Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God." Sermons
I. THEY ARE DECEIVING. God says, they "make my people err." Preachers often make their hearers err. 1. In theology. They propound ideas, crude and ill digested, concerning God, Christ, moral conditions and relations, utterly inconsistent with truth. 2. In worship. The forms they propose to use in worship, the rules they enjoin for it, are often such as to give the people wrong ideas as to what worship really is. 3. In morality. Their standard of duty is often wrong; hence wars are sanctioned, priestly exactions and assumptions encouraged and maintained. Ah me! how the preachers make men err on these great subjects! II. THEY ARE AVARICIOUS. They "bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace." Greed governs them in all their ministries. They are ever hungering after gain; pelf with them is a passion. Their eyes are ever on pew rents, offerings, tithes, etc. If their greed is offended, they "prepare war against" the offender; they raise an opposition strong and deadly against him. They are "greedy of filthy lucre." III. THEY ARE CONFOUNDED. Confounded in darkness. "Night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them." They were blind leaders of the blind, and they themselves fall into the ditch. Confounded in shame. "Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners be confounded." Jehovah ignores them. "There is no answer of God." "Those," says Matthew Henry, "who deceive others are but preparing confusion for their own faces." - D.T.
Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make My people err Homilist. Here the prophet attacks the false prophets, as before he had attacked the "princes."I. They are DECEIVING. God says, they "make My people err" Preachers often make their hearers err. (1) (2) (3) II. They are AVARICIOUS. They "bite with their teeth, and cry peace." Greed governs them in all their ministries. III. They are CONFOUNDED. 1. Confounded in darkness. "Night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them." 2. Confounded in shame. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners be confounded. Jehovah ignores them. "There is no answer of God." "Those," says Matthew Henry, "who deceive others are but preparing confusion for their own faces." (Homilist.) People Jacob, MicahPlaces Adullam, Jerusalem, ZionTopics Ashamed, Confounded, Cover, Covered, Covering, Disappointed, Disgraced, Diviners, Embarrassed, Faces, Future, Indeed, Lip, Lips, Loss, Mouths, O, Readers, Seers, Shame, Shamed, Upper, Yea, YesOutline 1. The cruelty of the princes.5. The falsehood of the prophets. 8. The false security of them both. Dictionary of Bible Themes Micah 3:7Library The Apostasy in Two Days. In our introduction we gave a number of texts which spoke of the whole of the gospel dispensation as one day; but any period of time distinguished by some extraordinary historic event may be and is also termed a day. The apostasy or dark noonday being under two forms is marked in Bible history as two days. The first form of the apostasy, namely, Catholicism, is called by the Scriptures a "dark day." A Cloudy Day. The second form of the apostasy was not such utter darkness as the first, and is therefore … Charles Ebert Orr—The Gospel Day Bad Ecclesiastics and Base Plots Of Councils and their Authority. "And There is None that Calleth Upon Thy Name, that Stirreth up Himself to Take Hold on Thee," Contention Over the Man Born Blind. The Purpose in the Coming of Jesus. The Sovereignty of God in Operation The Doctrine of the Scriptures. Micah Links Micah 3:7 NIVMicah 3:7 NLT Micah 3:7 ESV Micah 3:7 NASB Micah 3:7 KJV Micah 3:7 Bible Apps Micah 3:7 Parallel Micah 3:7 Biblia Paralela Micah 3:7 Chinese Bible Micah 3:7 French Bible Micah 3:7 German Bible Micah 3:7 Commentaries Bible Hub |