Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
The apostle Paul warned:
II Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Peril: is like we are standing on the edge of a tall cliff and people are brushing by us. There is imminent danger someone will brush against us and cause us to hurdle down that cliff.
You may think God will never allow this to happen to you.
God did allow Herod to behead John the Baptist.
Had I continued going out to various cities and having meetings in 1982, as I had been doing, I believe I could have been killed by someone in the church group. But God gave me a dream showing me there would be great danger for me if I went out and I heard the words, "Don't go until you see Exodus 15."
I never went out again.
When Jesus sent out his disciples, HE said to them:
Matthew 10:16-17 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
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The great peril I see today is in spiritual ways.
Ungodly men and women have come into the church group. They will do great harm to our souls, given the opportunity.
Paul told us this would happen in the church.
II Timothy 3:2-5 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Paul told us this would happen in the church.
II Timothy 3:2-5 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
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We expect church people to be "godly". And such should be.
But in the last days, Paul says, some will be "unholy." II Timothy 3:2
We cannot trust an unholy person. That person will speak things that harm the church members. He speaks out of a fleshly mind and goes the opposite way of God, sometimes even calling that opposite way "godly".
Paul says some will be "incontinent." (unable to control himself, speaking ungodly words, doing harm to the church) II Timothy 3:3
And some will even be "fierce" inside, just biding their time until they can strike out at you. II Timothy 3:3
It is incredible to think this would be in the church group but I have certainly witnessed people doing ungodly things and saying ungodly things when they come among us as the church.
It is very difficult for us to witness this.
And when we see such, saving our own soul become paramount.
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When I think of a "godly" person I think of a person you can safely trust. You can be around that person without fear of harm coming to you. That person will not say or do things to hurt you needlessly, though a godly person might bring godly corrections to turn you to God.
But some today in church groups speak very harmful things without cause, especially when you are alone with such. Usually their words pertain to secular subjects but are still troublesome. That person is like a "thorn or thistle", always carrying hurt while pretending love. You come away from that person in a troubled state of mind and for no good reason.
Some church people speak things which you know are contrary to the way of God. You have to be restored to God's way by turning to God after hearing his words and seeing his actions.
When you identify such a person in the church, you must just come away from that ungodly person as Paul said to do. You cannot afford to keep company with such nor "eat" the Word of God with such.
I Corinthians 5:11 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 idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
(Pay close attention to the subject of a "railer", for those are the ones who speak things which hurt other people needlessly. They have no power of judgment inside them to know good from evil, for if they did they would not speak to hurt another person without cause. You can never trust such for at any given moment he will strike with harmful words. They are incontinent, having no control over what they say. They just blurt it out, and as a snake's venom it poisons you and the church.)
Experiencing such things as this in the church are shattering.
David said:
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. Psalm 55:12-14
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. Psalm 55:12-14
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Here is what we look for and expect to come from the church.
Both men and women in the church should have the qualities citied in Proverb 31.
We should be able to "safely" trust them, being around them without fear of them speaking harmful things to us.
In their heart is good and not evil.
Proverbs 31:11-12; 26
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
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In the last days, individuals will come among us in the church, "mocking", imitating those persons whom they consider to be godly. But they themselves are evil in heart. They put themselves into the church having not the Spirit of God but the spirit of the flesh. Though they think themselves to be Christians, they are not Christians. Vile words and acts will come through them.
Jude 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
12-13 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
17-19 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers (imitators of those who are godly) in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
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In one church I attended, our Bible teacher was committing fornication while "feigning" a love for us.
Often ministers are extortioners, saying things to people, to their congregations in order to get money for themselves.
Peter said it would be this way in the last days.
II Peter 2:1-3 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.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
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Jesus said, concerning the last days ...
Matthew 24:12-13 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
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I know no greater peril than evil inside the church. It is often feigned in love, insidious, pernicious, silent. Cloaked in "goodness".
And when it is revealed to us, we are devastated!
But we must go forward and not allow ourselves to be pushed over the cliff by such people in the church.
We survive and endure by clinging to the Word given to us by God at the moment of despair. We keep that word from God before us day and night.
This danger in the church group today is far greater than the danger people experienced in Hitler's Germany for this danger goes after our soul.
And it seems so good and kind and safe when it comes among us. It even can seem helpful to us.
But it is deadly.
We simply put the one carrying that evil away from us, no longer keeping company with such an one in the church.
And our trust has to be put in God for HIM to raise us up from that person who is a carrier of evil inside the church group. Only God can bring to us the healing and the restoration we need and set us up again on our feet.
But the times inside the church group are indeed the end times and perilous as Paul said they would be.
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