Anton Johansson's Prophecies

The Nordic seer Anton Johansson was born on May 24, 1858, in Ängesdalen in Swedish Lapland, near the Norwegian border. His parents had a small farm here. But after several years of crop failure, they decided in 1874 to move north to a place near the sea. They settled in Lebesby at Laxfjorden in Norway, not far from the North Cape. Both parents were capable and hardworking people, and in addition to farming, they also fished there. Anton, who was the eldest of eight siblings, was 16 when they moved up there, and he stayed there for the rest of his life.

Anton was a respected and honored man, and like his parents, he was very diligent. In addition to his work with farming and fishing, he was employed by the police for 30 years. For many years, he was also active as an assistant in the Norwegian Land Survey Commission in Finnmarken, and he sat on the municipal council for 18 years. In addition to all this, he took on the unpaid work of a churchwarden. Throughout the village he was known as an honest and reliable man, always available to help if needed.

His clairvoyant ability, which would later become known far beyond the country's borders, first appeared when he was 16 years old and the family had moved to Lebesby. Suddenly, he saw in a vision his two younger brothers lying on the seabed. As it would later turn out, they drowned at that moment. In the following years, he saw many accidents before they happened, not only at home but also abroad. He himself tells about it: "When the visions came, at first a veil was lowered over my eyes. Then it felt as if I had new eyes and what I saw afterwards was as clear to me as if I had seen it with my earthly eyes. The revelations always stood before me for so long that I could calmly perceive and observe them." In this way, he saw two terrible earthquakes at an early age, one in San Francisco in 1906 where the city of a million people was practically leveled to the ground and the other in Messina in 1908 where 84,000 people died. But the most shocking event in his life occurred on the night between November 13 and 14, 1907 when he was almost 50 years old.

The vision in 1907
He himself tells this story: "The days before November 13 had been calm. Nothing special had happened. In the evening I went to bed early and fell asleep immediately. But at midnight I was awakened by a voice that said: "It shall be given to you to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven." At the same time, I was irradiated by an overwhelming heavenly light and I felt myself lifted to a sphere of indescribable purity. The light was so bright that it almost blinded me. The whole space was one sea of ​​light of inconceivable beauty, and the one who accompanied me said: "That's how it looks in the heavenly regions." At this moment I feared that I would be tempted by pride and I silently prayed my Lord's Prayer. Then I heard about events that would occur in my own life and the lives of those closest to me in the coming years. At the same time as this was described to me, I saw how it would happen. The first was the death of my nephew the very next day. In the spirit I was taken to the place where the accident would happen. I saw how he was thrown overboard in the storm and drowned. Everything happened exactly as I had seen. This nephew was particularly close to me and therefore it made a very strong impression on me. The voice that spoke to me came from my right side; it was gentle and pleasant and very clear. The language was Norwegian, which I myself spoke. At the same time, a purifying heavenly power flowed through me. I felt myself in the immediate vicinity of the divine."

Anton Johansson was now taken into space and during this single night he saw and experienced the most dramatic events of this century. He witnessed ship disasters, earthquakes and hurricanes. Thus he saw how the most modern ship of the time, the passenger ship "Titanic" on its first voyage to the USA in April 1912, hit an iceberg near Newfoundland and more than 1500 people drowned.

But above all he experienced the three world wars of the 20th century. Slowly the images slipped past his inner vision, so that they had time to attach themselves to his consciousness while the voice explained everything he saw. When he experienced the First World War in this way and was taken through the fronts of Europe in both the south, east and west, he was given his task. The voice told him: "Because of the evil of man this war must come but you must do what you can to warn the emperors Wilhelm. He must not be tempted to join this war, it would devastate both Germany and Austria. You shall be my witness. Go to the Storting in Kristiania (now Oslo) and Stockholm and you shall warn Wilhelm II."

But Anton Johansson withdrew and replied: "I am not worthy to be Your witness, Lord. I do not write very well, I cannot speak German and the road there is several hundred miles long." But then the one who spoke to him assumed visible form and he saw Christ on the cross with the crown of thorns on his head. He said: "This is how I looked when I suffered for your and all mankind's sins. You must not lose heart and despair but do as I tell you."

Anton Johansson says: "At that moment I became afraid, that perhaps it was the tempter who was playing his game with me. But the Lord knew my thoughts and said: 'Do not be afraid! The tempter will never wear the crown of thorns.' Then my heart was filled with great power and a complete conviction that it was truly my Savior I saw. I knelt before him in humble prayer for help in the coming years and I asked that the Holy Spirit would enlighten me and let me know when the time for my journey had come so that I would not be mistaken about the timing. He promised me that. Then the vision changed and I felt that he was again walking on my right side through space while he continued to tell me about everything that was to happen.

The sinking of the Titanic
One of the first things that Anton Johansson saw that night was the sinking of the "Titanic". It is one of the things he has told most vividly about and which he himself has never been able to forget: "I was taken in the spirit to the place in the Atlantic Ocean near the American coast where the accident was to happen. Icebergs of various sizes were floating on the sea. The night was dark with dense fog. Suddenly I saw a light and immediately afterwards the lanterns of a ship were lit. It was approaching rapidly and I could clearly see the outlines of a huge steamboat. At the same time a huge block of ice appeared in the direction of the ship. It rattled around the ship as it moved forward at high speed. The block of ice that I had seen emerging from the sea had been rammed by the steamer which was now beginning to sink. I was seized with terrible anxiety when I saw how the people in the water were desperately fighting for their lives. I was told to telegraph the ship's shipping company and warn of the sinking and I was even given the clear name and address of the shipping company in England. When a few years later I read in the newspaper about the large passenger steamer that had been launched in England and that was to be named "Titanic" I was completely paralyzed with fear. I had not done what I was supposed to do. I had not told anyone because I thought no one would believe me. I fell on my knees and prayed with all my heart to God to preserve this ship and all the people on board. The night the ship sank (April 14-15, 1912) I could not sleep. My thoughts revolved incessantly around this ship. I was deeply unhappy that I had not done as I had been told. I prayed all the time, but after a while I felt that the accident had happened. It felt as if a wave had washed over me and an icy cold went through my soul. Then there was only silence." That night Anton Johansson learned not to betray but to do exactly as he was told.

In the autumn of 1913 he learned that the time was now ripe for him to travel. He first went to Oslo to inform the Norwegian General Staff about the coming war. But no one there took him seriously. It was just silly talk, they said. In December he traveled to Stockholm and there he had better luck. He turned to Colonel E. Melander in the Swedish General Staff and he believed him. He persuaded Johansson to dictate his visions and on March 14, 1914, Melander published Johansson's predictions in the Svenska Dagbladet in an article under the headline: "Colonel Melander's prophet." In it he tells the story of the man who, in his opinion, was honest and God-fearing, who had been given the task by higher powers to warn people of coming disasters. Soon a major war would break out between Germany-Austria on the one hand and Russia, France, Belgium, England and later also Italy on the other side. Germany would lose the war and Alsace-Lorraine and Austria would have to cede Trent. Sweden would not be drawn into the war.

World War I
Everything he had predicted came to pass. The outbreak of war came in the first days of August, five months after Melander's article had been published. The end of the war was also as Johansson had predicted.

In the great vision of 1907, he had also been given a sign so that he could know when the war would come. In the summers, he worked in Finnmark as an assistant to an officer in the Land Survey Commission. He was now told that the summer when officer no. 7 named Knutson arrived, the war would break out.

When he returned from Stockholm in the spring of 1914, he received a letter from a Captain Knutson who informed Johansson that he would be working for him. He then understood that war was very close. He went to his parish priest and asked him to write letters to a member of the government in Oslo named H. Lund and to Colonel Melander that they must do everything to warn Emperor Wilhelm and the German and Austrian peoples. He had seen such terrible things happen, both during and after the war, that he knew that it could lead to the annihilation of both countries.

Of course, it is impossible to say whether these letters had anything to do with the fact that the Emperor was demonstrably trying to stop the Austrians when they had started the war by attacking Serbia. But they were so embittered by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 (which a Serbian nationalist terrorist organization was behind), that they were not at all inclined to peace. It was impossible to prevent the First World War.

When in the spring of 1918 it looked as if Johansson would be right about who would win the war, the Swedish newspapers began to take an interest in him again. For example, on April 16, Aftonbladet had an interview with this "famous man" as they now called him. It was printed under the headline "Anton Johansson's latest prophecies". In the article, he urged the warring parties to begin peace negotiations in August, after the Germans had concluded a separate peace with the Bolshevik government in March.

He also foresaw a terrible epidemic that was to come. He said that all of Europe would become one big hospital. It only took six months for the Spanish flu to ravage all countries and 15 million people to die.

Johansson also predicted the German inflation after the war and the internal unrest that would come in both Germany and England. That was also true. In Germany there was a communist revolt and in England the Irish rebelled under the leadership of the revolutionary nationalist De Valera.

About Russia he said that the revolution there would claim so many victims that the world would never know about it. He foresaw the civil war in Spain and about the USA he said that five major wars awaited in the future (counting from 1907). In the end the United States would split into four or five parts. Finland would achieve a brief liberation from Russia but then come back under the Russian yoke and be even worse oppressed than during the time of the Tsar.

He had also heard Schleswig mentioned and it sounded as if Denmark would get this land back. But when he learned at the same time that Denmark would not be involved in the conflict and did not see any military operations on the country's border, he did not understand how this was the case. (He could not possibly have known in 1907 that some of President Wilson's idealistic 14 clauses would be included in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. One of them was that small border populations would be allowed to vote on which country they wanted to belong to. In this way, North Schleswig voted its way back to Denmark and on June 15, 1920, this part of the country was reunited with its fatherland.

Johansson told all this in the big interview in Aftonbladet in April 1918 and it was the direct reason why he met the engineer Anton Gustavsson whom he had seen in a vision before, at the same time he was informed that this man would publish his prophecies. Johansson now stayed in Stockholm for a couple of months and dictated his revelations to Gustavsson. The book "Visions and Revelations about the Future of the World" became a huge success. It was published in 21 editions and was translated into several languages. It was not always easy for Johansson to distinguish the events of the First and Second World Wars from each other when he saw the images roll away as if on film. But there were still differences. During the First World War, battles were fought only on the ground. He saw vast fronts with trenches full of people and weapons. He heard cannons roar and followed the firelight in the sky. "Everywhere was a terrible noise and gunfire." But during the Second World War something new was added. In 1907, of course, he did not know about aviation, but now he suddenly saw - in addition to the battles on the ground - bombing raids from the air against the darkened cities of Europe with large "air fleets" devastating both Germany and Austria. You shall be my witness. Go to the Storting in Kristiania (now Oslo) and Stockholm and you will warn Wilhelm II." "England must call upon God that London will not be destroyed," he said. He also saw that the occupation of Norway would bring battles.

Of the events after the war, he saw the division of Germany, the return of the Jews to Palestine and the liberation of India from England. He also mentions major political upheavals in China and earthquakes in Southern Europe, during which masses of people would be left homeless.

The Third World War
Johansson heard that immediately before the Third World War there was much talk of peace and that ostensibly peace talks were to take place. Therefore, it came as a complete surprise when Russian units suddenly one day rolled through Germany towards the Rhine and France, where fierce battles were being fought. He saw that the American arms stores that were there fell into the hands of the Russians. He said: "I both heard and saw that at this time terrible weapons will be found that are not known today" (1907).

The Russians gained control of France with the help of the country's own communists, who during a violent civil war had caused major fires in Paris immediately before. They ravaged Central and Southern France, from where they attacked Spain. This Franco-Spanish war was completely devastating, not only for the parties involved but for the entire world. It was carried out with new, terrible weapons and the result was terrible consequences such as blindness, madness and total destruction of the human body. Around the same time that the Russians were pushing through Germany, Johansson experienced a volcanic explosion in the North Sea. He saw how the sea rose many meters and flooded all the coastal areas that were destroyed. Of all the countries, England was hit hardest, yes, for London it was a complete disaster. Countless buildings collapsed, harbors and quays were destroyed, and many ships were wrecked and thrown ashore. Never had such a disaster been experienced. He saw that Scotland was hit so hard that part of the country sank into the sea.

Then he was taken home to his own country. He stood on the beach at Trondheim and looked out over the sea. Suddenly the ground began to shake beneath him and some of the wooden houses collapsed. The sea came rolling in towards the mountains and the entire Norwegian coast from southern Norway to the area of ​​Bodø was flooded. The Swedish and Danish west coasts were also affected by the floods. Holland, Belgium and northern Germany were badly affected. Here, Antwerp and Hamburg were the worst affected. The season for these events was late summer/autumn. He noticed that it had not yet snowed in the Norwegian mountains. From northern Germany, Johansson was taken to the USA. Around the same time as the explosion off the coast of England, he saw terrible things happening in America.

In some cities - he mainly mentions New York, Washington, Chicago and Minneapolis. The hurricane also wreaked havoc inland. Large forests and facilities were destroyed. In Canada, he saw trees in the vast forest areas fall. The areas around the Great Lakes were hit hardest. During the vision, he followed the hurricane's path across the Atlantic to southwestern Europe. Through France, Spain and the Mediterranean countries it continued to southern Russia and caused damage everywhere but he could not follow it any further.

At the same time as these terrible explosions in the cities he saw a Russian army coming from Siberia across the Bering Strait to Alaska and Canada. However, it did not make it very far. But this attack was probably the reason why America was unable to come to Europe's aid. "All in all, I learned quite a bit about America," said Johansson. "But I did not make a great effort to remember it since it did not affect us in Europe to any great extent." He could not have known that he would be the only European seer who was given the opportunity to see the events in the United States during the Third World War.

Johansson thought a lot about what could be the reason for these disasters occurring almost simultaneously in England and America. Of course, in 1907 he did not know about the atomic bomb and its terrible consequences. Today we know that the enormous explosions not only cause major fires but also cause such disturbances in the upper layers of the air that they trigger colossal storms. To us today, the Russian strategy must seem quite logical: At the same time as the lightning invasion of Europe, it would be of the utmost importance for them to paralyze both England and America and thus prevent the United States from coming to the rescue of the besieged Europe.

Russia's attack on Sweden and Norway
The last war that Johansson witnessed in his great vision made an enormous impression on him, not least because it also affected his own country. He also experienced how both Sweden and Norway were invaded by the Russians, who were supported by the French air force. In terms of time, it is difficult to place this short but fateful war, which only lasted a couple of summer months. He saw that Russia had become a greatly reduced country "without Ukraine, the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and Poland, with which it no longer had anything in common". Russia is therefore at that stage the end of its great power. The Third World War has brought about an internal division, civil war and division into smaller states, which other seers have also predicted. That it will be the French who help the Russians to attack Scandinavia is understandable when you know that most of France at that stage will be purely communist. After thorough consideration, Johansson and his publisher considered it most likely that this Nordic war would occur in connection with the Third World War.

In the book about Johansson's visions and revelations, one senses sadness and pain over the misfortune that was to befall his homeland in the opening remarks. He says: "Gradually, socialism had penetrated throughout the Nordic countries and in Sweden the socialists had government power. This was partly the reason for the unfortunate outcome of the war against the Russians. The socialists had succeeded in cutting the defense, which meant that many Swedish men had to give their lives. It had not been necessary at all, since there was very little that could have been done to give the war a completely different course. In addition, the socialists turned large parts of the Swedish people into atheists, which the Lord deeply regretted." (A large opinion poll from 1983 gives the surprising result that over half of Swedes no longer believe in God.)

But Johansson thus experienced in his vision that Russia unexpectedly attacked Sweden and Norway one summer day. In the North, Russian troops stormed in over Torneå-Haparanda while others were landed at Umeå. The Swedes mobilized in great haste and a couple of new war inventions "in the electrical field" that only the Swedes had were of great use in the defense.

The fight was fierce and with great bravery on the Swedish side, but the Russians constantly sent new reinforcements and the whole of northern Sweden was conquered. One of the cities that was hit hardest was Gävle. The fortress of Boden was abandoned without a fight, which was blamed on treachery on the part of the socialists. Öland and Gotland fell into Russian hands. Large troops intended for Stockholm and Gothenburg were landed in the harbor of Västervik.

The French took on the west coast. Whole swarms of aircraft bombed Gothenburg, whereupon large warships anchored outside the city and landed their troops. The biggest battle was fought west of the Göta River out towards the coast. There was thick smoke all over the west coast down to Helsingborg and Malmö and these cities were not completely liberated either. Stockholm was also bombed, but the air defenses there worked better and proved more effective than elsewhere. The French were not content with bombing Swedish cities: They continued up the Norwegian west coast and directed air attacks against all cities from Oslo in the south to Trondheim in the north. The city that was hit hardest was Kristiansand, which was completely destroyed. Only ruins remained.

Russia's attack on Sweden and Norway took place simultaneously. In the northeasternmost part of Norwegian Finnmarken, Russian troops marched in. At Kirkenäs, the Norwegians set up a counter-defense. The first major front line, which was 15-20 km long, was formed at Karasjok. The fighting here was very violent and bloody with repeated attacks and counter-attacks. The Norwegians retreated and formed new fronts, but were eventually pushed further south by the endless Russian reinforcements. Full of anxiety, Johansson asked if the Russians would take the whole country. But the Lord pointed to the Lyngfjord and said: "There they will come, but no further."

Suddenly and unexpectedly, the Swedes in Gothenburg surrendered, and with them the rest of the country. The Russian troops that were on their way from Västervik to Gothenburg never made it, but stopped in the middle of Småland.

After Sweden's surrender, Norway followed. The anger and bitterness were great among the Swedish population; they couldn't understand it. It had happened in just a couple of months. Johansson remarked: "If only the Swedes had held out another 14 days, the French would have been defeated because their resources were almost exhausted by then." Now the Swedes had to cede Gotland to Russia. Johansson had seen more than this, but there was something about the southernmost part of Norway down to the Lyngfjord north of Tromsö that was not yet allowed to be made public. It was put aside and has never since surfaced.

Johansson ends the story of his revelation thus: "After seeing these great calamities, I received information about my own life. I would attain to have white hair and a beard and have a peaceful death. I could choose between two paths: Either I could start a family or travel around among people to convey to them the information and warnings that the Lord wanted to give them through me. If I chose the latter, He promised me that He would protect and bless me; so I chose that path. Finally, the Lord said: 'You must be careful not to become arrogant and go away from me.' I then asked Him to help me and with His Holy Spirit to enlighten me, so that I would never be mistaken. When He had promised this, the vision disappeared. It was then four o'clock in the morning."

Anton Johansson did not succeed in changing the course of history, but he still had his very special mission. He came into contact with an incredible number of people and everywhere he traveled he warned and gave advice and help to people as he had been told. He could look at a person when they were about to die. He then saw a shadow over their face. Then he prayed for this person and tried to turn their thoughts towards God.

In 1926 he died quietly and peacefully in his childhood home in Lebesby, respected and esteemed by all.

Sources:

Anton Johansson: New Visions of the Future of the World, Gustafsons Förlag Stockholm 1920, 9th edition,

Inge Stoltenberg: The New Kingdom - Prophecies about the North, Förlaget Mot Ljuset - Sundsvall 1995