I. Introduction: Social Justice Brutalized into Seven Mountain Imperialism

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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