Micah's 'House of Horrors'

Aim: To flee to Christ and away from idols.

Doctrine: Micah's house was like a magnet—which attracted a lot of ignorant idolaters. These people might have behaved much differently had they been given godly instruction.

Exegesis: The scary specters in Micah's ''house of horrors'': a priest speaking presumptuously (vv. 1-6); idols (which were strictly forbidden by God) (vv. 7-14); a priest who possesses no convictions (vv. 15-17).

Further application: Why people should enter God's ''house of prayer'': because there everything makes sense, and God and sinners meet (in and through Christ).

Key phrase: v. 17a ''Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up. Entering there, they took the carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molded image.''