Jonah and Micah

By | September 22, 2010

Jonah

You already know this story. Keep in mind the difference between how compassionate God is for people (even cruel people from Nineveh) and how uncompassionate Jonah is. It’s really a sad story in that regard. I think many Christians are like Jonah.

Micah

Micah is a normal prophet in that he gave good news and he gave bad news. The good news is in chapters 4, 5, and 7, and I like those parts best. You ‘ll recognize 5:2 because it is the prophecy of Jesus’s birth. I think it is important to observe that this prophecy is in the context of a Messiah who comes to rule the earth. Some people think that Jesus wasn’t the Messiah because he didn’t do this. Other people think that Jesus never planned to do this, but he only set up a “spiritual kingdom” inside people’s hearts. I am convinced that he will rule the earth in the future. All of these prophecies weren’t fulfilled when Jesus came because he had to die and the nation of Israel was not ready to be restored. God decided that one thing he would do is to create a new group of people (the “church”) who would make Israel jealous so that they would want to come back to God. One day that will happen and then Jesus will be King Jesus ruling in Jerusalem. A lot of the prophets (and the gospels, and the other books in the New Testament) say this, but for some reason I wrote it here about Micah!

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