Micah 5:12-14

He would also remove the accouterments of pagan worship that had plagued His people. Sorceries involved seeking information from demonic sources (cf. 2 Kings 9:22; Isaiah 47:9; Isaiah 47:12; Nahum 3:4). Fortunetellers cast spells by calling demonic spirits to influence other people (cf. Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 18:10). Carved images were pagan idols (cf. Exodus 20:4). Sacred pillars and Asherim were stone and wooden symbols of the male and female Canaanite deities (cf. Deuteronomy 16:21-22; 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 17:10; 2 Kings 18:4; 2 Kings 23:14). Yahweh would free His people from these human inventions that had always oppressed them. Cities were infamous as places where spiritual impurity flourished (cf. Micah 1:5), and God would destroy them too. These were Israel’s internal enemies whereas other nations were her external enemies.

"Secular man more effectively manipulates life by his use of science than his ancestors did by magic, but no more than they can he secure eternal life for himself. By continuing to substitute the creation for the Creator, he individually deprives himself of eternal life and collectively hastens his eternal death." [Note: Waltke, in Obadiah, . . ., p. 190.]

Occultism will continue into the Tribulation (Revelation 9:21), but the Lord will finally root it out in the Millennium.