Today, I am reading and commenting on Micah 3-7.
Micah continues his prophecy against Israel and Judah. He accuses their political leaders of ruling solely from self-interest and the religious leaders of saying only that which people will pay them to say. Micah says that disaster will come upon them because the political leaders do that which benefits themselves with no care for the best interest of the nation while the religious leaders tell people what they want to hear in order to become wealthy. This prophecy applies not just to the people of Israel and Judah in Micah’s day, but to the people of any time or nation when the leaders follow this example. When the political leaders seek what is best for themselves, with no care for what is best for the people they lead, and the religious leaders tell people only what they are paid to say, with no concern for the message which God has for them, disaster will come upon the people. People will have self-serving leaders (political and religious) when they follow religious rituals without acting justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly before God. Yet, for all of our tendency to be like that, God promises that the day will come when people from all nations will seek to do His will, and He will judge between nations so that the nations will no longer make war against each other. Therefore, when we go through the hard times let us follow Micah’s example as given here. In the hard times, even when others are turning on each other and us, let us watch in hope for God and wait for our Savior to tell us what to do. He will hear us and answer.
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