Micah 3:9-12 Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right. You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption. You rulers make decisions based on bribes; you priests teach God’s laws only for a price; you prophets won’t prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim to depend on the Lord. “No harm can come to us,” you say, “for the Lord is here among us.” Because of you, Mount Zion will be plowed like an open field; Jerusalem will be reduced to ruins! A thicket will grow on the heights where the Temple now stands.
Hear this warning, you who hold power. Hear this warning, you who claim to be my teachers and prophets. You serve no one but yourselves. You worship only yourselves. You make your decisions based on personal gain. You use the power bestoyed upon you – power and influence that was given you to serve My people – you use that power and influence and all at your hands to crush the people, to rob them, to seize what is theirs, to take their liberties, to make gods of yourselves. I will not be mocked. I will not be misrepresented. So woe to you. Do not mistake your ability to continue in your sin as either weakness or lack of attention on My part. That would be a dangerous error. Repent or you will reap the consequences – eternal consequences – of your words, your attitudes, your actions, your sin. You preachers and priests purport to represent Me. You say you have faith, that you are faithful to the One True God. But you are not! You serve the enemy. You repeat his sin – striving for equality to Me. Repent or suffer the consequences of your decisions, your “teaching”, your selfish ambitions. The Day of Judgment is nearing. Your personal day of judgment could occur at any moment. Once it has, it will be too late to repent. Too late to ask Me to grant you forgiveness. Will you turn?
Amanuensis 