Micah prophesies against the crimes festering in the cities of Israel and Judah (focusing on Jerusalem). The religious, political, and judicial crimes then resemble the crimes of modern Israel, whose current leaders are as corrupt and immoral as those condemned by Micah in his prophecies. The moral deficits of modern Israel seem to have surpassed the targets of Micah's prophecies, trusting in military alliances instead of God, promoting tolerance for occult and pagan religious systems, and forging syncretistic alliances with alien faiths. American preachers lack the intestinal fortitude to address the sins rampant in the major cities. Micah 5, set in the future, describes legal proceedings against the people who have rejected God, promising a harsh retribution from their enemies, but promises future restoration for a remnant of physical Israel, having repented from religious and military idolatry. God will defeat Israel's presumptuous and arrogant enemies as He has done in the past, providing Israel would remember the weightier matters of the law-justice, mercy, and faith, practiced continually by Almighty God, but spurned by the apostate offspring of Jacob to their detriment, reaping the curses of practicing the very things that God hates. Instead of loving justice, Israel's reprobate leaders embrace Marxism, calling it "social justice." Under America's current leaders, the major cities have become saturated with murder and the infrastructure is collapsing. The pride of her power has been destroyed as America's leadership is mocked worldwide. As Micah's name, translated "Who is Like God?", only God has remained faithful to His covenant while physical Israel played the harlot.