Arlo's Podcast, Life So Far
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Arlo's Podcast, Life So Far
Divine Interventions and Spiritual Journeys: Arlo Johnson's Insights on Faith, Miracles, and Life's Higher Purpose
What if faith could alter your reality and bring about miraculous changes? Join us for an inspiring conversation with Arlo Johnson, a 90-year-old author who shares his incredible journey of unwavering faith and divine encounters. Arlo captivates us with personal stories, including a moment of divine intervention involving an egg salad sandwich, and how a simple prayer summoned a north wind during a massive lumber burn. His tales remind us of the transformative power of faith and the profound impact it can have on daily life.
As we continue our exploration, Arlo opens up about overcoming addiction through a powerful spiritual experience, shedding light on the profound role of belief in a higher power. He invites us to consider life as a spiritual journey beyond traditional religious practices, sharing insights from his writings in "Arlo's Soul Talk." These books, crafted from podcast transcripts, aim to connect with those seeking deeper truths about life, death, and purpose, drawing inspiration from the Bible and alternative teachings.
Finally, Arlo reflects on the immense power and creativity of God, from the creation of the universe to the promise of future events like Jesus Christ's 1,000-year reign. We discuss the significance of the 10 tribes of Israel and the vision of the City of God, expressing gratitude for the opportunity to share these reflections. Arlo extends blessings to listeners, confident in God's ability to touch lives and inspire a spiritual awakening. Tune in to discover how faith can reshape your understanding of life's purpose and the potential for divine miracles.
Good evening. It's Arlo Johnson and we're in BC on December the 7th at about 7.55 pm. We're doing pretty good so far. In the best part of the country we're still about 35 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit, we don't have any snow yet, and here it is 7th of December. In two weeks the days are going to start to get longer, and that that sort of cycle, amazes me. Every time when the days started to get shorter, I said, oh terrible, blah, blah, blah. It's only two weeks. And then they start to get longer. It's a pretty fast cycle, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we had a pretty bad, good winter last winter. We had basically two days of winter, two days with minus 20 degrees. That was it. Got a turn warmer and never looked back. So it's another year. The look back, so it's another year. Yeah, the stop, that's good there. The, the.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think here what I should talk about here. I had it in my mind and now I haven't got it quite laid out at something. The other day they had a like a survey or a deal of people in the world, the world as it's developed over the many, many, many years, and how many people there's been on the planet, has lived on this planet and how many total that would be. I've always had it in my mind that it wouldn't surprise me, when this all plays out, that there will be close to 100 billion people who have passed through this Earth age. They're saying like 60 or 70 billion. Now I think it's much more than that and when you stop and think about it, even if it is 70 billion or whatever so far, out of that 70 billion, how many will God pick to live with him in his future kingdom? God picked to live with him in his future kingdom. Now, the thing is it just boggles me. I mean, god knows how many exactly to the single one, we don't know. The thing is there's quite a few unknowns, but I talk about things like that. I well, what I'm saying is what I decided. I believe that I got to be around 82 or 3 or something.
Speaker 1:I got baptized again when I was 84, but it was little. So a little bit a few years before then that I actually said that it is now plain and simple to me that God is true, Jesus Christ is true, everything they say is true and everything else is BS and everything else is BS. And I changed right there. I mean, I had grown up going to church and doing this and doing that for, you know, all my life, practically not a steady churchgoer or anything like that. I went once in a while, but I was always leaning that way.
Speaker 1:I started out when I was seven or eight years old, going to Sunday school with a horse and buggy every Sunday, dressed up in my little gray suit, and get in the buggy and I'd go to Sunday school Eight o'clock, nine o'clock in the morning. I was the only one who had to go. Of course they all stood in the window and waved at me when I left. I never did figure. It. Took me a while to figure that out. I don't know if I've ever figured that out, but when it happened I got so that I could believe in everything that Jesus Christ had said and talked about and what God has said in the Bible through his prophets.
Speaker 1:Now I realized at that time that I had to. When I say that I believe in Jesus Christ and God and the Bible and whatever I've got, to say that I believe it. No holdbacks, no doubts, no what-ifs, nothing. And that's how I believe. That's how it has to be. You have to totally believe what they said and what they said. Because when it turns out, when you start to follow them and listen to what they've said and whatever, it strengthens your belief because you can tell that God is you get. So that I hesitate to say it because people think I'm crazy and that they're absolutely true. I'm not ashamed of them, not a one bit. No, I'm very glad that happened and thankful, and you know.
Speaker 1:Things as simple as asking God for an egg salad sandwich. That happened in the hospital, I suppose a couple years ago now. I had gone in there, I think, for a hiatus. Hernia Got so bad I had to go up there and they had to give me morphine and all that stuff to try to calm it down. And I remember it was about 7 o'clock at night and I'm laying there and I'm starting to feel pretty good.
Speaker 1:And I sort of hollered up and I saw the nurse walk by and I called her and I said Do you think you might be able to find me a sandwich someplace and a glass of milk? It would sure go good right now. Oh, she said I'll go down and have a look. And I said would you allow me to have an egg salad sandwich and a glass of milk. Thank you In Jesus' name. Thank you, and that's all I said. I just I didn't. I basically thought it and basically said it. I didn't say it very loud or anything. So she calls back and says Would an egg salad sandwich be okay? And I laughed. I said yes, it sure would. Thank you very much. And I said to myself no, it isn't. I'm thinking, am I going to call that coincidence? Good, it's just coincidence. But I said I'm not going to, because I asked God for that and he had it. There's the sandwich. Thank you very much. I thank you in Jesus' name. Thank you, I give you the credit. Now, you can take that any way you like. That's just exactly how it happened.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and another time actually it was on April 11th 2022, I guess and we had a huge pile of lumber and trees piled up sky high and it was on the south end of this whole property 400 and some homes and we had to burn it and we could only burn until April 15th and we couldn't get a north wind. We needed a north wind so that it blew away from the property. That's a lot of smoke, and we waited for two weeks and we couldn't get a north wind. Now you always hear about who controls the weather. God has said many times that he controls the weather and so they were going to light it. I think it was on April 11th.
Speaker 1:I came up in the morning. I said no, don't light it. I said it's dead quiet right now but it'll turn around with south wind and we'll have to get fire trucks up here and put the fire out and all that. No, I said wait till tomorrow. That was the 11th of April. I said the little prayer to God about it. I said will you give us a north wind for about four hours so we can burn this huge brush pile? Thank you very much, and that's all I said.
Speaker 1:On the 12th I came out at 7.30, quarter to 7, quarter to 8. I had already lit it. Anyway, it's starting to burn and I look and the smoke's going basically straight up practically, but it's going a little to the south. And I thought, oh, I got out and stood and I felt a nice soft north wind blowing. I thought, wow, thank you very much. I thought, well, this doesn't Thank you very much. It roared away and burnt like crazy for about four hours, about 11 o'clock, 11.15. And I told him. I said, okay, you better kill it. Turn the fire hoses on it and kill it now. And by about 11.30, bango, the wind turned and blew from the south, but for four hours it blew from the north.
Speaker 1:Now you think of the weather Inside, all that weather system system to turn around and get a nice up north wind going. How do you do that? I certainly don't know, but I thank God for that and I said thank you very much now that you, you can actually look up the records for Vernon BC, april 11th and 12th and 13th and whatever, and you'll see in a lot of cases it'll say South Wind. I don't know if it records. I don't think it records it at North, but we had a North Wind so we could burn it and we did. That's a fact. It's not made up Sometimes. I am of the opinion only that God likes to do smaller things and it's the power to do them. It's released when you pray to him to ask for it, because he likes doing it, he likes showing his power, and it's quite a thing when you think about it. You know I, you know I was 90 years old.
Speaker 1:In April this year I started writing books on Amazon. I had about 160 or 170 YouTube videos, about 86 or 90 podcasts on Spotify and Buzzsprout. I used the podcasts I had on Buzzsprout as each one as a chapter, and I copied them down. All right, you know, had a transcript. So I used the transcript, put it in word and change things around, deleted a bunch of stuff, corrected the spelling and grammar and whatever else, and I made books under one book name, which is Arlo's soul talk, number two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and one audible book talk, which is Arlo's Soul Talk, number four. So I've got about ten or eleven books on Amazon right now but I haven't sold any. The last one has been on there for about close to a month, I guess. But I look them up and everything and I'm wondering if my topics are too, too hard or whatever. I had one guy from Miami tried to sell me a bunch of stuff and I told him about it and he said no, he said you wait. He said another month or so. You will most likely get up in the thing chain close enough where you start selling. Well, I felt better about that.
Speaker 1:I've had one woman who works here in this rest home. I gave her one and I asked her to read it and she's just about finished. I said you know, I'd really appreciate if you give me a review, a review, okay, she said I will do that, and I don't know if she thinks it's any good or not. You know it's a niche book. It's about, basically about what's going to happen when you die, and why are you here?
Speaker 1:I remember when I was 15 years old, I sit out in the yard and all of a sudden that came over me and I stood there and I started wondering. That came over me and I stood there and I started wondering, looking around, what am I doing here? Why am I here? I remember that plain as a day and I thought at that time I said to myself I'm most likely here like on a two-week holiday and I've got to make up my mind about something. Well, I was pretty close. And so here I am, 90 years old, writing these books, and I said to myself well, you know, maybe it's the thing to do.
Speaker 1:After all, god wrote a book, pretty popular book, most popular book in the world, I believe, or has been, or sold, or I think. You know, I don't believe it's a book from this world. It's from outside this world, given to this world, that God had about children. I forget now how many people wrote this about 15 was it and you know it's 32,000 verses, I know that and written over 440 years or 1500 years or something like that. Big undertaking and no mistakes, and it's a full, total handbook for all the people on earth, basically for his sons. You know, here's the thing.
Speaker 1:I have three children One daughter who had two sons. One is married now and has two kids and very good. The other one is gay and she celebrates the fact that he's gay and I can't associate. I can't understand why she does that. She promotes everything with abortion and gay and LBGTQ, whatever. All the time is absolutely tied into this world's way of thinking and that just drives me. I mean I'm so sorry for her. I have two sons. One was married. His wife divorced him when she got a bunch of money from her dad and he's been living with another woman now for I don't know how many years. He's retired and living on Vancouver Island now it doesn't have anything to do with me. And I have another son who lives in Vernon here. He's been living with another woman now for, I would doubt close to 40 years. No kids, no, nothing, neither one. So my family history ends here with me. My sons have no, they've broken my hereditary line my daughter.
Speaker 1:I suppose she thinks that if she acts a certain way she's fine, the world will approve of her. That is basically how it's working with her. She loves traveling. She's always traveling. She's had some health deals but basically none of them were workable. She's had some health deals but basically gone to workable. She's diabetes. She's had some muscular not muscular fibromyalgia. I think she's basically over that now. But she doesn't go traveling with her mother's sister, who was a younger sister. They get along pretty good and they travel around the world, all over I mean all over Europe, everywhere, and there seems to be money to do that. There seems to be money to do that.
Speaker 1:The thing is, my wife went absolutely ape on me. It was mostly, I guess, maybe my fault for not knowing what was going on. I ended up investing in a gas fund and basically I invested, basically my savings, retirement savings and I lost. They went belly up back up and I lost it all, and I did that when I was about 65. And I thought, well, I can live with this. I guess I'll have to just try to start over. And I thought I could handle it.
Speaker 1:But I didn't realize it was wearing on me and I got. So I just didn't feel good and I just sat in the garage, in my little office in the garage, and I'd sit there on the computer and just sit there and I didn't pay attention to my wife at all. I just came home, sat in there every day. She got, so she didn't cook anything for me or anything. I'd get up and I'd make coffee in the morning, go in the garage, I'd give it a good shot of whiskey or two and after a couple of shots of that I'd feel a little better and I could go to work. I'd come back in the evening, sit in the garage again and I didn't realize.
Speaker 1:I thought, well, I'm just, I'm just sticking, staying out of everybody's road and I'm just just so disgusted with it, disgusted with how I'd handled things and how it had gone. Why did I let myself get sucked into that so bad? And I realized later that my wife took it that I had rejected her and she couldn't stand rejection and she became angry as heck and I hope one of the last things she told me when she left and moved out of the house. She said I'm leaving and she said I hope you die. We've been married for 46 years and you know, I at that time didn't even realize I was suffering from depression. I didn't know that and that's what's my problem. You know the well you're drinking too much. Well could be, but I went to AA for a while. Everybody thought that was a good idea. Well, I went there for a while until I basically got sick and tired of listening to everybody complain about the same thing all the time, over and over and over and over them.
Speaker 1:Here just recently I was reading a thing about. This guy was writing about alcohol and all the dangers of alcohol and everything, and he said you know, they talk about alcohol is the problem. He said no, alcohol is not the problem. He said alcohol is the solution. How about that not the problem? He said alcohol is the solution. Huh, you are right. I don't feel good. I'm going to have a drink to feel better. So it's the solution. It works. Now, to finish off that sentence alcohol is the solution, but it will kill you. It's a bad solution, but it's not the problem. The problem is a person's own thoughts and feelings and usually it's where people have kind of failed in business or marriage or whatever, and they get down on themselves and they can't cope with it and their life is, you know, not bad on them. That's the problem and to fix it, they don't know how. I'm feeling bad, I'm feeling down, I'm feeling terrible. I'm going to have a drink to feel better. Therefore, the alcohol is a solution. It's not the problem. It can get to be a problem, but it's not the problem and I thought that's insightful.
Speaker 1:I went to AA for a while well, a year or so, I guess and I got to a quit ranking, but that's not what caused it. I was standing out in front of this building, in the parking lot, and I remember standing there and all of a sudden it was like a, I don't know, like a breath that went out of me and all of a sudden I knew that I would never be, you know, stuck on alcohol, you know addicted to it, because you do get addicted and that's a physical addiction. You need it Physically, you've got to have it. You get sort of just terrible and it's that terrible thing, terrible, and it's that terrible thing. And that was when God took my urge to drink, I guess, or whatever away, just took it away and I stopped right there and I looked up and I said Thank you very, very much. You've answered my prayer and I just knew this is gone. How that's? That's a quite a thing. Now I'm gonna didn't have it all, that's for sure, but nothing happens overnight.
Speaker 1:It shows the power that the God Almighty has, Jesus has, god Almighty has. It is tremendous. And in these books I wrote, or whatever I talk about the fact that you need to be in a place where you basically do what God asks you to do is to believe in him. Not, he doesn't say you got to go to church every day and you got to do this and you got to do that. No, he doesn't say anything like that. He says you have to believe that I sent my son to be to live on earth for 33 years and preach the gospel and my message and to die for you, because I want you as my son. But you have broken every rule in the book and whoever breaks my, the penalty is death. The only way you can be my son is if Jesus Christ saves you, because you're not capable of it, but I want you as a son" and gone through that. You know.
Speaker 1:I've said a couple of times, not many times, why are you here? And then they have what's next? Well, let's take it to why are you here? You know, I would guess, like that, 80% think the reason they are here they may not even really think about it, but they'll sort of think about it to grow up, go to school, get a job, get a car, get married, have children, work at a good job, retire and live comfortably for about 20 years and then die. That is basically the scenario, and in that scenario I'm supposed to be able to buy a nice big pickup or have a motor home and travel to Arizona. Now, that's not for everybody in the world, of course, but that is a thought of most likely 80-90%, maybe more, when the real reason you're here, total reason, is to develop into a son of God.
Speaker 1:God went through a total big scenario to get you here. He had to create the universe. He had to place a planet like the Earth. He had to create the sun, the moon, the stars. The sun is a heat source. Move Earth a certain distance away from the sun, circle the sun at all times have the exact temperature that it needs for you, as a human, physical being, to be able to live and make this decision to be his son. Just think about everything that had to be done to create this.
Speaker 1:Remember, god was in the universe. God was, most likely at one time, just alone. He was always existed, forever and ever. Now comes to where he's developing the planets, developing the earth, and now he wants suns. Now God has developed a huge area, whatever he calls what they call heaven. It says that there is myriad amount of angels, most likely millions, and different creatures and different creatures, and out of all that there he had no sons. He had angels, messengers, workers, warriors. Then he decided to create the planets of Earth and everything else and to create his family. God wanted a family. God wanted a family.
Speaker 1:Now, it's unimaginable. You mean you got to think about everything that was created for you to be born, to say I want to be your son and live with you forever. Thank you, father. What had to be done? And the it's amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing that it was amazing to me that I finally found I mean, I was in the Lutheran church for over 60 years and I didn't know nothing. I never got, never really got anything out of it. The I mean they were good. Everything. You know very. You know they're very careful and this and that and they rock the boat kind of thing all the time. They'll sing little hymns here, talk a little bit and then we'll put some money in the plate and go home on the back and have coffee and I could never get excited about it Till I started to listen to different people and one I've settled on was, you know, basically it's an offshoot of Herbert W Armstrong from Pasadena, california, who developed quite a big following and had a, had a I don't know university there, pasadena, and a huge place, huge and when he died it all split up.
Speaker 1:Anyway, the people that are still following his line, in a way they're out of North Carolina. They they follow a lot of his stuff. They have a lot of books that he, you know, basically wrote the day rolls, a lot of CD stuff and a lot of TV. They're on TV a lot. They don't have physical churches. They always rent something, but they have ministers or preachers. They're more a minister than a preacher because they don't really preach that much. They use their. They'll have a Saturday session and they meet on the Sabbath day and they have a Saturday session. And they meet on the Sabbath day and they have a Saturday session and they'll play a DVD of one of their leading speakers. That's basically what they do, put it on TV and they all sit there and listen to it. And the actual preacher, he does the you know one-. The you know handshaking. But I liked what they preached.
Speaker 1:And when I realized that Jesus Christ plainly said no one has gone to heaven except the one who came from heaven, I thought now, isn't that something? He said you go to sleep with your fathers until you're called. And I thought now, that makes sense to me. There's no wafting off. I mean, people go through my, my relations. They would die in the funeral service in the church, our local church, and oh, he says that's a better place now. And I was young I mean 14, 15, 16, and I thought I don't believe that, I can't believe that. Why are you saying this? We're putting his body on the ground here. And Jesus said that your spirit returns to God, who gave it to you, until your spirit is required again. Oh, that makes sense.
Speaker 1:I don't say that we have to be able to understand everything, but we can understand certain things and they're very believable. And they're very believable. And you know, ever since God and Jesus was crucified when he was crucified on the cross right there, the, the restriction of contacting God, the Father of the universe, was done away with. He did away with all that and opened it up to direct communication with the creator of the universe, the God of this universe. Now, god is not a man. That's the hard thing for us to understand. We kind of think in our mind that God looks this way or that way. That's not true. Nobody's ever seen God. God could be a thousand different shapes or forms. He's a spiritual being and Jesus said that the Father and I are one and we want you to be one with us. Now, when we say God, my understanding is the way it's basically been told to me and how I've understood it is that God is the Father, jesus is the Son and the Holy Spirit is God's Holy Spirit. All three are one.
Speaker 1:God used the Word, which became Jesus, to create everything. He spoke it into existence. How else could he do it? His power, he has so much power that he could say let there be light over there, let this be there, that over there that A million different flowers here. All of a sudden, all different flowers. You have to be totally powerful to do that. Unlimited power. That's what if we end up in the City of God? That's after, after Jesus Christ, 1,000 year rule on this planet.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of things that have got to happen. First, I write about the 10 tribes of Israel. I don't say that that's most. I don't know if it's 100% right, but to me it certainly is a pretty obvious thing. You know, I see it's that's I'm on. That's on now for a while. I think I better stop this now. You know, I could keep talking about things like that for a while. I'm going to have to leave that for another chapter. In the meantime, it's a real privilege to leave a message for you and I hope you read it. Meantime, it's a real privilege to leave a message for you and I hope you read it. And in the meantime I would say God bless you and keep you, that's for sure. That's the best thing that a person can say to someone else. I can't bless you, but God can, so thank you very much. Can say to someone else I can't bless you, but God can, so thank you very much.
