'Tell you a secret': Speaker compares himself to Moses at event he thought was media free

Mike Johnson's calling to serve as House Speaker reportedly came from the heavens.

Appearing as the keynote speaker during Tuesday night's award fete for the National Association of Christian Lawmakers (NACL) at the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C., the newly appointed speaker from Louisiana opened up about his direct channel to God and how he was directed to become the next speaker after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was unceremoniously sacked.

“Look, I’m a Southern Baptist, I don’t wanna get too spooky on you,” he told attendees who apparently chuckled, according to Rolling Stone. “But, you know, the Lord speaks to your heart.”

Johnson explained how he was readying to prepare for his "Red Sea moment".

Apparently he assumed that he was talking in an intimate, media-free setting at the NACL, an organization said to be aiming to push for right-wing fundamentalism to be adopted into law.

As Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson points out, he may have been oblivious that his speech was being recorded and streamed on the NACL Facebook page.

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Johnson intimated: “I’ll tell you a secret, since media is not here.”

He added: “Thank you for not allowing the media in,” and said, according to the outlet, that reporters have been quoting him “out of context” with “great joy for the last few weeks.”

Johnson recounted many nights when he was stirred awake.

“The Lord began to wake me up, through this three-week process, in the middle of night to speak to me,” he said. “Now at the time I assumed the Lord is going to choose a new Moses.”

Given that the position is a few heartbeats from the presidency, Johnson determined, according to Rolling Stone, that he wasn't going to be Moses in this modern-day biblical battle — but his brother.

"You’re gonna allow me to be Aaron to Moses,” he added.

Yet when McCarthy lost his grip on the speaker gavel, there were many GOP lawmakers who tossed their names to take over the House.

So as the boldfaced names like Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) among the more than a dozen hopefuls tried to win the gig, Johnson's waited.

“Ultimately 13 people ran for the post," he said, according to Rolling Stone. "And the Lord kept telling me to, ‘Wait, wait, wait.'"

And so he obliged, and remembered his patience, he said.

"I waited," he said. "And then at the end … the Lord said, ‘Now step forward," Johnson recalled of this eureka moment.

Johnson was voted in as House Speaker on Oct. 24.

When he took the podium to accept the speaker role, Johnson detailed how close his belief structure is linked to the Lord.

"I believe that scripture, the Bible is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority," he said. "He raised up each of you, all of us, and I believe that God has ordained and allowed each one of us to be brought here for this specific moment in this time. This is my belief."