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Power & Conquest: Trump's 7 Mountains Mandate Theocrats Seek to Colonize America for God [1]

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Date: 2025-03-11

Let’s talk Seven Mountains Mandate, also known as the Seven Mountains prophecy or 7M, and its growing influence within the Trump administration. The Seven Mountains Mandate holds that there are seven aspects of society that Charismatic Christians and Christian nationalists seek to dominate: family, religion, education, media, arts and entertainment, business, and government. And, given the “flood the zone” strategy of Trump 2.0, it is understandable that mainstream media coverage of this movement has been negligible.

In a recent piece for the Colorado Times Recorder, Logan M. Davis noted that “While the mainstream media’s attention has been elsewhere, a coalition of spiritual advisors with explicitly theocratic ambitions has ascended to the height of American power. With nearly unimpeded access to the president, they preach a movement which aims to erase the separation of church and state, establish a specific brand of Christian dominion over every part of society, and fundamentally reconstruct life in the United States as we know it – and I’m not just talking about Christian nationalism (https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/02/davis-the-seven-mountains-mandate-is-the-biggest-story-the-media-is-missing/67550/).

In a February 2024 interview (https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234843874/tracing-the-rise-of-christian-nationalism-from-trump-to-the-ala-supreme-court?utm_source=chatgpt.com), NPR’s Fresh Air host Terry Gross asked guest Brad Onishi, author of Preparing For War: The Extremist History Of White Christian Nationalism - And What Comes Next, “So what does that mean to reflect the kingdom of God in family, religion, business, education, media, arts and entertainment, and the government?”

ONISHI: The Seven Mountains mandate is a particular form of understanding human society that says that Christian people are not called to persuade their neighbors to practice the Christian faith, to demonstrate to their fellow Americans that the Christian faith is the faith of love and truth. The Seven Mountains Mandate is, as my colleague Matthew Taylor says, a mandate to colonize the Earth for God. The seven domains as you listed them - arts and leisure and the economy and the government, the family - are seen as mountains of conquest. The goal is not dialogue with neighbors who may be Muslim or atheist or Hindu. The goal is not to simply reflect the character of Christ on earth by way of living a life that upholds his glory and his teachings. The goal is to have absolute authority and power over every facet of human society…. It is not one that recognizes democracy or dialogue, pluralism as sacred values. The goal is power. The goal is conquest. And so when one hears about a politician or a leader or anyone in influence, especially as part of our government, who adheres to the Seven Mountains Mandate, that should set alarm bells off immediately.

Theology professor André Gagné, author of the book, American Evangelicals for Trump: Dominion, Spiritual Warfare, and the End Times, argued that “The Seven Mountain Mandate is not a theology, it's more of a strategic marketing tool to mobilize people. If Christians are to rule … that's what I call the political theology of power. But how do you mobilize people to act upon that idea? You come up with a mobilizing strategy and that strategy is the Seven Mountain Mandate.”

The Gospel Coalition’s Justin N. Pothress explored the biblical efficacy of the Seven Mountains Mandate in a story titled, “How Evangelicals Lose Will Make All The Difference.” Pothress called the Seven Mountains Mandate -- a strategy for cultural engagement popularized by Lance Wallnau and Bill Johnson in their 2013 book Invading Babylon – a perspective that “has gained popularity, especially among charismatic and Pentecostal Christians,” (https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/seven-mountain-mandate/).

Whether it is a strategic marketing tool, or a deliberate misreading of the bible, one thing is clear: With Trump in the White House, Seven Mountains’ advocates are exerting greater and greater influence in each one of its targeted spheres.

Seven Mountain Mandate leaders are spreading their wings across the government. Take Paula White Cain. (Please!!! Ba da boom!!! –Hat tip Henny Youngman) The televangelist and prosperity gospel minister chaired the evangelical advisory board for Trump’s 2016 campaign, spoke at his 2017 inauguration, and served as a special aide on faith matters during part of his first term in office, was recently appointed to lead the new White House Faith Office (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/10/2302764/-Trump-Appoints-Prosperity-Gospel-Grifter-Paula-White-to-Root-Out-Persecution-of-Christians-in-U-S).

Then, there’s Lance Wallnau, who, as Logan M. Davis reported, “rose to prominence on his 2016 ‘prophecy’ that Trump would be elected – and does not seem to have suffered many consequences when his follow-up prophecy, that Trump would be reelected in 2020, fell flat. In the lead up to the 2024 election, Wallnau accused then-Vice President Kamala Harris of witchcraft, and then hosted J.D. Vance for a campaign event. … In a discussion with Steve Bannon, Wallnau explained how the new White House Faith Office is the ‘foothold’ from which Christian nationalists can, as Bannon put it, ‘seize the institutions of the federal government’”(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/27/2273270/-JD-Vance-Embracing-New-Apostolic-Reformation-s-Lance-Wallnau-who-labels-Harris-a-Jezebel).

In mid-February, Davis wrote that, “with Trump back in the Oval Office and Paula White-Cain – one of the movement’s brightest stars – running the new White House Faith Office, the Seven Mountains Mandate is poised for an aggressive offensive.”

While People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch, Religion Dispatches, and other alternative media outlets have been steadfastly reporting on the dangers of Christian nationalism and the Seven Mountain Mandate for years, it’s time for the mainstream media, whose coverage has been relatively limited and sporadic, to get on board.

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