Micah chapters 67 Questions and Answers Micah 67

Micah chapters 6&7 Questions and Answers

Micah 6&7 Q/A 50. Give the evidence that Micah 6: 1 -7 begins with a court setting. – – – Verse 1 “contend thou” (margin “bring charges against”) Verse 2 “The LORD hath a ‘controversy’ and ‘pleads’ with Israel” Verse 3 “testify against me” Verses 4 -5 “make your defense if you can” Verses 6, 7 Israel had no defense

Micah 6&7 Q/A 51. In the court setting in Micah chapters 6 who are the mountains and hills? – Micah 6: 1 Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. • The mountains and hills are the jury who are called upon to witness for they have always been there through the ages.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 52. Who is the complainant in the court settings in Micah chapter 6? 1. Micah 6: 2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. • The LORD is the complainant against the sons of Israel.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 53. What is the three fold case of God against Israel? – Micah 6: 3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. • What have I done to you? • How have I wearied you? • Make your defense if you can!

Micah 6&7 Q/A 54. Give five example in Micah 6: 4 -5 showing how God used their Exodus from Egypt to support His case? – – – He had brought them out of Egypt. He had redeemed out of the house of bondage. He had sent Moses, Aaron and Miriam to lead them. He had turned Balaam’s curses into a blessing. He had brought them from Shittim across the Jordan to Gilgal a new beginning.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 55. What does God require of Israel and us as noted in Micah 6: 8 – 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? • “do Justly” • “love mercy” • “walk humbly with they God”

Micah 6&7 Q/A 56. How did and how in the future will Israel experience the “rod” in Micah 6: 9? – Mic. 6: 9 The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city (Jerusalem) and the man of wisdom shall see (know) thy name: hear ye the rod, (4294) and who (God) hath appointed it. – God’s rod were nations, i. e. Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Rome and in the future, Russia and finally Jesus however Jesus using both a correcting and purging rod. • Ezekiel 20: 37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: 38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels …

Micah 6&7 Q/A 57. Give four reasons for the purging rod in Micah 6: 10. – Micah 6: 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. • After the words of Micah, the homes of the wicked were still full of ill-gotten riches. • People were still cheating in business. • Jerusalem was full of lying and deceit. • The rich were still using the club of violence.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 58. Which kings of Israel had Judah followed and what was to happen. – Micah 6: 15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine. 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore YE shall bear the reproach of my people. • Omri and Ahab (1 Ki. 21: 25, 26). • 46 cities of Judah would be destroyed and Judah too would be carried captive by Shalmaneser, the Assyrians. This came twenty years after Israel was carried captive.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 59. Was all of Judah destroyed by Assyria? • No because of Hezekiah Jerusalem was spared for the angel of God destroyed the Assyrian army. – 2 Kings 19: 35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 60. Who was the “good man” in Micah 7: 2 who came looking for the first rip fruit and there was none. Also give the N. T. scripture about this happening. – Jesus is the “good man” and he came looking for fruit on the fig tree (Israeli nation) and found none. – This was Mt. 21: 18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. 19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 61. In Micah 7: 3 who was the “prince” the “judge” and the “great man” in the time of Jesus’ ministry? 1. Micah 7: 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. 1. The prince (Harod Mt. 2: 1) 2. The judge (Pilate Jn. 18: 4) 3. The great (high priest) man, (Caiaphas)

Micah 6&7 Q/A 62. Micah 7: 4 best describes the leadership during which three time periods? 1. Micah 7: 4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation (punishment) cometh; now shall be their perplexity (confusion). • This best describes the leadership during Micah’s day, Jesus’ day, and our day.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 62. In times of sever distress what is the counsel of Scripture and name three times this especially is of? – Micah 7: 5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. • In times of sever trial this warning you don’t put your trust in man is for. It especially applied to Micah’s day when Assyria came, and Jesus’ first and 2 nd coming.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 63. When under trial in Micah 7: 7 who do we look to and what is Micah’s exhortation to what we do? – Micah 7: 7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. • Micah exhorts we turn to God with a willingness to wait for God to hear.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 64. What scripture shows Elijah comes before Armageddon and what scripture shows his work after Armageddon? – Malachi 3: 1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly. • Mal. 3: 1 is before Armageddon since John Baptist came before Jesus to prepare the people for Jesus. – Malachi 4: 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: • The “great and dreadful day” here is after Armageddon as seen in the context Joel 2: 20 leading of Joel 2: 31. Also Mal. 4: 1 is Armageddon and Mal. 4: 5 comes after. – – come …. • Partial fulfillment is John Baptist, Full fulfillment is Elijah

Micah 6&7 Q/A 65. In Micah 7: 8 who are the enemies? – Micah 7: 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. • The immediate enemy Mic. 7: 10 was the Assyrian Sennacherib whom God delivered Hezekiah from, Isa. 37: 36. • The coming enemy is Gog (Eze. 38) whom Jesus will deliver from. • The ultimate enemy is death.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 66. In Micah 7: 9 what is required of Israel and us when pleading for God to act? – Micah 7: 9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. • Hezekiah fits this context who pleaded, bearing the sin of his people and then waited with faith for God to execute judgment on the Assyrians. • We also must bear a sinful world and acknowledge our mortal sin prone nature and plead with patience and faith that we will be brought forth to “behold” Jesus in bringing peace to our world in the kingdom age to come and behold Jesus and “his righteousness”.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 67. In Micah 7: 11 -12 it speaks of “in that day”. What day is this? • Micah 7: 11 In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed. 12 In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain. • “In the day” when the promises to Abraham come to pass and Jesus is king in Jerusalem (Gen. 13: 15; Jer. 3: 17; Amos 9: 11). – Amos 9: 11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: • Israel would be protected and her boundaries extended and there would be a highway from Egypt to Assyria and Israel a blessing, (Isa. 19: 23 -25).

Micah 6&7 Q/A 68. What is the context of Micah 7: 13? – Micah 7: 13 Notwithstanding the land (NRSV, NIV = “earth”- not Israel) shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings. • The context is verses 11 and 12 “in that day”. This is when Jesus returns, the “earth” will reap God’s judgment while Israel is built including the ten tribes being first brought into Bashon and Gileed and then led by Jesus (“the breaker”) into the promised land, Mic. 2: 12, 13.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 69. Who licks the dust in Micah 7: 17 and will oppose Jesus upon David’s throne? – Micah 7: 17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee (Israel). • The nations that will oppose Jesus because they will be troubled (Psa. 48: 5, 6) with a strong delusion (2 Th. 2: 11) believing a lie that Jesus who has returned and ruling upon David’s throne, (Lk. 1: 32; Psa. 2: 6) is the Antichrist. – Isaiah 2: 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

Micah 6&7 Q/A 70. What is the sworn truth to Jacob and Mercy to Abraham in Micah 7: 20? – Micah 7: 20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. • God’s truth was His covenant to the fathers. This involved the promises to Abraham, Gen. 13: 15; to Isaac, Gen. 26: 3, 4; and to Jacob, Gen. 28: 13 and to US, Gal. 3: 29 for there is a new world coming! – Galatians 3: 29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.