Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Have you ever said: "If I perish, I perish ... but I'm not going along with this ... I'm not going to be a part of this."
I have left church groups and I have left secular groups. Multiple times I have left having no where else to go. But regardless, I wasn't going to be a part of what they were doing. Even if it meant sitting alone at my house without anything to do, I determined not to be a part of church groups where they rejected scripture and set up doctrine contrary to scripture ... and I left secular groups when I saw I was becoming something I did not like because of their influence.
Sometimes we just have to give up our lives on this earth.
Even though I sat alone for months sometimes, God always caused something to happen to lift my spirit. God sustained me. There was one time I had been alone for about six months with nothing to do and no where to go. It got so bad that I would just sit in my chair with my head in my hands. Before I was destroyed, God gave me a dream and showed me to go on Internet and speak the word of God. Within about 3 days of the dream the Internet was set up for me to do this and by doing this I was revived. But regardless, I was not going to remain in a place where I saw myself going in a harmful way. Even if I perished alone, I would perish rather than remain there.
Sometimes that happens and we must make a choice.
Paul spoke of antichirst in the church itself.
II Thess. 2 ... Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first (they would fall away from scripture and set up another doctrine in the church group), and that man of sin be revealed (man of lawlessness), the son of perdition; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
When you see this in a church group, you just cannot stay there.
I've seen terrible things inside church groups. In one group I visited, the pastor was teaching and he said Hagar is the 1/2 sister of Sarah (Abraham's wife). I was shocked. I went to him and asked where that was in Bible. He finally confessed it was not in Bible. He just made it up. There was no repentance on his part. I never visited that church group again.
In another church group I visited while looking for a church group that I could attend, the pastor was teaching from John 8 where the woman was taken in adultery. The pastor said: "And when she was brought before Jesus she was naked from the waist up." I was very shocked! I grabbed my Bible and read John 8 and this was just not true. I called the pastor the next day and asked where that was in Bible. At first he said he couldn't remember where it was. I told him it was very important to me and would he please look it up and have his secretary call me and tell me where it was. With that he became very angry and said: "All right ... it's not in the Bible ... Where do you go to church?" (Trying to accuse me in his wrong doing.) Of course, I never returned to that church group.
We just cannot stay in groups where scripture is cast out.
One primary test is the following: Jesus said: The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery Mt. 5:32. If the church group approves a man marrying a divorced woman, I would not stay there in that group.
There are many other doctrines set up today in church group which conflict with scripture. We who are of God and have the Spirit of God in us just can't be a part of this type of thing.