Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
There are ministers who are appointed by God for the work of the ministry. And there are ministers who have put themselves into the ministry by their own will.
In Jude we are reminded of those who put themselves into the ministry without being appointed by God.
Jude v. 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear (without fear of God): clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
vv. 17-19 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers (imitators, copiers of others) in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
They copy those whom they think spiritual ... but they are not led by God, they are led by their own ungodly "religious" lusts ... they do not have the Spirit of God.
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Those who are anointed by God have an authority of God and a power of God.
Acts 7:23-27 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
(It was in Moses heart that he would do this.)
And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
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Once when I was telling a Catholic woman about the evils in the Catholic church, she said to me: "I don't see that you have any right to speak evil about my church."
The Bible itself gives us the right to speak when we see churches going against the Bible.
But there is also a special call of God and anointing of God for those whom God appoints to the ministry.
Those not of the Spirit of God cannot see this anointing and they will thrust us away as they thrust Moses away.
Acts 7:34-35 God appeared to Moses in the wilderness to send Moses to deliver HIS people from Egypt.
God said to Moses ... I have seen, I have seen the affliction of My people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
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As God sent Moses, HIS anointed, Jesus sends HIS anointed today for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ, for the work of the ministry.
Ephesians 4:11-16 (After Jesus was resurrected, HE gave these ministry gifts to the church)
And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
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As the religiously ungodly pushed away Moses, as they pushed away Jesus, as they pushed away John the Baptist and the other disciples of Jesus, they will fight against us.
God equips us and sustains us for the work of the ministry and gives us an ability to endure to the end that HIS purpose will be accomplished on this present earth.
To endure and to continue in the work appointed to us, we focus on the word given us by God through HIS Spirit.
The message given to me for those persons of God for this point in time is:
The apostasy that had to come before Jesus could return is now happening in church groups as portions of scripture has been cast aside. This is what we are now seeing in church groups, the falling away from scripture as Paul said had to happen before the return of Jesus. II Thessalonians 2
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