Micah chapter 1 1 16 Questions and Answers

Micah chapter 1: 1 -16 Questions and Answers

1. Why study Micah the LORD’S prophet? – Micah is timely for much of Micah is about our day and what will happen in the near future for our world is about to roll over a cliff!

2. What was it like for Micah to be filled with the spirit of God? • The prophet Jeremiah gives insight what it is like to be filled with the spirit. – Jer. 20: 9. . . But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

3. In Micah, who are the house of Jacob? • The ten tribes called Israel or Samaria after King Solomon when the kingdom of Israel was divided. • Micah 1: 5 … What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

4. Name three kings of Judah and two kings of Israel that Micah prophesied under. • Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah of Judah and Pekah and Hosea of Israel – Micah 1: 1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah …

5. What didn’t King Jothan who was a good king didn’t do that David and Abraham did? – He didn’t convert the nation to “keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; – Genesis 18: 19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. – Jothan’s son was wicked Ahaz and in his reign Judah adopted the corrupt ways of Israel.

6. What is the super memory verse in Micah to what requires of us? – Micah 6: 8 He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

7. What is a major theme in the book of Micah? 1. Gathering a remnant. • Micah 2: 12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; … • Micah 4: 7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation … • Micah 5: 3 … then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. • Micah 7: 18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage?

8. What was the transgression of ten tribes (Samaria) and the two tribes (Judah)? • Injustice and Idolatry , Micah 1: 5 & chapters 2&3. • Micah 1: 5 “For the transgression of Jacob (Israel) is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places (idolatry) of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

• Micah like Isaiah and Ezekiel prophesied by sign (Isa. 20: 3, 4) and seeing what would happen to his people. • Isaiah 20: 3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away … young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame …

10 What is the historical setting of Micah? • It is the Assyrian invasion first upon Israel 721 B. C. and twenty years later by Sennacherib upon Judah in 701 B. C. as described in 2 Kings 18: 13 -16 by Sennacherib who captured 46 cities of Judah.

11. (True or False) Do the Assyrians type the future when Gog (Ezekiel chapter 38) leads the Russian confederacy against Israel? • Answer: True and instead of Hezekiah and God it will be Jesus and God that saves Jerusalem in the future.

12. Did Ahab take Neboth’s field by violence? • Yes but not directly for it was his wife that killed Neboth but again not directly by having others do it.

13. Which Assyrian king destroyed Samaria and took Israel (ten tribes) captive and when (date) did this happen? • Sargon II in 721 BC

14 What nation is described as the beasts slipping their necks out of the collar or yoke? • The ten tribes had broke off the yoke of God’s commandments but there would be no slipping the Assyrian yoke. – They would go with heads bowed walking barefoot and naked to Assyria.

15. Give three reasons why Judah didn’t repent when they saw what happened to Israel? § After Israel was captured many fled to Judah corrupting Judah. § This corruption however was already in Judah under Jothan who didn’t command Judah to “keep the ways of the LORD, to do justice and judgment. ” § Amos may help “for it is an evil time” , Amos 5: 12, 13.

16. Name three nations that were taking away God’s heritage at this time of Micah and King Ahaz? • Judah by taxes, stealing their lands and casting them out of their homes. • Israel under Pekah by killing 120, 000 • Assyria under Sargon II by siege, war and taking them captive.

17. What is said in the future about the ten tribes (Israel) whom were taken captive by Assyria? • That after Armageddon there would be from their children a “remnant” who would be gathered out of the nations into the “wilderness of the people” (Eze. 20: 34 -38) after which they would be led by the “rod” (Jesus) into the promise land.

18 What is the evidence that Jesus will be the “rod” that will lead the gathered remnant (ten tribes) into the promise land? – “rod” (7626 “shebet” = sceptre in Mic. 7: 14. TWOT 2314 a; n m AV - tribe 140, rod 34, sceptre 10, staff 2, misc 4; 190 • Micah 7: 14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage … let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. – “rod” is tied to the stem of Jesse (Isa. 11: 1) from which Jesus came through Mary, Lk. 3: 32. • Isaiah 11: 1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: • Luke 3: 32 Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, …

19. Bashan and Gilead (Mic. 7: 14) are east of the Jordan river. What is the Old Testament type of the remnant of Israel being gathered to Bashan and Gilead? – This supports the type of Joshua leading Israel across the Jordan river and into the promise land.

20. Write out the sequence of events after Armageddon to the Millennial Kingdom. 5. Jesus king, Gog buried Joel 2: 20; Joel 2: 20 Eze 39: 17 6. Gospel preached, Joel 2: 23; 2: 23 Rev. 14: 6, * Ten tribes gathered, Mic. 2: 12, Eze. 20: 35 7. Spirit gifts given Joel 2: 28, 29 8. Jesus seen as Antichrist Psa. 2: 2 9, Great & terrible day Joel 2: 31; 2: 31 Mal. 4: 5 10, Millennium Joel 3: 18; 3: 18 Rev. 20: 4