Micaiah is a little known prophet of God, primarily because he wasn’t a writing prophet. He didn’t write a book of the Bible or have a book of the Bible named after him like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, or many others. Very few of his words are recorded in the Bible, and those in but one chapter. Of the few words he spoke, these are the most important and most revealing: “As the Lord lives, whatever my God says, that I will speak” (See 2 Chronicles 18:13). The one common denominator of these men and women in all ages – the prophets and prophetesses of God – is given in that one verse of Holy Writ: “As the Lord lives, whatever my God says, that I will speak.” They were generally unpopular, often rejected. Though appearing quite ordinary, they were glaringly different. Your chances of meeting one in your lifetime were and are slim, but should you ever be so fortunate, you could count yourself among the most blessed of your generation, time and age.
Every true representative of the Most High could and should be able to say what Micaiah said: “As the Lord lives, whatever my God says, that I will speak.” They don’t water down the Word of God. They don’t omit some things, gloss over, or ignore what God has said, nor do they spurn three-fourths of God’s Word and ignorantly proclaim, “I don’t get my doctrine out of the Old Testament!” You can live a long life on this earth and never once meet one such personality. That is how rare they are.
This nation better prepare itself to witness how God moves in judgment against nations that ignore Him and spurn His judgments and commandments, especially after proclaiming to the world that they are one nation under God. When God removes His hand of protection from over a nation, that nation will have a hard and bitter lesson to learn. Let’s hope we learn it well.
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley