The Lord’s Case (Micah 6:1-16)

This chapter starts with a set up that resembles legal proceedings in a court of justice. Here God himself brings up a case against the nation of Judah.

He had to do it because people have forgotten what God had done for them from their time in Egypt as slaves. So what was the root cause of their sinfulness? Ungratefulness! Do we remember where we come from? Who brought us this far?

• God is reasoning with his people to make them understand what is most important for God. “To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”(v.6-8).
• Again God is continuing His trial on their sins of dishonest scales, deceit etc(v.9-13).
• God gives judgment for these sins. It is interesting to note that here the punishment is not any destruction but that they will eat but not be satisfied, store up but save nothing, plant but not harvest (v.14-16).

• Breakdown of morality. (7:2).
• Breakdown of nation’s leadership. (7:3).
• Breakdown of family. (7:6).

• Micah praises God for His great acts of deliverance and concludes that there is no none like God in this way either. He knows that judgment will come. The people will be carried off to Babylon. But as the book draws to a close, he looks beyond the deportation to another deliverance and regathering into the Promised Land (v.8-13,15-17).
• “Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance?”, is the a theme verse. (Micah also means “Who is like Yahweh?”) (v.18).