Micah 3:5-12

Micah 3:5-12

A Word of The LORD to the Western Church today!

Here is what ADONAI says in regard to the prophets who cause My people to go astray, who cry, “Peace” as soon as they are given food to eat but prepare war against anyone who fails to put something in their mouths: “Therefore, you will have night, not vision, darkness and not divination; the sun will go down on the prophets, over them the day will be black.”

The seers will be put to shame, the diviners will be disgraced. They will have to cover their mouths, because there will be no answer from GOD. On the other hand, I am full of power by the Spirit of ADONAI, full of justice and full of might, to declare to Ya’akov (Jacob) his crime, to Isra’el his sin. Hear this, please, leaders of the house of Ya’akov, rulers of the house of Isra’el, you who abhor what is just and pervert anything that is right, who build up Tziyon (Zion) with blood and Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) with wickedness. Her leaders sell verdicts for bribes, her cohanim (priests) teach for a price, her prophets divine for money – yet they claim to rely on ADONAI! “Isn’t ADONAI here with us?” they say. “No evil can come upon us.” Therefore, because of you, Tziyon will be plowed under like a field, Yerushalayim will become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like a forested height.”

As I was reading in Micah this morning it seemed I was reading about the Western Church and the USA, so much corruption and wickedness. As we see what is going on in every level of our government, federal, state, county, city and municipal it is obvious that more and more people are getting into government to get rich and control other people’s lives. Our government truly is not by the people for the people, it is the few who want all of us to live by their standard. That is actually what they said for years that the Church was trying to do.

Actually what the Church is supposed to do is tell people that GOD has a better plan for their life and that requires a change in how they live their life so that they can enter into GOD’s eternal Kingdom. But, no one is required to make that change, it is an invitation from GOD because of His Love and everyone has the ability to decline His invitation. The fact is that some in the Church have done the work of the devil by forcing people to convert too their religious version of Christianity.

The major problem in the Church today is that now we teach that all you have to do is say you believe and then you can live pretty much how you want, grace over obedience. Jesus said that those who sin (and He listed them in the Gospels) would not enter into GOD’s eternal Kingdom. Jesus said that there would be some who call Him LORD and do the works of GOD but would not be known to Him or allowed to enter into GOD’s eternal Kingdom. Jesus said not to fear men or devils who can only kill the body but to fear GOD who can kill the body and the soul in eternal judgment.

To highlight that, today I heard about a well known and respected TV minister that said that the 10 Commandments do not apply to Christians. On the face that statement opposes the teachings of Jesus who fulfilled the Law and said that it would not pass away. In the depth of the meaning of that statement it is a rejection of Jesus who said that we must obey GOD above anything else and then He did just that as the Son of Man by going to the cross.

Another group is the one that says everything is going to be ok, GOD loves us and He is not going to let anything bad (like the tribulation) hurt us. They were around in Micah’s day and in our day; Jesus said we would be persecuted.

Why do people teach things that the Bible does not teach especially when Jesus stated them clearly? The real question is why do people who call themselves Christian not know what Jesus and the Bible say? When we say that we are a Christian we are saying we are a disciple of Jesus and a disciple is someone who does what the one they are following does and teaches what they teach.

Stop believing what people tell you the Bible says study it and learn for yourself or it may cost you your eternity.