
The Book of Micah—מִיכָה (Mikhah, meaning "Who is like YHWH?")—stands as one of the Hebrew Bible's most powerful prophetic indictments of economic exploitation, corrupt leadership, and false prophecy in eighth-century BCE Judah. This contemporary of Isaiah, a rural prophet from Moresheth-Gath in the Shephelah region, delivered scorching critique against Jerusalem's elite who "tear the skin off my people and the flesh off their bones" (Micah 3:2). Yet Christian Dominionism has performed perhaps its most breathtaking hermeneutical violence on this text, transforming a prophet who championed the dispossessed into a fucking mascot for Christian nationalist political conquest. The Seven Mountain Mandate has particularly brutalized Micah 4:1-2's "mountain of the Lord" passage, ripping it from its context as a vision of eschatological peace and weaponizing it as foundational "proof text" for Christian conquest of seven cultural spheres.
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