What is the seven mountain mandate, and is it biblical? | GotQuestions.org
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It's said that the seven mountain (7-M) mandate or the seven mountain prophecy is a strategy for evangelizing the modern world and enlarging Christ’s kingdom. Is this something Christians should consider biblical? In this video, we answer that question.
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- What is the Seven Mountain Mandate? We're going to answer that question, and you can also discover more on GotQuestions .org.
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- The Seven Mountain Mandate is a strategy for evangelizing the modern world and enlarging
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- Christ's kingdom. Gaining a following with Charismatics and Pentecostals, the belief holds that the best way for the church to be effective is to bring change in the seven major spheres of influence today.
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- These seven sectors of society are thought to mold the way everyone thinks and behaves.
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- So to tackle societal change, these seven mountains must be transformed. Followers speak of occupying the mountains, invading the culture, and transforming or taking back society.
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- Some teachers of the Seven Mountain Mandate use Isaiah 2 -2, which mentions mountains and the last days to support their view.
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- Others try to find a correspondence with the seven kingdoms Israel was to drive out of Canaan.
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- Lance Wallnau coined the term Seven Mountain Mandate and is one of its prominent teachers.
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- Wallnau adapts the missionary mandate of Jesus to go and make disciples into a mandate to effect social transformation.
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- He reasons that since churches already have a presence in every nation in the world, we need now to concentrate on influencing the systems within these nations.
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- The problem, according to Wallnau, is that Christians are not currently influencing society outside the church.
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- Wallnau's teaching is loosely based on the Abrahamic Covenant and God's promise that Israel would be the head and not the tail among the nations.
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- Proponents of the Seven Mountain Mandate infer that the church, not Israel, is the entity to claim that promise.
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- It is now up to the individual Christian to position themselves to exert the greatest amount of influence over the mountain they are called to lead.
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- Christians are called to be light and salt in the world. It is true that the church should seek to share
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- Jesus and influence culture. As a result, society will be impacted. Evil men claimed
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- Paul and Silas had turned the world upside down by bringing the gospel to Thessalonica.
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- Overturning wicked systems and advancing God's truth should be something every believer prays for and works toward.
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- We need more believers involved in the arts, business, government, media, etc.
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- The message of the gospel must permeate everywhere and the Seven Mountain Mandate is a strategy that makes sense on one level.
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- The people wielding the most influence today are, for the most part, ungodly people who do not follow
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- God's word. Influence the influencers and you can change the world. Become an influencer yourself and you can bring change that much more quickly.
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- One caveat to the Seven Mountain Mandate is that the Lord may do His work any way
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- He sees fit. We have no direct command in scripture to seek positions of influence in society, only to make disciples and be witnesses.
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- God may use anyone, regardless of how high on the mountain he or she is.
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- Not many of you were wise by human standards. Not many were influential. Not many were of noble birth.
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- But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise. God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
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- God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before Him.
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- Another caution is that the Seven Mountain Mandate traces its origins to visions certain men had, and the strategy is heavily promoted by, quote -unquote,
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- Apostles in the New Apostolic Reformation. Further, the Seven Mountain Mandate sometimes drifts into the realm of Dominion Theology, the belief that God desires
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- Christians to rise to power and govern the nation according to biblical precepts.
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- We need Christian professors, lawyers, CEOs, drill sergeants, newscasters, coaches, painters, chefs, gardeners, actors, handymen, the list goes on.
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- The church should engage with the world, and all professions need a gospel witness. Whatever we do, we should work at it with all our heart as working for the
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- Lord. And we trust that Jesus will continue to build His church.
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