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Monday, August 6, 2018

NO ESCAPE FROM GOD

NO ESCAPE FROM GOD 


"Therefore thus says Jehovah; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil . . ." Micah 2:3


After a graphic description of the coming judgment (Mic. 1:6-16) the prophet declared the nature of the sin of the nation (Mic. 2:1). It will be noticed that the sin was peculiarly the sin of the RULING CLASSES. The period was one of MATERIAL PROSPERITY, but the power of this was in the hands of the rulers. In view of this power, they planned and plotted in the night, and in the day carried out their plans. Their rule was that of OPPRESSION. The note in this charge which reveals the deepest wrong is that in which the prophet declared that the oppression was not an action of sudden passion, or of swift moral collapse. It was premeditated. Observe the force of the word devise: "Woe to them that devise iniquity." This gives force to the declaration: "Behold against this family do I devise an evil." Men deliberately PLOT AND PLAN IN THE DARKNESS, DEVISE INIQUITY IN THE NIGHT, when their fellow men cannot see, and therefore do not know. But God is not deceived, He knows; and over against the devising of wickedness, is set His devising. They DEVISE INIQUITY AGAINST THEIR FELLOW COUNTRYMEN; but JEHOVAH DEVISES EVIL AGAINST THEM. This is forever so, and the evil which God devises against the devising of iniquity: is always the outworking of that very iniquity in its reaction upon the evil workers. THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM GOD; and that fact is the reason of confidence, and the secret of peace, in the days bursting of the apparent triumph of evil men.

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