Comments by Joan Boney:
Don't fret when the enemies of God seem to win out or make headway. It just means we grow closer to the coming of Jesus and the end time things told us in the Bible.
God will take care of that which they do. Don't let yourself be drawn into their evil by fretting.
Put your trust in God.
I've never before seen it as crazy as now! I just consider we are getting closer to the Great Tribulation and God's judgments on the earth and the coming of Jesus.
Some people are disturbed because their desire is for the continuation of this earth and worldly things. Even many who say they are Christians fail to see the end is upon us. So of course they are disturbed when they see their current world being touched negatively by leaders of men.
They don't understand what Peter is telling us in the following:
2 Peter 3
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
scoffers: A scoffer is someone who mocks, ridicules, or makes fun of a person, idea, or belief. Scoffers may also speak about their target in a way that shows they think it's silly or stupid. (They exalt themselves by demeaning others.)
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Continuing with 2 Peter 3
4 And saying, Where is the promise of HIS coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: (earth was destroyed by God by rain in days of Noah) 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning HIS promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Peter tells us 3 wonderful goals to live by in the end times. (I have set this as my guide and it helps a lot:)
* Live in peace: If something disturbs your peace or if some person disturbs your peace, put those things or individuals away from you when possible. Or if not possible, pray for God to make a "way of escape" or show you what to do.
* Without spot: Avoiding debating and arguing. If we stand on the corner with them and the street is muddy and a truck speeds past us, we will get our garments spotted with them and with their approach and doctrine. Then we will be unclean.
Some are: Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
(2 Timothy 3:7)
We can pray for them but might have to avoid them keeping ourselves from their lack of understanding. We think we can explain but when we fail over and over we can know they are more like Ishmael and have no understanding of things of God. They walk in their own understanding. And they are always a little off.
If I am around them and hear their talk I feel obligated by God's calling on my life to have to try to explain so I just keep myself away from them.
* Blameless: Reading Bible and doing that which I believe to be right in the sight of God.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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Here is something I heard on world news yesterday: In Thailand many homosexuals and lesbians "married" when the government changed their laws to permit marriage between homosexuals and lesbians.
To keep me in peace, the Holy Spirit reminded me of the following scripture:
I Thessalonians 5
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, (the Word)
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, (the Word)
Continue to keep yourself in what the Bible tells us about homosexuals and lesbians for it is right in the sight of God.
Romans 1
26 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;
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;
reprobate mind: a mind without God's judgment
You can have a reprobate mind about other things where you set up your own thinking on something without proving your thinking by Bible.
I Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Live in joy and peace. Fret not yourself over evil things knowing God will judge and will bring justice and set everything in order eventually.
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The righteousness we long for is in the new heaven and new earth. Things on this present earth will get worse and worse according to the apostles Paul and Peter.
2 Timothy 3 (Paul says)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection (homosexuals, lesbians, abortionists), 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. (They join churches, attend churches but deny the power of the scripture by doing opposite from Bible. "From such turn away," says Paul.)
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection (homosexuals, lesbians, abortionists), 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. (They join churches, attend churches but deny the power of the scripture by doing opposite from Bible. "From such turn away," says Paul.)
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Peter says:
2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
(God said to me: "No matter what you do you will never make this world righteousness.")
These exhortations I write are to help the church to continue in the way of God by Bible and truth of God even as they see the world, the governments of men, and the churches go "mad" with doctrines of the thinking of fleshly humans.
Follow the doctrines of Christ and Bible as taught us by the Holy Spirit of God.
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