About Me

John O’Connell

The Lamb of God


I am your gentle judge, the humble lamb who has returned to bring the world to safety.


My work as the Lamb of Revelation is recorded in my eleven books, countless letters and articles. Read “Revelation” for the conceptual framework of my coming straight from the Book of Revelation.

God has nurtured me all my life. In 1986 She let me into a secret – Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and DUP leader Ian Paisley, whose names come out at 666 on a numeric alphabet, are the two beasts of the Book of Revelation.

Driven by a mysterious illness which began in 1990 when God began to speak to me in coincidences, one of which was the death of Cardinal Tomas O’Fiaich, aged 66 and 6 months, I have gone on to write and record my judgement and to war with the enemies of God, who have been forced to end their wars so that their departure from the political scene is the only act that remains outstanding.

I am a former student of St Patrick’s Primary School, Pennyburn, Derry, where I represented the school in the soccer team. I then went to St Columb’s College, Derry, where I was a member of the Gaelic football team as well as the sixth form council. I was also a prefect for my sins.

I then went to University College Galway, where I graduated with a B.Comm (Hons.) in 1987. I represented the College and my faculty in the Gaelic football team, as well as playing for my class soccer team. I was also Vice-Chairman of the Political Discussion Society.

I trained and worked as an accountant in Belfast from October 1987, before a stress illness interrupted my career.

Since leaving accountancy in 1997 I have written and published twelve books. I have written My Name is John…(1999), concerning my manic-depressive illness, Love is the Answer (2002), dealing with my mystical experience, The Calling of Sinead (2003), dealing with the calling of women to politics, The Hunger File (2004), dealing with an aspect of the hunger-strikes, Heavenly Bliss! (2005), dealing with the issue of forgiveness, The Bride of Christ (2005), dealing with a doctor I once fell in love with, My Life in the Eden Zone (2006), an autobiographical account of growing up with God, Let the prisoners go free!!! (2006), a polemical argument for the ending of the criminal justice system, My Miracle in Medjugorje (2007), a record of my first miracle, The Book of Revelation Revealed (2008), which sets a Book of Revelation context for my coming, God is a Woman and the Future’s Female (2008), defining God’s gender as part of my judgment of the North’s politicians, and Glad to be Mad (2009), a tribute to those who suffer.

I have also written and published the pamphlet An Irish Velvet Revolution – Achieving a united Ireland through repartition (2004) (see Website).

My Name Coincidences and Derry City

Derry was important to me. It was the New Jerusalem so far as I was concerned. It had the walled inner city, the most complete set of walls in Europe, and these walls were symbolic of the New Jerusalem’s walls in the Book of Revelation. Indeed the old Jerusalem had its walls, which the Romans had destroyed only to find that a new empire, based in a different part of the world, and in a different era, had built another beautiful fortress where the Lamb was to reside.Derry, the place of so much oppression over the last several hundred years, was the place where the 144,000 citizens, who had the name of the Lamb and his father written on their foreheads, were to reside.

Then I looked and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his father’s name written on their foreheads. (Rev 14:1)

Thus the Lamb was to have a name, and his father was to have a name, and in human terms this name would be significant for the 144,000 who lived in the New Jerusalem.

I interpreted the phrase ‘written on their foreheads’ in a unique manner. To me, it meant that the name was to be so obvious that no-one could miss it. My name held special significance now that I realised that names were all-important.

I had the most famous surname in the history of Ireland, O’Connell, due to the efforts of the Liberator of Irish Catholics, Daniel O’Connell, and it was fitting that my name, the name of the Irish Christ, was to be so. It was the most powerful name in the Irish historical sense, immersing the Irish Christ into the midst of Irish history and culture even further.

But the Liberator had a son called John O’Connell, and so in a sense I was the son of the Liberator, another way of saying the Son of God, the ultimate liberator.

But my name was even more important in the context of Derry, the New Jerusalem. The walled city of Derry was situated in a peninsula called Inishowen, or in English, the island, as it formerly was, of John. So I lived on the island of John. But the peninsula was situated in the ancient kingdom of Tyrconnell, meaning in Irish, ‘the land of Connell’. So I also lived in the land of Connell.

I was John O’Connell, John of the clan Connell, living on ‘the island of John in the land of Connell’, my name and my father’s name ‘written on their foreheads’ (Rev 14:1), or so obvious it couldn’t be missed. It was a monumental coincidence. I was the Lamb of God. I had no doubt about that.

It was the certainty to me too that Derry was the New Jerusalem. Derry was a blessed place, and I knew that God had protected the people of Derry from the worst excesses of the Troubles.

Colmcille and My Name

It wasn’t just the Book of Revelation that had prophecies relating to Derry. The saint

Colmcille, who founded Derry in 546 A.D., also made prophecies in relation to Derry, and many other things. For example, he wrote:-

Oh, my Derry! My beloved little Derry!

The place of my abode, and the solace of my existence!

Wo betide the man, O God, thou whose ways are unsearchables (sic),

Who is destined to despoil my Derry!

After the despoilment of my beloved Derry, And the dispersion of my pupils,

A Dalcassion shall not obtain possession of Ireland, Ever again – a long period of time.

The king who will cause a lasting change,

Shall be from Desmond – the prediction is correct –

Goodness forever after that time.

From The Prophecies of St Malachy and St Colmbkille by Peter Bander (Colin Smythe Gerrards Cross)

Colmcille predicted that Derry would be ‘despoiled’ or raided and trashed by an enemy. This could possibly relate to Bloody Sunday, 30th January 1972, when British troops shot fourteen civil rights marchers dead. But he also prophesied that a king from Desmond would come to

cause ‘a lasting change’. He emphasises that the prophecy is correct when he refers to the man from Desmond. There shall be ‘goodness forever after that time’. What’s the betting that Colmcille is actually referring to the second coming of Christ when he refers to the man from Desmond?

I would say that it’s a safe bet that he is doing this. It seems an important prophecy, coming as it does on the heels of his prophecies about his ‘beloved little Derry’

Desmond was a kingdom in the times of Colmcille, roughly centred around county Kerry. Although I am not from county Kerry, my surname is and my middle name is Desmond. My full name, therefore, John Desmond O’Connell, is significant in that it takes account of both the prophecies of the Book of Revelation and the prophecies of the founding saint of Derry, Colmcille. Of course, the translation of Colmcille’s prophecy of the man from Desmond might have been erroneous and he may have intended to state the king called Desmond