UNSEEN BATTLE SERIES · BIBLE CARD 33 OF 39
Micah
Mikhah — “Who is like YHWH?”
MINOR PROPHETS
- Author / Era
- Micah of Moresheth · approx. 735–700 BC
- Setting
- Judah and Israel under threat from Assyria. A country prophet alongside Isaiah in the city.
- Key Figures
- Micah, the corrupt judges, the false prophets
- Watch For
- Micah 5:2 — Bethlehem named as the birthplace of the Messiah seven hundred years before the manger.
- Connects To
- Matthew 2:6 (the chief priests cite Micah to Herod) · John 7:42 · Romans 12:1–2
Key Verse
“He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”— Micah 6:8
Points to Christ: The Ruler from Bethlehem
Micah 5:2 — the prophecy quoted to Herod when the wise men came looking.
For the Fire Pit
Centuries before the manger, a country prophet named the village. Bethlehem. Not Jerusalem. Not the palace. The little town. God writes the address in advance.
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