MICAH 2
God has had enough. He says, I have some plans of my own: Disaster because of this interbreeding evil! Your necks are on the line. Youre not walking away from this. Its doomsday for you.
Mocking ballads will be sung of you, and you yourselves will sing the blues: Our lives are ruined, our homes and lands auctioned off. They take everything, leave us nothing! All is sold to the highest bidder. And therell be no one to stand up for you, no one to speak for you before God and his jury.
Dont preach, say the preachers. Dont preach such stuff. Nothing bad will happen to us. Talk like this to the family of Jacob? Does God lose his temper? Is this the way he acts? Isnt he on the side of good people? Doesnt he help those who help themselves?
What do you mean, good people! Youre the enemy of my people! You rob unsuspecting people out for an evening stroll. You take their coats off their backs like soldiers who plunder the defenseless. You drive the women of my people out of their ample homes. You make victims of the children and leave them vulnerable to violence and vice.
Get out of here, the lot of you. You cant take it easy here! Youve polluted this place, and now youre pollutedruined! If someone showed up with a good smile and glib tongue and told lies from morning to nightIll preach sermons that will tell you how you can get anything you want from God: More money, the best wines . . . you name it youd hire him on the spot as your preacher!
Im calling a meeting, Jacob. I want everyone backall the survivors of Israel. Ill get them together in one placelike sheep in a fold, like cattle in a corral a milling throng of homebound people! Then I, God, will burst all confinements and lead them out into the open. Theyll follow their King. I will be out in front leading them. ~
Thank-you. AMEN!
Amen and Praise God... He is in control.