Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we finished our 20th book of the Bible. Congratulations!

We're still hovering over the same time period and we will be for a while.

We'll continue to switch back and forth between a variety of prophecies

and some of the narrative history portions like Kings and Chronicles,

where we'll often see those prophecies being fulfilled.

Today we're in another minor prophet, Myka.

I find his writing style very confusing,

so I'm really glad he's not a major prophet,

just seven chapters instead of 70.

He's sometimes viewed as Isaiah Jr because God

appointed them both to speak the same message to the same people in

approximately the same time frame. One primary difference apart from the length is that Isaiah's message was directed

more toward the ruling authorities, while Micah speaks mainly to the general population.

He even opens by saying, here are you peoples, all of you, pay attention.

He says God is about to take action against their sins, and one of God's first moves is to

trample down the high places. Finally! He addresses the sins of Israel and

its capital Samaria as well as Judah and its capital Jerusalem. And when God sends

destruction, Micah tells them how to grieve and mourn, and it seems they're supposed

to do it privately, possibly because if news of their grief reaches the enemy nations,

they'll rejoice over their destruction. First, Micah calls them out on the same things we've already talked about,

stealing land from the poor and oppressing them. In Micah's words, we see that greed may start with just wanting more stuff, but it eventually

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