The Lord Is Your Way

Judges 18:6

“And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.”

Notice the context.

There is a man named Micah in this passage.

This is not the prophet Micah who’s Book is later in the Bible.

This Micah hired himself a priest to tell him what he wanted to hear. v.4

His friend had him ask if they would be prosperous. v.5

He told them yes. v.6

Beware of fake preachers as they will exhibit these THINGS:

I. They Will Go With The Payment. v.4

4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.

II. They Will Go With The Positive. v.6

6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.”

III. They Will Go With The Powerful. vs.17-20

17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

18 And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?

19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

20 And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

Conclusion:

23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?

24 And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?

25 And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.

26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.

27 And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.

29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.