Micah -- Who is a God like unto Jehovah?


  1. A Look at the Book:
    1. Author: Micah of Moresheth (1:1). Moresheth was a small town in Gath (home of Goliath - 1 Sam 17:4), @ 25 miles S of Jerusalem.
    2. Date:
      1. @ 750-700 B.C., during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, & Hezekiah
      2. Before the captivity of Israel (1:5; 2 Kings 17) @ 720 B.C.
    3. Contemporaries -- Isaiah (2 Kings 19:6); Hosea (1:1)
    4. Other References -- Jeremiah 26:18-19
    5. Theme - "The wages of sin is death."
    6. Organization:
      1. "Micah is difficult to analyze." (Dunn, p. 354). It appears Micah himself recorded the book in its present form after he received the revelations and given the pronouncements. (Coffman, p. 270)
      2. The book is generally recognized as being divided among three major divisions: (Hailey on the Minor Prophets - p 190-191)
        1. ch 1-2 -- judgment pronounced upon Samaria & Jerusalem
        2. ch 3-5 -- contrast of present devastation and future exaltation
        3. ch 6-7 -- Jehovah's controversy with Israel


  2. Great Lessons from Key Passages:
    1. Micah 2:6 -- some folks don't want to hear the truth:
      1. Isaiah 30:10; Amos 2:11-12
      2. 2 Timothy 4:1-5
    2. Micah 3:9-11 -- some are in it for the money (cf 1 Tim 6:3-11)
    3. Micah 4:1-3, 6-8 -- the coming of the church (cf 2:12-13)
    4. Micah 5:2 - the birth of a leader in Bethlehem, "whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting"
      1. Daniel 7:13-14 "the Ancient of Days"
      2. Psalm 90:1-2; 93:2 "thou art from everlasting"
      3. John 8:24, 58 -- "I AM"
    5. Micah 6:6-8 -- the nature of true worship
      1. 1 Samuel 15:22-23
      2. Matthew 15:9; John 4:23-24
    6. Micah 7:18-20 - God is merciful
      1. 19 kings had ruled Israel for 200 years after the division, all of them evil. Yet, God sent prophet after prophet to turn them from their sins that they might not be destroyed.
      2. Because of the righteousness of a few kings, Judah was spared another 140 years. But their failure to learn from the sins and ultimate destruction of Israel and their exceeding wickedness caused them to be destroyed by Babylon in 586 B.C.
      3. Proverbs 14:34