Joanna Southcott was a spiritual enthusiast and prophetess that was born in the very early 1750s, more than likely in Devon, England. Joanna's very early life is shrouded in enigma, but it is believed that she was birthed right into a bad family as well as worked as a slave prior to eventually coming to be a seamstress.
Joanna had an eager rate of interest in religion from a young age as well as belonged to the Church of England throughout her life. Nevertheless, it had not been up until her forties that she started to experience what she believed were divine visions as well as messages from God.
In 1792, Joanna started to take her revelation trip public, declaring that she was the lady pointed out in Revelation 12:1 -2. She thought that she was sent out by God to prepare the globe for the Second Coming of Christ as well as to help usher in a brand-new age of peace as well as prosperity.
Joanna's predictions and also teachings swiftly got an adhering to in England and past, as well as she ended up being a noticeable figure in the religious neighborhood. She taught a message of repentance and urged her followers to prepare themselves for the coming of Christ.
Regardless of initial uncertainty from some quarters, Joanna's predictions confirmed accurate in some instances, as well as her fans expanded in number. She continued to get divine visions and messages throughout her life, and she published many work with faith and also prophecy.
Among one of the most renowned episodes in Joanna's life was when she claimed to be pregnant with the youngster who would certainly be the new Messiah. In spite of the skepticism of several, Joanna's followers thought her, and the news of the upcoming birth spread everywhere. However, Joanna died in 1814 before the kid could be birthed, as well as it was exposed that she was not actually pregnant.
Joanna Southcott was a controversial figure in her time and is still debated by scholars and chroniclers today. Nevertheless, her religious teachings and prophecies remain to motivate and also intrigue people from around the world.
Our collection contains 18 quotes who is written / told by Joanna.
"My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it"
"The first is last, and the last is first"
"Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears"
"The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth"
"New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed"
"What you know not now you will know hereafter"
"The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him"
"The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land"
"In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself"
"In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men"
"In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses"
"If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment"
"I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand"
"I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth"
"I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth"
"I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God"
"At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers"
"Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger"
