To Lance Wellnau, an Open Letter

Dear Lance,

I have just read your short testimony you gave in Invading Babylon of how you learned about the Seven Mountains Mandate. I know you wrote it 25 years ago, but God's truth does not fade after a mere 25 years!

The list of seven mountains you give resembles Abraham Kuyper's spheres of society. I agree with Kuyper's famous statement that "There is not a square inch of Creation about which Christ does not say 'Mine!'" "Mine~", not in the worldly way of greed, but because Jesus wants every square inch of His Creation to be blessed and, if Romans 8 is correct, to be redeemed by His Blood and the work of the Holy Spirit to produce mature 'sons' of God.

However, I have a problem with "invading Babylon". When God exiled God's chosen people to Babylon, they were told "Work for the good of the cities where I have made you go as prisoners"; God did not say "invade the cities". God seems to have had a different attitude, Who wants His people to bless not to "invade."

Also, in Revelation, it is the Prostitute Babylon who sits on the seven hills. But Revelation says nothing about the people of the Lamb invading them and sitting on them themselves. Indeed, the dream that God gave the king of Babylon, of a statue that came crashing down when "a rock not cut by human hands" hit its feet, and crumbled to dust, which the wind blew away. The Scripture says "and not a trace was left." Now, I take that to mean that not just the four empires of Babylonia, Persia, Greece and Rome would be blown away, but that, in God's kingdom, there would be "not a trace of them", not even the system of empire as governed by height and head. Instead the mountain that grew from the rock, grew from the bottom up, not the top down. The Kingdom of God is not a matter of sitting on top of mountains, but Christ being the very nature of the mountains - the One whose very nature is to serve in self-giving love, and it was because of this that God gave Him the highest Name (Philippians 2). Did not Jesus tell us we are not "kings" but "salt and light"?

The idea of "invading Babylon" is too like the Golden-headed statue for me. I have found ways of working in the spheres of society in a more Lamb-like way.

I would be grateful to hear your response to this.

Thank you,

Andrew Basden.
12 November 2025

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