From the moment President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, self-proclaimed Christian nationalist Lance Wallnau immediately began plotting, declaring on election night that he and his fellow Christian nationalists now had four years to align with the White House to strengthen the Christian church in the United States and abroad while placing right-wing Christians inside the government to tear down spiritual "strongholds."
Shortly thereafter, Wallnau proclaimed that once Trump took office, "the government and the church" would begin "moving together to build the ekklesia" to take control of "the government mountain" globally. ("Ekklesia" is a term used by dominionists to refer to the church as God’s governing body on Earth.)
Wallnau then announced something he called The Nehemiah Project, which is committed to "partnering the prophetic collaboration of government and church and business together to take all the domains we can while we have the wind to our back."
Recently, Wallnau appeared on "The War Room" with Steve Bannon, where the two discussed how the Christian right can use the newly re-established White House Faith Office, run by right-wing pastor Paula White, to "seize the institutions of the federal government."
"Reformation is different than simply a religious renaissance," Wallnau said. "It's the recapturing of institutions—oh, this is what makes the left go crazy when I say these things. It's the recapturing of education, of media, of business, of government, and it's recapturing them with the ideas of Western civilization, which is the ideas of Christian civilization."
"We've got a foothold with Paula White," Wallnau added. "But the expansion of that has got to be the underrepresented Christian population, which is over half the United States in all sectors in what we call the high places of culture, or the mountaintops of culture."
This is the language of Seven Mountains Dominionism, of which Wallnau has long been a leading promoter. Seven Mountains Dominionism is a radical theology associated with the New Apostolic Reformation that advocates having right-wing Christians control all aspects of society. Followers of Seven Mountains theology believe that they are to “do whatever is necessary” to take control of the seven main “mountains” that shape our culture—education, government, media, business, arts and entertainment, family, and religion—in order to implement the will of God throughout the nation and the world.
"How would you propose to use both of these—the task force and the new Faith Office—to seize the institutions of the federal government?" asked Bannon.
"There are three arteries that make this happen: Legislation, litigation and the shaping of public opinion," Wallnau replied, explaining that they intend to pass laws and file lawsuits to further their Christian nationalist agenda while simultaneously using the power and influence of the media, the government, and the church to shape public opinion in support of that agenda.
"Paula White has to be careful [about] what she says in public.," Wallnau stated. "[But] I believe I might have learned that from her."
