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Micah 2:1–5 – Woe to greedy oppressors

What happens: Powerful people plan evil at night and seize fields and houses by day. God declares a disaster they cannot remove and a future where others divide their land.

What it means: God cares about justice in economics and power. He opposes those who crush the weak, proving His holiness and defending covenant neighbor love.

Micah 2:6–11 – False prophets and a restless people

What happens: Prophets tell Micah to stop preaching judgment. God answers that His words do good to the upright, but the people rise up like an enemy and rob the vulnerable. A smooth-talking preacher who promises wine would be their favorite.

What it means: Human nature prefers comfort over truth. God’s word comforts the faithful and confronts the corrupt, and discernment is needed to reject messages that excuse sin.

Micah 2:12–13 – Promise of a gathered remnant and the Breaker

What happens: God promises to assemble Jacob like a flock and gather the remnant. The one who breaks open the way goes before them, and their King, the Lord, leads them out.

What it means: God is Shepherd and King, faithful to save a remnant. He makes a path out of judgment into freedom, pointing to His redeeming leadership and covenant mercy.

Application

  • Refuse schemes that profit by harming others.
  • Test messages by Scripture, not by how pleasant they sound.
  • Follow the Lord who goes before you and makes a way through hard places.

Bible

1Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

2And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

3Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

4In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

6Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.

7O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

8Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

9The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

10Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

11If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

12I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

13The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

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