Micah

The Lord speaks in this book from His holy temple, addressing all people of the earth (Mic. 1:2). We have similar expressions in Psalm 11, Habakkuk 2, and in Revelation 15-16. When the Lord speaks from His Holy Temple, “let all the earth keep silence before him” (Hab. 2:20).
Jehovah will not always remain on high; He will come forth out of His place to “tread upon the high places of the earth” (Mic. 1:3). Samaria would become a heap and evil would come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem—the Assyrian invasion as detailed in Isaiah (Mic. 1:4-9).
The second chapter addresses the moral state of the people, while the third takes up the princes and prophets of Israel. Zion would be plowed as a field and Jerusalem would become heaps (Mic. 3:12)—as was the case upon its destruction by Titus and Hadrian.
In the fourth chapter, we move from the destruction of Jerusalem to her millennial glory! “But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it” (Mic. 4:1).
In the fifth chapter, we have introduced the Judge of Israel (Mic. 5:1; verses one and three are continuous, while verse two is parenthetical). Because the Judge of Israel was smitten on the cheek with a rod, Israel must be given up for a time. She must pass through deep travail and be brought to a state suited for the manifestation of her King (Mic. 5:1, 3). In that day, He will feed His flock, and when the latter-day Assyrian—the king of the North—comes into the land, He will be their peace (Mic. 5:5).
In the parenthesis between verses 1 and 3, we have a detail concerning the Messiah not found elsewhere in Scripture: “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting” (Mic. 5:2; Matt. 2:5).
In the final two chapters, Jehovah resumes His pleading with His people: “Hear ye now what the Lord saith; … for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel” (Mic. 6:1-2). Chapter six begins as a dialog between Jehovah and the remnant, and in the seventh chapter the prophet speaks for the remnant: “I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness” (Mic. 7:9).