In 2023, self-proclaimed Christian nationalist and unabashed Trump cultist Lance Wallnau announced his intention to travel the country ahead of the 2024 elections in order to break the “demonic strongholds” in swing states that had supposedly been preventing Republicans from winning elections. Wallnau’s vision manifested itself in the form of the “Courage Tour,” a series of multi-day events during which attendees heard from religious-right activists who mobilized them politically during the daily sessions, while the evening sessions were dedicated to spiritual revival and miracle healings led by right-wing evangelist and fellow Trump cultist Mario Murillo.
When Trump won the 2024 election, Wallnau immediately began looking ahead, 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 takes office, "the government and the church" can 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.)
As the date of Trump's inauguration grows closer, Wallnau grows more and more enthusiastic about just what a Trump presidency will mean for Christian dominionists and their agenda.
"There's coming to time when the prophets are going to be collaborating with government officials," Wallnau declared during a recent episode of his "The Lance Wallnau Show."
Wallnau proclaimed that modern-day "prophets" will be working with religious and government leaders "in order to bring those three spheres into a harmony of understanding of what the Father is doing to build ... a house for the nation" that "the gates of Hell and media will not stop."
"We've never seen that kind of church, but that's the one God is building," Wallnau celebrated.
"Trump gets it," Wallnau added. "In his own way, he gets it better than many, many pastors."
Wallnau then noted that he doesn't like to talk openly about this because "then it goes to the New York Times and the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal" which start warning that there are "crazy right-wing extremists in the White House."
Of course, that isn't actually stopping Wallnau from talking openly about this plan, which he did during another recent episode of his program, where he revealed that he has dubbed it "The Nehemiah Project."
Wallnau declared that God is raising up "Cyrus rulers who are going to be for us stable when it comes to the agenda of Heaven being prayed into the nation."
"This is our mission for the next two to four years," he said. "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."
"I'm working with Real America's Voice," Wallnau announced. "I'm working with government activity now. We're working with business mobilization. The ekklesia, you're not just limited to a building on Sunday; you're in the big game now. The Nehemiah Project is God wants to take the house, send an awakening, and expand the occupation so that we could see God's spirit poured out in our regions and in our cities."
Wallnau has long been a leading promoter of Seven Mountains Dominionism, 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.
This theology is at the core of Wallnau's Nehemiah Project as he plots to use the Trump White House to gain access to foreign nations so that he and his fellow Christian nationalists can organize Courage Tour-type events for the purpose of politically mobilizing conservative Christians while bringing about spiritual revival all over the world.
Importantly, as Wallnau explained last year, the true purpose of his Courage Tour is to prepare Christians to rule and reign when Jesus Christ returns by training them to "occupy territory now."
