12/10/2022 – Day 286 – Micah 1 – 7 (entire book) / Introduction and Summary / See attached link: Biblical prophecies and fulfillment.
First, check this out, a summarized list of biblical prophesies with biblical references for both the original prophecy followed by the fulfillment!
https://www.messianic.org/prophecy/a-comprehensive-list-of-messianic-prophecies
We last read and posted this reading on 02/27/2021. The Introduction and Summary was from Bibleoutlines.com. This time, I am going to share with you Halley’s Bible Handbook’s two page summary, all chapters except 2,3.: “Brutality of the Rulers”. A single note to single out Micah: “Unquestionably the Eternal Ruler from Bethlehem (v2), is to be identified with the Wonderful Child of Isaiah 9: 6-7. This is the only place in the Old Testament it is specifically stated that the Christ would be born in Bethlehem (see under Matthew 2:22)” – see Chapter Five.
Ok, Let’s get started:
Introduction:
“Micah prophesied in the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah. Jotham and Hezekiah were good kings, Ahaz was extremely wicked. Thus Micah witnessed the apostasy of the government and its recovery. His home was Moresheth, on the Philistine corner, near Gath, about 30 miles SW of Jerusalem. He was a contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea.
Micah’s message was both to Israel and Judah, addressed primarily to their two respective capitals, Samaria and Jerusalem. Its three main ideas were: their Sins; their Destruction; and their Resoration. These ideas, in the book, are mixed up, with abrupt transitions between Present Desolation and Future Glory.
Chapter 1. Samaria Doomed.
Samaria was the capital of the Northern Kingdom. Its rulers were directly responsible for prevalent national corruption. (5). Since their apostasy from God, 200 years before, they had adopted Calf worship Baal worship, and other Canaanite, Syrian and Assyrian Idols and Idol practices. God had sent Elijah, Elisha and Amos, to turn back from idols. But in vain. They were about ripe for the death blow. Micah lived to see his words come true (6). In 734 b.c. the Assyrians carried away all of North Israel, and in 721 Samaria itself became a ‘heap.’
Places named in 10-15 were in west Judah, in Micah’s home territory. They were devastated by the Assyrians, along with the overthrow of the Northern Kingdom.
Chapter 2.3. Brutality of the Rulers
Chapter 4. Zions Universial Reign
Vision of a Warless, Happy, Prosperous, God-Fearing world, with Zion at its head. What a contrast! 4: 1-3 is the same as Isaiah 2: 2-4, sublime, grand words, abundantly worthy of repetition. Suddenly, in the midst of the rhapsody of the future, the prophet reverts to his own troublous times and the doom of Jerusalem, which he had just mentioned (3:12), announcing that the people would be carried away captive to Babylon. (4:10). It is an amazing prophecy. At the time Assyria was sweeping everything before it. This was 100 years before the rise of the Babylonian empire. Yet Jerusalem survived the Assyrian onslaught, lived on till Assyria was overthrown by Babylon, at whose hands Jerusalem fell (606 b.c.); and its people were carried off to Babylon.
Chapter 5. Zion’s Coming King – excerpt above – 1st paragraph
Chapter 6. Jehovah’s Controversy with His People
Again, the sins of Micah’s times: Ingratitude to God, Religious Pretense; Dishonesty; Idolatry; Certain Punishment.
Chapter 7. Zion’s Final Triumph
Micah laments prevailing Treachery, Violence and Blood-Thirstyiness,. Promises Punishment. Closes with a vision of the future when God and His people shall be supreme, and the promise to Abraham be fully accomplished.”
Thoughts?
Soli Deo Gloria!