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Pamphlet 1648 Micah 11-3

Here is what our Father wants the mountains (nations, i.e. His people) to hear:

[2] Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth:
"Remember, Micah is written concerning Samaria and Jerusalem which means the whole House of Israel.

His people had better listen-up real good to what He has to say...

[2 cont.] ...for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and He will plead with Israel.
He will plead His case to His children through His servants who speak His words, but after the pleading... the party's over!
plead = çëÇéˆyaòkachyaw-kakh' Strong's #3198
A primitive root; to be right (that is, correct); reciprocally to argue; causatively to decide, justify or convict:—appoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct (-ion), daysman, dispute, judge, maintain, plead, reason (together), rebuke, reprove (-r), surely, in any wise.
Here now is our Father's opening statement and His demand for documented rebuttal (testimony), followed by His argument.

He presents His case complete with factual case history to show that He loves His children and even goes out of His way to be just and merciful toward them.

He even presents His case in a heartfelt, loving manner as evidenced by His words "O my people".

You know it just breaks His heart to see how His children ignore Him.

(To ignore His Word is to "forsake the Lord thy God"!)

Micah 6:3
O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
What would be your reply to your Father?

He is saying go ahead and present your case as to how badly He has treated you!

Give Him your testimony!

Here is His:

Micah 6:4
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.
God interceded and took His children under His wing and delivered them out of the house of bondage.

He even gave them a lawgiver, a priest, and a prophetess to guide them in the right path and set forth the example.

And how about this next example?

[5] 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.
Have you read how old Balak used bribery to compel the avaricious prophet Balaam to bring a curse upon the children of God that Balak might destroy them from off the land?

You will find it recorded in Numbers 22-25.

The bottom line is that God not only intervened on behalf of His people to protect them from their adversary but He went "above and beyond" and turned the would-be curse into a blessing for His children.

Why?

Because He loves them dearly!

Can you call that grievous and wearisome?

Deut. 23:5
Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
OK, your turn!
Micah 6:6
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?

[7] 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?

"Wherewith" means "how", as in "how shall I come before the LORD"!

These two verses pretty much say it ALL for they show that our people just don't "get it"!

They are so clueless and blind to the reality of what their Father wants them to do because they have listened for so long to men trained in man's seminaries preach "traditions" and not the Word of God chapter by chapter and line by line.

Therefore, all they know about the love of our Father is what they have been taught "by the precept of men"!
Read Isaiah 29.

Isaiah 29:13
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear (reverence) toward me is taught by the precept of men:
The reality is that our MANY of our beloved brothers and sisters claim to be Christian and they "Praise the Lord" in words and songs but they do not "hunger and thirst" after righteousness, i.e. His Word!

They seek the Lord in their Bethels where men speak but they do not Seek Him in His Word where HE SPEAKS!

Therefore "their heart is FAR from Him" which simply means they do not really love Him, for if they did they would keep His commands.

That is what Jesus Christ says:

John 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Jesus is not speaking here of just the 10 Commandments.

He means His instructions, His Words, ALL of them from Genesis to Revelation!

John 14:21
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
If you draw near to Him, He will draw near to you! James 4:8 "Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you."

Now you know exactly why He states to those in Mat. 7:23 "I never knew you"!

John 14:23
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

[24] He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

No, unfortunately MANY of our people just don't get it and for that reason they do not know Him, for they have not taken the time to get to know Him.

And yet our Father has told us many, many times throughout His Word the answer to the question in Micah 6:6, "Wherewith (how) shall I come before the LORD" and what it is He requires of you and me!

Micah 6:8
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?
Did He say He wants us to go to church (Bethel) and do a lot of religious stuff?

He simply wants us to do justly, i.e. do what is right according to His Word, and to love mercy, and to WALK humbly with thy God, i.e. to abide with Him in His Word!

Is that so hard?

Is that so grievous?

1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and His commandments are not grievous.
Our people have forsaken the Word of God and so the Assyrian (antichrist) shall come and take them captive unto himself.

THAT my friend is indeed "grievous" and it is known as the Great Tribulation!

Ready or not, here it comes!

To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you accomplish both.


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