Micah 3:8-12

Justice belongs to the Lord. His ways are beyond our understanding and the world operates in His timing not ours.

God is:

OMNIP’OTENT: Almighty; possessing unlimited power; all powerful. 

OMNIS’CIENT: Having universal knowledge or knowledge of all things; infinitely knowing; all-seeing.

OMNIPRES’ENT:  Present in all places at the same time.

It is our job to be fair, be merciful and remain humble.

Amazing God,
there is more to life than we can see or fathom.
Yet how often we try to shrink the mystery,
tame the dream, limit what is possible.
Remind us that the Spirit is always blowing new life
into our days, surprising us with wonder and blessing.
Forgive us for dull awareness and hesitant witness.
Let us be made new again and again, no matter our age.
And let us hear again and again, of your mercy and your grace…
Amen. “Sabbath Moments”

As we labor for God's Kingdom, we do not do good deeds in our own strength, but God works in and through us. (Philippians 2:13) The same God who worked throughout history is working in and through His children today. First5.

Micah 3:8-12

8 But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord,

And of justice and might,

To declare to Jacob his transgression

And to Israel his sin.

9 Now hear this,

You heads of the house of Jacob

And rulers of the house of Israel,

Who abhor justice

And pervert all equity,

10 Who build up Zion with bloodshed

And Jerusalem with iniquity:

11 Her heads judge for a bribe,

Her priests teach for pay,

And her prophets divine for money.

Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,

“Is not the Lord among us?

No harm can come upon us.”

12 Therefore because of you

Zion shall be plowed like a field,

Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,

And the mountain of the temple

Like the bare hills of the forest.

The leaders of Israel were chastised for their lack of justice. Micah is filled with mighty justice while the leaders of Israel abhor justice. The wicked leaders pervert the way of righteousness. Refers to the sin of presumption. The false prophets were saying that disaster would not come upon Israel because it was the home of Yahweh. The fate of Jerusalem is the same as that of Samaria. This prophecy was fulfilled with the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 bc at the hands of the Babylonians. Faithlife Bible.

The wicked leaders and prophets of Israel “worked” only when they could gain something from it. Needless to say, if justice had to be paid for, it would not be justice. Many people of Jerusalem believed that they would not be affected by God’s judgment because God Himself dwelled in the holy temple in Jerusalem. They reasoned that despite their evils, as long as God was in His temple, they were safe—even from divine judgment. What the people refused to believe was that God might leave His temple because of the sinfulness of the people. The Book of Ezekiel describes a vision of the glory of God leaving the temple as a prelude to His judgment on the city. While the false prophets and the wicked rulers believed that they were untouchable and that Mt. Zion was inviolable, the prophet Micah announced that Zion (Jerusalem) would be plowed like a field, indicating complete devastation of the city. NKJ Bible.

 If sacred places are polluted by sin, they will be wasted and ruined by the judgments of God. Matthew Henry Commentary.

Isaiah 1:23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards.They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

Jeremiah 6:13 “Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 9:11 “I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.”