We need more believers in those areas, not fewer. The overturning of wicked systems and the advancement of God’s truth should be something every believer prays for and works toward.Ĭhristians should be involved in the arts, business, government, media, etc.

Evil men, resistant to God’s message, claimed the missionaries had “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6, ESV). When Paul and Silas brought the gospel to Thessalonica, there was an uproar. When lives are transformed by the gospel, society will be impacted. It’s true that the church should seek to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with all people in every area of society and in that way influence culture. Each individual Christian is to find the particular “mountain” to which he is called and be a leader in that realm.Ĭhristians are called to be light and salt in the world (Matthew 5:13–14). It is now up to believers to move in proximity to the “gates of hell” and position themselves to exert the greatest amount of influence. Proponents of the seven mountain mandate infer that the church, not Israel, is the entity to claim that promise. Also, Israel was promised in Deuteronomy 28:12–14 to be the “head and not the tail” among the nations. Wallnau’s teaching is loosely based on the Abrahamic Covenant, which promised Abraham a seed and a lasting inheritance.

Christians have left the mountains susceptible to the “gates of hell,” which are spiritual portals over the “kings” (influence-shapers) of those mountains.

The problem, according to Wallnau, is that Christians are not currently influencing society outside the church. He reasons that, since churches already have a presence in every nation in the world, we need to now concentrate on influencing the systems (the “mountains”) within these nations. Wallnau adapts the missionary mandate of Jesus to His disciples to “go and make disciples” of all the nations into a mandate to effect social transformation. Lance Wallnau coined the term seven mountain mandate and is one of its prominent teachers. Some teachers of the seven mountain mandate use Isaiah 2:2, which mentions mountains, to support their view: “In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.” Others try to find a correspondence between the seven mountains and the seven kingdoms Israel was to drive out of Canaan (Deuteronomy 7:1). The mountains are also referred to as “pillars,” “shapers,” “molders,” and “spheres.” Those who follow the seven mountain mandate speak of “occupying” the mountains, “invading” the culture, and “transforming” or “taking back” society. So, to tackle societal change, these seven “mountains” must be transformed. These seven sectors of society are thought to mold the way everyone thinks and behaves.

The seventh prophecy