Thread by @TaylorMatthewD

The sharp-eyed folks at @mmfa noticed that Alabama Supr. Court Chief Justice Tom Parker gave an intrvw to NAR prophet Johnny Enlow, published the same day as the court's recent decision that embryos count as ppl. Parker references the "Seven Mountains." This is very important. 1/

https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1760354985630482926

As I showed in Charismatic Revival Fury, ep. 3, the Seven Mountain Mandate is a charismatic (e.g., rooted in modern prophecy & miracles) program intent upon achieving Christian supremacy. It originated in 2000 with NAR prophet/apostle Lance Wallnau. 2/

straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/chari…

While Wallnau came up with the concept, the entire New Apostolic Reformation infrastructure (created by C. Peter Wagner) of tight-knit apostles & prophets amplified the Seven Mountains idea & spread it around the nondenominational charismatic world starting around 2007-2008. 3/

Johnny Enlow's book The Seven Mountains Prophecy (2008) was the 1st book that explicitly used the Seven Mountains frame.



Enlow, a friend of Wallnau's, was also a longtime leader in NAR apostle Ché Ahn's massive Harvest International Ministry network. 4/ google.com/books/edition/…

You'll encounter a lot of conspiratorial speculation about the NAR, particularly here on Twitter, that makes these networks sound like a shadowy cabal of Christian leaders who manipulate American politics, but this episode is actually a good example of how NAR influence works. 5/

NAR apostles & prophets are not mysterious people furtively meeting behind closed doors. They are global celebrities in the relatively sequestered media ecosystem of charismatic media. What they do is out in the open, & they have hundreds of thousands of dedicated followers. 6/

The fact that most of us aren't watching this media ecosystem & don't recognize the major NAR leaders is often misinterpreted as though they were obscure or cryptic.

Johnny Enlow (like Lance Wallnau) is a household name among nondenominational charismatics. 7/

Enlow is also a very extremist Christian leader who often traffics in QAnon conspiracy ideas.

In the lead-up to #January6th, Enlow argued (in conversation with NAR prophet Steve Shultz) that Trump should declare martial law & execute his enemies. 8/

Especially since the Seven Mountains teaching took hold in the movement, NAR leaders have cultivated relationships with like-minded local & state executives, legislators, & judges. Here is AL Supreme Ct Justice Tom Parker displaying his NAR fandom with Enlow out in the open. 9/

Make no mistake, these ideas are extreme & are fueling the polarization of our politics. As @PaulDjupe has shown, >20% OF ALL AMERICANS today endorse the Seven Mountain framework.



It's unsurprising that these ideas have reached state supreme courts. 10/religioninpublic.blog/2023/04/10/how…

If you listen through the interview (or the embedded clips in the @mmfa article), you can hear Chief Justice Parker embracing the Manichaean frameworks the NAR propagates of good vs. evil, angels vs. demons in American politics. 11/

So please spare me your wild speculations that make the NAR into some spooky Illuminati. NAR leaders are celebrities whose Christian supremacist agenda & influence is right out in the open.

Their rapidly growing traction on the Amer right deserves our sustained attention. 12/

The risk is not merely combustible incidents like #January6th (for which the NAR was central). That's a very real risk, & we could well see Christianity-inflected violence again this election.

See our recently released short documentary about that:
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But the longer-term risk is how actions like these by extreme Christians in positions of influence like Tom Parker (influenced by NAR paradigms & prophecies) can destabilize democracy, injecting radical Christian theologies into our laws & legal rulings. 14/