Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Job said, Though HE slay me, yet will I trust in Him: Job 13:15
That happened to me once. God slayed me by HIS Word which HE gave me. The very word itself caused the people to defame me and scorn me and leave me.
It was in 1982 ... I was on radio from coast to coast in USA. God gave me a dream. In the dream, I saw an established finger of land. All of a sudden an entire piece of this land broke off and slid away. Then another went. Then another. Then another. (It was silent.) It was terrible to see. Then I heard these words: "It will be alright through January but in February it will break loose."
I told this on my radio broadcasts. I never doubted that it would happen in February just as the vision showed me.
But February came and went and nothing happened!
People left me in mass. Hate mail, scorning me came in. I didn't read this mail but I was very aware of it.
I never doubted the vision was from God. But it didn't happen. I didn't hear the year it was to happen so every February I looked for this wondering if this would be the February this vision would happen. I did this for about 30 years, every February.
This current year, I was writing about this vision and I saw what happened. The vision was a prophecy of these people leaving me. The telling of this vision would cause the vision to happen.
I laughed.
God freed me from fame of this religious world. The people who made me their trust were cut off from me. I became smaller and smaller in the eyes of the religious world.
The vision was an instrument of God, fulfilling itself, doing the will of God in every direction.
Why would God slay Jesus? some ask. But we know why.
God's ways are not our ways. God's thoughts are not our thoughts.
Isaiah 55 ... 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Why would God allow Job to be tormented and rebuked and despised and belittled. Why would God ordain such suffering for Job?
Romans 9 ... 6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children:but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God:but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. 9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; 11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) 12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. 13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
But with Job, the end was better than the beginning.
Job 42 ... 12 So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning:for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. 15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job:and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. 16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons 'sons, even four generations. 17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
That which God ordains will happen for each of us.
If we don't trust God, what and who will we trust.
If we don't trust God, we have nothing.
Though HE slay me, yet will I trust HIM ...
Romans 3:4 yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.