Micah 2:3

This is an evil time that we live in. In times such as this we need to listen closely to the prompting of the Holy Spirit who will guide us into God’s will for us as individuals and as members of the Body of Christ, His Church. We need to separate ourselves spiritually but embrace individuals as His creation.We are called to live out His command to go and be His hands and feet to a dying world. Our fight is with the principalities of darkness in the spirit realm.

Micah used an image of barbaric cannibalism to describe the horrendous actions of the leaders against their own people.

The interplay of texts of wrath and mercy in the Book of Micah mirrors the character of God, for even in His wrath He remembers mercy. In the darkest days of impending judgment on the nations of Israel and Judah, there was always the possibility of a remnant being spared. Although the Lord was determined to maintain His holiness, He was equally intent on fulfilling His loving promises to Abraham. The Lord would balance His judgment with mercy. Consequently Micah also balances his oracles of judgment with oracles of promise.Through His messenger Micah, the Lord confronted His people, but He also promised to bring future blessing through the One who would be coming. This One would be the true Shepherd of God’s flock.

Micah 2:3

³ Therefore thus says the Lord:

“Behold, against this family I am devising disaster,

From which you cannot remove your necks;

Nor shall you walk haughtily,

For this is an evil time.

⁵ you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 

Exodus 20:5

³ Then death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says the Lord of hosts. 

Jeremiah 8:3

² You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones; 

Micah 3:2