Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
I Thess. 1 ... Paul says to the church ... For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; 10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
There are so many "idols" today. Some people worship money and have as idols rich people. Some people worship physical beauty. Some worship humans who achieve greatness.
Paul said to the church they had turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.
Before we are born again, we worship many things of this world.
After we are born again, we are changed many times as we continue to live on this present earth. Often as we grow old, we really put away the various things men idolize for we know these things come to nothing and we grow closer to the image of Christ.
And as we wait for the return of Jesus, we are often less active on this earth. Again we realize this earth and it's many offerings fail to entice us as they once did.
As we live on this earth we are changed over and over into the image of Christ (the Word). And doesn't this world dim to us as the light of the Word increases? We find it just doesn't matter to us anymore. We watch other people delight in the world and we know we are very different from them.
We, who are of God, see the many sins of this world and we recognize the increase of sins as we live on this earth. We know the sins get more blatant month by month as we watch. And we know because of the examples in the Bible that increase of sins brings the wrath of God at some point. When the cup gets full of sin, we know the wrath comes. That is what happen in the days of Noah. That is what happened to Sodom in the days of Lot. We don't know when it will happen but we know the wrath is coming because we see the sin increasing.
Jesus said: Mt. 24 ... Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
... But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
The sins of this world, which we despise for we know they are against the Word, are increasing today at "break neck" speed. Nothing can turn them. Nothing can stop them. They are what Paul spoke of in II Tim. 3 ... evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
We, who are of God, look for the new heaven and the new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness for that we know is coming. This present heaven and earth will pass away. The new heaven and earth will appear. And that is where righteousness will live.
This current earth will never be filled with righteousness. But our hope is in the return of Jesus and the establishment by God of the new heaven and the new earth.
Until that time, the evil on his earth will increase. We will moan and groan over the evil and we will hate the evil because we have the Spirit of truth living in us and we belong to God. This simply shows us that we will inherit with all the people of God. So we can rejoice in that in the midst of the evil even as we despise the evil.
Romans 8 ... The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
We suffer "with HIM" each time we cry out over the sin we see on this earth. By that, we also recognize that we have "another Spirit" a spirit different from the spirit of the world which once reigned in us. We are now children of God with HIS Spirit in us. Therefore now we suffer when we see sin. And this suffering over sin testifies that we will also be glorified with HIM.
Col. 3 ... For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.