Revelation 11 ... Reading through the Bible

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: 

and the angel stood, saying, 

Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. 2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. 
 

3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.  

4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. 

5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. 

6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. 

7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 

8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 

9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. 

10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. 

11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 

12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, 

Come up hither. 

And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; 

and their enemies beheld them. 

13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: 

and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. 
 
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, 

The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. 

16And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, 17Saying, 

We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. 18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.  

19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: 

and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

You cannot sit in the apostate church

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

The sin in the churches today is rampant as scripture is removed and discarded and other doctrine is set up to allow sinners to be approved inside the church itself.

This would be very depressing except for one thing.

The apostle Paul said this had to happen in the churches before Jesus could return.

II Thess. 2 ...  1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means:for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who 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.

We, who are of God, cannot sit in apostate churches.

These apostate church deny the power of the scripture to rule over them.

Paul says:   Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:from such turn away.  II Tim. 3:5

They will not take correction.  They may try to lead us on and try to make us think they can be corrected in order to hold onto our flesh.  We simply have to walk away, from churches and from individuals when we see this.

I once told my mother, "You can go down but I won't go down with you."  She straightened up.


Years ago, God gave me the following dream.  I checked into a hotel and was taken to my room.  The room was a mess, not cleaned up from previous guests.  I went to desk and told him the problem.  I thought they would clean up the room immediately.  But they did nothing.

For many years, in trying to find a church to attend, I saw scripture eliminated and misused.  Over and over I went to pastor and others who misused scripture.  Never did anyone repent nor show any sorrow at all for the misuse of scripture.  This is the antichrist in the churches.


There is nothing to do but walk away and leave them alone.

Your flesh may tell you that you can remain in such a group and work within the group to change the group, but if you do this you will not succeed and you will go dead with them and will perish with them.


II Thess. 2 ... 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And 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:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.  

There is such a pleasure in going to church that many try to ignore the wrong doing inside the church.  Being with others who call Jesus "Lord" is such a delight to us.  But Jesus is not their Lord unless they allow the scripture to rule over them.  They will be a constant thorn in our flesh as long as we continue with them.


There was a woman who was like a daughter to me.  She was a devout Catholic.  She was also very scornful of others, considering them to be foolish in the decisions they were making.

God said to me this woman is "self-righteous" ... her righteousness was of herself, of her own works which she thought were godly works.

At one point, I delivered to her the following scripture:

Jesus said ...  And call no man your father upon the earth:for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Mt. 23:9

The woman thanked me for the message ... but she continued in the Catholic church, calling these men "Father".

I finally removed myself from her.

In 1979, God gave me the following very shocking dream.  

In this dream, a meeting was going on.  I went into the room and began listening to a man who was speaking to the group of people in the room.  Another man rushed in and said, "Stop ... wait ... can't you see?  It's too late ... It's already begun".  

The first man in the dream resumed speaking.

I looked out the windows to see what was happening.

I was shocked, horrified in what I saw.

There was a tall pole with a yellow civil defense warning speaker on top of the pole.  A gas was coming out of the speaker.  It was coming toward us and I knew it was poison gas and it would kill us.

It was so horrible to see.  The speaker which was set there to warn us was being used to distribute to us the gas that would kill us.   

I looked at the man sitting next to me.  He had a big smile on his face and he was looking, in a very attentive way, directly at the man who was speaking.   But this man was dead ... He was already a corpse.  

I looked around the room and the rest of the people were dead also, though they all had big smiles on their faces and seemed to be attentive to the speaker. 

And as I sat back in my chair, I felt myself beginning to fall asleep.  The gas coming from the speaker will killing me also.
  

II Tim. 3:5 ... Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:from such turn away.

I Cor. 5 ...  11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

We must follow God with them who call on God out of a pure heart.

Trust in God rather than in ourselves or anyone else

Pam Padgett ... member of the body of Christ

My yard backs up to what was once a golf course.  The current owner of the property is a developer who is developing 56 lots on the property.  When the lots are sold, the developer plans to give the land to our Home Owners Association (HOA).  Until then the HOA representatives have been keeping homeowners informed of the developer's plans involving the property.

At this point the golf course property is not being maintained and weeds grow 4-5 feet high in the summer.  Last year I had asked the man who mows my yard to mow behind my yard (on the golf course property) so the weeds wouldn't come right up to my yard.  Although he has been very reliable in mowing my yard for many years, and told me twice he would mow behind my yard as I asked, he never did this.  Then one day, surprisingly, the developer had someone mow the perimeter of the golf course property, 10-15 ft behind all the houses.  I was so glad this was taken care of.

This past spring an HOA representative sent an email saying the developer would do this again.  But so far this hasn't been done.  I used a trimmer to make a path from my yard to a trail on the golf course property so I could walk the dogs, and didn't think a lot about the mowing for most of the summer, but expected it would be done at some time.

But about a month ago grasshoppers infested the weed-filled property very thickly, and the grasshoppers were starting to come into my yard as well.  Also gophers coming into the yard from the golf course property have always been a problem.  But with all the weeds, there were a great many new gopher mounds not far from my yard (in addition to the gophers already in my garden and yard.)

I felt the area behind my yard really needed to be mowed.  But I didn't know who I might hire to do this and didn't want to start looking for someone to mow that area if the developer was going to mow in the near future.

About that time 2 people representing the HOA came to my house asking for signatures needed by the HOA.  One of these people is the wife of the man I think sent the email about mowing last spring.  While talking with each of these people I asked if they knew when the developer planned to mow as we'd been told would happen.  Their responses were that they (and those they checked with) didn't know if the developer still planned to mow and that they didn't see any problem with the weeds and weren't going to followup with the developer.  (Neither of these people have houses that back up to the golf course)  

I was shocked and disturbed by the responses I received.  I prayed asking God what to do, and especially to help me keep my flesh from rising up in strife over this matter.   For a time I didn't hear anything to do.

Then one afternoon recently I was talking with God about this again.  Suddenly I just "knew" to get the trimmer out and trim at least a foot or two behind my fence.  I got up and began doing this.  I like being outside and found it was enjoyable to do this.   As I worked I began thanking God for how much I was enjoying this.

But then thoughts began to come, thoughts that could pull me down and turn me another way, such as "The HOA should have contacted the developer to mow as we were told would be done. Surely I should try to push them to do this."

I strongly turned to God, crying out for HIM to help me keep my flesh under control and to keep any resentment or hatred from my heart.

As I prayed I heard to commit the matter to God and trust HIM to work this out as HE wills.  

Of course!  My hope and trust can be only in God, not in the HOA (or myself or anyone else) to know what to do and to do it.  My trust must be in God and that HE will show me what, if anything, I need to do (just as I believe I was led to start trimming).

And I was reminded of ...  The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. (Proverbs 21:1)  If the developer or HOA needs to do something, God is able to bring this about as HE wills.

I began rejoicing in God, in HIS power to do as HE wills in each matter, and in HIS love for me, delivering me from evil and destructive thoughts, and that HE can and will work this matter out as HE wills for me.  There is such comfort and gratitude toward God in this.

Interestingly, as I was working through all of this with God, I had continued using the trimmer, and without realizing it had cleared quite a lot of the area behind my yard.  It amazed me how much nicer it looks.  And, if needed, this makes it much easier to deal with the gophers outside my yard.

Also I realized not long after this that the grasshopper population is much less, both in my yard and even on the golf-course property where the weeds are still quite high.  I'm very thankful to God for dealing with this concern as HE wills.

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Another thought that came as I was trimming was "Sure I can do this now.  But what about next year when it might not be as easy for me to do this."

When I prayed about this thought I was reminded of Matthew 6:32 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.   33 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Job 5 ... Viewing the works of God through scripture

1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee;
and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
 
2 For wrath killeth the foolish man,
and envy slayeth the silly one.

3 I have seen the foolish taking root:
but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
 
4 His children are far from safety,
and they are crushed in the gate, 
neither is there any to deliver them.
 
5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,
and taketh it even out of the thorns,
and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust,
neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Yet man is born unto trouble,
as the sparks fly upward.
 
8 I would seek unto God,
and unto God would I commit my cause:
9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable;
marvellous things without number:
10 Who giveth rain upon the earth,
and sendeth waters upon the fields:
11 To set up on high those that be low;
that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
 
12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness:
and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime,
and grope in the noonday as in the night.
 
15 But he saveth the poor from the sword,
from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor hath hope,
and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
 
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth:
therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up:
he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
 
19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
 
20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
 
24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
 
27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is;
hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

Faith In God: Chapter 3 / Book available at Amazon.com

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

Believing God

Abraham is a great man of faith and a wonderful example of faith at work.

From the time God revealed HIMSELF to Abraham, Genesis 12, to the end of his life on this earth, Abraham chose to believe God. Even when the situation was impossible, Abraham chose to believe God.

So much of faith has to do with recognizing it is God when HE speaks and choosing to believe what God says even over the things that our senses tell us.

Impossible situation ... God told Abraham HE would make his seed "as the dust of the earth" if a man can number the dust of the earth. Gen 13:16 ... But at that time, Abraham didn't have any children by Sarah. She was barren. And they were both very old, in their 90's.

This is an impossible situation for man ... but it is not an impossible situation for the God who created heaven and earth and all things. And when God speaks something, we can know that thing is going to be done.

Genesis 15 ... After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. 

2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

5 And HE (God) brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and HE said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

6 And he (Abraham) believed in the LORD; and HE counted it to him for righteousness.


Faith is believing that which God says, that which is not seen by natural eyes.

When God speaks it to us, we can safely believe that which God has spoken will happen.

Today God speaks to us through scripture, through dreams, through thoughts brought by the Holy Spirit.

Isaiah 46 ... I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. 

Several years ago, while I was living with my mother, God gave me a dream. The next time my mother fell it would be the end of her life. From that point on, I watched her carefully when she got into the car or when she moved about. For I knew if she fell again it would end her life. This is what God showed me.

When my mother was 97 she fell in her bedroom in the night. I was awakened by a strange pounding noise. I went into her room and she was on the floor, beating against the wall. I knew this ended her life. She was taken to hospital and they operated on her hip which was broken. She lived 2 more months but to me she died when she fell that second time. I even went to funeral home after she fell and arranged for her funeral while she was in hospital. To me she was dead for that is what God showed me in the dream and that is what would happen.

Faith in God sees this way.

Genesis 17 ... And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. 2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, 

4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. 

5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. 6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 

7 And I will establish MY covenant between ME and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 


We today, who are the children of the promise, the children of faith, are that seed of Abraham through the promise.

Through all generations since the time God promised this to Abraham, there has been a line of God, seed of God, children of the promise.

Today we, who believe, are that seed of Abraham, seed of the promise of God to Abraham. Heb. 11:40 ... they without us should not be made perfect. Through us, that promise made to Abraham is fulfilled for we are that promised seed.


Romans 9 ... 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.


Genesis 17 ... And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. 16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her. 

17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? 18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! 

19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. 

20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. 

22 And HE left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.


Now God is about to reveal to Sarah what HE is about to do.

Genesis 18 ... And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, 3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: 4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: 5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. 

6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. 7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. 8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.

Notice Abraham gave the best he had to God ... fine meal ... tender and good meat ...

 9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

By this, these men reveal they are not natural men. How did they know the name of Abraham's wife? But from the beginning verse, it certainly appears that Abraham recognized that these men were not natural men.

Genesis 18 ... 10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. 

And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? 

At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And HE said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

Sarah laughed ... she didn't see how such a thing could be possible ... But after God said to her, "is anything too hard for the LORD", Sarah believed God. We know she believed because of that which is written about her in Hebrews 11 

... Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged HIM faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Genesis 21 ... And the LORD visited Sarah as HE had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as HE had spoken. 

2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 

When God shows us something, that is what will happen.

Several years ago, I had a dream: The earth slipped on its axis. People were terrified. The politicians and religious leaders were meeting to see what could be done about the event. A TV newscaster was trying to tell what had happened and he was so frightened he couldn't continue the TV report.


A common error concerning faith ...

Our faith must be based on that which God has told us by HIS Spirit. Our faith must not be in what we want to happen.

Pam Padgett told me a story about a man where she once worked. An accident happened to his son. The man reported they were all believing for God to heal his son. The son died.

Their faith was based on that which they wanted to have happen for if God had told them their son would be healed, he would be healed.

When such a thing as this happens it can destroy so much and shake the people involved even more than the death for this strikes at the foundation of God HIMSELF and if we lose that we lose everything.

Our faith must be in that which God says about the issue. So many people put faith in what they want to have happen and often they look for a scripture to justify what they want. When they do this their faith ends up being in their desire. It seems like their faith is in God, but it isn't.

Unless it is the Spirit of God who reveals the end of the situation, then we are on very shaky ground.

I have a friend who had ALS. This is a disease where there is no hope according to doctors. Certainly I prayed for him. I had an open vision about him and I believed what God showed me is that this man was going to die before the rest of us.

In the open vision, he was on a golf course totally whole. He was going ahead of us but he was so excited and jumping up and down. He was signaling with his hands and arms to us telling us to come on ... everything was wonderful.

A mutual friend said to me, "Don't you think this is showing David is going to be healed by God?" 

I replied: "David is dying. But he is alright in death."

I would have liked to see David healed by God. But the only thing I could afford to believe or report is that which I believe God showed me. (David at 48-years-of-age, died in September 2015)

Our faith must be in God, in that which God reveals about the matter at hand ...

Another situation: I have had several dreams about a woman where I played bridge. I cared very much about her well being. But God has given me one dream after another showing me she is getting worse, not better. 

In one dream, she was like a dwarf and very fat. She could hardly walk. In the most recent dream she threw up her hands in disgust and turned her back toward me and walked away. She had heard something I said, a Bible teaching. This is what I must believe about her because I believe God is showing me this. If I believed what I wanted to believe I would deceive myself. It is very foolish to deceive yourself by what you want.

Our faith must be in what God tells us and not in our own desires.

So we focus on that which God tells us through scriptures, through dreams, through thoughts sent by HIS Spirit. We can believe that for it is truth and it will happen. And after we hear what God has to say, we believe and we act according to that which we have heard from God.

This is faith in God.

(Everything else would be faith in ourselves and what we want. Our faith must be in what God has said.)

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Revelation 10 ... Reading through the Bible

And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: 

2 And he had in his hand a little book open: 

and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, 

3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: 

and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. 

4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. 

5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: 

7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound,  the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
 
8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, 

Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. 

9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, 

Give me the little book. 

And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. 

10 And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. 

11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

The Day of the Lord

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

We, who are of God, desire for Jesus to come get us!  We know HE will.

Peter tells us the waiting for Jesus return simply shows the longsuffering of God toward others on this earth.

II Peter 3 ... 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us- ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
 
We have fragments of information from the Bible telling us about the day of the Lord and about those who belong to God being removed from this present earth.

First about those who will be removed from this earth:  

I Thess. 4 ...  13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede) them which are asleep (dead). 

16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 

None of us will have these current physical bodies when we are removed from this present earth:

Those who are still alive when Jesus returns will be changed "in the twinkling" of an eye.  Blink.  That is how fast we will be changed out of these present physical bodies.

We will be given new forms, spiritual bodies, by the will of God HIMSELF.

I Cor. 15 ...   35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

...  50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

We only know "in part":  

None of us knows "when" these things will happen.

We do know the cup of iniquity on this present earth must come to the full first ... and we can see it rapidly filling by the various sins displayed before our eyes ... both sins in the churches and sins in the world ... 

So as we know summer is coming because of the leaves we see budding on the trees, Jesus says, we know when we see the sins all around we know we rapidly approach the days Lot experienced in Sodom before the destruction of Sodom.

We know the whole world was wicked in the days the apostle John wrote his epistles ... 

I Jn. 5 ...  19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. 

In II Tim. 3, the apostle Paul tells us the wickedness will increase in the last days.  And Paul explains the wickedness will move into the churches themselves.

II Tim. 3 ...  1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:from such turn away. 

(They will say Jesus is Lord.  They will say they are Christians.  But they deny the power thereof when they refuse to allow Bible to rule over them and they cast away instruction of the New Testament in order to go in their own preferences on this earth.)

6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

... 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 

14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

Apostasy has to come into the churches before Jesus can return for us.  

The apostle Paul explains this to us:

II Thess. 2 ...   1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means:for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who 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.

The "falling away" are churches falling away from the Bible and setting up doctines which approve sinners in the congregation without repentance.

This is the end time apostasy in the churches.  

To prove your church group:  Does your group teach the man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery?  or have they turned away from this doctrine of Jesus (fallen away)?

Jesus said:  "whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery." Mt. 5:32

If your church group approves the man marrying the divorced woman, your church group is part of the end time apostasy ... the falling away from scriptures.

As the world flauts sins before our eyes and the churches cast aside Bible doctrine, the stage is set for the return of Jesus.

Peter says, concerning the end ...
 
II Peter 3 ...10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

But first, before the heavens and earth pass away, those angels of God in Revelation will pour out their vials of judgment on those remaining on this earth and the trumpets of judgments will be sounded by the angels who are appointed by God to do this.

Revelation 8 ...1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. 3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. 5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth:and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
 
6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
 
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth:and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea:and the third part of the sea became blood; 9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
 
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; 11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
 
12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
 
13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

Before the earth is completely destroyed by God, people left on the earth will go thought many horrendous things.

The prophet Amos described at as follows:

Amos 5 ...  the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.
19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him;
or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20 Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light?
even very dark, and no brightness in it?


Before God destroys the heaven and the earth, God will "shake" the earth:  

God gave me a dream showing this as follows:  In this dream, the earth slipped on it's axis.  People were terrified.  The politicians were meeting with the scientists and religious leaders to try to find a way to fix this.  A TV newscaster was telling this report on TV and he was so frightened he just stopped talking.  He knew this story, unlike most of the other stories he spoke on TV, affected him.

Heb. 12 ... 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:26 Whose voice then shook the earth:but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:29 For our God is a consuming fire. 

Several prophets spoke of this shaking of the earth by God:

Haggai 2:6 ... For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

Isaiah 13 ...  9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger,
to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light:
the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold;
even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
 
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place,
in the wrath of the Lord of hosts,and in the day of his fierce anger.

Joel 3:16 ...  16 The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem;
and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people,
and the strength of the children of Israel.

Isaiah 2 ... 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth,
for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks,
and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty,
when HE ariseth to shake terribly the earth.  

Isaiah 24 ...  18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare:
for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved,
the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage;
and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.  

This present earth will not be made righteous ... it will get worse and worse until the destruction of the earth by God.  

But there will be a new heaven and a new earth for us who belong to God and the new heaven and new earth will have only righteousness, no perversion nor corruption there.

Revelation 21 ...   1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain:for the former things are passed away.
 
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write:for these words are true and faithful.
 
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 

8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone:which is the second death.

In the meantime, we run the race to the end.  In a race, the ones who start the race and drop out are not rewarded.  We run to the end, crossing the finish line, enduring, holding fast the faith in God and the faith in what God has said.

I Cor. 9 ... the apostle Paul says ... 24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection:lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Job 4 ... Viewing the works of God through scripture

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
 
2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?
but who can withhold himself from speaking?

3 Behold, thou hast instructed many,
and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling,
and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest;
it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence,
thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent?
or where were the righteous cut off?
 
8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity,
and sow wickedness, reap the same.
9 By the blast of God they perish,
and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion,
and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey,
and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me,
and mine ear received a little thereof.
 
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night,
when deep sleep falleth on men,
14 Fear came upon me, and trembling,
which made all my bones to shake.
15 Then a spirit passed before my face;
the hair of my flesh stood up:
16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof:
an image was before mine eyes,
there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
 
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God?
shall a man be more pure than his maker?

18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants;
and his angels he charged with folly:
19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, 
whose foundation is in the dust, 
which are crushed before the moth?

20 They are destroyed from morning to evening:
they perish for ever without any regarding it.
21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away?
they die, even without wisdom.

Faith In God: Chapter 2 / Book available at Amazon.com

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

Is This the Will of God For Me?

By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Hebrews 11:7

Several years ago I visited a Sunday school class in a church. Pastor was teaching above scripture and he asked: Did Noah condemn the world?

Immediately I replied, "Yes". The people in the class seemed shocked.

The Holy Spirit said through me … Noah condemned the world because he believed God and the world didn't.

Anytime we believe God we condemn those who do not believe God. Grounds are set for the judgment seat of Christ for then God can say Noah believed what I said and he was a person as others yet he believed ME and you did not believe. Thereby those who believe and act on any scripture by their action condemn those who do not believe.


Concerning faith, first God speaks.

God speaks in various ways to us: thoughts, dreams, scripture.

The devil can also bring thoughts and scripture. We recall that the devil tempted Jesus by speaking scripture to Jesus. But Jesus knew the voice of God and when the devil tried to misuse scripture Jesus countered each of the devil's presentations.

Mt: 4 .. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

3And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4But HE (Jesus) answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

5 Then the devil taketh Him up into the holy city, and setteth Him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 And saith unto Him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9 And saith unto HIM, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and HIM only shalt thou serve.

11Then the devil leaveth HIM, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto HIM.


At one point I studied the use of dreams in Bible. I am persuaded that God uses dreams today as a means of showing us truth about people and what they are doing or what they will do (unless they repent) ... and dreams show us things to come ... and sometimes our ways are changed because of dreams ... sometimes dreams confirm to us the way we are going ...

Thoughts can be from God by HIS Spirit ... thoughts can be from devil. Thoughts can be from our own flesh. The devil and the flesh’s thoughts can seem like good ideas. Sometimes the thought is very obviously from God. Other times we aren't sure.

Before we act by faith, we have to determine if that thought is from God, especially when we have reason to question the direction provoked by the thought.

If we are engaged in any form of strife (or envy) we are in danger of opening doors for devils to bring ideas to us.

James 3 ... Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

Probably the easiest thing to do when we are in doubt, (is the idea from God or from another spirit?) … is to ask God to confirm the thought or the idea, if it is from HIM.

One of the more common errors concerning faith comes by failing to consider the following: Is this the will of God for my life? All that really matters is the will of God.

Unfortunately often that is not even considered.

Church people want something. They pray to get what they want. Some are taught to hunt a scripture to "stand on", to justify what they want. And to hold fast to that scripture “in faith” until they get what they want. This seems like faith, but it is often a lust of our own flesh.

We must first consider the following: "Is this the will of God for me"?...

I made that mistake when I was a new Christian.

I wanted to marry. All my church friends and our prayer group earnestly prayed for me to have a husband. I found a scripture to "stand on", to justify my getting an husband

... Isa. 34:16 ... Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate ...

This scripture was not given me by the Spirit of God rather I searched and found it because that seemed to justify my request to God.

One woman in the prayer group said something about the will of God ... but then she added, "Of course it is God's will for Joan to have an husband."

(But she said this of her own flesh and the thinking of her own mind and it was not the will of God for me.)

But my best friend at that time prayed concerning this and she heard the following from the Spirit of God concerning my marrying. "My grace is sufficient for thee."

After that Donna stopped asking God to give me husband. She told me about this but my personal desire for husband was such that I didn't focus on that which Donna heard and I continued for many years searching for husband.

Finally I knew that was not the will of God for me and I would not be marrying as most people do.

Now I believe with all my heart that was ordained by God for me. I even thank God that I didn't marry, remembering that Paul said those who marry will have trouble "in the flesh" (I Cor. 7) and I have an assignment from God for the church which would not be compatible with marriage for me.

Basically, before we ask God for something, we need to check with God concerning HIS will in the matter.

So many people are interested in their own will when they pray. And often their faith is damaged because they pray for something which is not the will of God for them, and then when they fail to get what they want they suffer loss of faith in God, loss of faith in scripture, loss of faith in prayer ... all because they misused everything and failed to consider "what is the will of God in my case."


A church person was trying to get a job and he asked me to pray that he got that job for which he was applying. I told him I would not pray this for I did not know if it was the will of God for him to get that job. I told him I would pray for God's will in the matter to be done. He did not get that job. The wrong job can damage a person.

 We must base our faith on that which God has said to us by HIS Spirit. For then we know the will of God when the Holy Spirit shows us.

I Cor. 2 …But God hath revealed them unto us by HIS Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

In each case of faith in the Bible we will see that faith came by the will of God, by God revealing HIS will by HIS Spirit.

Heb. 11 ... By faith Noah, being warned of (by) God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

In 1980, I was asleep in the night and was awakened by a loud trumpet sounding voice speaking three words to me: Hartford, Seattle, KWJS (I believe this was the voice of an angel of God speaking to me.)

I jumped out of bed and wrote, on a note pad, the three words spoken. It was obvious to me the word KWJS was call letters to either radio or TV. I found it was radio.

I asked God: "Are you telling me to go on radio? I wouldn't know how to do that."

The Holy Spirit spoke the following gentle thought to me immediately: "Call the radio station manager."

I called the radio station manager as soon as the business office opened that morning.

I said to the manager, "God might be telling me to go on radio. How would you do that?"

He replied: "Make an audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and if the content of the tape fits into our broadcasts we will offer you a contract."

I had a cassette recorder in my apartment so I got a tape and sat down immediately and recorded a message and sent it that morning to the radio station manager.

Within one week, I was on radio broadcasting exhortations to the church.

But I didn’t put myself on radio. I just did what I heard from God.

Concerning Noah:

Genesis 6 ...And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

... Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

... The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.


Here we have the basic pattern of faith.

God chose to speak to Noah and instruct Noah. Then Noah believed it was God speaking to him and he did everything God told him to do.

As I read the above, I noticed how specific God was in HIS instructions of exactly how to build the ark. And notice that Noah did exactly what God instructed. Noah didn't make the ark an inch smaller nor an inch larger. Noah didn't say to himself "bigger is better". Noah knew God is perfect. So Noah did "according to all that God commanded him."

I thought of how much work Noah had to do in building the ark to specification ... in gathering all those animals and creeping things ... and in stocking food supplies. And no doubt people would be watching Noah as he did these things. It would become a big event for the village as Noah built this ark and as he gathered all these creatures and put them into the structure.

None of us want to be a side show. None of us want to be mocked by onlookers or family. And often we know this is going to happen to us when we speak what we hear from God and when we do what God shows us to do.

Consider Joseph. He had a dream and he told this dream. And as a result his family mocked him and tormented him.

But by faith, Joseph told the dream.

Gen. 37 ... And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. 6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: 7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? 11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.


Faith in God causes us to speak that which we have heard from God. Certainly, in some cases, we know hatred or negative things will happen when we share what we have heard from God. But we share it, enduring the shame, because we believe we have heard from God.

My favorite aunt was a Church of Christ member all her life. This church group was one that would not speak of "supernatural" experiences with God.

At one point, I was visiting my aunt and I had the thought (which I believed to be from the Spirit of God) to tell my aunt about my being taken into heaven twice. Certainly I didn't want to do that!

But because I believed I was directed by the Spirit of God to do it, I told her the following: Shortly after I was born again, I was asleep in the night and I was "transported" into heaven. I was in a room with God, and with the Holy Spirit, and with Jesus.

(I didn't see any images of God or Jesus, but I knew they were there with me.)

At that time, I was "merged" into the body of Jesus, made one with The Word of God. It was wonderful!

The next morning, I was driving to work and I passed a church building and there was a funeral. A funeral. Oh how great. A funeral. To me this meant someone leaving this earth to go to God. I'd just been there the night before and nothing on this present earth could equal what I had experienced in heaven.

(Obviously I was changed forever and set on fire for the Word of God and for things of God.)

Then I told my aunt, And a few days after being taken into heaven, the exact same thing happened to me a second time. I was asleep in the night and was transported into heaven. I was with God, with the Holy Spirit, and with Jesus. At that time I was merged into the body of Jesus ... made one with the Word of God.

I was very shocked at the response of my aunt after I told her this.

She had sort of a dreamy look on her face and then she said to me ... “Something like that happened to me once ... and it was all golden.”

(My aunt had always been very different from everyone else. Now I knew the reason she was different.)


Each time I read about the golden streets in the book of Revelation, I think of my aunt having been there!


Revelation 21 … 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.

4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain:for the former things are passed away…

18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper:and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.



Back to the example of Noah:

Genesis 7 ... And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

Again, same pattern of faith ... God speaks ... Noah believes and obeys, following the instructions without adding to or taking away from the word.

...And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

...and the LORD shut him in.

...And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

18And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth

... Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 24And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. (approximately 5 months)

Genesis 8 ... And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried

Although Noah knew the earth was dry, he did not go out of the ark until God spoke and told him to go out of the ark.

15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him: 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.


Again we see the pattern of faith: Noah waiting until God spoke. Then Noah did what God told him to do.

... and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Genesis 9 ... And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

Everyone around Noah was blessed by God because of Noah's obedience to God.

We, who belong to God and hear HIM and obey HIM, are blessings everywhere we go. If we choose to do business with a company, and that company treats us well, God blesses that company. But if we are treated poorly, I feel certain that company curses themselves though God repays us for their ill treatment.

 Deut. 28 ... And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.

10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: 14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:


Is this the same in NT? I asked God. And immediately I was reminded of the following NT scripture:

Gal. 6 ... Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

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Revelation 9 ... Reading through the Bible

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: 

and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 

3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. 5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. 

6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 

7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. 8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. 10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. 

11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.  

12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 

15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.  

16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. 17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. 

18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. 19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. 

20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 

21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.