💥 * 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.

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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.

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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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John 2 (Reading through the Bible)

 

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: 

² And both Jesus was called, and His disciples, to the marriage.

³ And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto Him, They have no wine.

⁴ Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.

⁵ His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever HE saith unto you, do it.

⁶ And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

⁷ Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.

⁸ And He saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.

⁹ When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
¹⁰ And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

¹¹ This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth His glory; and His disciples believed on Him.


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¹² After this He went down to Capernaum, He, and His mother, and His brethren, and His disciples: and they continued there not many days.

¹³ And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

¹⁵ And when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

¹⁶ And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not My Father's house an house of merchandise.

¹⁷ And His disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of Thine house hath eaten Me up.


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¹⁸ Then answered the Jews and said unto Him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

²⁰ Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

²¹ But He spake of the temple of His body.

²² When therefore He was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.


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²³ Now when He was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in His name, when they saw the miracles which He did.

²⁴ But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because He knew all men,

²⁵ And needed not that any should testify of man: for He knew what was in man.

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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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John 1 (Reading through the Bible)

 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² The same was in the beginning with God.

³ All things were made by Him (THE WORD); and without Him was not any thing made that was made.

(Genesis 1 ... All things were made by The Word, but it was God who told The Word what to do.  Jesus always heard from God and did what God said.  This is our pattern and that which we should also do.)

⁴ In Him  (in THE WORD) was life; and the life was the light of men.

⁵ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

⁶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷ The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. ⁸ He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

⁹ That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

¹⁰ HE was in the world, and the world was made by Him (by THE WORD), and the world knew Him not.

¹¹ HE came unto His own, and His own received Him not.

¹² But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name (The Word):

¹³ Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁴ And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

¹⁵ John bare witness of Him (The Word), and cried, saying, This was He of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for He (The Word) was before me.

¹⁶ And of His fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

¹⁷ For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.

¹⁹ And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? ²⁰ And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.

²¹ And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.

²² Then said they unto him (to John), Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

²³ He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

²⁴ And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. ²⁵ And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?

²⁶ John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth ONE among you, whom ye know not; ²⁷ HE it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

²⁸ These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

²⁹ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

³⁰ This is HE of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for HE was before me. ³¹ And I knew Him not: but that He should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.

³² And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon HIM. ³³ And I knew Him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is HE which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.

³⁴ And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

³⁵ Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; ³⁶ And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!

³⁷ And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

³⁸ Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?

³⁹ He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where He dwelt, and abode with Him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.

⁴⁰ One of the two which heard John speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

⁴¹ He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.

⁴² And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, He said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

⁴³ The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow Me.

⁴⁴ Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

⁴⁵ Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found HIM, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

⁴⁶ And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

Philip saith unto him, Come and see.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

⁴⁸ Nathanael saith unto Him, Whence knowest thou me?

Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered and saith unto Him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.

⁵⁰ Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.

⁵¹ And  HE saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

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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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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.

 

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On Christ the solid rock I stand

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