Joan Boney ...apostle/prophet
The apostle Paul said ... II Tim. 3
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
peril:
- the possibility that you will be hurt or killed or that something unpleasant or bad will happen to you
- something that is likely to cause injury, pain, harm, or loss
And Paul explain the reason for the "perilious" times ...
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
These men would bring the peril to us ... and they were going to come to us "having a form of godliness" ... likely saying, "Jesus is Lord" ...
They come pretending great love and appreciation toward us ... but what they really want is our money ... our our materials "goods" ... often trying to make us ashamed that we have those good things given to us by God while they are so "poor" ...
This happens frequently to me ... I will receive emails from men who identify themselves as "pastors". They begin their emails telling me how much they appreciate the message I speak. They usually have great, flowery words to start the email and much praise toward me and what I am doing.
Then by the 3rd paragraph, they usually start saying what they really want ... money so they can go into all the world and speak the gospel ... teaching materials ... Bibles ...
But they never say anything at all that is of God ... do they have a message to speak? They don't speak that message in their emails. They tell of their own "great" vision for the world. It is all nonsense and doesn't fit what we see in the Bible at all. They care for nations of men and are terribly twisted.
(The last one who sent me an email asked me what my vision is for India ... I told him my vision for India is the same as it is for United States and the rest of the nations of this present world. All these will be destroyed. Didn't he know that, I asked? II Peter 3)
This is exactly what Paul warned us about in II Tim. 3 ... These men would come presenting themselves to be "godly". But by their works they deny God, showing God does not supply their needs for if God supplied their needs they would not be coming to me asking me to supply their needs.
And very often they show themselves to be "false accusers" ...
Recently a man calling himself "pastor" came to me ... first with his flowery words about me ... then telling what he really wanted ... which was my money and wanting me to pay for materials which he would use to teach people ...
I had prayed about this email before reading his email.
God told me to tell him to "quit being a beggar."
I told him this. And I told him to buy his own books and his own Bibles. To work with his own hands. To care for his own family. And if he really had anything to speak that was from God to speak to his own household and his own neighbors. (He wanted to go all over the world and wanted others to pay for his trip.)
Then he sent a second email which he started out by saying he asked God to help him not to be a beggar.
I rejoiced ... thinking he repented ...
Then he asked me to pay for 1/2 of the teaching materials... He said he could get others to pay for the remainder of the cost.
He was showing no repentance for begging ... He was showing he was still begging and in his heart he had the goal of getting others to supply his "needs", being a beggar at heart!
But then he went on in his email to say I am "hard" and I need to be "compassionate" toward him ... (He showed himself to be a false accuser (exactly what Paul said would happen in II Tim. 3) while coming in the name of Jesus, "form of godliness")
II Tim. 3
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
We see in this example the "perilous times" spoken of by Paul. These are the times we live in now.
The reason the peril comes is because of the evil in the hearts of men who come to us saying Jesus is Lord.
You experience this in your own church groups, with pastors and other people in the congregation. You may even try to excuse these ungodly men under the guise of "forgiveness". But Jesus warned us not to let them deceive us.
Jesus said to us, Mt. 24, this is one of the signs "of the last days" ... men would come to us saying "Jesus is Lord" and by saying this they would deceive many.
Jesus said: Let no man deceive you ... Mt. 24 ...
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I (Jesus) am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Notice Paul said these men will bring "peril" to us because of the following.
These men are: lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:from such turn away.
When we see such, we are to "turn away" from them.
I put this man's name under "spam" so no more of his emails can reach me.
When such happens to us, we must be sure to "commit ourselves to God", as Peter said to do in I Peter 4.
It is such acts as this man did to me which can cause the following:
Jesus said: Mt. 24 ... 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
II Tim. 3
Perilous times because men are:
- lovers of their own selves: "what they want" ... they want to preach the gospel when they have not been called to do so ... they see themselves a great / going all over world / high / heady/ mighty in things of God / seeking their own glory by telling their own thinking rather than telling anything God has said
- covetous: wanting what we have / wanting our money / preachers begging
- boasters: telling their own vision for the world ... "they will go all over world and preach" / glorify themselves without ever speaking vision given them by God or even by the Bible
- proud: "they" exalt themselves ... they will be the one to go and you must pay for their works
- without natural affection: without real love of the Word from God / putting their own desires above the Word ... for those of us really called by God, we love the Word, natural affection toward the Word when we are born again ... They seem to sacrifice themselves when really they exalt themselves when they go and are not called to go ...
- trucebreakers:
- false accusers:
- incontinent: can't control themselves / see the opportunity to get what we have and can't resist reaching out to us and trying to get money and things from us / they do not depend on God for their needs, this they show by their incontinence as they try to get what we have from us, often trying to use scripture to cause us to feel guilty
- fierce: furiously active or determined in their own desires for themselves
- despisers of those that are good: Cain despised Able ... Able gave by faith ... Cain gave as a "work" to get approved, his own work, work of his flesh
- traitors:
- heady/highminded: exalting themselves / their works / often long list of works they see as "good" / II Thess. 2 antichrist exalts himself
- lovers of pleasure: pleased in their own glory, their own position
And they will do all this in the name of Jesus and will come to us "in the name of the Lord" ... but they are wolves, just wanting to eat us and fill their fleshly bellies with us ...
The apostle Peter warned us:
II Peter 2 ... 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: