May 13, 2009

“An Evil Time - Part 3”

Blessings Folk!!

We continue our examination of a phrase that is seen several times in the Scripture - “an evil time”.

In reading the context we have seen that the pattern of sin is that which we see today.

Truly, nothing is new.

Read this passage…


Mic 2:1-5
1 Woe to those who devise iniquity, And work out evil on their beds! At morning light they practice it, Because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields and take them by violence, Also houses, and seize them. So they oppress a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.
3 Therefore thus says the Lord : "Behold, against this family I am devising disaster, From which you cannot remove your necks; Nor shall you walk haughtily, For this is an evil time.
4 In that day one shall take up a proverb against you, And lament with a bitter lamentation, saying: 'We are utterly destroyed! He has changed the heritage of my people; How He has removed it from me! To a turncoat He has divided our fields.'"
5 Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries* by lot In the assembly of the Lord .

NKJV

We learn some things about evil and those who commit it…

  • there are those who devise iniquity, they work out evil on their beds. All during the night their mind is raging as they work through the planning of evil, iniquity and the like. Woe is coming upon them.
  • these put into practice in broad daylight that which was planned upon the night bed
  • they are able to do this evil because it is within their hands to do so...yet, there day of woe is coming

Look at what they do…
  • they covet fields
  • they take fields by violence (in our jurisprudence this is done through eminent domain...a much-abused power)
  • they oppress a man and his house by taking the land and house..this effects not only the immediately family but the inheritance also...the generations to come

As we have seen previously, we are to fear not. We are to trust in God.

We also see a couple of other things.

  1. Woe is coming there way
  2. The Lord is devising a disaster for them!

Evil abounds.
Government and leadership steal under the guise of the law.

But, fear not.

Revenge is the Lord’s.

Ps 94:1-2
1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

KJV


Blessings!!

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