Author: Joshua Johnson

Judgment Has Come (March 11, 2025)

Today, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying:

Today judgment begins. Son of man, you are to say the following to My children. I have no words for the world, for their destruction is imminent and certain.

“My children, children of the One, True God, of Yahweh, God of Israel, Who became flesh in the Person of Jesus, your Messiah—the true Lord of the heavens and the earth… Judgment has come. The time of repentance is at its end. For those who have cared for My prophets during the season of My calling out for change, remorse, and transformation, you will be cared for and blessed. For those who have hoarded during a season of want and who have neglected My prophets during a season of mourning, you will be abandoned in the days to come.

“I am the LORD God of heaven and earth, and I have sentenced the church which is called by My Name to endure a season of purging and of fire. I will chase the false prophets from My pulpits and the predators from the leadership of My sheep. I will no longer tolerate the soft-spoken or the deceitful whisperers of false doctrines and empty promises. Only those who proclaim My Word in its fullness and who display My mercy and compassion in their witness will be upheld in these days.

“The church of My Apostles has fallen into sin and disrepute, and I will no longer leave those who lead My people to their own devices. As I brought judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, as I brought judgment on the earth in the days of Noah, as I brought judgment on the leaders of Judaism in the days of My Apostles, so now I bring judgment on the church which is called by My Name. What comes next is from My hand and by My will. I will not use a surrogate, nor do I call My faithful ones to lift up their arms. I Myself will act. I Myself will dispatch My heavenly hosts. I Myself will judge those who have misled My sheep, preyed upon My people, and enriched themselves in My Name. No more will I show mercy or compassion. No more will I forbear. Now I will act for the glory of My Name and for the justification of My righteousness.

“I have been slow to anger and abundant in steadfast loyalty all these generations. Plagues and punishments have come sporadically, always meant to call My people to repentance and to raise their awareness of their waywardness. But now, in the days to come, My own hand will act against those who have blasphemed My Name—who have said in My Name things I have not said and who have commanded in My Name things I have not commanded and who have done in My Name things I have not desired, nor did they ever come into My mind to request. Flee false prophets and deceitful teachers before Me, for if you stand you will be wiped away. I will do this Myself by the breath of My nostrils and the utterances of My mouth.

“Jesus is coming to place all things under His feet. No more will My people say, ‘Where is this coming He promised? Where is this justice He guaranteed? Where is this righteousness He has demanded? For all things proceed as they have from the beginning of creation until this day.’ No more shall you speak these lies out of your own imaginations, for I have been patient with you, willing that none should perish but that all should come to eternal life. But, you have named My mercy negligence, and My patience evidence of non-existence. You have thrived under My compassion, and your nations have grown powerful during My centuries of forbearance. But you are not grateful, and you have not increased in righteousness. The longer I have shown you mercy, the more I have allowed you to discover, the more wickedness has consumed you. No more shall I forbear. No more shall I show mercy. What comes next comes from My hand. These are My locusts, and I will not repay the wicked for the years they will eat. Only those who have repented, only those who have called upon the Name of Yahweh in earnest, only those who have hungered and thirsted for true righteousness in their hearts and true justice upon the earth will be repaid in the years that follow. So I have spoken, and My words will not be withdrawn.

“Tremble those who do wickedness; tremble those who have spoken lies and falsehoods in the Name of Yahweh—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; tremble those who have led My people into rituals and systems of their own imaginings and those of their forebears. For My judgment comes now to purify My people of the false worship of their ancestors. Return to My Torah and to the teachings and example of My Son. Add no more and take away only what you have added. Discover what has been removed, and you will be blessed after the season of judgment has passed. The earth now stands bare before Me. The nations of the earth stand ready for judgment. The Church of Jesus Christ must be made holy, and I, the LORD God will cleanse My people Myself.

“Awaken, hardened sheep of Abraham; awaken, O exiles of Jacob; awaken, O My people Judah, for your Messiah has come. Your long exile is nearing its end, and I am coming to reclaim you from the four corners of the earth to which I have scattered you. Your hardening has made a way for the Gentiles to come to Me, and your suffering has meant salvation for the nations. I will repay these long years the locusts have eaten, if you will return to Me. I have bound you over to disobedience so that I might have mercy on you forevermore. Hear My cry, My children. The end of all things draws near. And now I act as I did millennia ago when I freed you from slavery to the Egyptians. Your slavery to the nations is nearing its end. These plagues are for your deliverance, and for the deliverance of those I have called from the Gentiles.

“Do not fear, My people, for the judgment is for your salvation and the desolation of the nations is for your transformation. Heed the Word of the LORD, My people. Live as sheep among wolves; innocent before Me in the midst of this crooked and depraved generation. Heed My teachings and My example which I gave to you when I tabernacled among you in the Person of Yeshua ha-Mashiach. Mourn for those who have rebelled and blasphemed, for in the days to come they will reap what they have sown. But rejoice for those who love Yahweh their God with all their heart, soul, and strength, for the day of your deliverance is at hand. The Word of Yahweh has spoken.”

February 8, 2024

On Thursday, February 8, 2024 the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Nations of the earth, long have I tolerated your nation-building, world-conquering, annihilation of My creation. Long have I looked the other way while you have committed atrocities upon My earth, ofttimes in My Name. I have shown mercy when you have been merciless; I have shown restraint when you have followed your covetous desires; I have allowed you to trample My capitals when you have assaulted the freedoms of others in your quest for dominance and order and peace. My toleration of these and other sins is now ended.

In the days to come, I will upend the lordship you exercise over your constituents. When the floods come to assault your shores, I will turn your people against you. There will be riots in the streets and armed conflicts in the cities. I will set your people free from your tyranny of lies and deceptions. I will wrangle from you your power and might, and I will give it to the humble and the poor of the land.

Long I have tolerated the persecution of My people and the adulteration of My Gospel. As I judge the leaders of the church, so, too, will I judge the leaders of men. None will escape the darkness of the days to come, for you have sowed to the darkness, and you will reap what you have sown. Chaos will reign supreme in the days and years ahead; chaos and confusion—a darkness that can be felt. I will bring ruin to the fields and to the forests, to the winds and to the waves, to the corn and to the maize, to the rice and to the wheat. I will send a blight against your growings and pestilence to consume your crops and your children. I will call upon the gods you have worshipped and the knowledge you have accumulated to save you from My hand, O nations of the earth. Devastation and ruin will remain behind when bounty was ahead.

Why would I assault you in these ways, O great nations of the earth? Are My ways unjust? No! It is your ways that are unjust. You have denied My existence, pillaged My stores of knowledge, and called yourselves gods of the heavens and the earth. You have exalted your intelligence and your knowing, claiming divinity in your comings and goings. No more, great and wicked generation, who sows to the flesh and cultivates wrongdoing as righteousness. My people lay imprisoned, the poor locked out, the sick and grieving wallowing in the streets of your greatness.

Learn repentance, O great nations, and be healed. Look to the poor, the dispossessed, the vulnerable, the demon-possessed, the orphan, the alien among you. None should have so much and none so little as you deem just and right. Sell all you have and give it to the poor, and I may turn from My great wrath and delay your destruction by years or decades. But continue as you have walked, and your days will end in misery and blood.

The Word of the Lord has spoken. Amen

The Road Ahead (July 2023)

In August of 2021 I posted an update which I entitled, “Signing Off.” If you haven’t heard it and are interested you can listen HERE. As I explained in that podcast discussion, my slow walk of obedience from public to more localized service of God and His Church had begun years earlier and had come to a climax in January of 2021 when I stepped down from full-time pastoral ministry and resigned both my credentials and my membership as a pastor in the Church of the Nazarene, a Wesleyan-American Holiness Denomination. But even after that departure, I had not given up on building an online preaching and teaching platform.

I interpreted the conviction I was feeling which led to the “Signing Off” discussion in August of that year as a call to give up that pursuit. And so, from that point forward I stepped away from my attempts to build a preaching and teaching platform online by ceasing to follow the best practices recommended by those who provide advice for building, maintaining, and extending an online presence.

During that same month, the Lord led me to begin attending a small local church near my home with the instruction that I had to be prepared to lead that congregation. In obedience I began attending, and in early December one of the denominational leaders asked me to serve as an interim minister, despite my then having no credentials. I accepted and spent 16 months as the interim minister there.

I am now a month out of that ministry, and the Lord’s call to sign off has deepened. My next steps are to vacate most of social media. For the foreseeable future, I will continue to maintain a YouTube channel, this website, and a podcast. But as of August 1, 2023 I will be departing from all other social media. My hope for what remains of my web presence is that it might serve as a resource for those who are reading through the Bible personally or studying the Bible in small groups. I am currently teaching through the Gospel of Luke, and I will continue to post those lessons on YouTube and on the podcast.

Though my future, especially in terms of paid employment, is unsettled, I am grateful for the Lord’s conviction and call to follow Him into a different way of serving the Church than I had formerly imagined. I and my family are in the process of joining a local church, and we will continue to serve Jesus as members of that local body. I am also editing my previously posted sermons to remove contextual details, exhortations that were specific to a particular congregation at a particular time, and dated illustrations which were meant originally to make the main point more accessible. What remains is the core message of each sermon along with, what I consider to be, less time-constricted applications. Again, I hope that these efforts along with the ongoing teaching episodes will serve the people of God in the days ahead.

It has been nearly seven years since the Lord first began convicting me that the vocation of full-time paid pastoral ministry had been leading me away from the worship of God—that somehow both that vocation and my loyalty to a particular religious tradition within the larger Christian Church which supported it had become idols which were supplanting God in my life. I have found that the Lord is patient with His calling and conviction. If He had asked me to do all He has asked me to do at one time, I wonder if I couldn’t have managed the courage to obey. But by His grace, He has convicted me incrementally and led me one step at a time. This is the next step in that process, and I trust it will not be the last.

Thank you to those who have encouraged me in the teaching and preaching of the Word of God over these nearly twenty-three years of paid pastoral service to the church. As I said, I will continue to provide lessons from the Scriptures, and I will continue to write both on this blog and in books as encouragements to discipleship in our historic and apostolic faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I remain convinced that we are in a season of God’s call to the Church to repent. I believe that what we are experiencing both nationally and globally are the Lord’s locusts, allowing us to sample the true nature of the world if God were to remove His providential work of creation and governance. During the last 23 years of vocational ministry, I have added my voice to the hundreds of Christian voices over the last five centuries calling the people of God to return to our first love and to the testimonies of those God has chosen to reveal His Word to His people. May those who have ears to hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. Godspeed.

J. Thomas Johnson

For those who might be helped by them, below are links to the books I have currently published through Amazon.com. At present, I am working on a treatise on God’s election, God’s Sovereignty, and human free will, which I hope to complete in the next year.