Ear-tickling prophets!
Scripture reading for September 19th: Micah 1-2
“If a liar and deceiver comes and says, ‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’ he would be just the prophet for this people.” Micah 2:11
Micah lived in a day of fallen moral values, a time when God’s people lived for materialism and pleasure. Micah was called to warn God’s people of their sins. This statement was meant to shock their senses. A man of God telling them about plenty of alcohol to cure their sin would be like a doctor prescribing poison to cure a fatal illness!
As Micah exposed the sins of this people, he mentioned those who plotted to take the property of their brothers and sisters through fraud and deceit. (Micah 2:1-3) The land was a promised inheritance for each family. The promised land was divided by Joshua according to God’s plans by lot to each family. (Joshua 13 and following) It was to be a perpetual inheritance. God is for personal responsibility and ownership under His authority. If we can learn to be faithful with the little here, He can give us much in the coming millennial kingdom!
We are a people who have always valued the right to ownership. Our government has laws that protect property ownership and rights. When God’s people got into sin and became deluded and drunk on their own ways, they lost their inheritance. As it happened to God’s people in Micah’s day, so it could happen in our land!
“In that day men will ridicule you: they will taunt you with this mournful song: ‘We are utterly ruined: my people’s possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.'” “Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord to divide the land by lot.” Micah 2:4-5
The loss of their land would bring about the ruin of God’s people! This people would receive a false prophet who would prophesy plenty of wine and beer. Their delusion would lead to their destruction and captivity. They would lose their property and suffer eternal loss. Oh that God’s people would listen to truth and be responsible stewards of God’s promises!
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