Comments by Joan Boney
Concerning compromise, never do we who are of God compromise scripture.
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
In the Bible, we have the example of the men of Sodom who went after strange flesh.
Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
In every "quarter" of the city were groups of homosexuals.
God sent 2 angels to Sodom to deliver Lot (Abraham's nephew) before God destroyed Sodom.
Angels look like natural men. Angels do not have wings.
So when these homosexuals in Sodom realized the 2 men had come into Lot's home, they came demanding that Lot turn these 2 men over to them so they could have sex with these 2 men who were really 2 angels sent by God to destroy Sodom.
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. (Have sex with them.)
6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
God's view of the subject is all that matters.
What does God think?
The examples in the Bible show us the thinking of God of the various issues of this present life.
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On April 12, 2021, on CNN International (Internet), there was a story about a pastor in the Southern Baptist church group, who announced that homosexuals and lesbians and other sexual deviates were welcome at his church.
Before Jesus returns the churches will fall away from scriptures and antichrist moves into the church groups.
II Thessalonians 2:3-4 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.
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.
In 1982, God said to me: "The falling away are not people leaving the churches. The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures."
In the end times, churches will set up other doctrines, contrary to scripture, and go by these doctrines of man in their churches, casting aside scriptures.
This is antichrist.
The apostle John tells us there are "many antichrists", not just one antichrist.
I John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
John explains that those people who were antichrist came into their church group and then left them when they did not like the pure doctrine of Christ.
Many of these antichrist people set up their own churches, denominations, where they could control the teaching and omit the doctrines of Christ as they preferred.
In speaking with the elders of the church at Ephesus, the apostle Paul said:
Acts 20:29-30 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Paul said to Timothy:
II Timothy 4:2-4 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
This is what we are seeing today in many churches,
These are the antichrists of the end times in the churches.
In an article in USA Today, the Southern Baptist Convention announced that they have disassociated with that Baptist church group which welcomes homosexuals, lesbians and other sexual perverts. They said to do such went against Baptist church "tradition". I was glad to see this, but very sorry that the Southern Baptist Convention made no statement from the Bible as the reason for the withdrawal from this church group. We will never stand without quoting scripture. The way the leadership dealt with this subject shows a great weakness and it also shows how they are trying to justify themselves through their "tradition" and reasoning with people of this world, rather than by the scriptures. I think this shows us very serious deterioration in the Southern Baptist Convention which fits the way antichrist works in the churches in the end times. Bible is the only basis we have as a church group for our reasons for doing anything. We serve God which is shown us by the Bible.
Always we should present scripture with our reasons for that which we believe.
Concerning homosexuals and lesbians and sexual perverts:
Romans 1:26-28 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
The above scripture shows God's view of homosexual and lesbian.
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Concerning the Sodomites of the Old Testament:
I Kings 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
I Kings 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
I Kings 22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
II Kings 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto ME as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Jeremiahs 50:40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
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As homosexuals and lesbians and other sins of this world increase, we know the coming of Jesus and the great tribulation and the destruction of this present heaven and earth draws closer.
II Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
There will never be righteousness on this present earth. It will just get worse and worse.
II Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
But God will remove the righteous from this earth and take the righteous to that new heaven and new earth which is created by God for HIS people who follow HIM.
Revelation 21
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.
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