THE JOURNEY - PART TWELVE

REVIEW.

The Journey

Know God

Find Freedom

Discover Purpose

Make a Difference

THE SEVEN MOUNTAIN MANDATE

Bill Bright, Lauren Cunningham, Dr. Francis Shaffer

1) Education 2) Religion 3) Family 4) Business 5) Government/Military 6) Arts/Entertainment 7) Media

Revelation 17:9 NLT

9 “This calls for a mind with understanding: The seven heads of the beast represent the seven hills where the woman rules. They also represent seven kings.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE (CONTD)

You were saved unto fore-ordained good works.

Ephesians 2:10 TPT

10 We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it!

We are all called.

Colossians 3:17 NLT

17 And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.

Colossians 3:23 NLT

23 Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.

1 Corinthians 10:31 NLT

31 So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

John 18:36 NLT

36 Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom is not of this world.”

1 Corinthians 1:26–29 NLT

26 Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you. 27 Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. 28 God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. 29 As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.

THE MOUNTAIN OF GOVERNMENT (CONTD)

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

William Penn

The term “democracy,” as I have said again and again, does not contain enough positive content to stand alone against the forces that you dislike—it can easily be transformed by them. If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God) you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin. —T.S. Eliot

“God remains dead,” wrote Nietzsche. “How shall we, the murderers of all murderers, comfort ourselves? Must not we ourselves become gods simply to seem worthy of it?”1 With these words Nietzsche was at once echoing Pascal’s first option that “men become gods themselves” and heralding the creation of a new type of man — a heroic individualist no longer bound to a traditional “slave” morality, but creating his own rules. Such a “superman” would exercise the “will to power.” The history of the twentieth century is littered with such “supermen” who exercised the will to power. The first monstrous tyranny was carried out by the Nazis; tens of millions died as a result. A second tyranny, Marxist Leninism, would continue to kill and destroy for decades more. During the 1980s, one-third of the world’s population lived in the viselike grip of states run by gangster-statesmen. The goal of these massive bureaucracies was to preside over the death of God; their system for achieving it was most often called Marxist Leninism.* They carried out their policies with surgical efficiency, as millions of Christians and Jews who passed through Communist gulags would testify — if they could.

Colson, Charles; Zondervan. God and Government . Zondervan. Kindle Edition.

But Nietzsche’s atheism was the most radical the world had yet seen. While the old atheism had acknowledged the need for religion, the new atheism was political, activist, and jealous. One scholar observed that “atheism has become militant . . . insisting it must be believed. Atheism has felt the need to impose its views, to forbid competing visions.”

Colson, Charles; Zondervan. God and Government . Zondervan. Kindle Edition.

Because of the nature of the King and the price He paid for His Kingdom, much is required of its citizens, and Jesus made these demands of the Kingdom clear. Through the centuries, however, many of His followers have watered down His teaching, stripped away His demands for the building of a righteous society, and preached an insipid religion concerned only with personal benefits. This distorted view portrays Christianity not as the powerful source of spiritual rebirth and the mediating force for justice, mercy, and love in the world, but as the ultimate self-fulfillment plan. The gospel is not a release for the captives, but confidence for the shy. It is the spiritual equivalent of racy sports cars, designer clothes, and Gordon’s Gin — a commodity to help one get more out of life.

Colson, Charles; Zondervan. God and Government . Zondervan. Kindle Edition.

Ultimately, humanists must, by whatever means necessary, remove religion from a society to completely dominate it. This is the hallmark of Marxism and Communism. It is also a description of the rule of the Antichrist. You must take the mark to buy or sell.

“A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.“ —  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In China today, the communist government has implemented a system of Social Credit scoring, that determines your privileges as a citizen.

6) Media

Have you seen any of the above information in the mainstream media?

Russia has consolidated the media over the past 30 years since the fall of the USSR and were able to stop all non-state sanctioned new with the closure of the one remaining independent new source at the start of the invasion of Ukraine.

7) Religion

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

BLAISE PASCAL