What happens to such People?

Micah 6:8-16

Yesterday, we ended with Micah 6:8, and if I was to claim a life verse that would be it, because once a person has bowed their knee to Jesus Christ and received the free gift of life eternal, that verse is the key to walking in fellowship with the Lord.  Micah 6:8, “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God”? My dad loved history and often would say if only mankind would learn from and not repeat history then we would not have such pain in the world.  But the people of Micah’s day took a man who was a captain of the army and put him in charge of their country, much like the voters of the United States have done with a neighborhood organizer.  What kind of man was this captain, he was one of the worse kings the Israelites ever had; and we, the citizens of the USA, must wait to see if we also have repeated the history of Micah’s time.  This is what Clarke’s Commentary on the Bible states on the two kings mention in Micah; “The statutes of Omri are kept - Omri, king of Israel, the father of Ahab, was one of the worse kings the Israelites ever had; and Ahab followed in his wicked father's steps. The statutes of those kings were the very grossest idolatry.”

What happens to a nation when the leaders are wicked, and is God silent while this is taking place?  We only have to go back to Micah 6: 9-16, “The voice of the LORD cries to the city—and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: “Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!  Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?  Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?  Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.  Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins.

You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger within you; you shall put away, but not preserve, and what you preserve I will give to the sword.  You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.

           

For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people.”

What happens to such people?  They learn to act in an ungodly manner they begin to call good, evil and evil, good.  Or as the apostle Paul stated in Philippians 2:21, “For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.”  Maybe we who God refers to as sheep, and I’ve learned that sheep are easily led into disaster, should listen to Albert Einstein, “God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.”  Will we the citizens of the USA repeat the foolishness of the people that Micah is speaking to?

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice