A message the Lord God
revealed to Micah the prophet
Hear ye not what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD. Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?-Micah 6:1-8***The Lord God gave Micah the prophet a message of warning, promise, and reasoning to proclaim to the Israelites, the descendants of Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, and Isaac and Rebekah's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel). Abraham and some of his descendants who lived before Micah was born spoke to the Lord God when they presented the Lord God with reasons against taking destructive action. Abraham reasoned with the Lord God about the destruction of any righteous people living in Sodom. Moses and Moses' older brother Aaron reasoned with the Lord God about the possible destruction of the Israelites after a group of Israelites led by Korah, Dathan and Abiram, rebelled against Moses, Aaron and the Lord God. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that Micah proclaimed the words of the Lord God to the Israelites during the reign of King Jotham, and the reign of Jotham's son Ahaz, and the reign of Ahaz's son Hezekiah. Jotham was the 10th king to rule Judah, the southern nation in the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Ahaz was the 11th king to rule Judah, and Hezekiah was the 12th king. During the 6th year of Hezekiah's reign, the Assyrians were in the northern nation of Israel in the Promised Land conquering Samaria, the royal city, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. When the Assyrians entered Judah and presented Hezekiah with threatening messages about their might and their perceptions of the Lord God, Hezekiah prayed and reasoned with the Lord God. Hezekiah's great-great-great-grandson Jehoiakim (Eliakim) was the 17th king to rule Judah. During Jehoiakim's 11-year reign, the Babylonians (Chaldeans) invaded Judah and Jerusalem, the royal city, and King Nebuchadnezzar, rule of Babylon, began looting the temple of the Lord. Jehoiachin (Jeconiah/Coniah), the son born to Jehoiakim and Nehushta, was the 18th king. During Jehoiachin's 3-month reign, the Babylonians took more prominent Israelites, including Jehoiachin, his wives and mother, to Babylon. During the 11th year of the reign of Jehoiakim's brother Zedekiah (Mattaniah), the 19th king to rule Judah, the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. Over 500 years after Israelties began returning to Judah and Jerusalem, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob's 4th born son Judah, the tribe of Judah's kings, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 11:1-16:50, 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 1:1-46, 9:1-29, 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings 1:1-21:18, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles 1:1-33:20, Isaiah 36:1-39:8, Micah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
Reference Scriptures
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.-Exodus 12:40-41
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.-Numbers 22:2...He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:-Numbers 22:5
And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.-Numbers 26:59