A false prophet “must be put to death,” commands Deuteronomy 18:20, and Micah 3:11 warns against prophets who “tell fortunes for money.”
Lance Wallnau’s false prophecies are well documented, but when caught he simply moves on to his next wild claims.
“I’ve just been right, right prophetically, on virtually everything I’ve said for the last five years,” he said on a recent episode of the Lance Wallnau Show as he hawked gold and silver coins.
“That’s a bold statement to make. I’ve got a lot of enemies. Anybody want to quote me where I missed it? The only time they ever say I missed it prophetically is when they accuse me of saying something I never said.”
This image of Lance Wallnau with Donald Trump is part of Wallnau’s official press kit downloads.
Right Wing Watch accepted his challenge and responded with a report featuring a series of Wallnau doozies, most of which seem more partisan than prophetic.
Wallnau made his name by correctly predicting Trump would win the 2016 election, but in 2020, he was one of 150 prophets who erroneously predicted Trump’s victory, according to researchers James Beverley and Gordon Melton.
When Trump lost, Wallnau was among those claiming Trump had actually won and would be officially reinstated.
Only a handful admitted they were wrong about the 2020 election and apologized, and they were promptly abandoned by their followers. Repeated calls for prophets to agree to ethical standards have made little progress.
Right Wing Watch, a reporting outlet for the progressive group People for the American Way, gathered some of Wallnau’s most wince-inducing failed pronouncements:
Conservative murder suspect is actually “left-wing wacko.” Vance Boelter, a Christian conservative, is the sole suspect in the June 2025 murder of Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband.
Wallnau falsely claimed Boelter was “a left-wing wacko and not a Christian,” saying, “Christianity does give you a sound mind.”
Following Trump’s 2023 arrest for falsifying business records, Wallnau claimed God would start killing American political leaders within the next month.
Following Trump’s 2023 arrest for falsifying business records, Wallnau claimed God would start killing American political leaders within the next month. But nothing happened.
“I’ve been listening to prophecies lately about sudden deaths, and it looks to me like there could be some sudden deaths coming in May. In May, you’re going to see some of the disciplinary hand of God come down upon those people that have been standing in the path of what he wants to do.”
When two Republican New Jersey council members were murdered within eight days in 2023, investigators were unsure about the killers’ motives. Wallnau claimed they were targeted by “underground, Satanist, left-wing, antifa hit squads.”
On January 6, the militant group the Proud Boys were at the U.S. Capitol not to incite an insurrection but “to protect Trump supporters from antifa” and “clean up the mess, any debris that’s there: glass, paper, garbage cans turned over,” Wallnau said.
In 2020, Wallnau claimed an autonomous zone called CHOP created by activists in Seattle signified that left-wing activists were about to initiate a “reign of terror, get the guillotine out and start chopping.” CHOP, he said, actually means “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.”
In 2018, Wallnau said a Unite the Right 2 rally in Washington, D.C., was a left-wing event designed to promote the false notion that the conservative movement has a problem with white supremacy.
“The gift that the left wants is white supremacists and to link it with conservatives because there are no conservative white supremacists,” he said. “That’s all a fiction.”
Wallnau claimed a “deep state intrigue” against Trump would be exposed by June 6, 2018. When nothing happened, he claimed that evidence of the intrigue had been “suppressed.”
Wallnau flubbed an anecdote about “deliverance” from homosexuality, claiming a gay bar owner was supposedly delivered from his life of sin after eating a cake that had been prepared and prayed over by Christians. “When he ate the cake, … the power of God hit him,” Wallnau claimed.
Last fall, Wallnau claimed Trump was not releasing the Epstein Files concerning sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein because “the Deep State planted false information against Trump in the Epstein Files.”
Wallnau’s official biography calls him “the innovator who introduced the ‘Seven Mountains of Culture’ as a fresh template to explain how the church must engage culture at the turn of the century.” Wallnau says Christians should rule over nonbelievers on the seven mountains of culture, which include government and the arts.
In reality, the Seven Mountain Mandate originated in 1975 from a shared vision claimed by evangelical leaders Bill Bright (founder of Campus Crusade for Christ) and Loren Cunningham (founder of Youth with a Mission).
One of his latest shows covered multiple news stories (“The Truth Behind ICE Raids, Antifa Blunders and Media Meltdown over Melania”) and featured ads for a health drink called Level 10 Liquid: “It’s what I need to start the day.”
Wallnau helped organize the Courage Tour, a Holy-Spirit-meets-politics road show that toured seven swing states in the months before the 2024 election. The Pennsylvania stop on the tour featured vice presidential candidate JD Vance, who made sure he didn’t appear on stage with Wallnau.
“Vance was astute enough never to be spotted with Wallnau or any of the other inflammatory speakers,” reported Slate.