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Arlo's Podcast, Life So Far
Navigating a Century of Change: Reflections on Faith, Media, and the Cosmic Future with Arlo Johnson
How have the rapid changes in our world impacted the wisdom of those who've lived through nearly a century of history? Sit down with us as we converse with Arlo Johnson, a 90-year-old from Vernon, BC, who offers his invaluable reflections on a world that’s dramatically evolved. From the pervasive dishonesty in society and media to the steadfast faith he holds in God and Jesus Christ, Arlo invites us to consider a past where information was scarce and seemingly more genuine. Through a touching dialogue with an old friend, he underscores the ease with which all generations can be deceived, bringing to light the importance of faith in an era of constant media manipulation and mistrust.
Join us as we navigate the intricate web of faith, prophecy, and global events, exploring the undeniable significance of Israel and the awe-inspiring visions in the book of Revelation. We ponder the grand idea of colonizing Mars, asking whether such ambitions might be influenced by darker forces. Reflecting on the inevitability of cosmic events like global warming, we discuss the delicate balance needed for life on Earth and the unprecedented challenges humanity might soon face. This episode asks listeners to reflect on the eternal nature of God's promises and the spiritual dimensions of our contemporary world.
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well, good evening. It's Arlo Johnson from Vernon, bc, and it's the first of August and pretty warm day today, hundred degrees. The thing I'd like to talk about is a continuation, I guess, of what I've spoken before, and that is the changing times that I've witnessed in my 90 years 90 years plus right now, yes, but anyway, there's been big changes. Right now we're looking at things going on in the world like they're not really earth-shattering things, but they're. They're world, like they're not really earth-shattering things, but they're boiling there. They're happening, you know, halfway around the world, whatever, but they are happening and they're starting to happen with more, you know, rapidity than, at least in my view.
Speaker 1:So what are you supposed to think about this? God says that this world is disposable and it's coming to an end and there's going to be a judgment and God's wrath for all the things His children have done to break his laws are going to have to be dealt with. And that's the judgment. Because you know, whether you believe it or not doesn't change anything. I prefer to believe what God says and what Jesus Christ says. It took me a long time to get to that point, but now I do. That's who I trust. I don't trust anyone else, and I suggest you shouldn't either, because the proof of that is right in front of you now. The whole operation, mode of operation right now in this world, seems to be to lie and to just lie. There's no truth, hardly, it's very little. I mean you might find it in some places by just checking it yourself.
Speaker 1:But I talked to an old friend of mine today. Actually I think he's 94. He lives on this little farm. He's retired there. He's a well-off guy, but he's retired, living on a riverbank, and he's still there. His kids bring him stuff and put it in the deep freeze and that's all he lives on, or I mean good, but that's what he does. His wife died a couple of years ago, but anyway, I told him today, and just as an example, he gets talking about things what do you think about this? Kamala Harris in the States, you know, running for president, think very much of that. Oh, I think she's very good. You know they're saying she's this. They're saying I thought here we go again. Here's a guy he could be 90, he could be 19, he could be 29, he could be 59, doesn't seem to matter.
Speaker 1:People have no idea how they are misled and deceived. You know, jesus Christ said the last thing he said when he rose from this earth. He said to all the people watching him slowly rising up and leaving, he says don't be deceived. Now that doesn't mean that people aren't going to be deceived, but he's warning them. He's giving them a warning to not be deceived. In fact, don't believe everything that people tell you. And he basically did say that I am the life and the truth and the way you don't come to the Father or anything except through me. Those are like basic rock, basic things for everybody.
Speaker 1:Now, the world we're living in right now is it's escalating, it's getting. I mean, it's like getting worse, basically every month for sure, things happening that you can rely really on. Media, which really is a system of its own and supports a certain type of government, is the one that says you know, money is the most important thing and power and that's it. It really is well, what would you say? Disappointing to realize how easily people can be manipulated in this world. And it's worse now because they can be manipulated hour by hour.
Speaker 1:When I grew up, we got the Western producer newspaper once a month and stuff like that too, but there was the odd bit that came to the mailbox, but mainly I mean I'm talking about when we didn't even have radio, or no, no, no, we had radio. Yeah, we had radio, but I mean the kind of radio we had. You had to hook up a six-volt battery and tune in a station if you could get. You know, there was a station like Edmonton, a station like Edmonton, alberta, the capital. It was stationed there and it had enough power that we could hear it. But I mean it was just news and stuff like that. Eventually there was some entertainment stuff the Ma Perkins and Shuffle, shelbur and Green Hornet and Superman. There was a few things on there. The Green Hornet, yeah, the there was not really. The thing was there was not really that much outside influence to you, except at odd times, you know, once in a while, not every day or thing like that, or every hour, like it is now Outside influence and that's what manipulates people.
Speaker 1:They have no way of determining anything on their own, none, and they don't realize that. To be honest, people do not realize how they are being manipulated and led to believe things. I think that's maybe why, you know, I've often wondered why God made the conditions for you to be saved. Actually, for you to be saved actually was to be for you to talk to God, pray to God in Jesus name and say that I thank you for sending Jesus Christ to this earth to pay for my sins, that I don't keep but do your laws. I break your laws all the time, and why? You know it wasn't determined by works or money or anything else, but it just was dependent on belief. Anything else, but it just was dependent on belief. If you believe that Jesus was sent by his father here to die at my place now, how many people actually read the Bible or study enough to know that God determined this?
Speaker 1:Before time began, before there was a world, before there was anything, that the Father and the Word agreed that the Word would become flesh and would die for the sins of the people, that God was going to create his sons and that his sons would not be able to keep his laws. So therefore, someone had to pay the penalty because his law is holy. It cannot be changed. In other words, he would have had to kill all his sons for the sins Not keeping his laws. The penalty of that is death. There's no changing that. So Christ agreed to die in our place so that God could develop sons. Now, I don't know how many people realize that or think about that, I don't think know that the amount is that great it's.
Speaker 1:You know, even in churches like I belonged to the Lutheran church for like 60 years at least and I went for you know pretty well, pretty steady for a while when I was younger and then of course I got older and didn't go as much, but I still went once in a while anyway, you know, every so often I'd be in church on Sundays, and that was on Sundays. So I mean, I didn't pay attention to the fact that the Lutheran Church was basically Catholic light. You know it was an offshoot of the Catholic Church, which it was. And not once did they talk about, you know, things like that that God had to die for everyone. Because of that They'd talk about Easter and all of that. That God had to die for everyone. Because of that they talk about Easter and all of that.
Speaker 1:They celebrate that they celebrate Christmas. God never said to celebrate Christmas. Jesus never said to celebrate that. In fact, all the celebrations that we do are not required by God or Jesus. They're even deals. The real ones are His. You know he has certain days of unleavened Bread. I guess there is. What is it? The Tabernacles? I can't forget that. I'll have to think about that. There's so many things that were glossed over, never talked about, never developed into something that a person could get his understanding and his teeth into.
Speaker 1:I'm disappointed that all my life that that's what happened and I was just believing in just fluff, things that didn't matter at all and traditions and all that stuff and things that were, and I innately knew they were wrong. You know, somebody would die in our family or something. I remember when my uncle died, my sister, you know, we had four sisters and they were in the church and they were boo-hooing and putting on a big sobbing deal and the preacher and that was saying, well, he's in a better place now. He never went to church. That I know. He poo-pooed the church. He didn't go to church. He didn't. As far as I know, he never talked about God or Jesus at all, which was too bad. I didn't realize it at the time because he was a favorite uncle of mine. We'd go hunting a lot and he was a jolly fun guy all the time.
Speaker 1:He died to be 63, quite young diabetes, and so you know that it seemed like I was lacking. I mean, I went, went to church from the time I was eight, nine years old and drive my buggy to Sunday school on Sundays on my own, and I never thought anything of it. I just drove my buggy and others were, nobody else did. But I did, and I'm amazed that you know that it didn't bother me. I mean, I just had, you know, I didn't think anything of. It was two and a half miles to church and it was Lutheran Church there too. And Sunday you, and later on I took a long time to realize that something had to be wrong here, because if I opened the newspaper on Friday and the Friday newspaper had all the church pages in it, well, it was actually one full page of church here in Vernon and you know, so and so's at 10 o'clock, so and so's at 11 o'clock, etc, etc, etc. And one in there would be for Saturday Seventh-day Adventist Church. They had a pretty big church in town here. Anyway, I never paid no attention to that until I was about maybe at least 80, I would say 75 or 80.
Speaker 1:Christians in this town or town, they all say they are, they all worship and go to church on Sunday. That's the day of rest, and the Bible says Saturday is the day of rest. And they say they believe the Bible, yes, but they don't. They don't worship on the day that God Jesus said. So what is what is that? What kind of religion or belief system is that? And I started thinking about that. So I now I guess it's been. It's been a couple of years. When Friday night comes along, I realize it's now Sabbath day and that goes on for 24 hours.
Speaker 1:And I sometimes go to a Seventh Day Adventist church out of town here. It's a little country church. One of the reasons I go there is because it's a nice little country church reminds me of the church I went to as a young guy at home. I don't belong to them or anything. The yeah, the well. I'm kind of at a loss here, but okay, we'll start.
Speaker 1:Something else here is the rate of the way things are going, which I mentioned earlier, is accelerating. I'm quite sure that. And it makes me wonder, you know, know, global warming. I pooh-poohed that idea pretty well, because what I pooh-pooh about it? I do believe that there is a change in the weather on this planet. It's getting hotter, but it's not caused by you and me.
Speaker 1:God has determined that this is going to happen, and what gets me is that the governments and these groups of people, who are mostly a majority, would be non-believing people. They could be, you know, sunday questions or something like that, but they don't believe in anything. The thing is, they say that we've got to change, we've got to save the planet. Now, that's a big lie in a way, and I think he's being very successful at it, and the the thing is that's just an absolute impossibility to do that. If God has determined that this is going to end and we are now getting into situations that are lining up to become, well, I think there only will be one last war and it's getting lining up for that.
Speaker 1:And all this time, all this time, the world has been against Israel. Now, that's a funny thing that little tiny sliver of a country, and you look at the big map of the world and they all want to destroy it, get rid of it. God says that it's his land, that is his personal land on this planet, and the Israelites are His family. They're called the family of Adam. The whole book of the Bible is all wrote about one family and that's the family of Adam. It's not wrote about anything else and I sometimes think it has big repercussions and I'd like to talk about that a little later, the repercussions of that, because the secret to understanding the Bible, I believe, is that you have to understand what it's about. I mean, it is about the story of Adam's family on this planet, the creation of Adam, god's son. Now it goes on into all kinds of things that you know. I talk a lot about things about the white race, like where did they come from? I've determined where they come from in my mind, unless somebody can show me difference.
Speaker 1:The repercussions of this whole deal is so well, it's so earth-shattering to me that I didn't know any of this. Tell us maybe oh, I don't know 80, 85 or even a inkling of it. Some of it I've just actually I shouldn't say discovered, but it didn't become aware to. I wasn't aware of it until the last couple years. I was being there all the time. It's like the book of Revelation I I don't think I ever heard it opened or talked about the whole time I grew up or or anything. I don't know why. I guess the Catholic Church or Lutherans don't know why. I guess the Catholic Church or the Lutherans don't like talking about that.
Speaker 1:But the stuff in the book of Revelation, which is the last book of the Bible, which is the last message Jesus Christ gave to this planet, won't be any any anymore. And he says that anybody who changes it will suffer greatly, or anyone who adds to it certain rules. That's for sure. But the things in there, you you know, are amazing. For instance, the size of the city of God that he said I go to prepare a place for you so that you can be where I am. Now that's what he said In the book of Revelation. It describes that place. That's the city. It's called the city of God 12,000 stadia square and high. 12,000 stadia converts to about 1,500 square miles.
Speaker 1:I never realized that the size of that city wouldn't even fit in the United States. If you took it from the Canadian border, it would hang over into the Gulf of Mexico. Now that's one thing. Oh my, that's a big thing. I realize. Blah, blah, blah. The next thing I realized is that I didn't realize it.
Speaker 1:A couple of guys came up with this and somehow, I don't know, they sent me or I got a hold of their theory and whatever else. I mean they had drawings and calculations and stuff and they showed that this city of God was too big for this planet. I mean, in my 90 years nobody ever talked about that to me and it is. If it came down on this planet now, due to the curvature of the earth, there's supposed to be a gate on each side, or three gates on each side, twelve gates for the twelve tribes of Israel. Go figure that out. Anyway, those gates, three gates, would be 75 miles off the planet's surface due to the curvature of the earth. So it can't come down on this planet due to the curvature of the earth. We can't come down on this matter.
Speaker 1:But God says I, you know, I'm going to judge the world and there's going to be a judgment and the tribulation and in a thousand years Jesus is going to be on this running things on this earth and he's going to be kind of, it's going to be kind of cleaning up the system and the mess and the people and the believers and whatever eventually. And then it says this earth is going to be destroyed by fire. It says this earth is going to be destroyed by fire. And he says I create a new heaven and a new earth. Now, god never exaggerates. He never exaggerates one iota. What he says in like two lines can fill a library, but what he says, that's how powerful his words are. So when he says I created a new heaven and a new earth and he said I'll be sending this, and jesus said I'll be sending this big city down here, I've got to prepare. Look, that's 2.2 million square miles. That's a big city.
Speaker 1:I mean I know God can do anything he wants, but I imagine that's a big one and I think, when you think about it, figuring out the logistics of it and the size and everything and how it's going to run, and it's totally different than what we understand, because the city of God is a spiritual city, like our bodies are, and there's no night there, no day, you know. So it's always day. It's always not day, but it where you'll be in such a big place and the idea that the creator of the universe, the only God that there is in the whole cosmos, will be there and the light from him and the light from Jesus Christ is the light. There's no sun or moon or anything like that. It's a different type of light and it would be a pure light and I mean to contemplate. That is, like you know, wishful dreaming. Whatever. You can dream all you like and you'll be a thousand times short.
Speaker 1:But the idea that we're going to rebel against that and they won't say that they're rebelling against that, they just say that we've done it, when you know Elon Musk says we will eventually have to go and fly to Mars and, you know, rebuild Mars what a stupid, what a stupid idea. That's a stupid idea. The idea is that we can do these things. Well, there's some other things that it's possible we could try to do, but it's it's the I think it comes from the idea that develops that Satan actually is the big problem. He's the influencer for all the things that are wrong, and that's most likely being influenced by Satan to think that and to do that, and he's a very resourceful person and he's going to most likely try that, but that's not going to work. That's going to most likely try that, but that's not going to work. That's going to happen.
Speaker 1:The thing that I would like to kind of leave this chapter on is that the sad part we are living in right now, and you have to remember that this is going to hit the people, only the people in this band of 30 years or whatever. It's not going to involve people who have died, it's not going to involve previous generations or anything. It's going to be these people who are alive when this happens. And it's going to happen to the people that least believe anything, anything, and they're going to find it very hard to understand what's happening and they think it's something they can fight and do something against and change and whatever. When, uh, not going to, that's not going to happen.
Speaker 1:Going to happen, and I think the theme of this chapter should be that there's global warming because the sun is doing its thing and it's got no control over that, 93 million miles away, and we have no control over that. Remember, everything in this universe here had to be here just right, so that you and I could exist on this planet. Otherwise we wouldn't be here. If there was any little change at all in it, it wouldn't work. From the rotation of the Earth to the gravity, amount of gravity, there is, all the different gravities pulling in different areas. Oh man, it's hard to figure out. Anyway, that, I think, should be enough for now. I'd like to talk next on basically the sad part of people who are going to miss an offer so great that it's unbelievable. Anyway, until that time, this is Arlo saying we'll see you later.
