Friday, January 26, 2018

No one knows the exact day Jesus will return ... but we should recognize "the season" we are in.


Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

We recognize the season of the year we are in by what is happening to the grass and the trees and in the sky.

In the same way, we recognize the season as we approach the coming of Jesus and the wrath of God that is to come upon the disobedient.

I Thessalonians 5:1-9    But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
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.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

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.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,


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A major sign showing us the season is the apostasy in the church groups.

Until this falling away from scripture by the churches took place, Jesus would not return.

Paul says:

II Thessalonians 2:3-8    NASB     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, 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. Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things? And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;

That which restrained antichrist from the church groups was scripture.  As soon as church groups fell away from specific scripture, the restraint was removed and antichrist moved in and lawlessness reigned in that church group.

The apostasy in the church groups is one of the signs showing us the season we are in.

The apostate church groups will be destroyed when Jesus returns.

II Thessalonians 2:8-12    whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming:

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

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.


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Another sign that we draw near to the second coming of Jesus is the approval of homosexuals and lesbians.

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.  I Thessalonians 5


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Another sign is what Paul told us in the following scripture:

II Timothy 3:1-5   This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall comeFor men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

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

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


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All the above things should show us the season.

Also we see the following in abundance.

Matthew 24:3-5    And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Many preachers would come saying "He" is Christ ... and they will deceive many.

(we see the deception in religious circles)



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Matthew 24:14    And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

(Have we not seen this today?)


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Matthew 24:32-33    Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.



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