Musician and Christian nationalist political activist Sean Feucht, who is affiliated with the dominionist New Apostolic Reformation, will bring his trademark mixture of worship, spiritual warfare, and hard-right politics to the National Mall on Saturday, Oct 26.
Feucht, an ardent supporter of former president Donald Trump, recently claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign was benefiting from “some serious demonic sorcery witchcraft thing.” He has previously demonstrated a willingness to spread lies about the Biden administration.
In a “prayer zoom” livestream Wednesday night, Feucht said Saturday’s gathering will be a chance to “do damage to the kingdom of darkness. “I feel like this is a strategic assignment,” he said. “I feel like God is sending us on assignment…This is a governmental assignment…I feel like God is sending us in as the Navy Seals of intercessors…There comes an hour in battle when you need the Navy Seal intercessors.”
One of Feucht’s colleagues called the event an opportunity for the “ekklesia”—a term dominionists use to signify the church as a governing body on Earth—to “declare the majesty and the dominion of your kingdom over the governments of men.”
Feucht said the weekend would kick off with a few hundred people gathering inside the U.S. Capitol complex on Friday morning, followed by a “Jesus March” from the Lincoln Memorial to the White House at noon on Saturday and the main event at 4 p.m.
“This will be the last major faith worship event on the National Mall just days before the election and we are so excited to see how God is going to use it to turn the tide in America,” Feucht told Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Eric Stakelbeck.
Feucht’s event comes just two weeks after dominionist New Apostolic Reformation leaders gathered thousands of people on the National Mall for a political and spiritual warfare rally that culminated with an “apostolic decree” that Trump would win this year’s election. Feucht considers anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ activist Lou Engle, the organizer of the Oct. 12 rally, his spiritual mentor.
Feucht is a missionary-musician associated with the controversial and influential megachurch Bethel in northern California. In 2020, his run for Congress ended with a defeat in the primary election in spite of endorsements from Charlie Kirk, Christian nationalist political operative David Lane, and NAR leaders Ché Ahn and Cindy Jacobs. But when COVID-19 struck, Feucht saw an opportunity to make a name for himself by leading public events in defiance of public health restrictions, dubbing them “Let Us Worship.”
In 2020, Feucht was part of the pro-Trump boosterism engaged in by many Christian nationalist and dominionist religious-right leaders. When Trump was defeated, Feucht claimed that the incoming Biden administration was “carrying some of the most anti-Christ agenda and philosophy that maybe we have seen in the history of America” and he warned, “There is a mob spirit that wants us to bow down to the gods of secular liberalism … and if we don’t bow, we’re gonna be bullied, harassed, and threatened. We’re going to be censored. We’re going to banished from speaking in the public square.”
Like many NAR prophecies, that prediction did not pan out. Feucht has hardly been banished from the public square. In fact, for the past two years he has been leading a “Kingdom to the Capitol” tour of all 50 state capitols, where he has often been joined by MAGA Republican officials. In Alabama, for example, he was welcomed by the state’s Christian nationalist Chief Justice Tom Parker. “Worship is our weapon,” Feucht has said.
Feucht has also established a presence on Capitol Hill and conducted worship services in the Capitol Rotunda that have been attended by members of Congress. Sen. Josh Hawley spoke at one of Feucht’s previous gatherings on the National Mall. Feucht was also a booster of Doug Mastriano, a state senator whose failed 2022 campaign for governor of Pennsylvania was backed by NAR figures.
Like other NAR leaders, Feucht has invoked violent biblical stories in urging conservative Christians to “rise up.” In August, he compared Harris to the wicked biblical queen Jezebel and called on his supporters to be “real wild Jehus.” In the Bible, Jehu was sent to kill Jezebel and her family. Describing a recent dream as a warning about the coming persecution of Christians, Feucht told his followers:
Don't you guys see where this is going? Like, it is time for us to rise up. I'm not playing nice anymore. I've never been the nice guy, but definitely in this season, it's not a season to be nice. It's a season to rise up with truth and righteousness and justice. And so it's time to ride like a madman, like it says about Jehu. It's time to dethrone the works of Jezebel. It's time to restore righteousness to our nation, and it's time to see a harvest of souls come to Jesus, and we can only do that if we expose the works of darkness.
Last year, Feucht was given a “defender of liberty” award by Spokane pastor Matt Shea, a former Washington state legislator who was stripped of his committee assignments and kicked out of the party after a report documented that he had “participated in an act of domestic terrorism” and “planned, engaged in and promoted a total of three armed conflicts of political violence against the United States Government in three states outside the state of Washington over a three-year period.” Later, Feucht returned to Spokane for an event at which he and Shea prayed over the city’s mayor and other local politicians.
This summer, Feucht sued the city of Spokane claiming that a city council resolution denouncing the former mayor’s appearance with Feucht and Shea caused Feucht “emotional distress.”
