Albert Barnes Commentary Micah 2:5

Albert Barnes Commentary

Micah 2:5

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Micah 2:5

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah." — Micah 2:5 (ASV)

Therefore you shall have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord - You, in the first instance, are the impenitent Jew of that day. God had promised by Hosea to restore Judah; shortly after, the prophet himself foretells it (Micah 2:12). Now he forewarns these and such as these, that they would have no portion in it. They had neither part nor lot in this matter (Acts 8:21).

They, the not-Israel then, were the images and examples of the not-Israel afterward, those who seem to be God’s people and are not; members of the body, not of the soul of the Church; who have a sort of faith, but have not love. Such was afterward the Israel after the flesh, which was broken off, while the true Israel was restored, passing out of themselves into Christ. Such, at the end, shall be those, who, being admitted by Christ into their portion, renounce the world in word not in deed. Such shall have no portion forever in the congregation of the Lord. For nothing defiled shall enter there, nor whatsoever worketh abomination or a lie, but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life (Revelation 21:27).

The ground of their condemnation is their resistance to light and known truth. These not only entered not in (Luke 11:52) themselves, but, being hinderers of God’s word, them that were entering in, they hindered.