Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
The apostle Paul says to Timothy ... 13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by
prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. 15 Meditate
upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may
appear to all. 16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine;
continue in them:for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and
them that hear thee. I Tim. 4
Toward the end, before the return of Jesus, Jesus warns us:
Mt. 24:12-13 ... 12 And
because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But
he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
To
endure in the midst of all the sins we are seeing today and in all the
approval of sins, we must take even greater effort to surround our minds
by the reading of Bible and the reading of godly exhortations.
(For
this reason, to help the church in these evil times, we have written 13
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There
are many times in evening, I turn off TV for I know it will not edify
me in ways of God ... and I go to my bedroom and read these ministry
books for they are filled with information about way of God, scriptures
showing various doctrines, and words from God which build and help
sustain faith in God.
We must make diligent effort.
Paul once told Timothy:
I Tim. 4 ... 7 But refuse profane (secular) and old wives 'fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
8 For bodily exercise profiteth little:but godliness is profitable unto
all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which
is to come.
Spiritual exercises:
reading and thinking about the application of Bible and godly
exhortations into your life. Continuing in the instruction of God.
Reproving the doctrine of God. Making changes to our lives as needed to
conform us to way of God.
There is a daily need for us to exercise ourselves in ways of God.
Aren't the days on this earth growing more evil? This shows the eminent return of Jesus for the church.
This open wickedness must happen before Jesus returns. Wickedness
proceeds the wrath of God at the end. The cup of evil must be full
before the wrath. And it is very obviously filling before our eyes.
As never before, sin is being approved and flaunted before us in this world.
Why?
Because now the homosexuals/lesbians ... adulterers/fornicators ...
feel safe and approved by society so they can do their various sins
openly, before all ... they once did these sins in secret. Now they
feel freedom to sin before all.
In
1936, the king of England, renounced his thrown so he could marry a
divorced woman. What does this show us? In that short time, the sin
has been eliminated by the thinking of the world at large.
At that time, Bible still had a carry over into parts of the world.
Jesus says: whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. (Mt. 5:32)
In
1936, King Edward VIII went to parliament to try to get it approved for
him to marry a divorced woman. Parliament said the English people
would not accept a divorced woman as queen of England.
What would they do in 2016?
In USA it is getting to point where "anything goes" ... and anyone who stands up against the sins will be persecuted.
Even
in the manly field of USA football, players who have spoken out against
homosexuals have been greatly chastised by the ruling body of the NFL.
One player was suspended for an entire year because of his objection to
an homosexual team mate.
Now
if anyone dares to speak out in public against sins such as
homosexuals, that person often apologizes the following day and retracts
his objection.
In
2016, the US Navy announced they will name a new ship for a homosexual
man who was first to announce his homosexuality before he was elected to
a political office. This man was former navy. He is being lauded and
praised today by US Navy. At one time, not so long ago, homosexuals
were kept out of military service. Then the military, under pressure,
instituted the "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy. Now open homosexuals are praised for their "courage" in telling they are homosexual.
In case anyone doubts, here is what God has to say about homosexuals/lesbians in the Bible.
Romans 1 ... 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:25
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the
creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God
gave them up unto vile affections:for even their women did change the
natural use into that which is against nature:27 And likewise also the
men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one
toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
(We must keep our minds renewed to that which God says for that is what matters.)
Thus sin becomes "without restraint" and sinners feel approved in various sins.
Don't they feel "peace and safety" today as never before?
And what does the Bible say about this?
I
Thess. 5 ... 1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no
need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day
of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For
when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh
upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not
escape. 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day
should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and
the children of the day:we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be
sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be
drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be
sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet,
the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ (The WORD), 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.