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First light on Judah’s low rolling foothills: a small walled town of flat-roofed fieldstone houses on a low mound among grain fields and olive groves, a single road running east toward the far blue hill country.

The Book of

Micah Intro

A country prophet, a city that would not listen, and a God who pardons.

Before chapter 1≈ 2 min7 chapters

Images are artistic interpretations.

In 30 seconds

A farm town sends a prophet to the capitals.

He tells the rulers they are devouring his people.

Zion will be plowed like a field.

Yet a Ruler will come from little Bethlehem,

and God will throw our sins into the sea.

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Who wrote it

Micah

A prophet from Moresheth in Judah’s low hills

  • He came from Moresheth, near the Philistine border.Micah 1:1
  • He spoke in the days of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, about 735–700 BC.Micah 1:1
  • A century later Jerusalem’s elders still quoted him.Jeremiah 26:18
  • Isaiah and Hosea were speaking in the same years.Isaiah 1:1

His day

Assyria was swallowing nations.

Samaria fell in 722 BC.

In 701 its army took Lachish, near Micah’s home.

In Jerusalem the rich were taking the poor’s land.

How it’s built

Three times: Hear

Hear, youpeoples1–2:11: Samaria andJudah judgedA remnantgathered2:12–13: the Breakergoes firstHear, youleaders3: Zion will be plowedThe mountainraised4–5: a Ruler fromBethlehemHear the LORD’scase6–7:6: what HerequiresWho is likeYou?7:7–20: sins into thesea

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Three rounds of judgment, and each one ends in mercy.

How to read it

It is poetry: let the pictures land.

Hear the judgment before the hope.

Some words came true soon, some in Christ, some are still ahead.

Big themes

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Watch for

out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people Israel

Matthew 2:6

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Question

Quick question

The prophet’s own name is a question. Keep it in mind to the last page.

What does Micah’s name mean?

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