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Wow. That movement has been around since 1990s. It's pretty common in the US, especially if you are the type of person to follow big name ministries and their conferences that are advertised in magazines like Charisma, or the Trinity Broadcasting group.
I was a part of it unwittingly back in the days before, and when it just got it's name by C. Peter Wagner, or was it George Barna? Basically if you attend a church with someone who sometimes refers themselves as a "prophet" or an "apostle" you are in it. Or if you go to a church pastored by a person who has befriended one of these people, then your in it.
Some of the stuff you quoted on politics is true, but exaggerated especially comparisons to things like the Taliban. The worst thing NAR would do would be to ban abortion in the US if it gained political power. But the dominions part is a good reminder, it is a reminder why they are screwed up in their predictive prophesy and always will be. They somehow expect that the Church to arise in some mighty way in the last days with miracles etc. and some kind of pure supernatural thing that contends with the World etc. and Christ comes back "for his spotless bride".
It's a weird reading of the Scripture. Yes the Bride in the last days may be spotless with her different trials she has to go through, but I always get the impression of the Church as just hanging on like the Christians in the Catacombs with Nero and Caligula (outside of the passage of "The Two Witnesses" that is). While they seem to expect people to behave more like Elijah and the prophets of Baal, Moses dealing with Pharaoh, Gideon and the Midianites etc. Basically the passages we see of being Shadows/Types of Christ, and what he will do on his return, they believe Christians will do that themselves, because of verses like Christ says his followers will do "greater works", and a passage in Ephesians where Paul speaks of "the five fold" office as bringing Christians "to perfection". They take those expressions very literally rather than as idioms, the way most do that the followers of Christ when it comes to Evangelism etc. can sometimes reach more people etc. "In His Name" and through the Holy Spirit than Jesus did in his preaching prior to the Resurrection and Crucifixion.
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