🔥 THE SMOKING QUILL | May 13, 2025

Exposing False Prophetic Cycles – The Failures of Joseph Dumond's Sabbatical Claims

Silver Tongues and Lost Maps: A Rebuttal of Joseph Dumond's Claims on Eden, Tarshish, and Sabbatical Years

In this edition of The Smoking Quill, we turn our attention to the prophetic calendar teachings of Joseph Dumond, a self-proclaimed prophetic teacher whose charts and public predictions have gained traction in some circles. With dramatic language, Dumond claims to have predicted global events including COVID-19 and wars tied to the nation of Israel, while also asserting that the biblical calendar is to be determined by barley harvests in modern Israel.

But how much of this holds up to scrutiny?

This was an exposé we had no desire to produce but recent events appear to warrant it. We received warnings about Dumond's tactics and infiltration attempts. He has contacted our viewers directly, contacted associates whose numbers we never publicly released, and even scheduled himself to speak at a megachurch while pastors were overwhelmed with elections, but that was cancelled. One of his former followers repented after realizing the fallacies in Dumond's system, confirming that he was sent by Dumond to infiltrate our work. That individual now follows The God Culture and has abandoned Dumond's teachings.

It's time to expose the error. Not through slander, but by examining the claims themselves.

Summary

Joseph Dumond has recently been active in the Philippines claiming spiritual authority and prophetic insight by using The God Culture's research without attribution, borrowing failed ideas from Jonathan Cahn and John Hagee, and making unsupportable claims such as placing Tarshish in Japan and Eden in Israel. This Smoking Quill article documents and exposes the critical flaws in Dumond's methods and conclusions, with detailed biblical and historical context.

1. No Support for Tarshish in Japan

If Dumond teaches that Tarshish is in Japan (as has been reported by viewers), this contradicts over 2,000 years of recorded mapping, maritime navigation, and scriptural record:

• Tarshish has always been linked to the southern Philippines, especially Mindanao, by ancient sources.

• Japan fails Solomon's resource test from 1 Kings 10:22 — no native ivory, red sandalwood (almug), or gold known in that era.

• Japan was not a seafaring trade hub in Solomon's time, unlike the ancient Lucoes and Lequios in the Philippines.

To teach that Tarshish is Japan is both unhistorical and biblically untenable.

2. No Eden in Israel

As clearly a devout Zionist ignoring the facts in such accounts, Dumond also reportedly places the Garden of Eden in Israel, which cannot be supported:

• Genesis 2:5 clearly states there was no rain on the earth at the time of Eden. Produce the 5 ancient Rivers from Eden when not a single one manifests there.

• The four rivers from Eden include Pison, which surrounded the land of Havilah where there is gold. This has never matched any location in Israel, at any time.

• Josephus (90 A.D.) places Eden in the Far East, as do numerous pre-modern maps and historians. No credible ancient proposed that a planting East of Israel was Israel. 

• Modern Israeli rivers are rain-fed, not spring-fed from a subterranean source river as Genesis describes. A river much larger than the other which one could not overlook.

To place Eden in Israel is Zionist revisionism, not sound exegesis.

3. Barley and the False Calendar: A System Built on Sand

Dumond insists that the biblical calendar must be determined by the barley harvest in Israel. He claims that the barley was "shattering" in mid-March 2025 and thus Shavuot occurred on May 4, 2025, rather than in June. However, this system not only lacks biblical support—it contradicts scripture.

Nowhere in the Bible is barley used to determine the calendar. The Bible is clear that:

• The year begins with Abib, meaning ripeness, not barley (Exodus 12:2, Deuteronomy 16:1).

• Exodus 19:1 shows that Israel arrived at Sinai on Shavuot — and:

“Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain…” (Ex. 19:3)

• Shavuot is fixed on the 15th day of the 3rd month affirmed in Jubilees 15:1, which is also when Moses went up to the mountain making it a calendrical constant, not a floating feast based on agricultural unpredictability.

Furthermore, even if barley were valid, what happens if it's manipulated?

4. GMO Manipulation in Israel's Wheat and Barley

A critical blow to the barley calendar theory comes from modern science. Israel21c.org published a revealing article titled "Israeli Wheat Gene Discovery Offers Chance of Better Nutrition" [Israel21c.org, Dec. 14, 2006].

"The gene GPC-B1 [...] makes the grain mature more quickly."

This gene has been identified and cultivated in Israeli fields. Crops in Israel today are not biblical crops — they have been modified for early maturation, which can falsely trigger calendar resets for those following the barley system. Those adhering to this doctrine are not following Yah's signs — they are following Monsanto science masquerading as holiness. What would this mean when the harvest is a month earlier this year, and perhaps a month late next year? Chaos.

5. The Yehovah Error

Dumond repeats Nehemia Gordon's teaching that the name of YHWH is pronounced "Yehovah." This is deeply flawed:

• No ancient Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, or Latin uses the letter "V" — the letter did not exist.

• The vowel points inserted into YHWH to produce Yehovah are from another word entirely (Adonai), meant to obscure pronunciation.

• The very name of Nehemiah (NehemiYAH) and Eliyahu (Elijah) disprove the Yehovah theory. They preserve "Yahuah" as the proper sound. Nehemia admits his father removed the "H" at the end of his name in order to hide the name of God, yet that proves he knows the name of God Is YAH, not YEH.

• He then argues with an ancient poet who used "W" instead of "V" claiming it was a "V" because he says so and further debating a Rabbi a few centuries later who also affirmed the poet used a "W" and not a "V". That is a clown circus not Biblical exegesis. 

The idea that Pharisaic scribes who banned speaking the Name preserved it accurately is contradictory and absurd.

6. Failed Predictions from Dumond's Chart

Dumond presents a series of 7-year sabbatical cycles that he claims align with biblical prophecy and historic events. But when examined, this timeline is riddled with inconsistencies, omissions, and failed forecasts. Here's a breakdown:

🔹 2024: "Marriage to the Lamb"?

• Claim: 2024 begins the 7-year cycle of Sukkot and the Marriage of the Lamb.

• Reality: Israel was attacked by Hamas on October 7, 2023. No biblical feast was fulfilled. There is no evidence of any such prophetic event occurring.

🔹 2025: "Year of Terror"?

• Claim: A new period of terror would emerge.

• Reality: While global instability continues, no unprecedented terror events beyond those of 2023 occurred.

🔹 2020: "Year of Islamic Terror"?

• Claim: Dumond’s chart designates 2020 as a year marked by Islamic terror attacks.

• Reality: There was no major global Islamic terror event in 2020 matching the gravity implied. Instead, Dumond retrofits the COVID-19 pandemic as the fulfillment of this prediction—despite the virus having no connection to Islamic terrorism.

• Note: Dumond has publicly supported vaccination while labeling those who question it as “conspiracy theorists.” This inconsistency is glaring, particularly from someone who frames his work as prophetic insight. If COVID was his predicted “Islamic Terror,” then he trusted the system he claimed to foresee as part of the judgment. The irony speaks for itself.

🔹 2010-2016: "Years of Pestilence and Famine"?

• Claim: A 7-year cycle of disease and famine.

• Reality: No significant global famine defined this era. COVID-19 began in 2020, after this cycle ended.

🔹 2017-2023: "Israel Under Siege / Years of War"?

• Claim: Israel was under siege for 7 years.

• Reality: There was no siege. Israel experienced sporadic conflict, as it has for decades since its inception almost.

🔹 2024-2030: "Years of Captivity"?

• Claim: A new 7-year captivity.

• Reality: Who is in captivity? Nothing distinct from 2023.

🔹 Mislabeling the Past

• Cholera (1961–1975) is presented as a 7-year curse, yet the outbreak spanned 14 years. Either the cycle exists and holds consistently—or it doesn't. This does not.

• Missing Historical Data (43–1995 AD): Dumond claims an ongoing 7-year curse cycle dating back nearly 2,000 years, yet fails to document any events for over 1,900 years. Numerous plagues, wars, and disasters occurred during this time but are absent from his timeline—likely because they don’t fit the model. A selective “cycle” is no cycle at all.

7. Unverifiable Prophetic Claims

Dumond claims to be a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, yet provides no evidence.

A South African letter from a professor mentions it, but it:

• Is not notarized

• Provides no official reference from the Nobel Committee affirming such nomination was even valid

• Has the wrong name for the Prize even

• Reads like a letter of recommendation, not a nomination

Even if true, this is a hollow, support built for a resume, that provides no affirmation of Dumond embodying the position of prophet. However, when such sloppy evidence is provided including from a professor that does not even appear to know the name of the Prize, it appears deceptive. Such a significant claim requires authentication, and what is provided is the opposite.

8. Borrowing Without Attribution: Jonathan Cahn, John Hagee, and More

Many of Dumond’s concepts closely mirror Jonathan Cahn’s Shemitah theories (which have demonstrably failed) and John Hagee’s speculative Blood Moon warnings—yet he provides no attribution it appears. Instead, Dumond retools these ideas under his own branding, loosely applying terms like “Shemitah” and “Judgment Cycle” while constructing a framework based on selectively chosen events. This is all built on a flawed foundation. Meanwhile, he ignores larger, globally documented catastrophes which destroy his proposals.

Dumond heavily borrows from the following without credit:

• Jonathan Cahn's Shemitah Cycle, which has failed prediction after prediction.

• John Hagee's Blood Moon Warnings, which have no measurable prophetic fulfillment.

• The God Culture's Ophir research, especially regarding the Philippines as the location of Tarshish and Eden.

Yet Dumond packages this as his own system, layering false chronology atop speculation and labeling it prophecy. That is a foundation built on sinking sand, not the solid Rock!

9. A Troubling Prophetic Claim

Perhaps most alarming is Dumond’s private claim to be one of the Two Witnesses of Revelation. Yet rather than appearing in Jerusalem to confront the Beast system, as explicitly commanded in Revelation 11:3–13, he instead travels to the Philippines—not to warn, but to promote speculative doctrines that often contradict Scripture. Ironically, he allies himself with the very ideological structures a true witness would be sent to rebuke. His actions—forecasting failed prophecies, misrepresenting scripture, and attempting to infiltrate ministries he appears to oppose for some odd reason—undermine the seriousness of the office he claims.

A viewer who repented of following Dumond admitted to being sent in as an agent to spy on The God Culture. After watching the videos, he left Dumond and aligned himself with the truth. That testimony alone exposes the true mission here.

📖 What Does Revelation Say About the Two Witnesses?

Revelation 11:3–13 outlines the prophetic role of the Two Witnesses:

• They are given authority to prophesy for 1,260 days (3.5 years), clothed in sackcloth.

• They proclaim judgment from Jerusalem, not abroad.

• Fire comes from their mouths to devour enemies.

• They shut the heavens, turn water to blood, and strike the earth with plagues.

• They are killed by the Beast in Jerusalem, their bodies lie in the street, and after 3.5 days, they are resurrected and ascend to heaven.

✅ No scriptural basis exists for global tours, foreign infiltration, or predicting events via barley harvests.

10. Final Thoughts: A False Prophet and a Faulty Calendar

Joseph Dumond's system is not only riddled with failed dates and false premises, but it is built on a manipulated agricultural system, ignores the Biblical fixed-day calendar, and relabels failed prophecies with spin. Worse, he attempts to hijack the prophetic framework surrounding Ophir, Solomon’s gold, and the Philippines without citing sources like The God Culture.

This is the very definition of deception. A calendar based on engineered crops. A prophecy system that fails its own measures including simple math. And a teacher who speaks presumptuously. 

As Deuteronomy 18:22 says:

"When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken."

Let the record show: these things have not come to pass.

This is a Smoking Quill.

11. Conclusion: Reclaiming Integrity in Research

The God Culture has produced thousands of pages and hours of research affirming the Philippines as the Land of Gold (Ophir), Garden of Eden, and Tarshish. Dumond has borrowed this narrative while twisting it to fit false prophetic cycles.

Theology without integrity is propaganda.