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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