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“Prophet” taken to court for fake prophecy

David Gamble
9 min readJan 15, 2025

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Screen-grab of “prophet” Jeremiah Johnson from one of his many YouTube clips

Like many other self-appointed “prophets”, Jeremiah Johnson proclaimed that God had decreed that Trump would win the 2020 election. Later, when the win failed to materialise, he was one of the few who issued a public apology, most of the others doubled down and insisted that he really had won but that the election had been stolen.

So is he one of the better “prophets” for coming clean like that?

Nah, there are no prophets, not one, the entire game is a total scam and it is really all about profit$. His “apology” was simply a way of wiping the slate clean and putting a very blatant fail behind him so that he could then rebrand and move forward with more fake prophecy. His “apology” was not in any way the truth — an admission that he was a total fraud and that “prophecy” is simply a scam.

He started up a new “ministry” that consists of YouTube clips of him spouting religious gibberish about demons and prophecy. It was all stuff designed to be catnip for other religious people to click into, and yields want he really desired — lots of followers and $$$ …

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David Gamble
David Gamble

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