Today I'll look some passages that the 7Mers twist to come up with their false narratives. The passages I will look at today are merely a sampling.
Isaiah 2:2
Isaiah 2:2 is sometimes used as a supporting text. It states, "It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it."
As always we need to look at the full context to understand what any verse implies. In this case, the context, verses 1-5 (which can also be found in Micah 4:1-3) present a prophetic picture of the messianic kingdom of Jesus that He will establish upon the earth. This is in part why the religious leaders did not receive Jesus as the Messiah because they were looking for a "mighty man of valor", a deliverer from Rome, an earthly King sitting on the throne of David.
Therefore the 7Mer's proof-text this verse to support their incorrect theorization of this verse.
Revelation 17:9-10
Some 7Mer's reference the seven mountains in Revelation 17:9-10, as the seven spheres of influence that the "church" is to have dominion over. Again, context is key. In chapter seventeen verse ten the mountains are identified as kings Five of these kings had come and gone. One that was in existence at the time of the revelation. Then one that was yet to come. To imply that these seven mountains are seven spheres in a current nation that the "church" is to conquer is clearly reading into the text a narrative foreign to the passage itself.
Also, that it is the whore of Babylon, a false religion, that sits upon the seven mountains certainly would not add credence to their extrapolation to interpret that the "true church" is the one sitting on the seven mountains.
To claim that’s what these two verses mean is a classic example of taking a verse out of context to form a pretext. It is the perfect example of eisegesis, where an author reads into a verse their subjective interpretation.
Some will even tie in the seven nations God told Israel to war against in Canaan (Dt. 7:1) with the seven mountains or spheres of influence. Good exegesis should help you see through that one.
Genesis 1:28
“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, 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” (emphasis mine, KJV). I used the KJV because it has the word dominion.
The 7Mer's believe that Genesis 1:28 is a mandate for the "church" to take dominion over the earth, especially the seven spheres of influence. Verse 28 is a reiteration of verse 26. Reading these verses and their context we see that God gave Adam authority over the birds, fish, animals and vegetation. Absent from these verses is anything about the "church" reigning over other people, cities, nations, or spheres of influence among mankind. To read into the text that the "church" is to have dominion over these things is nothing short of eisegesis.
Matthew 28:18-19
7Mer's teach that the Great Commission is a mandate to influence the "mind-molders" of our culture with Christian principles and values so they can transform cities and nations. I looked at this in my last blog post in the practice and example of Jesus and the apostles in Scripture. Nowhere do we see them transforming cities and nations. Did they transform Israel or Jerusalem? How about the Roman empire? Paul was accused of the Jews to have turned the world upside down through his carrying out the Great Commission (Ac. 17:6). Nowhere to that point in the book of Acts, nor thereafter, do we see Paul propagating the Gospel to influence the "mind-molders" of the culture of the cities he visited with Christian principles and values to transform them.
In Acts chapters 25 and 26, Paul stood before Agrippa and Festus and preached the Gospel, as Paul had said unto the Corinthians, "yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!" (1 Co. 9:16) Even Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. (Ac. 26:28) To which Paul replied, "I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds." (v 29)
What manner of person did Paul desire all that hear him be like?
3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. (Php. 3:3-21)
If you read Paul's discourse in Acts chapters 25 and 26 you will see how it lines up with what he taught the Philippians in chapter 3. The Great Commission the 7Mer's teaches does not line up with the pattern shown us in Scripture.
Just examining these passages alone give an indication that something is off concerning their method of interpreting the Scriptures. If you were to examine other passages the use to propagate their ideology you will find much of the same unfortunately. At the least you now have an idea of the danger of thier doctrine.
