Because thou hast kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Revelation 3:10
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Joan Boney: apostle/prophet
It is coming ... it is upon us ...
Can't you see? The apostasy, the falling away from scripture, is in full force in the churches. This is the primary point setting the wrath of God that is to come upon the world.
Antichrist is not one man but is a spirit in the church groups, like the devil is a spirit and not just one man.
Antichrist would come through the church groups. "Sitting in the temple of God, showing himself that he is god." II Thessalonians 2
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; 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.
Antichrist takes people in the church in a way opposite from the way of God in the specific issues of this life.
The scriptures take people in the way of God.
People make choices as to which way they will go.
The love of the truth of the scripture above all other things is critical.
This is the point of departure between Christ and antichrist.
The approval of man is the mark of the beast.
Those who give up all to cling to the WORD of God will be spared that wrath of God that is coming upon all the world.
But the wrath of God will come upon those person who have cast aside parts of scripture to approve other people or to approve themselves. These person live in a strong delusion from God that they would continue to believe a lie.
II Thessalonians 2:10-12 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Since the delusion is from God, there is nothing you will be able to do now to turn those who worship their church and cast aside the scriptures.
But you must hold onto the truth of the scriptures.
Here is the way God showed this to me:
Dream: 1979
A meeting was going on. A man was speaking to a group of people. I went into the room where this man was speaking and sat down and began to listen to what he was saying.
A second man came in and said:
"STOP ... can't you see ... it's too late ... it's already begun."
The first man resumed speaking.
I looked out the window to see what had "already begun."
There was a tall pole with a yellow civil defense type warning speaker on top of the pole. Out of the speaker was coming a poisonous gas! I knew it would kill the people. And it was coming directly toward us.
The shocking thing was the speaker that was set there to warn us was being used to kill us.
I looked at the man who was sitting next to me. He was upright in his chair and he was looking directly at the man who was speaking and he had a very big smile on his face, but he was a corpse. He was already dead.
I looked about the room at the other people and they were dead too.
And as I sat there listening to the man who was speaking to the room of dead people, I felt myself beginning to drift off to sleep and I knew it was killing me too as I sat there listening to this man.
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It is amazing to think we can live in peace knowing of this, but since we know the truth of the scriptures and God has revealed to us the apostasy in the church which must happen before Jesus returns, we can live in peace.
It was ordained by God to happen this way therefore we can rest knowing this.
II Thessalonians 2 NASB ... Paul says ... 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it (the Day of the Lord) will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.
By this God explains to us that the apostasy in the church had to come before Jesus returns.
In the KJV it reads as follows:
II Thessalonians 2:3-4 KJV ... Paul says ... 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;
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" were churches falling away from portions of scripture in order to approve people thus gaining the approval also of the world.
The man of sin that would be revealed in this falling away is a spirit of antichrist in the churches for they would "oppose" certain instructions given to the church in New Testament in the Bible.
Thus the man of lawlessness in the church would sit in the "temple of God" showing himself to be god as he ruled over the portions of scripture, casting scripture aside to go along with his own thinking and the thinking of other humans who have not the Spirit of God.
This is the apostasy we are seeing in today's churches. This is antichrist in the churches today.
This had to come before Jesus returns as Paul said in Bible.
When we understand there is nothing we can do to stop this in the church, for it is ordained by God, we can live in peace and stop striving to try to turn them for they cannot be turned now.
Rejoice that you chose to cling to scripture.
Do what Paul said and avoid them and live in peace knowing the truth.
II Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
By turning away from them we can live in peace.
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Also God showed me we can never cause the churches nor this world to be righteous.
Here is what God says about it:
II Thessalonians 2:10-13 KJV ... And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
The writings in this blog are to encourage those persons who have believed the truth and who cling to the scriptures.
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II Peter 3:13-14 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
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