this great text in verses

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one through five, with, with the Jesus,

the ultimate judge, the ultimate ruler,

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the greatest prophet in he's going

to be the one verse three to judge

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between many peoples and decide to

spews for many strong nations, far away.

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They're going to come to him.

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They're going to beat their

swords into plow shares.

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There's not going to be any more violent.

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So again, looking forward to the

millennial kingdom, verse 10.

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Note here in chapter four, that in the

midst of an otherwise positive section,

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God identifies Babylon as the nation

that would take Judah into exile right

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now on the current scene, the threat

is Syria in us, Syria, and even Israel.

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But not Babylon, but the prophet looking

forward to what would would take place

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eventually, not in, in looking forward

in a good way, but, but anticipating

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prophesying about what would take place.

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He identifies that the one that

is going to take them away is

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going to be Babylon in verse 10.

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You shall go to Babylon.

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Just an interesting thing to note here.

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In the positive section.

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Uh, Micah slips in here.

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Hey, it's going to be Babylon.

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And I wonder what the original

recipients would have thought about that.

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They were thinking Babylon, who is that?

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Uh, serious Syria, but Babylon.

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Really Babylon.

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Anyways that slips in

here verses 11 through 13.

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Then the Lord is going to deliver

his people from Babylon, right.

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Four, 10.

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The second half says he's going to, to.

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To say there, you shall

be rescued verse 10.

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The Lord will redeem you from

the hand of your enemies.

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And so the Lord is going to

deliver his people from their.

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But the greatest deliverance from

all enemies would still be in the

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future at Armageddon and that's

depicted in verses 11 through 13.

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He's looking forward to the final battle.

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Uh, in, in the final time when

Israel takes her stand against all

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the nations and, and that's the

battle depicted in verses 11 through

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13, there of Micah chapter four.

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Cross-reference to that.

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If you get a moment to Zechariah

14, 14, Zechariah 14, 14 also talks.

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About this same battle.

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That's my chapter four.

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All right.

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We're, we're making our way

through Micah chapter five.

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Then we get into chapter five

and here in chapter five.

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You have Micah address, Judas, present

monarchy, which was failing and they're

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about to be sent into exile king lists.

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And so that's what we see in

verses one through six of.

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Uh, chapter five there he's, he's

coming back now, away from the

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millennial kingdom, coming back

to what's going on there in Judah.

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And he's saying, listen,

this group is, is failing.

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Their, their present monarchy is failing.

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They're about to be sent

into exile king list.

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And listen for a time.

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That would be their reality.

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That would be the reality until,

until this other ruler would come.

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And here we go.

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Here's Christmas time again, Micah

five verse two, but you, oh, Bethlehem

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of Ephratah who were too little

to be named among the clans of

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Judah from you shall come from me.

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One who is to be ruler in

Israel whose coming forth is

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of old from ancient of days.

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And so coming on the heels of

the millennial kingdom, coming

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back to the present time going,

how are we going to get there?

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We're going to need the right kind of.

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Ruler to get us there.

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And here, Micah anticipates that ruler,

this ruler is going to be the one

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who's born from the ancient of days.

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He's going to shepherd the

people and provide great

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comfort and security to them.

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Verse four.

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He talks about that he

himself is going to be there.

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Peace verse five and

even armies and enemies.

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Like a Syria are going to be no match for

his great and future deliverance that he's

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going to work for the people in verse six.

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So here again, Micah is pointing

just like we've seen in Isaiah

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chapter nine and chapter seven.

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Now in Micah five that this

future deliver this future ruler.

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It's going to be the one that's going

to give the ultimate deliverance.

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Short-term man, they are going into

exile, but Micah and the other prophets

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and God through his prophets, wanted

the people to be thinking about the

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ultimate deliverer that they needed,

which was not a military delivered, not a.

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Not a political deliver,

but a religious deliver.

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They needed this ancient of days.

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One that was coming.

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To the people.

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There's one born in Bethlehem

of a froth, too little to be

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named among the clans of Judah.

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So Mike is eagerly anticipating

that they're in chapter five.

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Then chapter six, the scene shifts back

to the present again, as the Lord takes

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a stand in, in what really amounts to

a courtroom scene here in chapter six.

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So the Lord is going to be

that the plaintiff here.

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And as the plaintiff, he's gonna

make his case against Judah

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and Israel's unfaithfulness.

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And that's where we're going

in chapter six, the Lord is

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saying, here's my indictment.

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Here's what's happening.

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Here's the problems.

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Here's the sin.

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And so in verses one through five,

he recounts the Lord does all that

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he had done for the people of, from

taking them from Egypt until now.

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And then he says, what have I done

to you to provoke such disobedience?

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What have I done?

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Verse three.

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What have I done?

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How have I wearied you answer me?

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So he's, he's pleading for them to say.

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Where's the counter evidence to this.

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Here's the evidence against you?

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What are you going to show me?

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Where am I wrong in?

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This is what he's saying.

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There.

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And verses six through eight, Micah

speaks for the Lord, anticipating

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the question from the people of

how they might write their wrongs.

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And he makes this conclusion that's,

that's found in, in verse eight.

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There.

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In other words, he's, he's going to

say, look in the first couple of verses.

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It's not about your feast and sacrifices.

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Don't don't go back there.

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We've already seen that the Lord detests,

when we just go through the motions.

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Instead, what does he want?

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He wants their heart.

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It's just Micah 6, 8, 1 of the most

famous verses aside from Micah five, two.

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In this book, he says

he has told you, oh man.

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He has told you what is good and what

does the Lord require of you, but

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to do justice and to love kindness

and to walk humbly with your God.

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Justice kindness or mercy, and to

walk humbly with your gut, this

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is what is produced from a state.

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That is, that is an internal, uh,

position of rightness before the Lord.

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This is not about going

through the motions.

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This is only possible from a heart.

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That is true before God.

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That's what God desires here.

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So Mike is saying.

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Uh, the Lord has given us indictment.

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You're probably wondering

what should we do?

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Here's what you need to do.

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He's already told you what to do.

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And then the chapter

ends in nine through 16.

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Uh, with the threat of the

judgment, this is the judgment.

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This is the rod with which God will,

will punish the nations, punish his

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people specifically here, not the

nations, his people, and the culmination

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of this is all found in Micah six.

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16 where it says for you have

kept the statutes of Omari.

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Uh, one of the evil Kings of the north

in all the works of the house of Ahab.

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Again, one of the evil Kings in the

north, you have walked in their counsels

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that I may make you a desolation

and your inhabitants, a hissing.

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So you shall bear the scorn of my people.

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And so he's saying to the people

of Judah there, look, don't,

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don't think that you're okay.

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Just because you're not the Northern

kingdom, you've walked in their

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ways and you're going to suffer

as they have suffered as well.

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Finally, we get to chapter

seven, chapter seven, as the

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book comes to its conclusion.

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Uh, we get in here in the first six verses

the prophet pronounces woe on himself.

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Just like Isaiah.

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Right?

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When, when Isaiah said

woe, woe is me, woe, am I.

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That's what the profit does here in

these, this section and like Habakkuk, he

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laments the current situation wearing it.

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It feels like there's no one

righteous left among the people.

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So he opens a verse.

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One.

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Woe is me.

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And then he says, look the

God, the parish verse two.

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And there's no one upright among mankind.

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And they all lie in, wait for blood

each Hans, the other with a net.

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If you read the opening chapter of

Habakkuk, it sounds very similar to that.

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That the profits are boasting, man.

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This is such a depraved in horrible

situation, where are all of the

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righteous people, but in verses seven

through 17, unlike Habakkuk, instead

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of despairing like Habakkuk did there,

the prophet Micah hit resolves to wait

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in trust on the Lord to deliver the

people as he had promised he would.

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So he says, okay, God.

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I know your deliverance is coming.

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I'm going to trust you in that that's

here verses seven through 17, much

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of this looking forward to, uh, the

effects and the realities of the

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millennial kingdom here in this section.

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Uh, in verse seven, but as for

me, I will look to the Lord.

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I will wait for the God of my salvation.

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My God will hear me.

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And so Mike has got a great.

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Uh, level of patients here and willingness

to trust in an, a weight in the Lord.

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And that's because his final conclusion.

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Uh, at verse 18, who is a godlike?

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You, there it is.

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That's his name?

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Micah who is a godlike.

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You, there it is 18 one.

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That's his name?

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Micah.

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And then he goes on, he says, pardoning,

iniquity, passing over transgression

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for the remnant of his inheritance.

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He does not retain his anger forever

because he delights in steadfast love.

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He will again have compassion on us.

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It tread our iniquities underfoot.

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You will cast out all our sins

into the depths of the sea.

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Uh, this is essentially the gospel from

the lips of an Israelite prophet living

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700 years before that baby from Micah

five, two would be born in Bethlehem.

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How cool is that?

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The book ends with such an amazing picture

of God's grace and mercy forgiveness,

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pardoning, iniquity, and transgression.

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How was that going to happen for,

for Micah and the people of Judah?

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Same way.

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It happens for you and me only

through Jesus Christ and his

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atoning sacrifice on our behalf.

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That baby, that deliver that was

going to come and work at deliverance.

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That even Micah didn't know what

that would look like and you and I

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get to know what that looks like.

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Cause we're on the backside of the

cross, such an awesome concept.

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Let's pray.

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And then we will wrap up this

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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God, we thank you for this deliver that,

that he has come, that he was born,

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that he was born in accordance with

your word, as you said, he would be.

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That he did come.

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And he did come from Bethlehem

of a froth that he worked.

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Uh, deliverance for us

that, that we needed.

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Uh, loader for our sins to be forgiven

that he died on the cross for our

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sins and he rose again so that we can

live with him forever in the future.

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What a glorious reality that is Lord, keep

us from the presumptive sins of Judah.

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Keep us from thinking.

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As the church that we're somehow

immune from God's judgment

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because we are your people and we

belong to, to you through Christ.

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Keep us holy God.

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Keep us following you.

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Keep us mindful.

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What does the Lord require of you?

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Well, he's already told us to

walk humbly to love justice,

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to do mercy, to love kindness.

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These are things that we

should be embracing and

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embodying as a church as well.

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So Lord.

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We pray that you would keep us that

you'd protect us again against these

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presumptive sins and that we would find.

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Much joy in serving you all the days

of our lives until you return it.

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So we pray this in Christ's name.

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Amen.

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I keep it in your Bibles tune

in again tomorrow for another

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episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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And we'll catch you then.