Micha 2:1-13
Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds!They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.
Therefore, the Lord says: “I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity. In that day people will ridicule you; they will taunt you with this mournful song: ‘We are utterly ruined; my people’s possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.’”
“Do not prophesy,” their prophets say. “Do not prophesy about these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
Lately, my people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by without a care, like men returning from battle. You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes. You take away my blessing from their children forever.
10 Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy. If a liar and deceiver comes and says, ‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’ that would be just the prophet for this people!
10 Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy. If a liar and deceiver comes and says, ‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’ that would be just the prophet for this people!
Why?
The people of Israel and Judah were full of decide and false prophesy. So they had no right to live there, they defiled the land God had given to them.
The lands were given to their enemies who are their traitors.
God says Get up, go away! for this is not your resting place. So am I if I do not obey the word of the Lord I will be defiled from this land.
People like to hear the good words and blessing words, but all of these good things come from our behavior before the Lord.
How?
Be humble and be aware our God is full of love and righteousness. Love and righteousness is not controversial but both are the characters of the Lord.
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