Series in Micah - Hating Good and loving Evil
Hating Good and loving Evil Micah 3:1-4 In our world today, corruption runs rampant through the majority of our world leaders, from the political, from the legal, and from those who are presiding over spirituality, morals, and truth. Lord Acton, an English historian, wrote this aphorism about the corruption he saw in the world. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” He saw absolute corruption in his days in the English three legs of power and hierarchy: Religious, Political, and Legal,. This quote is as apt for our days as it would have been in the days of Micah the prophet. So let's begin with the reading of the first portion of the text. I said, “Listen, you leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong, but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil.” Micah’s second oracle was directed at the three branches of leadership in Israel, the political, the religious, and the legal. He is preaching not to the common peop...