Kingdom Now Theology

Source: Olive Tree Views

by Jan Markell

One of the fastest-growing false teachings in the church today is called by various names: Kingdom Now, Dominion Theology, Reconstructionism, and the Restoration Movement. It is also known as "liberation theology." It is an effort to use the church to make the world perfect for our Lord's return. It is embraced and taught in part or whole by the National and World Council of Churches, Jim Wallis, Tony Campolo, Earl Paulk, Bob Weiner, John Wimber, James Robison (who is called "the President's pastor").

There are many other names that are focusing on the Leftist social gospel in hopes that this will clean up the world and make it perfect for Christ's return. No more disease, war, poverty, AIDS, global warming, etc. Jesus will return when the church is unified, vibrant, forceful, spotless, and wrinkle-free. This is delusional and keeping people out of Heaven.

There is no Biblical support for this belief, for the Bible teaches just the opposite. In the end of days, bad things will wax worse and worse until the world calls out for a savior. They first pick the wrong one. And are the likely billions of saints in Heaven now there because they attained perfection or were a part of a movement to make the world perfect? The Bible says our works qualify us for rewards but not for Heaven itself. There is nothing we can do to hasten Heaven except preach the gospel and save the lost spiritually speaking.

This theology is borne out of the Manifest Sons of God movement and Latter Rain movement in about 1948. It also has ties to the positive confession movement. Major points of the theologies teach:

* Prophetic scriptures are denied or fulfilled in 70AD (as is also the belief of Preterism).

* The church is the new Israel.

* Armageddon is the ongoing battle between the forces of light and darkness.

* The Antichrist is a spirit, not a person.

* We are already in the Tribulation, but at the same time, we are in the Millennium. It doesn't get any stranger! It's one or the other.

* Rather than following traditional Bible prophecy, they follow "new revelations."

* Modern-day prophets must be obeyed and not judged for their inaccuracy.

* They want to restore the Edenic nature even though Eden is where sin began.

To add to the tragedy of this false doctrine is the fact that many churches who had this accurate are now switching to these false teachings.

This is not unique to just the Protestant world. Mother Teresa, who selflessly took care of 40,000 derelicts in Calcutta, basically stopped her ministry to them by providing them a clean bed and comfort. She did not share the gospel. She believed many faiths would get to Heaven so she only saw to the physical needs of the body--admittedly, no small task in India. The Buddhist Dali Lama believes the same. In other words, feed the body but not the soul just as today's social gospel "save the world" leaders are doing.

And unfortunately, those who hold to correct theology in this realm are deemed to be "fundamentalist-millennial-apocalyptic-crackpots."

The church is not in the business of taking anything away from Satan but the souls of men. The world is a sinking Titanic ripe for judgment, not Garden of Eden perfection. Jesus will take dominion of the cleansed earth. For men to speak of doing that before the judgment of this earth is spiritually arrogant. I encourage you to flee such false teachers.

God says in Isaiah 66:3-5, "I will choose their delusions." I believe that is the reason for so much confusion, false theology, and apostasy today. For some reason, likely with an end-time purpose, God is sending delusion. There is no other way to interpret those verses.

Find more information on Dominion Theology/Kingdom Now at my Web site at the link Prophecy Watch: and/or Spiritual Deception.

Awaiting His return,
Jan Markell

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in hopes that this will clean up the world and make it perfect for Christ's return. No more disease, war, poverty, AIDS, global warming, etc. Jesus will return when the church is unified, vibrant, forceful, spotless, and wrinkle-free. This is delusional and keeping people out of Heaven.

There is no Biblical support for this belief, for the Bible teaches just the opposite. In the end of days, bad things will wax worse and worse until the world calls out for a savior

Jesus can't come back yet: you haven't suffered enough!

wakeup

How did you know I hated that stupid song?

And thus is my penance

Hi Tiger,

I tried to stay away from this thread – I kind-a figured it would sort-a push some buttons…

This writer is doing a moveon.org type “blurring & blending” of Kingdom Now, Liberation, Restoration, theologies. They are nothing more than Christianized liberal socialism. They have little in common with true Dominion or Reconstructionism. I’ll simply paste the Reconstructionists remarks about those views the writer is alluding. If you know this writer, I’d be interested if they’ve ever debated a Reconstructionist? I’ll check out the link…

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Originally posted by whtetiger:
Kingdom Now Theology Source: Olive Tree Views by Jan Markell

One of the fastest-growing false teachings in the church today is called by various names: Kingdom Now, Dominion Theology, Reconstructionism, and the Restoration Movement. It is also known as "liberation theology." It is an effort to use the church to make the world perfect for our Lord's return. It is embraced and taught in part or whole by the National and World Council of Churches, Jim Wallis, Tony Campolo, Earl Paulk, Bob Weiner, John Wimber, James Robison (who is called "the President's pastor").

The Tony Campolo folks, Wallis, etc, are part of a Socialist Gospel type theology. It is nothing more than Christianized socialism. It is opposite and vehemently “REFUTED” by true Reconstructionist…

Gary North (a true Reconstructionist) writes below…
“…No New Testament account of Jesus offers evidence that He recommended such a view of Christian civil government. This inconvenient fact is regarded as a slight impediment by Social Gospelers, but nothing too serious. They insist that this is what Jesus really meant to say, even though He never actually said it, and despite the fact that the Old Testament adamantly denies such a view of civil justice. God through Moses warned:
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. (Leviticus 19:15)
When you hear the words Social Gospel, immediately think "Pastors' justification of armed government agents acting on behalf of certain special-interest voting blocs to take wealth away from other groups of citizens in order to benefit these special interests." This is exactly what the Social Gospel has always been. The central moral, judicial, and political issue of the Social Gospel is compulsion.”

North is pretty clear-cut – Reconstructionism and the socialist Christianity espoused by Campolo, Snider, Wallis etc, are NOT on the same theological page nor are they compatible. This writer is at best disingenuous for making such an assertion.

This socialized Christian group came out with a book by Ron Snider called “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger. Gary North (Reconstructionist) via his publishing company responded to their socialist evangelism with a book authored by (the late) David Chilton, called - “Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt-Manipulators…” kind-a gets right to the point… North was never known for diplomacy. North as do Reconstructionists considered it unbiblical. He wasn’t to bashful about his disagreement. He debated some of these guys – though most would NOT debate North, Gentry, DeMar, or Bahnsen on these issues… Now, to really see what Gary North believes about the socialism taught by Jim Wallis and friends – click this link

http://www.garynorth.com/public/department61.cfm

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Originally posted by whtetiger:
There are many other names that are focusing on the Leftist social gospel in hopes that this will clean up the world and make it perfect for Christ's return. No more disease, war, poverty, AIDS, global warming, etc. Jesus will return when the church is unified, vibrant, forceful, spotless, and wrinkle-free. This is delusional and keeping people out of Heaven. –snip--
There is no Biblical support for this belief, for the Bible teaches just the opposite. In the end of days, bad things will wax worse and worse until the world calls out for a savior.—snip--

First, the writer (again) is making “false” claims about Reconstructionism – by associating it with socialism taught by Campolo and crowd… Reconstructionism does not teach such implied nonsense about perfection, etc…

Secondly, for biblical support – I wonder how does this writer justifies these verses… The bible & Jesus make some pretty hefty assertions…

John 3:35
35 “The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.

Matthew 11:27
27 “All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

Matthew 28:18-20
18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Is Paul being a little too rambunctious below “…far above all rule and authority and power and “DOMINION”… then, hey don’t stop Paul’s on a roll – “…not only in THIS AGE but also in the one to come…” hmm, THIS AGE…. Paul must have been speaking for himself…?

Ephesians 1:19-23
19 and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might
20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,
21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church,
23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

I think I’ll leave it there for now…

Just wanted to poke in a few thoughts…

[QUOTE]Originally posted by GlassOnion:
Hi Tiger,

I tried to stay away from this thread – I kind-a figured it would sort-a push some buttons…

This writer is doing a moveon.org type “blurring & blending” of Kingdom Now, Liberation, Restoration, theologies. They are nothing more than Christianized liberal socialism. They have little in common with true Dominion or Reconstructionism. I’ll simply paste the Reconstructionists remarks about those views the writer is alluding. If you know this writer, I’d be interested if they’ve ever debated a Reconstructionist? I’ll check out the link…

[QUOTE]GlassOnion No I do not know him...in fact this is the first time I have read this type of material and posted it to read remarke about it...thanks for your post...