House Speaker Mike Johnson Says That God Prepared Him To Be The Next ‘Moses’ At Christian Lawmakers’ Gala He Thought Was Off The Record

On December 5, House Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a speech at this year’s National Association of Christian Lawmakers gala.

During his speech, he thanked the event’s organizers for not inviting any reporters, though it has not been made clear if he knew that the event’s organizer would record and post a video of the gala on his Facebook page.

“I’ll tell you a secret since the media’s not here,” Johnson told them.

His secret was that he had many conversations with God in the lead-up to the speaker role with which he was anointed.

“The Lord impressed upon my heart a few weeks before this happened that something was going to occur,” he said. “And the Lord very specifically told me in my prayers to prepare but to wait. I had this sense that we were going to come to a Red Sea moment in our Republican conference and the country at large. Look, I’m a Southern Baptist. I don’t want to get too spooky on you, ok? But the Lord speaks to your heart. And he had been speaking to me about this. And the Lord told me very clearly to prepare. Ok, prepare for what? I don’t know. ‘We’re coming to a Red Sea moment.’ ‘What does that mean, Lord?'”

In the Bible’s Exodus story, Moses parted a body of water, traditionally considered the Red Sea, so that he could lead the Israelites out of Egypt.

As Johnson continued speaking, he mentioned that, once Kevin McCarthy was removed as a U.S. House of Representatives speaker, God was preparing him for the speaker’s role.

“I started praying more about that,’ he continued. “And the Lord began to wake me up through this three-week process we were in, in the middle of the night, and to speak to me. And [I started] to write things down, plans and procedures and ideas on how we could pull the conference together. I assumed the Lord was going to choose a new Moses. And ‘Oh, thank you, Lord: You’re going to allow me to be Aaron to Moses.’ [In the Hebrew Bible, Aaron is Moses’ brother and a priest who helps him.] I worked to get Steve Scalise elected. And then Jim Jordan. And Tom Emmer. Thirteen people ran for the post. The Lord kept telling me to wait. And I waited and waited. And it came to the end, and the Lord said, ‘Now, step forward.’ ‘Me? I’m supposed to be Aaron.'”

“Only God saw the path through the roiling sea,” he claimed. “We’re facing, you could argue, the greatest collection of challenges since the time of maybe World War II, maybe the Civil War. If you look at all the headwinds, all the challenges, they’re collected right now. I’m telling you, we should not be daunted in the face of these challenges. Our hope is in God.”

The National Association of Christian Lawmakers also gave Johnson the American Patriot Award for Christian Honor and Courage.

This organization was founded in 2020 by Jason Rapert, a former Arkansas state senator, and includes former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R).

Their mission is to produce model legislation and connect legislators at every level of government to pass bills based on biblical principles thereby protecting America.

“How are we going to have a godly nation if we don’t have godly leaders?” the former senator asked the audience. “So we believe — and this is one of the goals — that soon in this nation, we’ll see Christians, people of faith, running for every single office in this country.”

He then stated his belief that America was founded as a Christian nation, and should be considered the central tenet of Christian nationalism. He even mentioned that American citizens must act as stewards of the foundations of this country.

The politician’s speech sparked criticism from many online, including Mary Trump, the former president’s niece.

She reposted the video of Johnson’s speech on X: “If Mike Johnson doesn’t believe this, he’s a manipulative cynic. If he does, he’s psychotic. Either way, he’s a massive megalomaniac. If he wants to pretend he’s Moses, he can start by removing himself to the desert for 40 years.”

Johnston recently wrote the foreword of his book, The Revivalist Manifesto, which supports anti-LGBTQ views and conspiracy theories.