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“These are once-fringe figures who, a decade ago, you’d think were really out there,” said scholar Matthew Taylor in describing The New Apostolic Reformation, a loose network of charismatic evangelical Christian leaders who see former President Donald Trump as a modern-day King Cyrus, a secular strongman who will take back America for God. Among those leaders is Lance Wallnau, an early Trump supporter who “prophesied” a 2016 win and coined the phrase “7 Mountain Mandate,” urging Christians to seek power in seven spheres of society − politics among them. In the years since, Wallnau has built an empire promoting “God’s Chaos Candidate” − as his e-book describes Trump − and drawing more mainstream evangelicals into a subculture of Pentecostalism that would once have been “too wacky” for them, according to Taylor. More influential still, he has fomented the spiritual frenzy of the broader MAGA movement, writes Tess Owen in her profile of Wallnau for Religion News Service.
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