Chapter 17-Attending church book. God teaches me about antichrist and the apostasy in the churches today

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Comments by Joan Boney:

 

The first truth we establish by the Bible is this:  There is not just one antichrist.  There are many antichrists and they come into the churches in the form of the church members and the preachers.

 

These antichrists were in the churches at the time of the apostle John.

 

John tells us this in the following scripture.

 

I John 2:18-19   Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

 

As churches continue in the doctrines of Christ in the Holy Bible, those antichrist spirits that come into the churches in the forms of people, will not remain in that church. The scriptures hold antichrist back so he cannot prosper in the churches as he tries to promote doctrines opposite to those doctrines of Christ.

 

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The apostle Paul warns the elders at the church of Ephesus.

 

Acts 20:29-30 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

 

Those antichrist spirits were sitting there in some of the elders of the church at Ephesus and they were just biding their time, waiting until Paul was gone, before they came forth speaking perverse things to the church at Ephesus.

 

(Paul would have corrected them if they spoke in front of Paul.)

 

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Just as the devil is not one man but is operating through many men, so is antichrist operating through many men and these men are in the churches.

 

The apostle Paul explains:

 

II Thessalonians 2:3-4   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.

 

Paul is telling us that Jesus cannot return to gather the elect of God until the apostasy comes into the churches.  Paul calls this, "The falling away."

 

In 1982, I was reading this scripture in 2 Thessalonians 2 and God began explaining this to me by HIS Spirit.  God said,   "The falling away are not people leaving the churches.  The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures."

 

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In 2017, God explained to me another thing about this antichrist situation in the churches.  God took me to 2 Thessalonians 2 in the NASB where they talk about the restraint which was holding antichrist back from the churches.

 

II Thessalonians 2:6-7  NASB   6 And you know what restrains him now, so that he will be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is removed.

 

I asked God:  "What restrains antichrist now?"

 

Immediately I knew the answer to this question:  Jesus, the Word, the scriptures, restrains antichrist.  When they remove the scriptures they remove Jesus from the church and antichrist moves in and sets up his own doctrine which is opposite from the doctrine of Christ of the New Testament Bible.

 

This is that end time apostasy that had to happen before Jesus could return for the elect of God.

 

The churches began to remove the instructions given in the Bible.

 

One example is 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 man who divorces a faithful wife causes her to commit adultery if she remarries.

 

-  And the man who marries her that is divorced commits adultery.

 

Have you ever heard this taught in a church?  I haven't.

 

Men often marry divorced women in the churches.  And the divorced women are often told in the churches that God forgives them and of course they can remarry after divorce, and the pastors perform the wedding ceremonies and the congregations show their approval by attending the wedding ceremonies.  Everyone at the church participates in the sin of double adultery.

 

And the church becomes the apostasy through casting aside of scripture.  Antichrist rules in the church when scripture has been eliminated this way.

 

All who cast aside scriptures will be destroyed in the apostate churches when Jesus returns for the elect of God:

 

II Thessalonians 2:8-12  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:

9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

(They loved their churches more than they loved the scriptures.  They loved the people who wanted to do various things against scripture more than they loved the scripture.  They fell away from scripture and set up false doctrines in place of the scripture.  They will be destroyed when Jesus returns to gather the elect.)

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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The apostate churches will be destroyed when Jesus returns to gather the elect of God.

 

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