O. Addison Gethers
e-mail address [email protected] [email protected] twitter URL http//:twitter.com/OAddisonGethers Messenger contact window live/msn messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS rs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 9:22 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Monday September 28 > Day 271 > > Micah 1-3 (The Message) > > Micah 1 > 1 God's Message as it came to Micah of Moresheth. It came during the > reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and > Hezekiah, kings of Judah. It had to do with what was going on in Samaria > and Jerusalem. God Takes > the Witness Stand > 2Listen, people-all of you. > Listen, earth, and everyone in it: > The Master, God, takes the witness stand against you, > the Master from his Holy Temple. > > 3-5Look, here he comes! God, from his place! > He comes down and strides across mountains and hills. > Mountains sink under his feet, > valleys split apart; > The rock mountains crumble into gravel, > the river valleys leak like sieves. > All this because of Jacob's sin, > because Israel's family did wrong. > You ask, "So what is Jacob's sin?" > Just look at Samaria-isn't it obvious? > And all the sex-and-religion shrines in Judah- > isn't Jerusalem responsible? > > 6-7"I'm turning Samaria into a heap of rubble, > a vacant lot littered with garbage. > I'll dump the stones from her buildings in the valley > and leave her abandoned foundations exposed. > All her carved and cast gods and goddesses > will be sold for stove wood and scrap metal, > All her sacred fertility groves > burned to the ground, > All the sticks and stones she worshiped as gods, > destroyed. > These were her earnings from her life as a whore. > This is what happens to the fees of a whore." > > 8-9This is why I lament and mourn. > This is why I go around in rags and barefoot. > This is why I howl like a pack of coyotes, > and moan like a mournful owl in the night. > God has inflicted punishing wounds; > Judah has been wounded with no healing in sight. > Judgment has marched through the city gates. > Jerusalem must face the charges. > > 10-16Don't gossip about this in Telltown. > Don't waste your tears. > In Dustville, > roll in the dust. > In Alarmtown, > the alarm is sounded. > The citizens of Exitburgh > will never get out alive. > Lament, Last-Stand City: > There's nothing in you left standing. > The villagers of Bittertown > wait in vain for sweet peace. > Harsh judgment has come from God > and entered Peace City. > All you who live in Chariotville, > get in your chariots for flight. > You led the daughter of Zion > into trusting not God but chariots. > Similar sins in Israel > also got their start in you. > Go ahead and give your good-bye gifts > to Good-byeville. > Miragetown beckoned > but disappointed Israel's kings. > Inheritance City > has lost its inheritance. > Glorytown > has seen its last of glory. > Shave your heads in mourning > over the loss of your precious towns. > Go bald as a goose egg-they've gone > into exile and aren't coming back. > > Micah 2 > God Has Had Enough > 1-5 Doom to those who plot evil, > who go to bed dreaming up crimes! > As soon as it's morning, > they're off, full of energy, doing what they've planned. > They covet fields and grab them, > find homes and take them. > They bully the neighbor and his family, > see people only for what they can get out of them. > God has had enough. He says, > "I have some plans of my own: > Disaster because of this interbreeding evil! > Your necks are on the line. > You're not walking away from this. > It's doomsday for you. > Mocking ballads will be sung of you, > and you yourselves will sing the blues: > 'Our lives are ruined, > our homes and lands auctioned off. > They take everything, leave us nothing! > All is sold to the highest bidder.'" > And there'll be no one to stand up for you, > no one to speak for you before God and his jury. > 6-7"Don't preach," say the preachers. > "Don't preach such stuff. > Nothing bad will happen to us. > Talk like this to the family of Jacob? > Does God lose his temper? > Is this the way he acts? > Isn't he on the side of good people? > Doesn't he help those who help themselves?" > > 8-11"What do you mean, 'good people'! > You're the enemy of my people! > You rob unsuspecting people > out for an evening stroll. > You take their coats off their backs > like soldiers who plunder the defenseless. > You drive the women of my people > out of their ample homes. > You make victims of the children > and leave them vulnerable to violence and vice. > Get out of here, the lot of you. > You can't take it easy here! > You've polluted this place, > and now you're polluted-ruined! > If someone showed up with a good smile and glib tongue > and told lies from morning to night- > 'I'll preach sermons that will tell you > how you can get anything you want from God: > More money, the best wines...you name it'- > you'd hire him on the spot as your preacher! > > 12-13"I'm calling a meeting, Jacob. > I want everyone back-all the survivors of Israel. > I'll get them together in one place- > like sheep in a fold, like cattle in a corral- > a milling throng of homebound people! > Then I, God, will burst all confinements > and lead them out into the open. > They'll follow their King. > I will be out in front leading them." > > Micah 3 > Haters of Good, Lovers of Evil > 1-3 Then I said: > "Listen, leaders of Jacob, leaders of Israel: > Don't you know anything of justice? > Haters of good, lovers of evil: > Isn't justice in your job description? > But you skin my people alive. > You rip the meat off their bones. > You break up the bones, chop the meat, > and throw it in a pot for cannibal stew." > 4The time's coming, though, when these same leaders > will cry out for help to God, but he won't listen. > He'll turn his face the other way > because of their history of evil. > > 5-7Here is God's Message to the prophets, > the preachers who lie to my people: > "For as long as they're well paid and well fed, > the prophets preach, 'Isn't life wonderful! Peace to all!' > But if you don't pay up and jump on their bandwagon, > their 'God bless you' turns into 'God damn you.' > Therefore, you're going blind. You'll see nothing. > You'll live in deep shadows and know nothing. > The sun has set on the prophets. > They've had their day; from now on it's night. > Visionaries will be confused, > experts will be all mixed up. > They'll hide behind their reputations and make lame excuses > to cover up their God-ignorance." > > 8But me-I'm filled with God's power, > filled with God's Spirit of justice and strength, > Ready to confront Jacob's crime > and Israel's sin. > > 9-12The leaders of Jacob and > the leaders of Israel are > Leaders contemptuous of justice, > who twist and distort right living, > Leaders who build Zion by killing people, > who expand Jerusalem by committing crimes. > Judges sell verdicts to the highest bidder, > priests mass-market their teaching, > prophets preach for high fees, > All the while posturing and pretending > dependence on God: > "We've got God on our side. > He'll protect us from disaster." > Because of people like you, > Zion will be turned back into farmland, > Jerusalem end up as a pile of rubble, > and instead of the Temple on the mountain, > a few scraggly scrub pines. > > > > > > > ~~~~~ > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > Also, follow my tweets on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/Donnie1261 > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. 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