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Prophets for Profit: Judgment on a Corrupt Land and a Mountain Above All | Micah 1–4
Episode Overview
Today we begin Micah, a prophet from a small farming town speaking to both Samaria and Jerusalem. Chapter 1 is a lament that names actual places, wordplay running through the town names as Micah walks the invasion route town by town. The judgment is not abstract. It has an address.
Chapter 2 gets specific about what went wrong. People lie awake at night planning how to take fields and houses, and in the morning they do it, because they have the power to. The offense is not impulsive greed but premeditated greed—seizure planned in the dark and executed in daylight. Chapter 3…
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