PROPHECY----- MICAH #1

PROPHECY

Micah For Today

Chapters 1 to 5

     Micah lived in Moresheth-gath, located some thirty miles

from Jerusalem. He had a message to both the house of Judah 

and the house of Israel. He lived in the last half of the 8th century

B.C.

     He boldly proclaimed judgment on the capital cities, the

leaders, and the people. He offered a message of restoration

vested in the mighty Messiah whose birthplace would be in

Bethlehem.

CHAPTER 1

     The people are to HEAR, the world is to listen: The LORD

will come down from His place in the heaven and will tread upon

the high places of the earth. the mountains shall be molten and

the valleys as wax before the fire, and waters pouring down the

steep place (verses 1-4).

     HERE WE HAVE THE TIME SETTING - IT IS THE 

VERY LAST DAYS OF THIS AGE!

     Why, will God be this way? It is for the transgressions and

sins of the house of Israel. And the high places in the analogy

above is Judah. Samaria (the house of Israel - NW Europe; the

British people and the USA) will be as a desolate heap. All the

graven images of false religion will be smashed. As she gained 

much of her wealth in a wrong manner, as like a harlot, she will

return to the hire of an harlot (verses 5-7).

Micah's Lament

     Micah will wail and howl, strip himself naked and mourn and

be in depression; for the wound of Israel and Judah is incurable.

Some people wait for the good to come: but it is evil that will

come down from the Lord on to Jerusalem. They are to make

themselves bald (a way of mourning by cutting off the hair) for

destruction will come on their children, as they will go into

captivity (verses 8-16).

CHAPTER 2

     God says WOE to those who can only think and dream of

iniquity, who practice it as a way of life. They covet physical

things, fields, houses, and in so doing they oppress a man, even

his inheritance (verses 1-2).

     WE HAVE SEEN THIS MIGHTILY DEMONSTRATED IN THE 

SEPTEMBER 2008 WALL STREET BANK INVESTORS CRASH.  

Many lost their homes and jobs, their savings, their retirement savings. 

And so far there is no talk of taking the BILLIONS from those filthy

rich investors, but it seems the tax payer will foot the bill.

     God WILL remember all this iniquity and He will bring evil

upon Israel and Judah for their totality of sins. The people

better get ready to lament for utter destruction will come upon

them.

     Micah is not to prophecy like the prophets (so-called) among

the children of Jacob.  He is to tell them that the words of God

ARE GOOD to those who WALK UPRIGHTLY. But God's people are 

acting like an enemy to Him and to other people. Women (many times 

with children) are being CAST OUT OF THEIR HOMES - that is 

what the greedy Wall Street bankers have done. It will not be a rest to

you, this will not continue to be your land of plenty, because of

your sins, you have ruined it completely. 

     Suppose a prophet full of lies were to say to you, "I'll preach to 

you the joys of wine and drink!" That is just the kind of prophet 

you would like! (verses 3-11).

     Yes, the true prophet of God would not be welcome, sins and

wickedness and iniquity the people do not want to hear. The

leaders do not want to hear it. Most people in the churches do

not want to hear it - sin and repentance they do not want to know

about - they want smooth things, they want the joyful party talk,

not the words of destruction and captivity because of great

wickedness in the land.

     But death for sin is coming on Israel and Judah! God says,

"Someday, O Israel, I will gather the few of you who are left. 

I will bring you together again like sheep in a fold, like a flock

in its pasture. Yes, your land will again be filled with noisy

crowds. Your leaders will break out and lead you out of exile. 

He will bring you through the gates of our cities of captivity, back

to your own land. Your king will lead you; The Lord HIMSELF 

WILL GUIDE YOU! (The New Living Translation - verses 12-13).

     WE HAVE SEEN THIS PROPHECY REPEATED MANY 

TIMES ALREADY IN THE BOOKS OF ISAIAH, JEREMIAH, 

EZEKIEL AND OTHERS. IT IS THE THEME OF THE PROPHETS: 

DESTRUCTION UPON ISRAEL AND JUDAH FOR SINS; FEW 

LEFT ALIVE; BUT THE LORD COMING IN POWER BACK TO 

EARTH TO DELIVER THE CAPTIVES OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH 

FROM THE NATIONS THEY ARE SCATTERED IN; AND BRINGING 

THEM BACK LIKE A MIGHTY EXODUS, TO THE HOLY LAND, 

WHERE THEY WILL MULTIPLY, BE AT PEACE, HAVE BLESSINGS, 

RE-ESTABLISH THEIR OLD LANDS OF THE WEST, AS THE

KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH PROCEEDS THROUGH THE 

1,000 YEARS OF THE NEW AGE.

CHAPTER 3

     God says LISTEN O house of Israel. It should be the natural

thing for your leaders to want to know JUDGMENT. But it seems you

HATE the GOOD, and LOVE the EVIL!

     You PLUCK OFF THE SKIN, AND THE FLESH FROM OFF 

THEIR BONES. You leaders eat the flesh of my people, and flay their 

skin from off them. You break their bones, and chop them in pieces, 

as to put it all in the flesh pot (verses 1-3).

     This is a figurative way of saying the LEADERS lead the

people into sin and iniquity, doing them much harm, leading the

people for destruction and brokenness. 

   It COULD ALSO be a prophecy concerning our HORRID 

ABORTION PRACTICES!!

 

     Our leaders do not SERVE the Lord with ALL their heart and

mind; they have an outward form of "Christian religion" but it is

NOT BIBLICAL Christianity; they do not lead the people as with

the TRUTH of the Bible! How many of the leaders of Israel and

Judah, really SEEK the TRUE servants of the Lord, to inquire from

them what are the LIFE and DEATH words of the Lord? I and my

fellow co-workers do NOT have our phones ringing by the leaders

of our lands to ask us HOW to lead and govern such a great people

as the nations of Israel and Judah.

     The day and time will come when the leaders of Israel and

Judah will CRY OUT to the Lord for help and guidance, BUT HE 

WILL NOT HEAR THEM! He will HIDE HIS FACE FROM THEM, 

FOR they have BEHAVED THEMSELVES ILL IN ALL THEIR 

DOINGS! (verse 4).

     Listen you prophets of Israel that say "peace, peace," and

cause God's people to err. You say peace to those on your side,

but you plan war on others, who do not serve your interests. 

Such is often your politics.

     You will not see visions, your days will be darkness, the

sun will go down on your way of life. The time is coming when 

the so-called prophets will be ASHAMED, and the diviners 

CONFOUNDED. They shall ALL KEEP THEIR LIPS SHUT 

IN  THAT DAY AND TIME. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO 

ANSWER THE LORD.

     

     BUT THE TRUE SERVANTS OF THE LORD WILL BE 

STRONG IN POWER AND JUDGMENT AND MIGHT TO 

DECLARE UNTO JACOB THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS

AND TO ISRAEL THEIR SINS! (verses 5-8).

     When God says it is time for the end of this age to start to

come to a close, the true servants of the Lord will be KNOWN, 

people will KNOW they have SPOKEN THE TRUTH! For a short 

while BEFORE the European Beast Babylon power STRIKES 

to conquer the Western world, God's prophets WILL BE BOLD! 

They will have a time when they will be able to "SHOUT ALOUD, 

SPARE NOT, LIFT UP YOUR VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET, AND 

TELL MY PEOPLE THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS, AND THE

HOUSE OF JACOB THEIR SINS (Isaiah 58:1).

     Listen your leaders of Israel Jacob, that abhor true judgment, 

and pervert equity. Zion is built on blood, and Jerusalem is full if 

INIQUITY! Your leaders are often corrupt; your religious leaders 

work for money, teach what you want them to teach; your prophets 

speak what you pay them to say and do, while saying you are 

Christian nations, that in God you trust, and so no evil can come 

on you.

     BUT ZION AND JERUSALEM WILL FALL - IT WILL 

BE PLOWED AS A FIELD ONE DAY (verses 9-12).

CHAPTER 4

     BUT, AH IN THE LAST DAYS, WHEN ALL THIS 

PROPHECY COMES TO PASS, GOD PROCLAIMS:

"But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of

the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the

mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people

shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come,

and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of

the God of Jacob; and he will TEACH us His ways, and we will 

WALK in His paths: FOR THE LAW SHALL GO FORTH OF 

ZION, AND THE WORD OF THE LORD FROM JERUSALEM.

And He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations 

a far off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and

their spears into pruninghooks: nations shall not lift up sword

against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall 

sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall 

make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken it. 

For all the people will walk every one in the name of his god (the 

resurrected saints ruling the people under Christ), and we will walk 

in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever" (verses 2-5).

     It is the time of the Kingdom of God on earth. Jesus has

returned, the saints are resurrected, the nations of the earth

will come under the rule of Christ. Jerusalem will be planted

again, built up; the law and the word of the Lord will go forth

from Zion. The physical people of the land will be willing to be

led by the saints who now have the name of God as a full

inheritance. David, as we have previously seen, will be

resurrected and rule over the 12 tribes of Israel, under him will

be the 12 apostles of Christ, resurrected to rule each over one

tribe of Israel. It will be the time when the knowledge of the

Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea beds.

     Let's go on. NOTICE IT:

"IN THAT DAY, says the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth,

and I will GATHER her that is driven out, and her that I have

afflicted. And I will make her that halteth a remnant, and her

that was cast off a strong nations: and the Lord shall reign over

them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever" (verses 6-7).

     There is NO DOUBT when this prophecy is for! It is for the

TIME OF THE END ... IN THAT DAY ... THE DAY JUST SPOKEN 

ABOUT IN VERSES 1-5. IT IS A PROPHECY FOR THE KINGDOM 

AGE, THE TIME OF THE MESSIAH COMING IN POWER AND 

GLORY, TO RESTORE ISRAEL AND JUDAH BACK TO THE 

HOLY LAND, TO DELIVER THEM FROM THE LANDS OF THEIR

ENEMIES, TO EXODUS THEM AGAIN BACK TO THE LAND 

OF PROMISE (see Isaiah 11:10-16).

     The KINGDOM shall come to the DAUGHTER of Zion. She is 

for a moment in travail and sorrow. She is in pain to bring forth.

Jerusalem and Judah shall go forth to the end time Babylon, the

king of the north of Daniel 11:40-45. It is from BABYLON, modern

Babylon, the Babylon of the book of Revelation; it is from the

WOMAN WHORE RIDING the BABYLON BEAST of THE 

EUROPE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, that God will redeem 

Israel and Judah and Jerusalem. 

     Many nations will be gathered against Zion and Jerusalem in

the end time.  They will say, "Let her be defiled, and let our

eye look upon Zion." Of course their eye will be evil towards

Jerusalem. But they do not know the thought of the Lord; they 

do not understand His ways; the false prophet of Revelation will not

understand the workings of the Lord. It is to all happen because

God will gather all nations to that battle of Armageddon. As the

sheaves into the floor to be threshed. At that day Zion, Jerusalem, 

the people of Judah are to ARISE AND THRESH (as told

in Zechariah 12 to 14). Judah's horn will be strong as iron, with

hoofs of brass. They shall be in pieces many people: and God will

consecrate the gain, all, the whole earth, will belong to the Lord 

(verses 8-13).

     This section is ENLARGED UPON in the prophecy of Zechariah

chapters 12 to 14. I shall cover that section in detail when we get to 

that prophetic book.

     This is all the wonderful prophecy of the coming of Christ

the Messiah, the deliverance of Israel and Judah from their

enemies. The might and power given to Judah in Jerusalem (those

still alive) to also fight the enemy. The great and terrible

battle of Armageddon, where the armies of the TEN NATION

confederacy under the man beast, together with armies from the

East, over the other side of Euphrates (all told us in the book

of Revelation) WILL BE DESTROYED, and THE LORD WILL 

BE KING AND RULER OF THE EARTH! 

     THE LAW AND WORD OF GOD WILL GO FORTH FROM 

JERUSALEM. THE FESTIVALS OF GOD WILL BE OBSERVED 

(Zech.14). ALL NATIONS WILL FINALLY DESIRE TO LEARN 

AND BE TAUGHT THE WAYS OF THE LORD. IT IS THE TIME 

WHEN THE EARTH WILL BEGIN TO BE COVERED WITH THE

KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AS THE WATERS COVER THE 

SEA BEDS!!

     PRAISE BE HIS NAME. A NEW AGE IS COMING!!

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To be continued