Micah 1:2

"Hear, ye peoples, all of you, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple."

A statement such as this could hardly be expected to follow anything other than the very type of inspired and God-sent prophecy announced in the preceding verse.

"All of you, O earth ..." "The nations, all of them, are summoned .... for Israel's case is part and parcel of the world's case."[11] Notice, in particular, that this verse continues to affirm that the Lord is the author of the message being delivered; and that means, of course that the unbelievers have to get rid of this one also. Wolfe said, "This verse was not written until at least a century and a half after Micah!"[12] Rather, we should have said, that was spoken through Wolfe! The true author of such contradictions we have already identified. The thing which disturbs Satan in a reference like this is the fact that the judgment about to be executed upon Israel and Judah was a type and paradigm of the great and eternal Judgment that shall conclude the present age. Nothing could be more repugnant either to Satan, or to evil men, than the Biblical doctrine of Eternal Judgment.

"The Lord from his holy temple ..." "The holy temple here is not Jerusalem, but heaven; it is from there that the judgment emanates."[13] A failure to discern the highly figurative import of this passage always marks the response of those who are unspiritual. "The language used (in Micah 1:3-4) is highly figurative, the sublimity of which must be conceded by all."[14]

"Although directed primarily against Samaria, and ultimately against the southern capital, the prophet sets his pronouncement against a vast backcloth of world judgment. Micah's God is no provincial deity but the universal Overlord to whom all nations must render account."[15]