Greetings, and happy 7th Day of the LORD’s Feast of Tabernacles, here in the year 2026! Welcome, our friends here in the States: Portland, Oregon; Manassas, Virginia; Spartanburg, South Carolina; Monroeville, Alabama; and across the way in Sargodha, Pakistan; Hanoi, Vietnam; and Móstoles, Spain! Thank you for being here today!
Greetings to you all! This is Leonard V. Johnson with the living Word of God, the Truth of God, and the ultimate Plan of God!
I’m sure we’ve all been paying attention to the latest news from around the world. The war that is still raging in the Middle East between the evil Islamic Regime of Iran and the United States, and as Walter Cronkite used to say as he would famously sign off each broadcast, “And that's the way it is.” Sadly, there isn’t much peace around the world──and I’m speaking of real and lasting peace. But you know what? It’s coming! REAL PEACE! WORLD PEACE! And it’s not that far ahead of us──is it five years ahead, ten years ahead, fifteen? Surely, we wouldn’t need to go much further than that. Not far ahead of us now is coming upon this world some ‘great tribulation’!
But in the meantime, we’ve surely got lessons to learn. Today, for this 7th Day of the Feast, I would like to go over with you briefly──briefly, because it’s an in-depth subject that would take more paper to fully explain and teach than I have──some of the terrible and dreadful things that are going to occur upon this earth and its nations. Have you ever heard about any of them? Sadly, just like after-the-fact, the Tennessee governor has suspended, for the rest of the year, any executions because of the failed execution of Christa Pike──let’s not read about these terrible and dreadful things coming upon an unrepentant earth and its nations after-the-fact! But you can be warned about these events coming well in advance. And you can find the Way in which you will be protected. Now, that is surely something that interests you──right?
There is only one place, because as I’ve asked in our five-part audio series of “Revelation – A Book of the Past and the Future,” if you could know the future, would you want to know? And what would you do with that information? And it’s because, at this very moment in time, there is no mortal human being who knows exactly what will happen. O’ let’s see, I believe it was King Solomon who stated, “You do not know what a day may bring forth!” Yes indeed, as we move along in this lifetime, we come to see and realize we don’t know what a single day may bring forth around the corner.
Our beloved President Donald Trump and his overall constituency believe that we are in a time of peace ── he claims he has “ended 8 wars in just 8 months,” and that he is “the president of peace.” And as much as we love him and pray daily for him, we do realize that he is a bit bombastic and narcissistic. Only a fool would believe otherwise. But let me tell you, friends, most places around this world are really only a quietude on the surface. Just underneath the surface, this world is paddling like all get-out! Just underneath the surface, things are brewing ── underneath there are people plotting, just like Brain of the animated cartoon, Pinky and the Brain, to “take over the world!” ── cue the maniacal laugh. Underneath there are men in waiting who haven’t fully come into the public eye yet, who desire power and prestige, pure evil men who look like lambs, but speak and act like dragons. A couple we actually have an eye on ── others we don’t know who they are yet.
Truly, indescribable and terrifying tribulations are going to soon begin to occur, and yes ── you can be warned about these things in advance. Surely, this is important to you ── or are you saying to yourself, ‘Great, just another Bible thumper telling us that the sky is falling!’? Well… this grave warning is in one of the greatest-selling books of all time ── the Holy Bible. A book that is still in around 95% of U.S. hotel rooms! And roughly 1/3 of this book is devoted to telling you and warning you of what is going to occur soon to an unrepentant world. Next year, the next two years, or 2030!
And I hope that you’re concerned about this ── and because you’re reading this, I’d say you are. Because you can rightly understand God’s living prophecies! Yes, that’s true ── you can! Well… truly, the ancient prophets of God didn’t fully understand God’s prophecies; most of the prophecies have been closed up and sealed ── until now. Why, you know I’ve been speaking this since 2011 ── and most world church organizations and denominations would think it is… well… for lack of a better phrase at the moment, “religious suicide” to preach such things. Yet the LORD God tells us that it’s important to prioritize the importance to listen to God rather than man – Acts 5:29. Most ministers would be afraid to preach and to warn such things ──they’d be worried about their reputation and image. They tend to be afraid of what people would say of them. Myself having been called ‘Satan,’ and our teachings ‘satanic.’ Once, a so-called sycophantic leader of an organization had gotten up at the podium and focused his assault directly at me, and said, “I could name a name of a worker of iniquity, but I won't.” So, yes ── I have been attacked many times because of this commission. Our Lord Jesus warns us, ‘If the world hates you, remember, it hated Me first.’
What Denomination Was Our Lord Jesus Christ?
Sadly, I see a growing trend: many churches of God are desiring to be Jewish. They’ll even go so far as to add Hebrew words to their very church name. ‘The Church of Yahweh,’ or ‘The Christian Church of Jehovah.’ I’ll have to admit I just don’t get it! You know, if our Lord Jesus Christ were here today, would He be a member of any of these worldly churches? Would He join one of these churches because its very name sounds Jewish? Well… when He did come to Earth some two thousand and thirty years ago ── was born of the Virgin Mary in roughly 4 B.C. ── there were many religious denominations there in Palestine. Such as the Sadducees, the Pharisees, the Essenes; there were also Canaanite and Polytheistic Remnants; there were the Samaritans with their own version of the Pentateuch. O’ yes ── many denominations that had many facets. Which one did He join, and why not one of them? Well… every single one of them attacked Him, calling Him ‘an independent.’
Truly, something that needs to be understood ── and, in fact, something that I recently discussed with AI regarding the LORD God and capital punishment ── neither God the Father nor our Lord Jesus Christ changes: “’ For I am the LORD, I do not change; …’” – Malachi 3:6. As well as “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” – Hebrews 13:8. They have not changed, and they would do the same things today. Have you ever thought about that? Maybe I should put together that recent conversation I had with AI ── it’s pretty interesting.
Friends, as our Lord Jesus Christ has said, ‘the time is fulfilled,’ and it has come to reveal and to show His servants ── things which must shortly take place. Again, roughly 1/3 of your Holy Bible, which has been metaphorically chained with a lock that very few people have had the Key to unlock, is indeed future prophecy. Of course, just like an instruction manual ── which to most it reads like stereo instructions ── God’s living word has been here, which is over 1,900 years old, being read by men. The words in black and white have been here the entire time, and they have been translated into surely every language on the planet, yet they are words that have been undeciphered until we get ever closer to the end of the age.
Yes ── even when our Lord Jesus Christ was traveling around Palestine speaking to the multitudes, He spoke in parables. The glorious miracles He did, Jesus told them, ‘tell no one,’ in such passages as Luke 5:14 and Matthew 8:4. He didn’t purposely try to broadcast what He was doing, and what He had done. None of what He did was to bring a crowd. But nevertheless, the people went and told other people, and word got around, and people began to come around Him in large crowds; thousands of people at times. Well… He must have had a mighty powerful voice without a modern microphone. Logically speaking, the people of that day surrounded the speaker and crowded in closer than we do today, and they sat down most times, which meant that our Lord Jesus was speaking above them and His voice would carry further, not being filtered by bodies in front. Yes, He could have easily spoken to thousands of people out in the quiet open air ── we have to admit, the world is getting noisier, along with our oceans. Well… that’s something to think about. But He spoke in parables, and do you know why? He Himself gives us the answer, so that those who were listening could hear ── but not understand. He actually spoke in parables to mask, to cloud, the true meaning, so that they wouldn’t or couldn’t understand what He was talking about. Because He didn’t intend for them to understand.
In fact, the overall majority of His living word was not intended to be understood until our time. Our Lord Jesus had once turned to His disciples privately and said, “’ Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see; for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.’” – Luke 10:23-24.
So, yes ── a great deal has been underneath lock and key, sealed up until now. And I pray that you will open your ears and eyes, and open your mind, to what God’s Spirit has to say that His prophets of old desired to have known ── and now, we can know! We truly can have greater knowledge than even they.
Turn in your Bible today to the Book of Jeremiah. Let’s go through this book a little today. 1/3 of your Bible is actually devoted to prophecy, and about 90% of those are future events that are going to occur within the next four to fifteen years from now ──surely.
And let me tell you right now, friends, so many of you probably won’t believe what the LORD God actually has to say regarding what is headed for earth and its nations. Again, many of you will call me ridiculous and will ridicule this and will not be able to clearly see whether it is true. Like what the LORD God says in Isaiah 30, where the people say, ‘Do not see, do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophecy deceits. Get out of the way, turn aside from the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us!’ ── Isaiah 30:9-11. Yes, maybe you might think you’re being honest, and I suppose most are sincere when it comes to learning about the LORD God and what He has to tell us. Yet it is quite possible that most sincere people can’t spiritually see at all because of spiritual blindness, because of prejudice, and all of that sort of thing.
Israel and Judah
Now, truly, one of the things that got me down this path of speaking about this today is a comment that a friend of ours had made concerning an article, “As I live, Why Should You Die, O House of Israel?” The comment was, “What do you mean by this?”
It’s a known fact that there were two separate kingdoms of the twelve tribes of Israel. One called the kingdom of Israel, the other the kingdom of Judah. The kingdom of Israel had its capital in ancient Samaria. The kingdom of Judah, which came to be known as the Jews, or rather the Jewish people, had their capital in the Old City of Jerusalem. So, they had been divided into two separate kingdoms. The northern kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria in 722 BC, when Samaria was captured, and the ten tribes were carried into exile. They had been taken captive up to the southern shores of the Caspian Sea by Assyria.
Now, by the time that the Prophet Jeremiah wrote, the Jewish people were being taken captive, and Jeremiah was among them and had become an emissary among them. So, this was roughly some 130 years after Jeremiah was writing, after the kingdom of Israel with its ten tribes had been taken captive. But there was a time when they were released and began to migrate northwest into what is now Europe. And there they were “lost” from sight.
But, friends ── and again, I’m not delving down into the depths of this today ── but the very beginnings of what would come to be known as the British people and the nations that comprise northwestern Europe, here we find them coming from the very area where we see the “lost” ten tribes migrated to. And indeed, according to God’s living word in prophecy, we see that they were to be among the islands due northwest of Jerusalem ── known today as the British Isles.
And then, escaping the tyranny of King George III, we see a great many of them eventually traversing the Atlantic Ocean, and long story short, developing the American colonies and eventually becoming known as the United States of America. And so, simplistically, we are actually the descendants of the ten so-called “lost” tribes of Israel. Yet we are no longer “lost.” And I know that this is ridiculed and jeered at ── even by AI, which has called it fantasy, calling it a pseudohistorical belief. But one cannot properly understand God’s living word prophetically unless you have this Key.
Alright, so here we are in the 1st chapter of the Book of Jeremiah, in which he was made a prophet to the nations ── in other words, to Israel and Judah. So, he was commissioned to- and notice this- to ‘See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.’ – verse 10. So, he was commissioned to tear down the throne in Judah, to root it out, to tear it down, and he was to build and to plant. Build and to plant what? Well… one of the things was the very throne he tore down in Judah.
So, he was a prophet of God to the House of Israel as well as to the House of Judah. Notice the 2nd chapter ──
“Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.” – verse 4.
Understand, this is not the Jewish people. It’s the people who, at the time of this writing, were in the British Isles and northwest Europe, maybe some in Sweden, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium.
Notice the 7th verse ──
“’ I brought you into a bountiful country, To eat its fruit and its goodness. …’”
Truly, one of the keys to understanding is: we are the House of Israel. And another key is that the LORD God prophesies in duality. That in the prophecy it speaks of things literally at that moment, to happen then, but also, it speaks of a future big event for our day ── something that would occur in the next few years.
There is another key, and without this key you won’t understand much prophecy. Notice verse 11 ──
“’ Has a nation changed its gods, Which are not gods? …’”
Meaning, its idols, which are not actually gods at all, yet they are called gods. Now, think about this: has any Gentile nation ── that you can think of off the top of your head ── changed any of its so-called gods? False gods and goddesses such as Allah, Brahman, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Ahura Mazda. Then we can think of Jupiter, Zeus, and other gods and goddesses of other ancient nations. Iris, Osiris ── and one I just learned of the other day, a dwarf god who drove off demons and scorpions, Bes. Well… as we’ve come to learn, they were only names given to them by various nations and cultures that actually derived from ancient Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar, created by Nimrod and his mother/wife Semiramis. And even those names were morphed into various names, such as Easter, or rather Ishtar, Astarte. And Easter actually began celebrating the ancient goddess Ishtar. So, no ── all those pagan nations that surrounded the people of the LORD God have never changed their gods or goddesses. They have never given up their religions or changed their deities. “’ But’” – the LORD God tells us – “ …’ My people have changed their Glory For what does not profit.’” WE AT ONE TIME HAD THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD, THE CREATOR GOD! The very Creator that has created all force and energy and every spirit! The very Creator that rules the entirety of the known universe!
We Receive the LORD God By Faith
Yet we ── as descendants of the ten so-called “lost” tribes of Israel ── and because the Eternal One hides Himself from those that disobey Him, He is not physical, and we can’t just reach out and physically touch Him, like a carved statue ──we must receive the LORD God by faith. This world, since time immemorial, has created their gods and goddesses out of marble, stone, wood, clay, or something else ── because they want to worship something they can visually see and touch. Yet all of those gods and goddesses have not changed; they’ve only morphed into various names over the eons. I really began to see this even more clearly back in 1998, with a set of fantasy books by the author Zechariah Sitchin, beginning with The 12th Planet, in which he wrote about the sudden civilization and the land of Sumer.
But sadly, yes ── the descendants of the ten so-called “lost” tribes of Israel ── have changed their God for one that is no god at all. In fact, they exchanged the Creator God for one that is called Satan the Devil. In fact, most times unknowingly, they call him God ── yet he is no god. Of course, again, sincere people will likely strongly disagree ── thinking to themselves, ‘How dare you, Sir ── say such blasphemy!’ One must have the courage and wherewithal to accept the LORD God’s challenge to begin to prove all things and to hold fast that which is good. Let us have the courage to look into what kind of god you actually worship, especially in the United States of America and within the United Kingdom and her Commonwealth Nations.
We read within God’s word that people's minds have been blinded by the god of this age! Absolutely deceived ── and even deceived people can indeed be honest and sincere. They might believe that they have the truth, the true gospel message. Yet, they have a counterfeit, believing that they have had a born-again experience ── but sadly, not knowing what that very phrase, born again, actually means.
Yes ── I know that I’m throwing a lot of things at you, trying to get you to examine these things more closely. It’s no different than the statement I speak of concerning my conversations with AI ── these theological discussions with AI are to help encourage you to discuss God's living word among others and to be guided into all God's truth by and through the Holy Spirit of God. This AI has been set to challenge this theological discussion and not to be just a “yes-man.” Be sure to follow along with our discussions to “prove all things, and hold fast to that which is good” (1 Thess. 5:21, KJV) by and through God's living word, the Holy Bible. So, if you examine and study them, you look for real proof instead of just assuming something to be true.
Yet, the LORD God tells us here, “’ Be astonished, O heavens, at this, And be horribly afraid; Be very desolate, ‘ says the LORD. ‘For My people have committed two evils; They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns ── broken cisterns that can hold no water.’” – verses 12-13.
So, He uses a simile and compares Himself to a ‘fountain of living waters’ ── which is the Holy Spirit of God. The people of the world don’t have access, without being called by Father God and without being gifted His Spirit, to the ‘fountain of living waters.’ They have hewn for themselves large cisterns that hold no water. Meaning, they ── for the most part have empty lives. They don’t actually have the gift of the ‘fountain of living waters,’ the Holy Spirit, and what they do have leaks like a sieve.
Well … “’ Is Israel a servant? …’” He’s talking concerning Israel here, not Judah. “’ Is Israel a servant? Is he a homeborn slave? WHY IS HE PLUNDERED?’” – verse 14.
Yes ── Israel had been plundered and laid waste some 130 years before the Prophet Jeremiah ever took pen to paper here. But he’s talking about a future event. And it has not occurred from that initial time until now. But it is going to occur within the next few years! It is going to happen within the next few years. And we all had better wake up to who we truly are. Let us not be ignorant; let us not be spiritually blind. Yes ── most people would say that the world as a whole looks pretty good. They’re satisfied with it ── for the most part. ‘Nothing is going to happen! We, the United States, are the strongest we’ve ever been!’ But, in truth, our Lord Jesus Christ has said to us, “’ For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth’” – Luke 21:35. It’s going to suddenly spring like a snare on everyone who lives at that time on the whole of the face of the earth! And they will be caught ──unaware!
Let Us All Watch & Pray!
Immediately after that statement, our Lord Jesus Christ warned, “’ Watch therefore, and pray always that YOU may be counted worthy to escape all these things [and even the things that are currently occurring!] that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.’”
So, let us realize and come to the understanding that this nation and our ally nations ──such as Israel, the United Kingdom and her Commonwealth Nations, like New Zealand, Australia, and even South Africa ── have abandoned the LORD God! We do not let the LORD God rule us! Now, we desperately want to believe in God ── even our money is printed with “In God We Trust”! We want to believe and profess Jesus! Yet we don’t want to obey His commandments. We don’t want to keep His commandments! O’ no ── they’d rather sing the “gospel” song “Nailed to the Cross”! And, of course, you shut down or call in your legion if you’re questioned about your belief.
“’ Your own wickedness will correct you [says the LORD God, a warning to the people of the United States of America, Israel, and the United Kingdom and her Commonwealth Nations], And your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That you have forsaken the LORD your God.’”
As the LORD God asks in our sermon, ‘’ As I live, 'Why Should You Die, O House of Israel?’” Let us turn to the LORD God and live. □
