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Continuing my thoughts on Micah. Today we’re on chapter 4.

The first 5 verses contain a prophecy of what will happen in the last days or latter days. This is a time to come. There is some beautiful imagery in these verses, viz.

And it will come about in the last days that the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains. It will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it. Many nations will come and say, “Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD and to the house of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us about His ways and that we may walk in His paths.” For from Zion will go forth the law, even the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And He will judge between many peoples and render decisions for mighty, distant nations. Then they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they train for war. (Micah 4:1-3 from the NASB®¹)

Further thoughts on the prophet Micah - this time on chapter 3.

Micah 3 is a short chapter - 12 verses - and is a chapter in three parts.

The first part - verses 1 through 4 details more of what we saw in the previous chapter about injustice, oppression, evil being perpetrated against the people by the elite (the charges are specifically against the “heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel”). But this time the language is somewhat more graphic:

Continuing some thoughts on the book of the prophet Micah. Today looking at chapter 2.

The chapter begins with the Lord’s/Micah’s indictment against the people:

Woe to those who scheme iniquity, Who work out evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of their hands. They covet fields and then seize them, And houses, and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance. (Micah 2:1-2 from the NASB®¹)

In April, May and June I posted some thoughts on what I had been reading in the first 13 chapters of the major prophet, Jeremiah¹.

Towards the end of May and into early June I read my way through one of the minor prophets, Micah², reading a chapter (more or less) every day or two.

As I read, I journal. This journalling may take the form of observations or comments about the text. It may be questions that the text raises for me, or ideas or concepts that I don’t grasp (either fully, or at all). My journalling can also be prayers that form as I read. I will also ask questions of the Lord by writing them down and then journalling what drops into my mind after that. Most of my journalling is in narrative form, but it occasionally comes as dot points (particularly if I am noting some comments or observations about a number of verses in succession).

And another classic: By one of the so-called supergroups. Roy Orbison’s vocals starting at 0:41 are some of the clearest, cleanest notes you could hear.

Another classic: The lead singer, Jay Siegel, can still hold that falsetto; and the backing soprano vocals by Kelley DeFade are unbelievable!

A classic: I particularly like the change up at around 1:35.

And here’s a bonus from the same impromptu concert:

Around twelve months ago I posted about how I was migrating this blog back to Hugo. That migration lasted around 6 months at which time I switched to Grav. I had fiddled around with Grav in the very early says of this blog but had commenced with Hugo.

Just before Christmas 2019 there were some changes made to Hugo which meant the theme I was using¹ broke and my site wouldn’t render properly. I tried to fix it - unsuccessfully. As a result I switched to Grav. It worked well for a time but there were occasional issues with the site - namely that the bigfoot footnotes would only render correctly around half the time, and sometimes the archives and tag/category clouds didn’t seem to be complete.

In a book that I’m currently reading, Ancient Paths, the author, Corey Russell quotes Matthew Henry who quotes his father Philip Henry about the benefits of meditating on a different verse from Psalm 119 every day. (Yes, I’m quoting someone who quotes someone who quotes someone who speaks about quoting a Psalm).

But let’s go to the source. Here’s what Matthew Henry had to say about his father Philip in Matthew’s work entitled An Account of the Life and Death of Mr. Philip Henry:

Past, Present, Future - Ephesians 2:1-10

Makeovers

For some reason we, as a nation, have a fascination with makeovers. There are a number of Australian home renovation shows on TV - The Block, House Rules, Better Homes and Gardens, Grand Designs Australia. You could perhaps include Lego Masters because the premise is the same - to turn a pile of bricks into something else.

And the number of shows available from the US and UK is huge - shows on buying, renovating then selling houses, cabins, houseboats or tiny homes.