💥 * God hates "the putting away" (divorce) Malachi 2

 

Malachi 2

16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that HE hateth putting away (divorce): for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied Him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and He delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

 

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God hates divorce.

 

I Corinthians 7:10-11  And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. 

 

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Matthew 5:32  Jesus says: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

 

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Mark 10  (Jesus says) 

 

 6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

 

11  And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

 

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Romans 7:2-3  For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

 

Paul speaks of the law of God not the OT law of Moses.

 

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I Corinthians 7:39  The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 

 

 

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💥 Book #12: Life in Christ Series: * Great Is THY Faithfulness, Chapter 11

 

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You Meant it Against Me for Evil, but God Meant it for Good

 

In the 1990's, a man became angry with me and turned my name into the IRS (tax investigators) to try to get me audited and harmed by IRS.  (Internal Revenue Service in USA collects taxes in USA.)

I was notified I was being audited. 

(Personal audit, not ministry, for IRS agent said IRS does not audit tax exempt ministries nor churches)

I only took a very small salary at that time and everything I took was reported on the 1040 tax forms required by IRS, so I really didn't see how this could harm me.

*****

The two IRS agents came to my house.  When I opened the door, the agent said the name of a man, asking to see him at my house ...  It was the man who had been angry with me.

I replied, "No ... I'm Joan Boney."

The agent was very embarrassed.

I think this man's name was on the form with my address and this man had asked IRS to do the audit against me.

*****

I invited the 2 agents into the house.

I told them they were welcome to take all my cancelled bank checks for both the ministry and for me personally.

They were shocked! 

Apparently people did not hand over their cancelled checks to IRS this way. 

But I didn't care.  If I had done anything wrong, it was a mistake and I would correct it by paying the fee and appropriate fines to IRS.

I talked with the agents, gave them the bookkeeping and the checks and they left.

After their audit, I went to the IRS building to receive their finding.

I asked if they found anything wrong.

They said they did not.

One agent asked me a question.  He said he noticed the ministry did not pay social security taxes for me.  These are paid by the employer, which in my case would be the ministry.

I explained that when the ministry was first set up with IRS (in 1979), we had an option concerning social security. 

I could sign "a vow of poverty" with IRS and the ministry would be exempt from paying social security taxes for me.

The man who set up our legal papers in 1979, was a former IRS agent and he advised me not to sign this vow of poverty, for he said if I signed this, we could never go back and receive social security payment for me.

Neither would I ever be able to have Medicare, medical provision from the US government.

I was young at the time and didn't foresee illnesses.

And the ministry at that time, 1979, could not afford to pay social security taxes for me.  We had no income when we started out.

So I signed the IRS "vow of poverty."

The agent said there was no record of such a vow being filed with IRS so if I would like to buy-back into social security I could do so for $8000.

At the time of this audit (1990's), the ministry was well established and we had plenty of money to pay social security taxes so I wrote out a check for this immediately and gave it to the agent.

This turned out to be very important.  A decade later I fell over a box, broke hip, had surgery, and had to spend an entire month in a rehabilitation hospital.  I'm sure the cost was enormous.  But it was all paid by social security and by my supplemental insurance policy.

Also at the age of 62, I began receiving small checks, about $500 a month, from social security.  This was enough for my personal needs so I stopped taking salary from ministry.  To this day, this is still the way I live.

The tax audit turned out to be a great blessing for me and for the ministry!

Genesis 50:20    But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good.

 

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Scriptures:

 

Jude 1:21  Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 

 

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Psalm 9:9,10  The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

10  And they that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee: for Thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek Thee.

 

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2 Corinthians 10:3  For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 

 

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Revelation 3:5  Jesus says ...  He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before MY Father, and before HIS angels. 

 

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Psalm 40:1-3   I waited patiently for the Lord; and HE inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

3 And HE hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.

 

 

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💥 * If a Christian goes back to his old sins after he is born again. What Bible says:

Hebrews 10

 

1 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

30 For we know HIM that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto ME, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge HIS people.

31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

 

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Hebrews 6 

 

1  Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

3 And this will we do, if God permit.

4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame. 

 

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2 Peter 2

 

9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 

 

 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

💥 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

 

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I Corinthians 5

 

 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

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.

 

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Since there is no more sacrifice for sins if we go back to sins after we know the truth of the Bible  (Hebrews 10:26), it may be that the only way the spirit can be saved is for that "brother" to be put out of the church or for some righteous follower of God to make it clear they will no longer keep company with such a brother who does these sins.

 

 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.

13  ...  Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

5  To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

 

 

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💥 Book #12: Life in Christ Series: * Great Is THY Faithfulness, Chapter 10

 

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One Word from God by HIS Spirit Changes Everything

 

I was devastated by what I had seen in sins being committed by big-time ministers and the perversions of the Bible they were doing in their preaching. 

I had seen what the advertising agencies were doing to promote these ministers.

After this, for more than 30-years I tried to find a church group that I could attend.  But each time, I would go to a church group, I would witness pastor twisting scripture, making up lies about portions of Bible, changing doctrine from that which is in Bible, approving unrepentant sin in congregation, without pastors even showing shame nor repenting when I went to them with that which they were doing in the church.

Incredible lies were being taught from pulpits.

- One pastor taught the woman taken in adultery in John 8 was naked from the waist up when she was brought before Jesus.  A complete fabrication of scripture.

- One pastor taught that Sarah and Hagar were 1/2 sisters.  When I asked him where that is in Bible he became angry and said, "All right ... it's not in the Bible."  (He just made it up.)

- A Baptist pastor was eliminating a portion of scripture when he spoke to his congregation, omitting Jesus' reference to the subject of "fasting"

- One pastor (also a professor from Dallas Theological Seminary) was teaching that tongues are from the devil ... but the apostle Paul told the church, "Forbid not to speak with tongues."  I Corinthians 14:39

If a person claims that which another person is doing or teaching is from a devil when it is from the Holy Spirit, this is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit and is the one sin that is unforgivable and the person is in danger of eternal damnation.  Mark 3:28-29

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It was a terrible thing to witness that which was happening in the church groups, and I didn't understand how the pastors could do these things against the Bible.  I was angry, depressed, bewildered.  No one repented.  And their congregations where they spoke these lies and distortions of scripture, just sat there with big-smiles on their faces, going along with pastor, not checking what pastor was saying with the Bible.

This fit a terrible dream given to me by God concerning speakers gassing their congregations to death with their doctrines.

Poison Gas Dream:  1979 

Destruction was everywhere.  (in the churches) 

In this dream, a meeting was going on.  A man was speaking to a group of people.  I went in and sat down and began to listen. 

A second man rushed into the room and said, "Stop ... wait ... can't you see ... It's too late ... It's already begun."

The first man resumed speaking.

I looked out the windows to see what had "already begun".

I was very shocked at what I saw.

There was a tall pole with a yellow civil defense speaker on top of the pole.  I saw a gas coming out of that speaker.  The gas was poisonous and was going to kill people and it was coming directly toward us!

The shocking thing was the speaker that was set there to warn us was the instrument being used to distribute the gas which would end up killing us!

I looked at the man who was seated next to me.  He had a very big smile on his face as he attentively looked directly at the man who was speaking.  But then I realized, this man was dead!  He was a corpse.

I looked at the other people in the room and they were all dead.

As I sat there listening to the man who was speaking to the dead group of people, I began to yawn and I realize the gas was killing me too as I sat there among them.

*****

In early 2017, God spoke one word to me to show me what I had been seeing in church groups for the past 40+ years as pastors twisted doctrine and omitted scripture and changed doctrine from that in the Bible and would not repent.

God said to me:  "Restraint"

I knew this word was in a scripture in II Thessalonians 2 (NASB) ...

3-8    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 (Bible) 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.

(That which restrained antichrist was the scripture.  When churches removed portions of scripture, the restraint holding antichrist out of the churches was removed, and the apostasy began in the church group.)

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;

What I had been seeing all these years in churches, where pastors taught things other than Bible doctrine and where pastors made up stories and changed doctrine away from the Bible, was the end-time apostasy spoken of in II Thessalonians 2.

Now I understood and it helped me so much to know this.

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HYMN:  I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY

I love to tell the story

Of unseen things above,

Of Jesus and HIS glory,

Of Jesus and HIS love.

I love to tell the story,

Because I know 'tis true,

It satisfies my longings

As nothing else can do.

(Chorus)

I love to tell the story,

'Twill be my theme in glory,

To tell the old, old story,

Of Jesus and HIS love.

(To hear this hymn played on piano and to follow along with the words, click on the following link and then when it appears on screen, tap on the play arrow, > )

I love to tell the story

*****

Scriptures:

Romans 8:1-2  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 

 

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Proverbs 16:3  Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

 

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John 15:7  Jesus says ... If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples. 9 As the Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you: continue ye in My love.

 

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Romans 8:10   And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

 

 

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💥 Recently I put 2 women out of our little church group: one for railing against me and the other for idolatry toward me.

Comments by Joan Boney:

Some of you might say, "You can't do that."

 

I would say to you:  You don't know the Bible like you think you do. 

 

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I Corinthians 5

 

1  It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

 

puffed up:  Saying of yourself:  "How dare they.  I would never do that."  Instead of mourning that another Christian would do such sins as fornication, covetousness, idolatry, railing, or being a drunkard, or an extortioner.

 

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3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
 

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,  5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

 

(Putting them away from the church group might be the only way they can be saved in the day of the Lord:  

Hebrews 10:26  For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

 

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I Corinthians 5 

6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

 

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9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

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?  (within the church)

13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

 

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I have had this happen 4 times:  Once I had to "put away" our Bible teacher at Word of Faith church which I had been attending.  I heard about his "girlfriend".  None of us at church knew anything about him having a girlfriend. He was a divorced man with one child. When he was evasive with me, I asked him point blank, "Are you having sexual intercourse with this woman?"  

 

Without any sign of shame, he said:  "Of course!"

 

I replied:  "You know the Bible as well as I do.  I can't have anything more to do with you.  I can't attend your Bible classes.  I can't partake of the word of God, eating, any more with you."

 

His response:  "That's right."  (still no sign of repentance or shame)

 

I never saw him again.  I did speak once or twice with him by phone and he told me years later that fornication was no longer a problem.  I felt that meant God had destroyed his ability to have sexual intercourse ... I Cor. 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

 

This gives me hope for the salvation of the 4 persons I have had to put away from the church.

 

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One of those 4 persons was, I believe, committing idolatry toward me as a minister, although she had died before I realized what was happening.

 

She would come to see me and I just wanted to run away from her.  (This went on for about 30 years.  I felt so guilty that I didn't want to be around her.)   It was like she just wanted to sit at my feet and stare at me!  Horrible!

 

On one visit, I took her to the airport early and just drove away.  I saw her through my rear view mirror as she was standing in the street just looking at me as I drove away.  I was saying:  "I'm free! I'm free! I'm free!"

 

I think this was the last time I ever saw her.

 

Months after this she called me to tell me she had a very great physical illness.  And she died shortly after that.

 

She apparently couldn't live alone so she choose to go live with a very evil sister in Texas.  I spoke to her by phone one night.  And all of a sudden she said, "I have to go."  The following day I called her and her sister answered the phone.  I've never before heard such evil.  When I asked to speak to this woman, her sister told me she wasn't there.  As I continued to speak to this woman, she said, "Alright, she died last night." (I was very shocked!)  The sister continued to say this to me:  "Don't try to come to her funeral.  It is a private thing.  No visitors allowed.  And don't contact me again."  and she hung up.

 

I was surprised she had chosen to live with such an evil person in her last days.

 

I did not recognize her problem as idolatry toward me until this past year when another long time church member was revealed to me by God as having a problem with idolatry toward me.  Then I remembered Linda and saw what they were doing was same thing.

 

I believe Linda's flesh was destroyed by God because of idolatry toward me, a minister of God.  But I do have hope that her spirit will be saved in the day of the Lord, because I did execute this concerning her even though I didn't know it to be idolatry she was doing. 

 

I Cor. 5:4  In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,  5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

 

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In the 1980's and 1990's, Jimmy Swaggart was caught with prostitutes, as he admitted in a tear filled plea on TV saying, "I have sinned."

 

The Assembly of God church leadership said:  We should pray for brother Swaggart.  

 

I happened to be visiting that Sunday morning at a small Assembly of God church when their pastor said those words to the congregation.

 

I was shocked and said in a low voice:  "He should be put out of the church."

 

(Apparently the woman sitting in front of me heard what I said and she turned and strongly glared at me.) 

 

A few years later Jimmy Swaggart was caught with another prostitute.  This time he said:  "God told me it's nobody's business what I do."

 

The Assembly of God defrocked Jimmy Swaggert that second time.

 

Swaggart continued "performing" to big crowds on his TV meetings.  He had cut back on preaching in the 1980's and increased performing music at his meetings because his ad agency (Michael Ellison Advertising Agency) told him this was the way to get bigger audiences, which was his desire.  (Swaggart was a country western type singer and piano player.)

 

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The churches today are often antichrist, having discarded specific scriptures and fallen away from much of the New Testament Bible to approve sin rather than speak against sin, to have big congregations.

 

2 Thessalonians 2   

 

 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) 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.

 

In 1982, I was reading this scripture and God explained to me:  "The falling away are not people leaving the church group ... The falling away are the church groups falling away from scripture."

 

This is antichrist in the churches.  It is all over today!  Churches casting aside certain scripture to approve woman remarrying after divorce.  To approve homosexuals and lesbians against the scripture in 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;

 

End time churches before Jesus returns and God brings the 14 plagues of the Great Tribulation  (Rev. 8, 9, 16) and destroys the heaven and earth by fire. (2 Peter 3:10-14)

 

 

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💥 Book #12: Life in Christ Series: * Great Is THY Faithfulness, Chapter 9

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Advertising Agencies Ruling Over Ministers to Promote Them

 

In 1980, I was on radio in USA cities.

My pastor at that time, Robert Tilton, said to me:  "Joan ... you need to sign with Michael Ellison Advertising Agency.  They can really do you a lot of good."

All the big-time ministers that I knew at that time had advertising agents promoting them.  Kenneth Copeland, Jimmy Swaggart, Marilyn Hickey, Robert Tilton, Billy Graham

I contacted Michael Ellison Advertising Agency.

They were not interested in having me as a client.

But I had a coordinator who was a vice-president at Braniff International Airlines and she was a soft spoken but very persuasive person ... and she convinced Ellison to sign me as one of their clients.

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The agency representative told me: 

"Joan ... we can fill Soldiers & Sailors Auditorium in Pittsburgh for your meetings.  Just one thing ... Don't say anything on your radio broadcasts to offend anyone..."

I am a prophet.  It would be impossible to operate in the office of a prophet and never offend anyone in the church. 

Just consider the way John the Baptist greeted the people who came out to be baptized of him.

Luke 3:7-8    Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?  Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

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For about 4 months, they tried to represent me.

The agent who was assigned to me came to Dallas to meet with me.

He was taking me to dinner and came to my apartment for me in a chauffeured driven limousine.

Hollywood!

I didn't even know how to properly get into the car.

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My coordinator joined me at the meeting we had in Dallas with the agency representative which was held at my "modest" ($180 a month) apartment.

At one point in time, the radio station manager in the NYC area radio station came to Dallas for a conference.  He asked to see me.  He came to my apartment and when he saw my apartment, he said:  "You are the only minister I've ever met who didn't spell prophet 'profit'."

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The ad agent and my coordinator sat down at my dining room/kitchen table which was also my living room.

The agent was very subtle and suave.

He said, "Joan ... there is just one thing we'd like you to do. 

We want you to put on your envelopes 'SEND ME YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS' ..."

I quickly replied, "I don't want to do that!"

I shocked both the agent and my own coordinator.

I explained:  People should go to God through Jesus.  Directly in prayer.  They should have faith to pray and should be taught to pray to God.

There was dead silence in the room for a minute.

Then the agent said: 

"Well ... you're missing a good bet.  For when they ask you to pray for them, they usually put some money in the envelope." 

It was a fund raising gimmick.

I never did this.

I never take prayer requests from people.  If they tell me what is going on in their lives and God touches me to pray, I pray. 

Usually when they ask you to pray, they tell you what to pray.  It is nonsense.

James 5:16    The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

A prayer must be from the heart, not from obligation.  A prayer must be "red hot", fervent.  And the prayer must be from "a righteous man".

We can't sell out to an advertising agency for gain or to the congregation for approval of man and be righteous.

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The advertising agency probably saw very quickly they would have trouble controlling me as a client.

Later, the agency told me they did not want me to send anything out in writing to anyone without first sending the writing to the agency for their approval.

Of course I wouldn't do that.

Very shortly after that, I received a "slick" phone call from the agency and the agent assigned to me said they were going to have to eliminate some of their clients and "unfortunately" I was one of the clients they were going to need to eliminate.

I thought I had failed!

But God called the following scripture to my attention.

Matthew 4:8-10    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;  And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

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.

I had not failed. 

I had passed a temptation for fame and glory and money in the ministry world.

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At one point, Marilyn Hickey said to me:   "Joan ... pray that Michael Ellison approves my going on television."

It was not pray that God's will be done, nor was it pray that God approves my going on television, but rather she said pray that Michael Ellison approves my going on television.

This is the power and the hold the advertising agencies can have over the big-time ministers.

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Billy Graham's agent came to Dallas to see about signing me with their agency.

He said, "Joan ... you don't realize that you are a 'gold mine'.  You have an earned doctorate.  We can package you to corporations to do seminars for women."

But God had told me I was not to be exclusive to women but was for the whole church.

I am called by God and anointed by Jesus as a gift to the church in the offices of apostle and prophet.

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I continued to try to present on radio what I believed to be messages from God.

Often the message offended the churches because the churches had changed doctrine from the Bible and had explained away portions of scripture such as:

Matthew 5:32    Jesus says:  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

(The divorced woman will commit adultery when she remarries and the man who marries this divorced woman will commit adultery by marrying the divorced woman.)

I Corinthians 7:10-11    And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:  But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

and many other scriptures are set aside in the churches today  ...

Some churches today approve homosexuals and lesbians, ignoring Romans 1  ... 

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:  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.

Some churches have gone along with the world and now call drunkenness a "disease" rather than a sin of the flesh, ignoring the following:

I Corinthians 6:9-10    Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexuals), nor abusers of themselves with mankind,  nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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This is the end-time apostasy in the church where churches fall away from scripture allowing antichrist to rule in the church.

II Thessalonians 2    (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.

(That which "restrains" antichrist ... holds antichrist back from the church ... are the scriptures ... as soon as a portion of scripture has been removed from the church, the restraint against antichrist is removed, and antichrist moves into the church and the apostasy begins in that church group.)

(Antichrist is not one man but a spirit in many men, just as the devil is not one man but a spirit in many men.)

II Thessalonians 2   For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only HE (the WORD) who now restrains will do so until HE (the WORD) 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;


But as in the days of Elijah, God has some reserved to HIMSELF who will not bow their knee to "Baal", to the beast of Revelation, to today's thinking of this world ... and will continue to hold fast to scripture from the Bible unto the end and the return of Jesus.  In Elijah's day, there were 7000 reserved by God, who had not bowed their knees to the false prophet Baal. 

I Kings 19:18    (God says)  Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

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Paul says Jesus could not return until the apostasy happened first in the churches.  II Thessalonians 2

It helps us to know why churches today are falling away from scripture and setting up other doctrines.

It is the apostasy in the church.

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HYMN:  ON CHRIST THE SOLID ROCK I STAND

 

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus Christ, my righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.


(Chorus)

On Christ the solid rock I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
All other ground is sinking sand.

 

(To hear this hymn played on piano and to follow along with the words, click on the following link and then when it appears on screen, tap on the play arrow, >)

On Christ the solid rock I stand

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Scriptures:

Psalms 15 
1 LORD, who shall abide in THY tabernacle? who shall dwell in THY holy hill?
2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved. 

 

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 Matthew 11:28-30  (Jesus, the Word says) Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29  Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

30  For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.

 

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Psalm 18:30 As for God, HIS way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: HE is a buckler to all those that trust in HIM. 

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Proverbs 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

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2 Timothy 4:7-8  Paul said ... I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but to all them also that love his appearing.

 

 

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💥 Sarah dies. Then Abraham dies: But before Abraham dies he makes provision for Isaac to avoid taking a wife from the daughters of Canaan..

 

Genesis 23

 

1  And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

 

19  And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

 

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Genesis 24 

1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:

3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

 

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Though HE slay me, Yet Will I Serve HIM

 

It was toward the end of 1981, and I was still on radio throughout the USA, and was still popular.

I received a dream which terrified me.

In this dream, there was an established piece of land.  All of a sudden, one entire end of land broke and slid away ... then another went ... then another ... then another.  It was silent and it was terrible to see this.

I heard these words:  "It will be all right through January, but in February it will break loose."

I told the dream on my radio broadcast.  I didn't know what was coming but I knew something really devastating was ahead.  It was approximately November, 1981, when I began telling this dream to the radio audience.

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February, 1982, came and went and nothing happened!

People called me a false prophet and left in large numbers.

I had no idea what had happened.  I knew the dream was from God.  I never stopped believing the dream was from God but it wasn't until approximately 2016 that God revealed to me the truth about this February vision.

The vision did come to pass in February, 1982. 

The vision was what would happen concerning me.  The people in large numbers were going to leave me, slide away from me!

I began laughing when I realized what this February vision really meant.  It was terrible to go through at the time, but after 34-years had passed and I saw what it was, it was funny to me.

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While it was extremely difficult while this was happening in 1982, as the years passed I became grateful to God that I was not in the big-time ministry.  I was still doing the work of apostle/prophet but in a very different way than we ever imagined.

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In 2009, there was a movie, Julie & Julia, where a young woman was writing daily on her computer at home on something called "a blog".

This was so exciting to me.  I thought how wonderful it would be to get to do that.  The problem was, I didn't have anything to say ... so I thought.

In March, 2012, God gave me a dream:

In the dream, a woman was singing.  I said, "It's a little voice.  But it's a nice little voice."  Then in the dream I saw this was a way for the church to communicate.  And I recognized it pertained to a blog.

Immediately, I called Pam Padgett in our church group, and asked her if she could set up a blog for us.  Pam had been a computer programmer at FedEx and had just retired.  She said she didn't know anything about blogs but she guessed she could find out. 

Within 3 days, we had a blog and were publishing exhortations for the church.

Jesus Ministries Exhortations

It is a little voice.  But indeed it is a "nice" little voice.

It costs us nothing at all to do this.  The messages go out daily. 

And much to our surprise those writings go all over the world. 

WWW? 

The first day, we had 2 page views from people in Germany!

We were stunned.  We knew nothing about blogs and had never before realized this was going all over the world instantly! WWW (World Wide Web)

Since that time, we have had more than 650,000 page views of our blog with an average of 15,000 page views per month!

It is a "little voice" but it is a "nice" little voice ... just as God showed me in that dream in 2012.

We still marvel at this means of speaking the Word of God throughout the entire world daily!

And it is all done from my own home and without leaving town! 

I am now 80-years-old and can still do this work daily ... whereas I wouldn't be able physically to do the other type of ministry work, travelling from city to city and speaking to church groups.

I'm in awe of God setting all this up and putting me in the right place at the right time with the right skills to do this.  (I've always been a writer and I love writing.)

God saved the best for me till last, just like God did with the prophet Job.

Job 42:12    So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning:

There was still more to come in the years ahead!

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In November, 2015, thoughts began coming into my mind that I needed to purchase a new Kindle e-reader.

I resisted these thoughts for I had a perfectly good first-generation Kindle e-reader.  I didn't need a new e-reader, so I thought.

But the thoughts kept coming on this.

Finally, just before Thanksgiving, 2015, I purchased a new e-reader ... a fifth-generation Kindle Fire.

It was much more complicated than my first generation Kindle.

I tried to find a user guide which would show me how to use this device but the guides were all too advanced for me.  I had very little computer skill and I needed a guide which showed me how to enlarge the letters and how to make the screen brighter.  The writers of manuals seemed, for the most part, to expect the reader to know how to do these simple tasks.  But I didn't know.

Pam Padgett would send me emails to tell me how to do these things.

When about 6 emails stacked up, I realized we needed to write a guide for non-computer generation people and to graphically illustrate every step showing how to use a Kindle so older people could learn to operate this magnificent device.

I could see how much it would help people my age to learn to use a Kindle or iPad tablet before they had to go to a hospital.  It would keep them in touch with everything from the hospital bed.  That would mean a great deal.  In fact one woman in our church group was in that position.  She was 83 at the time she began learning, from our book, how to use a Kindle.  A year or so later she had to go to hospital.  Because of the Kindle she could read the blog, send and receive emails, hear hymns played on internet, and be in touch with us.  It helped her life so much.

I knew the book we wrote could be very helpful to older generations: 

Graphically Illustrated Kindle Fire 8 Guide:  (For non-computer generations)

Pam had the computer knowledge to do this.  I am a writer.  So we wrote a book and found we could publish the book directly on Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) without cost to us ... and Amazon would distribute the book all over the world!

I had finished all the writing for the book and Pam was working on getting the book in the publication form required by Amazon.

I was bored.  I had little to do now that the extensive work on the book was finished.

A thought came into my mind (from God) ... "Maybe I could write ministry books and publish them on Amazon."

Now we are to the essence of God's plan in all this.

Not only could we publish e-books but we could publish the book in paper format and without any cost to the ministry.

Amazon has worldwide distribution for books and has a "free" e-book program where each book can be given away 5 days out of each 90 day cycle.

This suited us very much.

We didn't care about earning money from the books.  (Amazon required us to charge at least 99-cents for the book in standard sales, to get book into their "free" book distribution program, which we felt was very important in sending it to people all over the world.)

We just wanted to make the books available all over the world to the church everywhere!

I began writing:  Taking Thoughts Captive

I kept writing and we ended up with the following ministry books for the church in both e-book & paper form on Amazon: 

- Taking Thoughts Captive

- Faith in God

- Following God by HIS Spirit

- Dealing with Destructive Thoughts

- Dreams from God

- Prayer to God

- The New Testament Church

- Promises From God to the Church

- Overcoming Through God

- Building Your House on the Word of God

- Escaping the World God's Way

- Great is Thy Faithfulness

- 12 Volumes:  Exhortations for the Church

- Holy Bible (KJV) / New Testament, Psalms, Proverbs

- Proverbs

- Faith Building Moments from the Old Testament and Today

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Since publication, the books have been distributed to more than 1000 people per year, in many countries of the world!

We are delighted with the opportunity.

You see how one little step, purchasing that new Kindle Fire, was used by God to bring all these books into publication!

Isaiah 55:8-13

For MY thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways MY ways, saith the LORD.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are MY ways higher than your ways, and MY thoughts than your thoughts.

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

So shall MY word be that goeth forth out of MY mouth: it shall not return unto ME void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

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HYMN:    I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES

I know that my Redeemer lives
And ever prays for me.
A token of HIS love HE gives,
A pledge of liberty

I know that my Redeemer lives,
A quick'ning Spirit HE;
I know eternal life HE gives
Amazing grace to me.

I find HIM lifting up my head;
HE brings salvation near;
HIS presence makes me free indeed,
And HE will soon appear.

HE wills that I should holy be:
What can withstand HIS will?
The counsel of HIS grace in me
HE surely shall fulfill.

Jesus, I hang upon Thy word:
I steadfastly believe
Thou wilt return and claim me, Lord,
And to Thyself receive.


(To hear this hymn played on piano and to follow along with the words, click on the following link and then when it appears on screen, tap on the play arrow, >) 

I know that my Redeemer lives

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