Real America’s Voice: "Firewall with Lance Wallnau"

Episode Date: October 25, 2025
Host: Lance Wallnau
Special Guest: Gabe Poirot

Episode Overview

This episode centers on the current state of cultural and spiritual revival in America, the intersection of faith with politics and media, institutional power struggles, and the threats facing Judeo-Christian values in national discourse. Dr. Lance Wallnau offers analysis on recent Christian cultural developments, the politicized attacks on Trump and MAGA, the asymmetry of institutional control by leftist forces, and the galvanizing effect of key conservative voices. The show highlights the urgent need for Christian engagement in all spheres of influence, warns of growing anti-Semitism, and ends with rising YouTube evangelist Gabe Poirot discussing activism and persecution on campus and controversial election dynamics in Virginia.

Main Themes

• Spiritual and Cultural Revival: Evidence of increasing Christian influence in American culture and media.
• Institutional Capture: Importance of Christians engaging and occupying key societal institutions (media, academia, arts, politics).
• Political Struggle: Response to anti-Trump protests, discussion of funding left-wing activism.
• Jewish/Christian Relations & Israel: The risks and consequences of anti-Semitism in conservative circles after Charlie Kirk’s death.
• First-Person Activism: Christian youth persecuted for evangelism in academic environments.
• Virginia Politics: Examination of radical influences and moral decay in current election contests.

Detailed Breakdown

1. The Surge of Christian Influence in American Culture

Timestamp: 02:16 – 07:12

• Revival in the United States: Revival Speaker and Lance discuss a new openness to Jesus; public Christian expressions are becoming more mainstream, e.g., at the Dove Awards, with artists like Jelly Roll.

• Notable Quote:

  “Right now, there is a revival happening in the United States of America. Where you can’t go on a corner and not hear about Jesus right now... Go show them who Jesus was. Here we’re done talking. It’s time to show.” — Religious Revival Speaker [02:16]

• Music/Arts as Ministry: Jelly Roll’s testimony of transformation, and how Christian artists are impacting mainstream spaces.

• Data on Religious Interest:

  • Bible sales up 40% since 2022; religion app downloads up nearly 80% since 2019; Christian music Spotify streams up 50% from 2019.
  • Wallnau points out that while tech and cultural searches for faith are up, church attendance data is still developing.

• Notable Quote:

  “We have the tech world. Brothers and sisters, we have an opening here for apps for the Bible searches... They are looking on apps and they’re downloading Christian music. That’s interesting.” — Lance Wallnau [07:12]

Revival vs. Awakening

• Revival: Spiritual quickening within the church.
• Awakening: When revival’s influence spreads to institutions and broader culture, resulting in societal reform.
• Notable Quote:

  “Awakening is when that spirituality becomes a phenomenon that starts to wrap around institutions... and a great awakening effects... resulted in the revolutionary America.” — Lance Wallnau [08:10]

2. Challenging Institutional Power and Culture

Revival and 'Institutional Capture'

Timestamp: 02:55 – 09:57

• Wallnau references Steve Bannon on the necessity of Christians engaging and “occupying” institutional “high places”: media, academia, the arts, politics.
• Warns that cultural territory left unoccupied is reclaimed by opposing (often anti-biblical) worldviews.
• Notable Quote:

  “Somebody’s going to control the culture of a nation. And I would rather have the biblical worldview that says there are boys and girls, than have the trans ideology, which is a counterfeit religion masquerading as… freedom.” — Lance Wallnau [05:37]

3. Russell Brand and Christian Boldness

Brand’s Challenge to Pastors

Timestamp: 09:58 – 10:57

• Russell Brand urges church leaders to be bold and not fear speaking out.

• Notable Quote:

  “There’s a revival happening. This isn’t the time to be frightened... Not only is Jesus Christ real, the devil is real... Be bold from the pulpit. Be bold among your congregation.” — Russell Brand [10:05]

• Wallnau celebrates Brand’s conversion and remarks on the challenge technology (e.g., digital IDs) poses for centralized power.

Technological Threats & Centralization

Timestamp: 10:58 – 14:25

• Points to the danger of digital IDs being used for authoritarian control, especially if government power shifts.
• Lawlessness (such as illegal immigration) is used as a pretext for increased surveillance and control.
• Notable Quote:

  “What Russell is saying is maximum sovereignty. The goal is push back on the lawlessness, because lawlessness, by its strategy, forces you to go to control.” — Lance Wallnau [13:30]

4. Exposing Left-Wing ‘Anarchy Machine’ and Protest Funding

Soros, Foundations, and ‘No Kings’ Protests

Timestamp: 17:28 – 26:36

• Wallnau details deep-pocketed funding behind anti-Trump protests via Soros, Arabella, Tides, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations—nearly $300 million for orchestrated anti-Trump activism nationwide.

• Notable Quote:

  “This isn’t a spontaneous populist expression of American outrage against Donald Trump. This is a $300 million paid party.” — Lance Wallnau [23:07]

• Argues that such expenditures result in mostly aging, eccentric protest crowds and are less effective than they appear.

Media, Trolling, and MAGA’s Resilience

• Trump’s use of new social media platforms (BlueSky) to troll protest narratives undercuts their seriousness and buoys the conservative base.
• Notable Quote:

  “The thing about the MAGA movement that’s great is we got a glint in our eye and we’re having fun in the warfare... remarkable self control, that we’re not the ones blowing up Tesla dealerships... ” — Lance Wallnau [28:50]

5. Rising Anti-Semitism and The Loss of Charlie Kirk

Dangers in the Conservative Movement Post-Kirk

Timestamp: 33:12 – 43:30

• Wallnau laments the assassination of Charlie Kirk, crediting him as a coalition-builder who maintained Christian support for Israel within MAGA and kept anti-Semitic voices in check.
• Warns that internal and external “wolves” can divide and weaken the movement without strong, bridge-building leadership.
• Notable Quote:

  “Without Charlie Kirk there, wolves come in from the outside in... Charlie would have been the voice of coalition building. He knew how to bring the tent together.” — Lance Wallnau [34:52]

Tucker Carlson and Divisive Influences

• Dinesh D’Souza: Suggests Tucker Carlson is unwittingly enabling anti-Semitic (and even Sharia-friendly) narratives in American conservatism.
• Notable Quote:

  “When the betrayal comes, it’s gonna be someone we really trust. That’s where we are, guys.” — Dinesh D'Souza [41:39]

6. Double Standards on Israel

D’Souza on War and Moral Accountability

Timestamp: 43:30 – 44:48

• D’Souza points out the hypocrisy in holding Israel to a standard not applied to any other nation when responding to attacks.

• Notable Quote:

  “Are you subjecting Israel and the Jews to a different set of standards that you apply to everybody else? If so, your motives should be in question.” — Dinesh D’Souza [43:30]

• Wallnau calls this antimoral “demonic inversion,” part of the left’s effort to recast Israel as oppressor and Hamas as victim.

7. Interview: Gabe Poirot on Activism, Persecution, and Virginia Politics

Campus Persecution & Firsthand Activism

Timestamp: 48:53 – 49:58

• Gabe describes being removed from Texas Christian University for praying with students, reflecting growing intolerance toward open Christian evangelism—even at religious schools.
• Notable Quote:

  “I did just get kicked off of the Texas Christian University’s campus because I was praying for students and I was reported as harassing them.” — Gabe Poirot [49:58]

Virginia’s Cultural and Electoral Crisis

Timestamp: 49:58 – 56:16

• Highlights disturbing rhetoric from Virginia’s attorney general candidate, and points to Abigail Spanberger’s past as a teacher at an Islamic academy with radical ties.
• Notable Quote:

  “Every citizen of Virginia really needs to wake up, because if they don’t speak up this November… they’re actually going to tolerate everything that Spanberger has tolerated.” — Gabe Poirot [51:03]

• Wallnau further ties the moral decline to addiction to government power and money, especially in the DC-metro region.

Call to Action

• Urges listeners—especially faith-minded Virginians—to recognize these risks and mobilize for the coming election.
• Info for following Gabe Poirot and his upcoming book on surviving trauma/death experience.

Notable Quotes (Chronological, With Speakers and Timestamps)

• "Go show them who Jesus was. Here we’re done talking. It’s time to show."
  — Religious Revival Speaker [02:16]

• "Awakening is when that spirituality becomes a phenomenon that starts to wrap around institutions... resulted in the revolutionary America because the preaching of Whitefield and the early Methodists..."
  — Lance Wallnau [08:20]

• "Be bold from the pulpit. Be bold among your congregation. That’s what I’d say to the pulpit, to the pastors, even though in this instance it is hypothetical."
  — Russell Brand [10:52]

• "Lawlessness, by its strategy, forces you to go to control."
  — Lance Wallnau [13:30]

• "This isn’t a spontaneous populist expression of American outrage against Donald Trump. This is a $300 million paid party."
  — Lance Wallnau [23:07]

• "The thing about the MAGA movement that’s great is we got a glint in our eye and we’re having fun in the warfare..."
  — Lance Wallnau [28:50]

• "Without Charlie Kirk there, wolves come in from the outside in... Charlie would have been the voice of coalition building."
  — Lance Wallnau [34:52]

• "When the betrayal comes, it’s gonna be someone we really trust. That’s where we are, guys."
  — Dinesh D’Souza [41:39]

• "Are you subjecting Israel and the Jews to a different set of standards that you apply to everybody else? If so, your motives should be in question."
  — Dinesh D’Souza [43:30]

• "I did just get kicked off of the Texas Christian University’s campus because I was praying for students and I was reported as harassing them."
  — Gabe Poirot [49:58]

• "If you could talk about peeing on a grave and watching a widow grieve and watching a man and his kid get killed and you still get elected. That’s depravity in the culture."
  — Lance Wallnau [53:21]

Key Timestamps for Segments

• Revival & Christian Cultural Growth: 02:16 – 07:12
• Institutional Capture Discussion: 02:55 – 09:57
• Russell Brand’s Challenge: 09:58 – 10:57
• Technological Threats to Freedom: 10:58 – 14:25
• Soros & Left-Funded Protests: 17:28 – 26:36
• MAGA/Trump Media and Response: 26:36 – 32:07
• Charlie Kirk & Anti-Semitism in MAGA: 33:12 – 41:57
• D’Souza on Double Standards (Israel): 43:30 – 44:48
• Gabe Poirot Segment (Campus & Virginia): 48:53 – 56:43

Tone and Style

• Candid, urgent, and impassioned; mixes biblical references with political analysis.
• Celebratory of conservative Christian wins, but deeply concerned about institutional threats and ideological adversaries.
• Unapologetically confrontational toward leftist strategies; urgent in calling for increased Christian involvement in all spheres.
• Occasionally humorous, especially around Trump and MAGA’s way of turning the tables on opposition.

Summary for New Listeners

This episode of "Firewall with Lance Wallnau" is a clarion call for Christians to step boldly into cultural, institutional, and political arenas. It celebrates rising cultural interest in faith, scrutinizes orchestrated leftist activism, and laments the recent loss of a pivotal coalition-builder (Charlie Kirk). With sobering warnings about the dangers of centralization, anti-Semitism, and political apathy, Wallnau urges listeners to unite, be courageous, and embrace their faith as a force for societal change. The guest segment with evangelist Gabe Poirot brings these themes full circle, illustrating both the challenges and resolve required for Christian engagement in contemporary America.