Woe to Evildoers

The sinful state of God’s people not only is evidenced in idolatry, but also in injustices of the corrupt judges of the nations and especially their oppression of the poor and vulnerable Micah prophesied that disaster would come upon them like a heavy yoke. Theirs of Judah were sent into exile for their insidious and cruel treatment of the widows and the orphans who had no defender since the judges were all in league with the land grabbing peoples.

There, The LORD Most High sent war against them. The survivors were taken into exile to Babylon.

Particularly theirs who practiced these tactics to rob, murder and defraud the innocent were brought into captivity or killed.

Verse four of Micah Chapter two refers to this punishment being twofold.

⁴“On that day they will take up against you a ^[c]taunt
And ^[d]utter a bitter lamentation and say,
‘We are completely destroyed!
He exchanges the portion of my people;
How He removes it from me! To the apostate He apportions our fields.’

Their evil deeds will be brought to light so that it will be as if the evidence was shouted in the public square or from the rooftops. Because they failed to carry out their duties honourably as benevolent patrons and mediators for the downtrodden they would be publicly ridiculed. These who pretended to worship and keep Yahweh’s commandments were robbing these trusting citizens of life’s essentials. The women, May who were war widows were losing their homes and children sold into slavery to pay so-called debts because of unrighteous rulings of the so-called righteous judges and their collusion to defraud the weak by the heartless actions of the wealthy.

These perpetrators who had stolen lands and homes would now be evicted themselves by

The Right Hand of The LORD because they had defiled God’s land with their illegal and wicked deeds and treacherous dealings with the poor. Theirs of prophets spoke only what they wanted to hear.

The meaning of Verse 5:

⁵“Therefore you will have noone ^[e]stretching a measuring line
For you by lot in the assembly of the Lord.

This imagery is related to a scene of a land lottery held to sell off land after it has been conquered by a general and is sold unjustly after they have killed or sold the property owners into slavery. The surveyor’s lines are stretched, then the subdivision of the lands will be sold to the wealthy but not any of the local residents unless they are the ones who were in league with them to take their rewards for their collusion to defraud the original owners.

In verse 6 the meaning is as follows:

Since the normal words for “to prophecy” and “prophets” are not used here, the speakers, are the wealthy land grabbers of verse 2 seeking to shut the mouth of Micah speaking The LORD’s Judgement upon them.

This Judgment has been declared and decreed in The Courts of Justice in Heaven and will now be delivered as Scrolls to the wicked. It will be a final judgment that will not be mediated because they refused to heed The LORD or His Prophets who He sent to warn them to cease and sedans repent of their evil ways.

These judgments will play out and will unfold much like the stories written by Charles Dickens of “Nicholas Nickelby” and “Martin Chuzzlewit” of which portrayed these similar crimes against humanity.

Let us pray for the poor and oppressed that The LORD will vindicate them and restore them to their lands with a twofold recompense and a double portion in the land.

He promises in verses 11-12 referring to Yeshua Perazim The LORD’s Judgement Of The Breakthrough.

¹²“I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in the fold; Like a flock in the midst of its pasture, They will be noisy with men.
¹³“The breaker goes up before them; They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them,
And the Lord at their head.”