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by Leland Ortega3 views·Updated May 25, 2021
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  1. Hi, this is Leland and this is my presentation on
  2. the Book of Mica.
  3. So to start with my uh holistic analysis, it is
  4. basically the historical analysis.
  5. So the king and rulers of the time, we're joe
  6. fam has and Hezekiah of Judah.
  7. Uh They were the rulers of Judah at the time
  8. and they were who Michael was prophesying too.
  9. He's passed uh prophesying to them, not just about them,
  10. but about the nation that they ruled and was telling
  11. them that they need to change themselves in the nation
  12. that they were ruling.
  13. Um My next point is the treaties at the time.
  14. So originally King Menahem offered tribute to Syria.
  15. So this is Israel.
  16. Um but after his death, Menahem son made a treaty
  17. with the king of Damascus to stand and fight against
  18. the Syrians.
  19. Which was not a good decision.
  20. Yeah. Other facts of historical importance was that the book
  21. of Mica takes place in 737- 669 BC.
  22. Uh This time was full of war and conflict even
  23. within Israel and outside of Israel, uh They were getting
  24. attacked by outsiders while fighting within themselves.
  25. Uh And also just to kind of put into perspective
  26. about how cruel and evil Israel was at the time.
  27. Um the king's in order to gain power to become
  28. full king is they would kill the previous king uh
  29. to kind of cement their ruler ship in Israel.
  30. Yeah. Um yeah, next is the literary analysis.
  31. Uh so I divided it into two different sections for
  32. my literary analysis.
  33. Um, chapters one through three are basically warning Israel of
  34. what their actions are, what their punishment is going to
  35. be if they continue these actions and to change their
  36. actions. Um he's telling them exactly what's going to happen
  37. and it happens.
  38. Um Chapter four through 7 are basically telling the Israelites
  39. that even though they are going to be punished, uh
  40. there is going to be returned to Israel.
  41. They are going to be better.
  42. They are once again going to be high in the
  43. nation's and they are going to be um no longer
  44. slaves or captives next to the theological analysis.
  45. Um, so I think that this text, we can learn
  46. a lot about God and humans both.
  47. Uh, and so through this text for God, uh, we
  48. can see that uh he judges fairly righteously.
  49. Um, I have to say this because he doesn't just
  50. judge uh outside nations.
  51. He also judges Israel itself and in very similar ways
  52. to what he would do to other nations.
  53. An example of a similar thing was Jonah and the
  54. um yeah, uh the nation is not coming to mind,
  55. but he sends Jonah and he goes to prophesy to
  56. them and they actually changed their ways.
  57. If they didn't though God was going to destroy them,
  58. next to the nature of people.
  59. Um I kind of found this interesting that uh people
  60. uh we learn a lot about human nature in this
  61. chapter because even though they are giving a very clear
  62. warning of what's going to happen if they don't change,
  63. uh they decided they knew better and uh wanted to
  64. keep doing what they were doing.
  65. So this kind of teaches us that humans by nature
  66. are egotistical and um we'll put themselves above God.
  67. Um next is God and Micah um In Mica uh
  68. we see excited God that um I don't, I personally
  69. don't think we see many times in the bible in
  70. this type of way.
  71. Um in Micah we see a god that is right,
  72. righteously vengeful, strong handed and um he's judging the nation
  73. of Israel and it seems very um different than the
  74. God. We generally see the forgiving God, the God of
  75. love, god of peace.
  76. This is almost a god of war and destruction, but
  77. it is a righteous war and destruction against Israel because
  78. Israel was wrong.
  79. Um personal application um for this uh I said I
  80. can apply myself to learn from Israel's mistakes and take
  81. heed of what people say and to take correction, not
  82. just here, the correction ignore it and think I know
  83. better um and to actually take people's correction into consideration.
  84. Um and that is my presentation on the Book of
  85. Mica.