# Lance Wallnau Lance Wallnau is the **single most influential popularizer of the Trump-as-Cyrus prophecy** and, in many ways, the public face of the politically-activated [[New Apostolic Reformation]]. A business consultant turned self-proclaimed apostle, Wallnau built his platform by operationalizing [[C. Peter Wagner]]'s theology into an accessible, media-friendly dominionist strategy — especially through his evangelization of the [[Seven Mountain Mandate]] and his 2016 prophecy that Trump was a modern [[Cyrus Prophecy]]. Wallnau sits at the center of the NAR-MAGA fusion: he is simultaneously a prophecy broadcaster, a best-selling author, a conference speaker on the [[ReAwaken America Tour]] circuit, a political organizer mobilizing pastors against "demonic" liberals, and a regular voice in Trump-adjacent evangelical media. ## Background - Born 1956; raised Catholic in New York; converted to evangelical Christianity as a young adult - Earned a doctorate from Phoenix University of Theology (an unaccredited institution) - Career began in corporate training and leadership consulting before pivoting to ministry - Served as an adjunct faculty member at [[C. Peter Wagner]]'s Wagner Leadership Institute - Founded Lance Learning Group and the Lance Wallnau Ministries platform - Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area ## Seven Mountain Strategist Wallnau's first major ministry contribution was turning the [[Seven Mountain Mandate]] from an obscure 1970s-era theological idea into a **practical career-guidance doctrine** for dominionist Christians. His core moves: - Reframing the Seven Mountains as a *strategy* rather than a *metaphor*: Christians should identify their assigned mountain, develop expertise, and seek positions of institutional power at the top - Packaging the concept for conferences, online courses, and a series of books (*Invading Babylon*, *God's Chaos Code*, *7M Underground*) - Building a media brand that treated "mountain climbing" as the central Christian calling — a dominion-shaped version of the American career-development self-help industry This repackaging is the reason the Seven Mountain framework spread far beyond its NAR origins and now appears in non-charismatic evangelical, Reformed, and Catholic Christian-nationalist contexts. ## The Trump-Cyrus Prophecy Wallnau's defining political act was his October 2015 declaration — *before Trump won a single primary* — that Trump was God's modern Cyrus. The framing was not original (prophet Kim Clement had hinted at similar themes in 2007), but Wallnau turned it into a full theological doctrine and publishing enterprise. **Key elements of the Wallnau Cyrus framework:** - Trump = "the 45th" (referencing Isaiah 45, where God names Cyrus) - Trump does not need to be personally righteous — Cyrus wasn't either - Trump is a "wrecking ball" raised up to demolish secular/globalist/demonic power structures on the government mountain - Christian support of Trump is therefore not a political choice but a *spiritual obedience* - Opposition to Trump is, by definition, opposition to God's current decree Wallnau's 2016 book *God's Chaos Candidate: Donald J. Trump and the American Unraveling* is the single most influential theological text justifying evangelical and charismatic support for Trump. It sold over 100,000 copies and circulated through charismatic church networks as essentially a voting guide. ## The 2020 Election and After Wallnau, like most NAR figures, had "prophesied" Trump's 2020 reelection. When Biden was declared the winner, Wallnau doubled down rather than repent. His response pattern, repeated across dozens of prophets and apostles, has become the *default* NAR mode: - The election was stolen through demonic interference - Prophecies of Trump's reelection were not wrong, just *delayed* - Biden's presidency is illegitimate and temporary - The church must engage in intensified spiritual warfare and political mobilization to restore Trump He became a featured speaker on the [[ReAwaken America Tour]] — the roadshow combining NAR worship, QAnon-adjacent conspiracy, and MAGA politics — and a regular voice on [[Kenneth Copeland]]'s Victory Channel *FlashPoint* program, the NAR's most-watched political prophecy show. ## Political Activation Wallnau's 2020s ministry increasingly shifted from theology to direct political organizing: - Wallnau-led "Courage Tour" rallies in swing states in the lead-up to the 2024 election, explicitly designed to mobilize charismatic Christians as a voting bloc - Prayer and prophecy events targeting specific gubernatorial, senate, and House races - Active social-media prophetic commentary on daily political events - Advocacy for pastors to abandon the [[Johnson Amendment]] and preach political endorsements from the pulpit This is the clearest example of the NAR pattern the KB tracks: **apostolic authority → prophetic declarations → political organizing**, collapsed into the same figure, same conference circuit, and same media brand. ## Relationship to Wagner and the Movement Wallnau trained under [[C. Peter Wagner]] and served as adjunct faculty at the Wagner Leadership Institute, but he represents the movement's *next-generation* model: more telegenic than Wagner, more politically direct, more willing to name Democrats and media figures as specifically demonic. Where Wagner was an academic missiologist who drifted into apostolic claims, Wallnau has been a media-first operator from the start. His success is part of why the post-Wagner NAR is more overtly political and conspiratorial than the 1990s movement Wagner founded. ## Why He Matters for the KB Wallnau is the **bridge figure** between the theological NAR and the Trump political movement. Without the Cyrus framing he popularized, millions of charismatic Christians would have faced a genuine crisis of conscience supporting Trump. Wallnau solved that problem theologically — and made a career out of it. He also exemplifies the **collapsing of distinctions** that defines the contemporary NAR: apostle, prophet, political commentator, media personality, and campaign organizer are all the same person, doing the same work, on the same platforms. The old separations between pulpit and polling booth, between prayer and politics, have been explicitly repudiated as a satanic lie. ## See Also - [[Cyrus Prophecy]] - [[Flawed Vessel]] - [[Seven Mountain Mandate]] - [[New Apostolic Reformation]] - [[New Apostolic Reformation Ecosystem]] - [[C. Peter Wagner]] - [[Dutch Sheets]] - [[Kenneth Copeland]] - [[ReAwaken America Tour]]