(OPINION) A Christian prophet who claims to see visions from God has shared a disturbing prediction for 2025: ‘There will be war.’
Preacher Joshua Giles, a founder of Kingdom Embassy Worship Center in Minneapolis, told DailyMail.com he has been receiving visions, dreams and messages from God since he was a young child.
He began having visions in the summer of 2023 about the what is to come next year, which he said showed increased violence in the US.
He said: ‘One of the recent prophecies that I shared was about rising terror attacks that I saw against the US. I believe that there’s going to be more darkness or evil on the rise.’
This is not the first prediction made by the pastor. In 2020 – years before the violence between Israel and Hamas broke out in October 2023- he saw ‘an outbreak again of violence and war’ in Israel and the Middle East.
While some of the visions and messages are grim, Giles said the coming year will also be a period of hope.
‘I saw certain cures that would come for common diseases that people have thought would be incurable, and doctors have said were incurable,’ he explained.
‘I saw us coming into a period of advancement in medicine and technology where there would be certain cancers that would be cured and other diseases that would be cured.’ He said rather than being a ‘grim vision’ for the world, it’s a ‘bittersweet’ time with a mixture of darkness, light and hope.
‘I was told 2025 would have the potential to be an entrance into an era of war for the world, and I know what we’ve seen in Ukraine and in Israel, but I did see a widening of those conflicts in certain areas,’ Giles said.
‘I’ve been praying for this period before we got here, praying for peace and just, you know, believing that some of these things can be averted.
‘God showed me that these conflicts would have the potential to spark into something wider that might pull in America and other nations.’
The prophecies for 2025 have been running through his head for nearly five years, which he said came to him during prayer.
He told this website he has since been contacted by people in the government about his predictions.
He said: ‘One of the recent prophecies that I shared was about rising terror attacks that I saw against the United States, and so I really do believe that this is just an era of that, that we’re just kind of coming into I believe that there’s going to be more darkness or evil on the rise.’
But Giles said there are reasons to hope.
