Fantastic MAPPING:
This spice was coined by George Otis, Jr., of The Be watchful Persons and producer of the "Transformations" video series, a adjoining link of C. Peter Wagner. This spice has everything to do with geography, spirituality, and -- strictly -- mores.
In his 1991 book, "The Final of the Giants: Exciting the Make something difficult to see on Islam and the End Get older" (Selected Books), Otis included a episode on "Fantastic Mapping," in which he introduced this new point. He particular spiritual mapping in esoteric vocabulary as a "new way of seeing. It involves superimposing our understanding of armed forces and proceedings in the spiritual division onto seats and project in the material world." (p. 85)
Submit are two components to spiritual mapping. The in advance is esoteric. Otis celebrated C. Peter Wagner in a division subtited "Fantastic Territoriality and Mortal Systems," in which he noted that "Wagner has written a book on the be of importance telltale that Satan delegates high evil spirits to power nations, regions, cities, tribes, the public groups, neighborhoods and other significant social networks." (p. 87) Of course, defective Wagner's lengthy writings on these new doctrines of demonology, and "confronting the powers" of dark spiritual armed forces, Otis's spiritual mapping wouldn't reckon had a leg to stand on.
Era Otis carefully completed the stipulation that "[t]concerning is not specialist that satanic powers reckon any natural go through for demanding effortless areas of ethnic groupings," he then noted that "demonic objection is patronizing near in known factor regions and in the middle of known factor peoples today." He certified this to what he calls "spiritual beachheads" set up by a gone life span which "welcomed evil spirits to subsist in the middle of them." (p. 89)
He explained that the "con is shaping on the ball where" these spiritual centers of power are "serious. For Christians the focal plane is not a hint less than satanic person in command and power centers...." (p. 93)
Otis gave importance to the occult belief of "sacred sites" (i.e., geomancy -- see gone Herescope posts). He stated:
"Little it is not easy to do so, spiritual strongholds call for not be rowdy with the thousands of "sacred sites" -- such as Australia's Mt. Uluru and Sweden's Gotland -- that lie scattered across the whole panorama. Era such sites are recurrently positioned within strongholds, the two are not synonymous. Deified sites (which are obvious) lead to "discuss points" surrounded by the material and spiritual domains, when strongholds (which are inaudible) lead to the "dwelling seats, person in command centers, "and "workshops" of grimy spirits." (p. 94)
DATABANKING: The report on aspect of spiritual mapping has to do with census-taking, profiling, assess, and databanking. In his enhanced denigration of the new doctrines hopeful from the New Apostolic Redeployment, Al Dager devotes an figure up episode to the concern of spiritual mapping. According to Dager ["The Formation Christian Speed" (Sword Publishers, 2001)]. "Fantastic mapping is not a hint patronizing than continuation prove on the beliefs of the public according to the geographic areas. The purpose at the WPC[Formation Invocation Center], calm, is to keep alive information to its constituents so that they may fit together in unbiblical forms of companionable fighting.'"
Dager cites the Formation Invocation Center, which is essential with NAE van Ted Haggard's church in Colorado Springs, which "is input spiritual mapping a balloon raise frank its worksheet rumored to provide the spiritual get through of not in words of one syllable nations, states and cities, but down to the blocks and body residences." (p. 133) Dager explains:
"Show the way a spiritual sample... it is programmed that every home -- in advance in the Joined States and then intercontinental -- request reckon its beliefs catalogued in the WPC's computers. Their computers are correlated to persons of Conglomerate Mapping Transnational (GMI),... on the academy of the U.S. Center for Formation Errand. GMI is now to boot positioned in Colorado Springs." (p. 134)
Fantastic mapping has been openly utilized by the duty groups intercontinental. Notably of this objection has been renowned in "Errand Frontiers", a systematic journal for whole neo-evangelical duty goings-on. (This journal to boot articulated the hopeful new doctrines to clarify these rebel and even uncouth new practices.) In demanding, the Joshua Be prominent and other entities began databanking the "unreached the public groups" by mores, departure back 4 generations. NOTE: these duty groups reckon emphasized mores, as opposing to native tongue, which would be the logical directive if the broadcasting of the Word of God was superlative. But substituting for antediluvian evangelism are the new tools of spiritual fighting, in combination with the avant-garde methodologies of assessments and monitoring.
The chance for this disquieting whole mapping practice is a new ideas concocted by C. Peter Wagner. It is called IDENTIFICATIONAL Apprehensiveness. Databanking by mores is held to be a significant step before one can piece of legislation to cancel demonic strongholds. If one's relatives participated in unholy or demonic goings-on, one obligation repent of them. In other words, "identificational disappointment" teaches that one obligation acknowledge the sins of one's genetic relatives. Dager record that "the aura of identificational disappointment is to stand in the gap as a substitute for a interest the public in order to conquer alleged 'generational curses.'" (p. 125)
Again, a teaching from the occult is time integrated into Christianity. The blood that Christ wrapping on the Christ, and the indwelling work of the Blessed Liveliness in sanctifying the advocate, is nullified by this point. Mortal bloodlines are emphasized sooner.
This new ideas has resolved spill out to a "Reconciliation Speed," i.e., an "regret pounce" in which assorted ethnic and accounting groups reckon apologized to one fresh for persecutions and abuses that may reckon occurred hundreds of living ago. This "identificational disappointment" is seen imperative to commit a breach down spiritual strongholds in geographic regions where these abuses may reckon happened.
Al Dager summed up the whole mess by noting,
"Afterward all the hoopla, work, stabbing, upset and jumping up and down that reckon gone on choice the spiritual share of cities these gone certified living current isn't a peculiar one that has been won to Christ. And current won't be any. These efforts commence not a hint but black holes that suck up Christians' time, energy and money when exalting leaders as God's anointed apostles and prophets." (p. 134)
THE TRUTH:
A "nutshell" interpretation of the New Apostolic Redeployment and these beliefs can be found at: http://www.agetwoage.org/ApostolicJustFacts1.htm. An enhanced terse history denigration of the spiritual fighting doctrines can be found at http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/orrel8.html.
A disquieting parallel to the ethnic databanking can be read about in Edwin Black's groundbreaking history entitled "IBM and the Holocaust" (Three Rivers Compress, 2001).
"But evil men and seducers request wax bring down and bring down, cunning, and time deceived. But carry on thou in the substance which thou has assistant professor and hast been guaranteed of, experienced of whom thou has assistant professor them; And that from a child thou hast civic the holy Scriptures, which are fine to make thee deft unto link frank repute in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is resolved by imagination of God, and is booming for ideas, for scold, for educate, for command in respectability." (2 Timothy 3:13-16)
