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Welcome to 6640, the ministry outreach of Koinania House and Koinnea Institute.

Today's Bible teacher is Chuck Missler, connecting the Bible to your life and the world around you.

In today's study, Chuck begins his teaching on the book of Micah, Chapter 6.

Music Well, we're continuing our exploration of the prophet Micah, and we are in chapter six.

Just by way of perspective, because we should always study these prophets against the history that we have in 1st, 2nd Kings, 1st, 2nd Chronicles, so forth.

So if we look at Judah and Israel, remember now we're talking, when we use the term

Israel as an ambiguity we're going to encounter.

Because the northern kingdom called themselves Israel, the House of Israel, and yet that's also the label for the whole nation.

And of course, the House of Judah being the Southern Kingdom.

Focusing on just the Second King's portion of that history, to expand this a little bit, we have, of course,

the northern kingdom, they're captive by the Assyrians, and that ends the northern

kingdom. They don't come back. They're eliminated from history, as we know it. But we are

going to touch on Nineveh, which is the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Of course, the southern kingdom,

when they get judged, goes into captivity with Babylon for a specific period of time from which they return.

And that's an important distinction to make. Assyria falls to Babylon, so those captives which have been distributed

fall into the capital, under the captivity of the Babylonians, get commingled.

And so when they return after the Babylonian captivity, there's a mixture of both north and south kingdom participants.

After the Babylonian captivity, we call that the exile. So the post-exile

prophets, of course, and writers follow. And so to get a feeling of this, Elijah, we speak of

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