A country prophet who named Bethlehem as the birthplace of a coming ruler.
Grieving
Fearless
Hopeful
“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
Micah came from a small town in Judah's farmland, and he spoke for the farmers. He saw powerful men lie awake planning how to seize fields and houses. He warned that Samaria would become a heap of rubble, and even that Jerusalem would be plowed like a field.
A century later, elders in Jeremiah's day remembered that Hezekiah had listened to Micah and repented. Micah also saw past the judgment: a day when nations would beat swords into plowshares, and a ruler from little Bethlehem whose origins are from of old.
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He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Name means
Who is like the LORD?
Home
Moresheth, in the lowlands of Judah
Role
Prophet to Judah and Samaria under Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah
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Micah's story
Swords into plowshares
Beginning
Lament for the land
He mourns barefoot over the coming fall of Samaria and Judah.
Turning point
Against land-grabbers
He condemns those who covet fields and seize them.
Turning point
Full of power
Unlike paid prophets, he is filled with the Spirit to declare sin, even that Zion will be plowed.
High point
Swords into plowshares
He sees nations streaming to God's mountain and laying down war.
High point
From Bethlehem
A ruler will come from tiny Bethlehem.
Ending
Who is a God like you?
He ends in wonder at a God who pardons and casts sins into the sea.
Starts as a farmer's prophet grieving over the land. Ends as a man amazed at a God who pardons.
Where Micah lived and went
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How Micah is wired
Why there's no type here
His book is almost all message and very little of his own life, so a type would be guesswork.
Strengths & struggles
What's good in Micah
Filled with power and the Spirit to declare sin (). Spoke for the powerless (). Waited on God in hard times ().
Where Micah struggles
Scripture records little of his failings.
What Micah wanted most
Justice, kindness and humble walking with God among his people ().
Micah named the town. Seven centuries later the wise men were sent there.
When Herod asked where the Christ would be born, the scribes answered with : in Bethlehem of Judea (). Micah asked who is a God like this, who pardons and does not stay angry (). In Jesus that question has a face.
Questions to sit with
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Which part of Micah 6:8 is hardest for you right now: justice, kindness, or humility?
2
Micah grieved over his land before he spoke to it. What do you grieve over?
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