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Notes for28 March 2024

 
For Mic 7:18 

The exclamation of the prophet Micah sounds at a terrible time of disasters, when falls invasion of the Assyrians on the chosen people. As reason of the misfortunes, prophets see the sins of people, their treason to the covenant concluded with the Only God. The destruction and ruin that bring the Assyrian troops, are presented to them as a conform result of breaking up with God.

But not this tragic justice is the main in the prophetic revelation. To try on oneself the anger for betrayal is sorely, but understandable for man. Otherwise, completely otherwise opens to the prophets: the mercy of the Almighty, is inconceivable and inexplicable. The divine secret does not consist of the fact that wages is just; on the contrary, it consists of that God forgives. It is in particular in forgiveness, in grace of the remnant Israel that Micah sees God's intervention in the history.

Oriental kings being thirsty of sublime honors and sincere loyalty of the subjugated countries, punished severely for disobedience and treason. But the prophet sees the capacity to forgive, sees the desire to remit in nobody, except the Only God. If you forgive us, exclaims Micah, it means that You are really a God; because mercy does not belong to the fallen world.

It is in particular why forgiveness in the Bible, particularly in the New Testament, is the sign of the presence of the Invisible. It results from it a practical conclusion: to enter into His presence, to find Him and open the doors of the heart to God, it is necessary to try to realize in our life particularly this forgiveness.

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