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God says to me in prophecy: "I have called you and set you into the body of Christ as an apostle."
God says to me in prophecy: "I have called you and set you into the body of Christ as an apostle."
I was very shocked and set about to find out what this was.
I knew what it says in Ephesians 4 ...
After Jesus arose, HE gave gifts to the church ... 11-12 And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
After Jesus arose, HE gave gifts to the church ... 11-12 And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Though
many churches teach there are no apostles or prophets today, I believed
what this scripture said and the church I was attending at that time
professed to believe there are apostles and prophets in today's church
... but no one knew who the apostles were at our church group and no one knew what apostles do in the NT church.
I turned to God with this, asking Him to teach me what apostles do in the NT church today ... and God taught me.
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God used a section of scripture in Acts 15 to help me to understand the work of an apostle in today's NT church.
A problem arose in the church. Should they require the Gentiles who believed to be circumcised?
The apostles and elders met to discuss this.
The Pharisees who were now believers said they should circumcise the believing Gentiles and also they should require the Gentiles to follow all the law of Moses.
Peter stood up and stated we now believe in God by faith in Christ Jesus and no longer follow the law of Moses, and God made no difference between the Gentiles and Jews, having poured out the Holy Ghost on the Gentiles as HE did on the Jews.
Paul and Barnabas also spoke.
Then the apostle James reviewed the scriptures and gave a "sentence", a judgment.
I saw this as being like a judge in the supreme court of USA where one of the judges renders the decision which they go by.
Acts 15:13-20 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for His name.
And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom My name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.
Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
A problem arose in the church. Should they require the Gentiles who believed to be circumcised?
The apostles and elders met to discuss this.
The Pharisees who were now believers said they should circumcise the believing Gentiles and also they should require the Gentiles to follow all the law of Moses.
Peter stood up and stated we now believe in God by faith in Christ Jesus and no longer follow the law of Moses, and God made no difference between the Gentiles and Jews, having poured out the Holy Ghost on the Gentiles as HE did on the Jews.
Paul and Barnabas also spoke.
Then the apostle James reviewed the scriptures and gave a "sentence", a judgment.
I saw this as being like a judge in the supreme court of USA where one of the judges renders the decision which they go by.
Acts 15:13-20 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for His name.
And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom My name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.
Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
I saw by this scripture that NT apostles have an anointing from God to deal with scripture, and to establish church doctrine.
This is what I do constantly in the church concerning subjects such as
* divorce/remarriage
* homosexuals/lesbians
* drunkards
* hair length for men and women
* antichrist in the church today.
There are many false doctrines in today's churches. Scriptures have been explained away to please people. This is the end-time apostasy spoken of by the apostle Paul in II Thessalonians 2.
A few decades ago, multiple churches taught against a man marrying a divorced woman.
This agreed with that which Jesus taught us in the Bible.
Matthew 5:32 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.
In 1936, the church of England was still teaching some doctrine close to this. Edward VIII wanted to marry a divorced woman but the people of England, according to Parliament, would not allow a divorced woman to be their Queen. So Edward renounced the throne of England.
In the years following WWII, many churches began to eliminate these scriptures and began approving all sorts of divorce and remarriage.
Yet the apostle Paul taught the following in the Bible, which does not change though churches change the doctrine which the Bible teaches us.
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.
We will be judged by the Word of God, the Bible, and not by that which the churches approve.
Therefore our doctrine must conform to the doctrine of the Bible.
The removal of such doctrine in the church is the removal of the restraint that has been holding antichrist back from the church. When the portions of scripture are changed from the Bible, antichrist comes into the church and the apostasy of the end time begins in the church.
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.
(That which restrained antichrist was the scripture. When churches allowed portions of scripture to be removed, the restraint was removed and antichrist moved into the church ... this is the end-time apostasy in the church ... the "falling away" spoken of in KJV which was a falling away from scripture by the church.)
7 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.
(When these portions of scripture were removed from the church, "he" Jesus, The Word, was removed, "taken away", thus opening the door for antichrist and the apostasy in the church group.)
8 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;
This removal of portions of scripture is taking place in the churches today, thus we are seeing today the end-time apostasy.
Those called by God as apostles will fight against this, but I have never seen a pastor repent when I have shown him scripture which he has twisted or removed from the congregation. I have gone to several pastors through the years and never has a pastor repented when he did this with scripture.
When God showed me the word "restraint" I knew what was happening in those churches.
Antichrist had moved into the church by the removal of specific scriptures. This is the end-time apostasy in the church which had to happen before Jesus returns. We are seeing it today. It opens the door for the return of Jesus.
There are many other doctrines from Bible which are twisted or changed or explained away in the churches today .
In Bible we see homosexuals went against nature and chose unnatural acts of sex.
Romans 1:26-27 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.
These homosexuals try to explain themselves saying they were born this way and therefore have always had this unnatural sexual attraction to the same sex. (Some churches today are approving homosexuals and lesbians and some churches even ordain homosexuals and lesbians to be their ministers.)
But the Bible teaches us they chose this unnatural way.
This is what I do constantly in the church concerning subjects such as
* divorce/remarriage
* homosexuals/lesbians
* drunkards
* hair length for men and women
* antichrist in the church today.
There are many false doctrines in today's churches. Scriptures have been explained away to please people. This is the end-time apostasy spoken of by the apostle Paul in II Thessalonians 2.
*****
A few decades ago, multiple churches taught against a man marrying a divorced woman.
This agreed with that which Jesus taught us in the Bible.
Matthew 5:32 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.
In 1936, the church of England was still teaching some doctrine close to this. Edward VIII wanted to marry a divorced woman but the people of England, according to Parliament, would not allow a divorced woman to be their Queen. So Edward renounced the throne of England.
In the years following WWII, many churches began to eliminate these scriptures and began approving all sorts of divorce and remarriage.
Yet the apostle Paul taught the following in the Bible, which does not change though churches change the doctrine which the Bible teaches us.
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.
We will be judged by the Word of God, the Bible, and not by that which the churches approve.
Therefore our doctrine must conform to the doctrine of the Bible.
The removal of such doctrine in the church is the removal of the restraint that has been holding antichrist back from the church. When the portions of scripture are changed from the Bible, antichrist comes into the church and the apostasy of the end time begins in the church.
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.
(That which restrained antichrist was the scripture. When churches allowed portions of scripture to be removed, the restraint was removed and antichrist moved into the church ... this is the end-time apostasy in the church ... the "falling away" spoken of in KJV which was a falling away from scripture by the church.)
7 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.
(When these portions of scripture were removed from the church, "he" Jesus, The Word, was removed, "taken away", thus opening the door for antichrist and the apostasy in the church group.)
8 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;
This removal of portions of scripture is taking place in the churches today, thus we are seeing today the end-time apostasy.
Those called by God as apostles will fight against this, but I have never seen a pastor repent when I have shown him scripture which he has twisted or removed from the congregation. I have gone to several pastors through the years and never has a pastor repented when he did this with scripture.
When God showed me the word "restraint" I knew what was happening in those churches.
Antichrist had moved into the church by the removal of specific scriptures. This is the end-time apostasy in the church which had to happen before Jesus returns. We are seeing it today. It opens the door for the return of Jesus.
There are many other doctrines from Bible which are twisted or changed or explained away in the churches today .
In Bible we see homosexuals went against nature and chose unnatural acts of sex.
Romans 1:26-27 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.
These homosexuals try to explain themselves saying they were born this way and therefore have always had this unnatural sexual attraction to the same sex. (Some churches today are approving homosexuals and lesbians and some churches even ordain homosexuals and lesbians to be their ministers.)
But the Bible teaches us they chose this unnatural way.
Concerning drunkards ... some medical groups are saying drunkards have a disease causing them to be drunkards.
But the Bible teaches us drunkenness is a sin, a work of the flesh, and they who do such things as this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
The apostle Paul explains as follows:
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.
These are not diseases as cancer is a disease, but these are sins, the work of the flesh, their own uncontrolled fleshly desires manifest in them.
These people who continue these sins will not inherit the kingdom of God.
The real apostles, appointed by God and ordained by God to the NT church, will not approve sin in the church but will hold fast to Bible doctrine regardless of the words spoken by religious people against these doctrines of the Bible.
*****
In the next chapter, I speak about prophets in today's church.
Notice how different the work of the apostle is from the work of prophet.
The apostle uses much scripture, comparing scripture against scripture.
The prophet rarely speaks scripture but gives specific words and concepts to the church.
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Are there prophets in today's NT church?
But what does the Bible say? Are there examples of prophets used in the New Testament church?
Ephesians 4:11-12 ... After Jesus arose from the crucifixion ... we read ... And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
It is amazing that some church groups who say there are evangelists, pastors, teachers, say there are no apostles or prophets.
We have the Bible example of Agabus, a NT prophet, bringing a word to the apostle Paul in the church.
Acts 21:10-11 And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus. And
when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own
hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews
at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him
into the hands of the Gentiles.
Another example of Agabus is in Acts 11.
vv. 27-29 And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. And
there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit
that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came
to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:
Notice in verse 27 it says in these days came "prophets" ... more than one prophet ... to the NT church.
Paul often had a prophet, Silas, accompanying him on his journeys. Acts 15:32 And in that scripture, a man named Judas was said to be a prophet.
Acts 15:32 And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
When there is an example in the Bible showing prophets in the NT church, we should accept this as being for us today.
Paul often had a prophet, Silas, accompanying him on his journeys. Acts 15:32 And in that scripture, a man named Judas was said to be a prophet.
Acts 15:32 And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
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When there is an example in the Bible showing prophets in the NT church, we should accept this as being for us today.
NT prophets often carry messages of correction to the church today.
I
was invited to speak to a small church in Texas. The pastor invited
people to come to a prayer line and asked me to pray over those who came
forward. As I went down the line, I noticed a very large black woman.
I went to her and asked, "And what is it you want from God?"
She replied: "I's gest wants more of Jesus."
I said to her, "God will show me what you are doing."
She began to wave both arms in the air and began to shout aloud, saying: "Oh, no, Lord ... Don't tell her!"
*****
Prophets have an anointing from God and will often
bring to the church messages which reveal truth which some in the church
try to hide.
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I am called by God as a NT prophet, as well as an apostle.
Once I was having coffee with 2 Baptist women.
One woman began speaking of another woman from her church group. She asked me what I thought might be wrong with this woman for she was against the new, expensive church building the pastor was having built.
Without any thought at all, the following came from my mouth.
"Maybe she's a prophet."
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I was playing golf with two women, a Church of Christ woman and a Methodist.
The Methodist woman began talking about people who judged others.
Out of my mouth came these words from the Holy Spirit.
"If you judge someone is judging, aren't you judging?"
It
was like someone had stuck a pin in a balloon that was full of hot
air. This Methodist woman gasped like air was coming out of her.
*****
One Sunday, I was in the checkout line at the grocery.
The woman in front of me began chastising the checker who attended her church because the checker was working on a Sunday.
Finally I spoke up and said to the abuser, "If you want to go by OT law, why are you buying groceries on a Sunday?"
(In OT law they were to remain all day in their tents on the Sabbath.)
*****
As a prophet in the NT church, I have carried many messages of correction to pastors and to congregations and to individuals in the congregations.
Prophets are usually abused by the wrong-doer.
And prophets are sent to the church, not to the world.
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NT apostles
are a bit like judges in a court of law. The apostle has his law book
(the Bible) and the Holy Spirit who rules through him by bringing to his
mind scripture concerning the case at hand to allow the apostle to
judge correctly in the church.
NT prophets are like the policeman who sees a person speeding down the highway.
We
see the church speeding past the Word of God, and when we see such, God
often has us speak to the offender to give him an opportunity to
correct himself in the church.
*****
I had gone to the same hairdresser for haircuts for about 10 years.
She said she is a Christian.
In October, 2017, she began telling me about her recent trip to Ruidoso, New Mexico.
She said she is a Christian.
In October, 2017, she began telling me about her recent trip to Ruidoso, New Mexico.
I started to ask her what she did there but it was like a STOP in my spirit. I felt God was stopping me from asking.
But she went on to tell me she went there with her new boyfriend.
I was very grieved.
I said nothing but when I returned home I talked to God about this.
As a result, I sent her the following letter:
10-6-17
Marla:
You once told me you are a Christian.
To commit fornication is a very grievous matter and is a way of death and destruction.
The Bible says they who do such will not inherit the kingdom of God.
It is selling your soul for a morsel of flesh.
When you spoke to me of your "boyfriend" and your trip to Ruidoso, I was greatly grieved.
There was a pride and a delight in you when you spoke.
I urge you to seriously consider what you are doing, and if fornication is involved, to repent and turn back to God and save your soul, for fornication is surely a way of eternal death.
If fornication is involved, I cannot be a part of this.
Please cancel my next appointment if it is.
I just cannot approve this nor rejoice with you nor go along with you if that is what it is.
Joan Boney
Avoid even the appearance of evil.
II John vv. 8-11
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.
He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
10-6-17
Marla:
You once told me you are a Christian.
To commit fornication is a very grievous matter and is a way of death and destruction.
The Bible says they who do such will not inherit the kingdom of God.
It is selling your soul for a morsel of flesh.
When you spoke to me of your "boyfriend" and your trip to Ruidoso, I was greatly grieved.
There was a pride and a delight in you when you spoke.
I urge you to seriously consider what you are doing, and if fornication is involved, to repent and turn back to God and save your soul, for fornication is surely a way of eternal death.
If fornication is involved, I cannot be a part of this.
Please cancel my next appointment if it is.
I just cannot approve this nor rejoice with you nor go along with you if that is what it is.
Joan Boney
Avoid even the appearance of evil.
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II John vv. 8-11
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.
He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
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