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Wait for the God of Salvation
We have talked about much as we have walked through this book.
We have talked about God’s indictments for the sin of the people.
The rich abused their power, they took advantage of the poor and hurt them instead of blessings and helping their brothers and sisters.
The leaders of the land did the same.
The made judgments that benefited themselves and their friends.
And as a nation, they turned from God.
They chased after false gods and idols.
They even carried out the practices of pagan nations, even sacrificing their own children to Moleck as the Moababites, Canaanites and even the people of Israel.
And last week chapter 6, God called forth and told make exactly what was required of them, make no mistake God desires these basic truths.
The beauty of it my friends is that God never leaves us wondering, He tells us exactly how to stand in front of him and how to walk with Him through the course of each day
So with knowing that, lets stop right there and lets see what the Lord is saying ot us in Chapter 7
Verse 1
Micah, he sounds sorrowful, and burdened, there is misery in his voice.
He is looking for the godly, but it is like looking for fruit the day after the harvest takes place.
There is none left… no grapes for the all be taken away, so the early figs which I have read are the most delicious.
Those are the things that are longed for, but there is not.
There is no godly left in Judah or Jerusalem.
How sad to see when the godly remnant of His people are gone.
Here is a future thought for you.
Can you imagine how sad this world will be when the church ( His people ) and His Holy Spirit are removed from this world in the future?
His world will be lost and decaying because the salt is gone.
Friends, time is running out, be salt and light while there is still time.
Verse 2
Micah laments or mourns that the righteous men and women have disappeared.
The ungodly are not there.
Do you remember Sodom when there where no righteous people there, God swept it away.
The word “godly” in the Hebrew means “...one who is faithful or the one who practice faithful covenant love.”
So instead of finding the godly, they find those who lie in wait for others, they seek to do them harm for their own profit, shedding blood if necessary.
Each one seeking to trap their neighbors.
Each person seeking to prey on each other
Listen to David in Psalm 10:8-9
Now verse 3
Micah opens this verse with the words “their hands,” Their hands refers to both hands, symbolizing the whole person is involved in this sin and wickedness.
The corrupt people of Israel, with their whole hands, use energies to carry out the evil deeds.
These evil doers are most likely the rulers, the judges and or the powerful.
Micah says they execute their judgment or power in a bribe, distorting that is good and right.
remember this violates what God told them in Micah 6:8 and as such they dictate the narrative they follow.
Power corrupts my friends, and if that wasn’t bab enough Micah says they “weave” their corruption.
The power brokers work together, coordinate their efforts and conspire to take advantage of others.
Again they are seeking payoffs to if one hopes to get a favorable judgment.
How sad they no one seeks to do what is good and right before each other and more especially before God.
Verse 4
Micah says here that even the best of these leaders who practice immoral actions are compared to thorns, briers, they ensnare, wound and entangle people.
Now the Lord declares the day of judgment has come to them, the “your watchman” reveals the false prophets who flattered the kings they served telling them what they wanted to hear.
How very sad.
Their confusion is at hand, which really is followed by the false prophets they followed.
Now verses 5-6
Society has fell apart ,no one is able to trust others.
The home and the family, neighbors and friends are separated and at odds with one another.
Micah says that neighbor and friends can no longer be trusted.
They fear betrayal, one must even becareful with the words he speaks to his wife.
When I read that I thought of reading an article about the persecuted church in north Korea, where parents who are Christians keep that a secret, for the of being betrayed by neighbors, friends and even their own children.
In verse 6 we see the extent of the treachery, a son “dishonors’ his father by treating him like a fool.
A daughter rises in rebellion against her mother.
These violate Exodus 20:12
and Eph 6:1
And Micah says even a daughter in law against her mother in law, homes and people at odds with one another.
Micah sums it up by saying… “…a man’s enemies are the men of his own household.”
The members of a household and the extended members of their homes are at odds with one another because of sin.
Here is what’s sad, many homes and extended homes in our society are at odds with one another, they are bent on self destruction.
Like the old Roman empire, it was decaying from within.
Now verse 7
While people have looked to evil areas, false prophets and their own desires, Micah testifies ( maybe as a collective voice of the faithful) that the best look, the best desire and search is for the Lord.
Listen to what he says
I will look to the Lord - while the watchmen has served false gods, Micah and the faithful will look to the true one, the Lord himself.
I will wait for the God of my salvation - do you hear the confidence in that, the previous one is like a cry but here there is confidence, The Lord is coming, and he will save them.
My God will hear me… again confidence.
Have you ever thought about the Lord, he can hear all the prayers of all his people all over this world each day .
he knows each one and the intent of each person and then is a work across the millions and millions of believers each day.
How awesome!
This is one of the Psalms that displays such confidence in the Lord.
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This is really the voice of Zion or Jerusalem, that faithful remnant speaking, they have a faithful God, and he will be with them.
So the people tell their enemies to not gloat over their downfall, This sounds like David in Ps 30:1
So they tell their enemies not to gloat over their downfall, but by faith they declare they will arise.
Man that will make you shout, they city and nation would rise again but my friends the day is coming when we will rise as well.
Amen
Even though they sit in the darkness of captivity in the future, the Lord will be their light.
Listen to Isa 42:7
when you read of light in the OT is often speaks to and symbolizing well-being, life , freedom and salvation.
verse 9
The people of the Lord indicate they are willing to bear the wrath of the Lord.
They confess they have sinned before the Lord and that is why they are willing to bear the Lord’s punishment for sin.
They are willing but they know it is only temporary, he will pleade their case and will eventually bring them back into the light… or literally save them from their despair.
Finally, they confidently expect to see the saving acts of God, which will reveal his righteous character.
verse 10
The enemy here is a city or a country, we know this because the word there in the Hebrew has a feminine.
It might mean Babylon or their enemies Edom maybe both...
They have taunted her in the past, they ridiculed her. as we see in Ps 42:3
But one day the taunts will cease as they see Jerusalem restored.
Now verses 11-13
Here we see the promise of restoration.
The phrase a day for rebuilding the walls is a phrase meant to symbolize also the reestablishment of the Jews to the promised land.
So to rebuild the walls means to make it ready for a people.
We see this will happen in the day sof Nehemiah, the cup bearer of Arterzerces.
But this seems to even point beyond that when it says “in that day.”
But then we see that phrase again in verse 12, speaking of the people returning from all over the world.
Meaning beleivers from all over the world.
We might point to this physically as a nation like today when people travel home, it begain in 1948 when they became a nation again.
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