Micah 1:2-5

Two of the biggest strongholds to growing as a follower of Jesus Christ are pride and arrogance. The Holy Spirit cannot work in us if we believe that we are all that. His first work in you will be to rid you of yourself.

We are in a dangerous place in America. 

God hates pride and arrogance. Until we realize that everything comes from Him and without Him we would have nothing… we will never mature as Christians.

God alone is all powerful.

The Hebrew word used reveals that what follows is an oracle. Micah’s prophetic oracle is addressed to the entire earth. It refers to both the mountains and the cultic high places, the idolatrous centers of pagan worship. Treading upon them indicates Yahweh’s sovereign omnipotence. Faithlife.

All the earth was to know that God was witnessing against His people. This announcement of judgment is based on the people’s breach of covenant. The faithlessness of the people provoked the Lord God to enter into a judicial dispute with them.This is the language of epiphany, the dramatic coming of God to earth, here in a solemn procession of judgment.

The expression high places is ironic. Jerusalem and Samaria were the “high places,” or elevated capitals, of Judah and Israel; but “high places” were also sites of idolatrous worship.Jerusalem, which was once “beautiful in elevation”, was nothing more than another platform of pagan worship, like the “high places” of the Canaanites.

Micah 1:2–5 (NKJV)

² Hear, all you peoples!

Listen, O earth, and all that is in it!

Let the Lord God be a witness against you,

The Lord from His holy temple.

³ For behold, the Lord is coming out of His place;

He will come down

And tread on the high places of the earth.

⁴ The mountains will melt under Him,

And the valleys will split

Like wax before the fire,

Like waters poured down a steep place.

⁵ All this is for the transgression of Jacob

And for the sins of the house of Israel.

What is the transgression of Jacob?

Is it not Samaria?

And what are the high places of Judah?

Are they not Jerusalem?

Psalm 11:4 (NKJV)

⁴ The Lord is in His holy temple,

The Lord’s throne is in heaven;

His eyes behold,

His eyelids test the sons of men.