1 November, 2019
Have you heard of the "Seven Mountains" mandate, or teaching? Has it been suggested, brought up or otherwise promoted in your church? If it has, you need to stand against it. It is a false teaching that has no place in our midst.
But, you are asking, just what is this Seven Mountains mandate or teaching? Good question. Let's look at exactly what it is.
Seven Mountains is a reference to the seven sectors of society, specifically:
These seven sectors of society are considered the means of molding, shaping, or otherwise creating society, the way people think and behave.
Given the fact that the progressives/leftists in the United States have taken over the first mountain, our education system, they are raising our children to believe in Evolution as the origin of life, to disbelieve the "faerie tales" of religious thought. And they have also been undermining the age old definition of the nuclear family (one man, one woman, children of that union), to name just a few things they have been teaching our children for over 50 years. You can see the impact it is having on society through inculcation of our children in school, and in university, is deep and going to be with us for a very long time.
Through the domination of the education system by progressive minded teachers and professors at the universities, our children have been indoctrinated into a way of viewing the world. And that includes children from Christian homes - 80 percent of whom enter college with good faith intact, but this 80 percent of whom graduate college with a deprecated, even destroyed, faith life as they enter the world at large and go to work and begin making their way into society.
As a result, through dominating the education system alone, the progressive agenda is having a deep and permanent impact on the other six sectors of society. They didn't need to dominate any other sector because they understood that if they controlled what our children learned, they would influence, even change every other aspect of society - the other six sectors.
Now, the Church has a segment within that is embracing the same idea, to take over these seven sectors - for Jesus - and effect a far reaching influence on all children in all families. The beginning of this movement can be traced back to the early 1970s, and dominion theology, the goal of taking dominion over the earth, using Genesis 1:28 as a mandate for Christians to take control of civic affairs and all other aspects of society.
Okay, so you may also be asking, "What is dominion theology?" Good question.
Dominion theology's beliefs are based, in part, on the following scripture:
Gen 1:28: "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." (KJV - emphasis added)
Christians who believe in dominionism take this verse as a divine mandate to claim and subdue the earth and place all lands, politically, spiritually and physically, under their "ordained" rule. They stretch the intended meaning - when read in context - of the verse for Adam to have "dominion" over all the plants and animals and to "subdue" the land. Notice there is nothing said about people and nations. They may argue "every living thing" as meaning people and nations, but that is a huge stretch which constitutes them imposing their ideas upon scripture, not even remotely hermeneutically correct interpretation.
But “bringing the kingdom of heaven to earth” is not our commission. Our commission is to tell people about the wonderful news that, despite the sick, sinful condition of our souls, God has provided salvation by sacrificing His own Son on our behalf (Rom. 5:6-8). By grace, through faith, we become citizens of a perfect world that will last eternally (Eph. 2:8-9). Our job is to “rescue those who are perishing; to hold back those stumbling towards slaughter” (Prov. 24:11).
We are under a new covenant, one that is not tied to or dependent upon the old covenant. And it is certainly not married to the command of Adam to subdue the land and have dominion over the whole earth. As said earlier, to believe so is to distort and read into the text something that is not implicitly stated, let alone implied.
Christian Dominionism seeks to perfect this world through political, social and religious clout. But it is the Spirit who must bring change (Zech. 4:6).
One day, Jesus will bring His kingdom to earth, in justice and true righteousness, and it will signify the end of this world’s system. He isn't coming to "take over" or "pick up" where we left off, assuming dominion over what man has done for Him.
You will hear the proponents of the Seven Mountain mandate speaking words such as "occupy", "take back", even "transforming" society through "invading" these seven sectors of society and instilling biblical principles and ideals within each sector as they begin to become the majority in each controlling portion of the seven sectors of society.
This is, in effect, theological tyranny, where the Bible is the law of the land, and certain people are charged with maintaining that "order" and "control".
Honestly, this is the hallmark of Islam, not Christianity, to take over the world and create a global caliphate, where the Koran is the Guidebook, and Sharia (Islamic law) is the rule of the land. Under Islam, their theology truly IS tyranny because the unbeliever (infidel) has three choices:
So, we have to wonder what a Christian dominionist world may look like.
Do you remember the old axiom: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely?
Consider, the Seven Mountains proponents are first people, flawed, human, and subject to temptation.
Are we really so ready to support this "mandate", knowing that the church today, in a broad sense, is already suffering from within, compromised as it is by false teaching, distortions of scripture, man centered feeling, experience and emotions based doctrines? Are we really so ready to pile into yet another philosophical train wreck of a pursuit - without the least amount of "searching the scriptures to see if these things be true"?
Think about it. And consider the rule of the Antichrist, as described in the Revelation of John. You will have to concede there are corollaries between them.
The Antichrist and False Prophet set up a one world government AND religion. This means they, too are commandeering the seven sectors of society to their purposes, including religion and religious worship.
The Seven Mountains mandate requires Christians to take over all seven sectors of society - globally - in effect setting up a one world government, with Christianity (at least THEIR interpretation of it) as the dominant, even singular religion in the world.
This similarity alone should give you great cause for concern. And if you are hearing the Seven Mountains ideas being suggested or taught in your church, you need to stand up and decry this as a false and destructive - and quite unbiblical idea, let alone teaching. And you need to DEMAND that it cease.
Make sure everyone in your church learns what the Seven Mountains mandate really is: dominionism, the literal taking over all the world in the name of Christ. Do not let them silence you. Do not let the leadership in your church stop you. And if they throw you out, make sure everyone you know in that church understands exactly why you no longer are there, because the leadership threw you out for exposing heresy.
This is not alarmism, far from it. I have seen the Seven Mountains teachings creeping into mainstream congregations for a very long time.
Just as the LGBTQ acceptance and affirmation is now in many congregations, the idea that God loves you just as you are, and you don't need to change anything...so, too is this and many other heretical philosophies and beliefs coming inside the church walls.
False ideas and notions coming within our midst has been accelerating in frequency and number for years. At first it was very slow and quiet. Subtle changes were introduced. But now, after over thirty years of observing and writing about these things, I see it is no longer subtle or quiet, but now open and celebrated, these changes being introduced into our midst.
Jesus said something very disturbing, at least to me, in the midst of a message. Read this passage, and see at the end of it how He drops this little statement, seemingly so disconnected with the parable He just related:
Luke 18:1: Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,
2: saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man.
3: There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me legal protection from my opponent.’
4: For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man,
5: because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.’”
6: And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge said;
7: now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?
8: I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”
"...will He find faith on the earth?" When the Messiah returns, He asks, will there be faithful people still alive and worshiping the Lord righteously? Or properly, in the right spirit and heart?
Jesus is teaching about justice, too, but then drops this little nugget at the end of the story of the self righteous judge and the widow. Why?
It seems so "random". But we know Jesus never did anything in an arbitrary fashion. He was very deliberate in everything He did while here on Earth.
Well, here we are, two thousand years later, and the church is crumbling right out from under us, weighed down with so much baggage in the way of distorted and perverted interpretation of scripture, false prophets telling everyone of how amazing we are, and that our best days lie before us, that we are coming out of hardship into prosperity unimagined.... Oy! Can we bear the heaping of praise and prosperous drivel they spew out of their foul mouths?
I have been in churches all across this country. And I keep seeing the same things in too many of them. Luke warm Christians, who are being taught elementary things, and not being prepared for anything challenging. They are taught, echoing the false prophets' promise of good times, that better days lie ahead for God's people.
And yet, when you step back and look at the world as it actually is today, nothing could be further from the truth.
Here in America alone, we are seeing truly disturbing trends. One trend is that in a recent survey, over 40 percent of respondents identified as other than biblical Christian. Forty percent. In truth, the percentage is probably higher, closer to 50 percent, if you take into consideration young people under 21 years of age (who generally are not part of such surveys, at least in my experience). Fifty percent of Americans no longer identify as biblical Christian. Half our nation. We've told you the reason why, that the educators in our country are liberal, unbelieving people inculcating our children into a secular mindset... for at least the last 50 years. That's two generations of children taught that God is a fantasy, not real.
Our social and political systems are so corrupt, our inner cities crumbling and fraught with rampant crime, and a decline in quality of life for the average person, America is "rotting" from the inside out.
Europe is suffering, too. With the influx of millions of mostly men from the Middle East and Africa, their welfare systems are overburdened. And these people are not interested in assimilating into society. They keep themselves separated, refusing to adopt their host nation's language. Sweden is the rape capital of Europe, if not the world, because Muslim immigrants are running wild. Crime in virtually all nations they come to is up, and caused by alarming numbers of these "refugees". Murders are up, again caused by an alarming number of these "refugees".
China is imprisoning Christians and Falun Gong practitioners, and harvesting their organs to sell to people in need. North Korea is well known for their persecution of Christians. Boko Haram, in Nigeria/Congo, is kidnapping, raping, killing Christians and forcing conversions to Islam. And if you continue, you see the world is becoming a very scary place - even more than it was during the Cold War.
And the church in Europe? I have seen too much footage of Muslims being invited to speak in Christian churches, an ecumenical outreach to foster good relations. The foolhardy nature of such outreach ignores the Koran and the Sharia legal mandates all Muslims must follow, and are following, in coming to Europe. They are demanding Sharia, practicing Sharia in their enclaves, and pressing governments beyond reason for accommodation.
In the West, the church is being overrun with new ideas, extra-biblical ideas, based on emotions, experience and feelings. All our faith life is passed through the filter of our emotions, experiences and feelings, regardless of what scripture says to the contrary of our personal "journey".
And faith? Well, that depends upon how you want to define the word... Because words to many young believers do not mean what they traditionally have meant. They are changing the meaning of words to such a degree that sin is no longer sin. It is just bad choices, or not even sin at all, depending upon what you are talking about.
Guess where this liberalism in the church is coming from? It is coming from the education our children received in school, universities and churches which embrace viewing the Bible as a book that contains "truth stories", not THE truth, but stories that contain truth.
And with the dominionists now beginning to move within the church in more open ways than before, we are seeing yet another belief fall by the wayside.
Imminence, the soon return of the Lord Jesus, is now being pushed out, decades, centuries as to when it is "expected" by these people. The idea of teaching imminence is thrown out as antiquated and wrong. Jesus is not going to return until we, the church, have taken over every sector of society and brought the world under Christian dominated rule.
As I mentioned earlier, can you get any scarier than when you preach, speaking exactly the things the Antichrist is going to be doing as the things you are going to do as Christians?
We must be more vigilant, more on guard, not less so, not relaxed. And we must not say that it is not our problem, but someone else's problem to deal with. When you see heresy, it is your job, defined in scripture, to call it out, identify it, and decry it publicly before your congregation so they become aware of false teaching, false doctrine, false belief, distortion and perversion of scripture. To remain silent is to condemn good people to hell.
One last scripture for you to learn, and understand:
Ez. 3:18: When I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.
19: Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
20: “Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.
21: Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; also you will have delivered your soul.” (NKJV)
It is very much our responsibility to warn our brothers and sisters in Christ about false teachings, false teachers, false prophets, false or misleading doctrines, distortions/perversions of scripture, even sin. Failure to do so has consequences. Yes, we all fail to some degree to warn people at times. But we need to be better, particularly in these days of rising peril in the world...and the coming persecution of the church.
Let me close by saying that this is indeed a grave concern to me, that faith among God's people is dying. It is being replaced by determinism, a secular, flesh based practice in which WE decide our fate, not God.
That is the danger of dominionism, that man is deciding this must be done, man is deciding it is mandated in scripture as necessary - absent sufficient scriptural support we do so.
And the church needs to wake up from their slumbers, too long asleep at the wheel, and become more proactive in fighting the evil that is permeating our very existence. Failure to fight the good fight of faith, to defend the gospel, God's Word, from corrupt and evil shepherds, will result in the destruction of so many peoples' lives, condemning them to the torments of the Lake of Fire...because too few people were willing to stand up, speak out, and be counted worthy to fight against this evil dwelling in our midst...even embraced by the very people of God.
And that should scare you. A lot.
May the Lord of Life guide you into His truth, and the true path, which includes the works give through the Holy Spirit, to help us work out our salvation unto the day of our Lord's return.
Amen.