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"Zion shall be plowed like a field"

Text: Micah 3:12

A CONTRARY MESSAGE

Micah proclaimed a powerful contrary message to the rulers and to the whole nation.

“Therefore because of you
Zion shall be plowed like a field.
Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And the mountain of the temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.”
Micah 3:12

1. “Therefore because of you”

a) The heads/ rulers

b) The judges

c) The priests

d) The prophets (false)

Because they had perverted and corrupted everything, the nation was headed to destruction!

2. “Zion shall be plowed like a field”

a) Nobody would have come up with such a thought.

b) To be plowed meant that Zion would be trampled till it became as flat as a plowed field.

3. “Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins”

a) The capital had many famous landmark structures.

b) There was the famous Temple of Solomon.

c) There were the palaces of the royal family.

d) All these beautiful edifices would be reduced to rubble… they would become heaps of ruins!

4. “The mountain of the temple”

a) Psalm 48 was a beautiful psalm written by the Sons of Korah.

b) These Levites served as gatekeepers among other things.

c) In this Psalm they described with great exultation the beauty of Zion.

“Beautiful in elevation,
The joy of the whole earth,
Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,
The city of the great king.”
Psalm 48:2

5. “Like the bare hills of the forest”

a) Where hills are bare there is nothing to see.

b) Jerusalem would be razed to the ground and there would indeed be nothing left to see!