A Cruz to the Seven Mountains of Madness

Few things bother me more than people who claim to be Christian and yet whose beliefs and actions suggest otherwise.

The campaign for Ted Cruz is a thinly veiled gambit designed to place the man in a position to become, basically, the end time’s prophet. His version of Christianity is Seven Mountain Dominionism. Like his father Rafael, Teddy boy is fixated on eschatology (end times). In fact, Rafael Cruz is convinced that his son’s political career is a ‘thing of God,’ and that Ted is ‘the anointed one.’

In summary, the Seven Mountains movement is based on the belief that Christians are destined and duty-bound to take control of the seven forces (mountains) that control out culture, which are: business, government, media, arts and entertainment, education, family, and religion. Its end is game to place Christians in dominion (with someone, for example, Ted Cruz, heading it all as the final prophet) of all seven mountains, thereby initiating worldwide peace and prosperity. With Christians in control, poverty, violence, and possibly even disease will end, and therefore the world will finally be clean and righteous enough for Christ to return.

Yeah, you can pick your jaw up off the floor now.

This absurd alternative religion flies in the face of REAL SCRIPTURE. The verse they stole and mutilated to support their farce is Isaiah 2:1-5. ‘In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s house will be established at the top of the mountains and will be raised above the hills. All nations will stream to it,’ says verse 1. This was a vision of Isaiah, and taken alone, its purpose and meaning are not entirely clear. But, as with all verses, when you take it in context with the entire Bible its meaning becomes obvious. For example, a parallel passage can be found in Zechariah chapter 14. Here we find a similar—but more detailed—passage, and through these verses (1-11) we see that the peace it (and Isaiah 2) speaks of is in reference to events immediately following Christ’s return, not events preceding it. It is clear then that it is Christ who will forge worldwide peace, and not man.

A thorough and complete study of the Bible, along with a study of history, makes obvious the truth that complete and lasting peace never results from the efforts of sinful humanity. That it is not in the nature or capacity of mankind to forge worldwide and lasting peace. For this miracle we need a Savior.

Coincidentally, the Bible does mention that in the last days a man will unite the world (under false pretenses and only after slaughtering many believers) under his banner of a one-world religion, with him, naturally, being its god. The Bible calls this man the Antichrist.

Like the name-it-and-claim-it new age movement, like Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, The Way International, The Walk, Unification Church, Christian Science, Church of Armageddon, Scientology, and a host of other false movements peddling righteousness under the banner of Christianity, Cruz and his Seven Mountains of madness place far too much emphasis and faith in sinful humanity. We do not have the power within ourselves to save ourselves. If we did, we would not need Christ our Savior. Our religion should be according to James 1:27 ‘Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world,’ and Galatians 5:14 ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

So let’s not complicate things with absurd claims, especially when these claims and beliefs are really based, if the people behind them were being honest, on nothing more than personal ambition.

But don’t take my word for it. Search the scripture—the entire thing—and decide for yourself what is true and Who it is that is truly destined to save us.            

Word of Faith vs. Shield of Faith

‘Man can do nothing apart from God,’ John MacArthur warned. It is a doctrine few want to hear these days and yet one we all need to hear.

Indeed, those in authority over today’s church, the WCC, the denominational heads, the pastors the preachers and the teachers, are pushing—subtly, oh so subtly—for this shift from divine accomplishment to human achievement. Listen carefully to megachurch pastors and you'll see. Admittedly it is much more gratifying to think that we are capable of altering reality merely by speaking certain words of power, than to wait on a supreme being who is both complex and willful, and whose will does not always align with our own. (This belief of altering reality by speaking certain words, btw, is called the Law of Words of Power, and it is one of the so-called laws of magick as put forth by a magician and adapted for fantasy role-playing gamers. Its cousin teaching is the Law of Positive Attraction, which basically states that the universe returns to you the sort of energy—negative or positive—that you put out. Yeah.)

‘Divine accomplishment is true biblical Christianity; all other religions are based on some form of human achievement.’ That’s another quote by MacArthur. Since I am not familiar with every single religion in the world today, I cannot be sure of the veracity of his claim, but either way his point remains valid. According to 2 Timothy 1:9 ‘God called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.’

It is clear from a complete and thorough reading of the Bible that God is the author and finisher of our faith, that He is the creator and savior, and that He takes an active role in the events of history, yesterday, today and forever. Not us.

Prominent preachers are spewing crap about ‘positive confession’ and the ‘power of I am’ when they should be preaching repentance and the power of God!

The heretical word of faith movement is man’s deplorable attempt to steal the thunder of God for himself. Preachers of this putrid false doctrine teach that we can take on the divine nature for ourselves, which is itself a twisted variation of Christ endowing us with the Holy Spirit. Indeed, the very name of their movement ‘word of faith’ is a rip-off of Roman’s 10:8, taken out of context and of course used without knowledge of the previous and succeeding verses, which, if they read, would explain Paul’s point there, that believing (in God’s grace) with our hearts and confessing (our sins!) with our mouths leads to salvation. Paul was certainly not proclaiming there to be reality-altering power in the words themselves. Whatever power exists, and whatever results come, they are by God’s power and by His grace.

WE DO NOT HAVE POWER WITHIN OURSELVES. Without God’s grace and Christ’s intervention, we are completely powerless. We are powerless to save ourselves. The author and finisher of our faith provided the instructions, the grace, and the forgiveness for us to find salvation.

Let us not be ‘peddlers of God’s Word’ (2 Corinthians 2:17). We must not speak for the approval of people, or preach what they want to hear. We must speak the truth, and continue in it, whether convenient or not. The word of faith movement does not feed the sheep God’s Word and it does not help them develop a relationship with Him. Rather, it cultivates knowledge of self, which is carnal, and useless to our eternal souls.

Like cult leaders, these false teachers are very clever; they lure you in with their pretty words and specious promises. Do not fall for it! Arm yourself with the shield of faith, with the sword of the spirit, which is the Word of God, otherwise you will be spiritually defenseless and fall prey to these guru’s, these vultures, these teachers of lies and peddlers of false doctrines.