How Long Can Methuselah Live?

Post 294

As you may have noticed I have repeatedly attempted to wrap up this section of work; I feel that I have run long enough, the message is adequately given, and few are going to read a tome of this size anyway. But in the spirit of Methuselah God will not let me stop, even though my message has run longer than any message could be expected to. The reasons are the same: At the end of Methuselah’s message, the flood came. My lengthy warning is similar; do not delay your turn to God because you are waiting for new material that seems to have no end. Yet just as the stiffnecked people in the time of the Judges, God’s mercy runs far longer than anyone could consider reasonable. The problem is that the people took that extended mercy for tolerance and so felt no need to work it out to success (II Peter 3:4 confirmed by the willfully missed perspective of v.v.5-7, Judgment will come much sooner than you perceive because of the appearance of delay: II Peter 3:9-10, Habakkuk 2:3). And so although this lengthy message has appeared to end several times, the Lord yet offers you Micah with this key verse as it applies to modern Christianity:

“Arise ye, and depart (from your current standing of faith); for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood…” Micah 2:10-11a.

"Wait! How does a man walk in the spirit and in falsehood?" I cannot urge you strong enough to read Micah’s early warning found in Chapters 1-3. Can you explain why Chapter 4 seems to come out of order? Can you identify the distinction between 1-3 and 5-7?
I may develop this post as I have time but you really need to read this for yourself and cry out to God to show you his heart in the matter.
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Micah 1:1 tells us that this warning prophecy is a judgment not against all the wicked of the word but against Samaria and Jerusalem; the capitols of the divided nation of Israel.

Micah 1:2 tells us that this judgment prophecy is a warning to the rest of the world to learn by observation. Micah’s message tells us that what will pass on Israel is from God himself who is the witness against them, not from the polluted temple in Jerusalem but from his Holy Temple in heaven. The importance of this is to distinguish God’s perspective of righteousness from the people who think they are following God but are not.

Micah 1:3 expounds on His coming down from his holy place for the purpose of treading on the high places of the earth. We know that “high places” are where pagan gods were worshipped-- whether in Jerusalem or elsewhere. Again God is establishing his true position of God as opposed to the many confusions assumed to be God.

Micah 1:4 describes the affects on the Earth when God comes down: earthquakes that bring mountains down like water, valleys cut as the earth rips open like a knife through hot butter. What valley specifically? See Zechariah 14:4. This arrival of God to do his trodding sure sounds a lot like the pre-signs of his Matthew 24:5-8 coming that brings the end of the world.

That should get you started…
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