Building your house on the word from God
Dr. Joan Boney, born again by God and set in the church by Jesus Christ, in offices of apostle and prophet according to Ephesians 4:8;11-14, with spiritual gift of exhortation, to deal with current problems faced by body of Christ, focused on doing the Word of God and preparing for the end time and the return of Jesus to gather the elect of God. SUBJECTS: What the Bible says about: homosexuals & lesbians; divorce and remarriage; antichrist; what happens according to the Bible when a person dies; description in Bible of the New Heaven and New earth created by God for the believer to live for eternity; the new spiritual body for each believer; following God and knowing the will of God today on this present earth.
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Episodes
Saturday Jun 06, 2026
Saturday Jun 06, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on May 11, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
No wonder when Jesus comes all the tribes of the earth will "mourn".
Matthew 24:30 Jesus says: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
For they claimed their right to live as they please on this present earth. And they claim PRIDE in their various sins without restraint.
And nothing can touch them, or so they think.
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I Thessalonians 5:3 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.
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* The right to divorce and remarry:
Mark 10:11-12 And HE (Jesus) saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
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* The right to be homosexuals and lesbians:
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;
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* The right to have abortions, destroying the heritage of the Lord:
Psalm 127:3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is HIS reward.
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No wonder every tribe of the earth will mourn when they see Jesus coming through the clouds at the end of this present world:
Matthew 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
So take PRIDE in those sins, until you see Jesus coming through the air ... and then begin to MOURN!
2 Corinthians 5:10-11 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Friday Jun 05, 2026
Friday Jun 05, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on May 8, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
In the midst of the great darkness of this world and the apostate churches, who change doctrines written in the New Testament Bible and approve people in their various sins, we hold fast to scripture and speak scripture and live our lives by various scriptures.
We are a small light to the people of this present world. And we show the right path of God.
I John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
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I Thessalonians 5:3-9
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)
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Philippians 2:13-16
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of HIS good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings (complaining) and disputings:
15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life;
Though the darkness that surrounds man all over this world is very great today, as we draw nearer to the return of Jesus and the end of this present heaven and earth there is a small light everywhere and that light is The Word of God, The Holy Bible, The scriptures which we speak and live!
2 Timothy 3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Thursday Jun 04, 2026
Thursday Jun 04, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on April 22, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
In heaven, there will be no pain, no sorrow, because we will not have these physical bodies in the new heaven.
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The elect of God are given new spiritual bodies:
I Corinthians 15
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
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Jesus raises the dead in Christ.
I Thessalonians 4:13-17 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede/go before) them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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Jesus gathers the elect in Christ who are still living on this earth and takes them into the air to be with Himself and the dead who are now resurrected and alive.
Matthew 24:29-31 Jesus says:
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
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The new heaven and new earth:
Revelation 21:1-5 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And HE that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Wednesday Jun 03, 2026
Wednesday Jun 03, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on April 23, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
We deny and reject the Holy Spirit when we fail to speak that which is called to our mind by the Holy Spirit for fear of that which man would say about us.
As we speak that which the Holy Spirit brings to mind, we accept HIM and confess HIM and the words we speak are of God.
I was with my favorite aunt, a Church of Christ member, several years ago. The Holy Spirit brought this to my mind: "Tell her about being taken into heaven."
I didn't want to do that!
Church of Christ people do not usually delight in supernatural religious happenings!
But I knew it was the Holy Spirit speaking to me telling me to do this. So I yielded myself to the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit never "makes" us do anything. The Holy Spirit reveals the will of God to us.
I told my aunt this which happened to me shortly after I was born again.
I was asleep in the night when I was "transported" into heaven. I was with God and Christ and the Holy Spirit. (I saw no physical bodies. It was a spiritual experience.) At that time I was merged into the body of Jesus, made one with the Word of God.
A few nights later, the exact same thing happened to me a second time.
As I told this story to my aunt, I noticed a "dreamy" type look on her face. And when I finished speaking she said to me, "Something like that happened to me once and it was all golden."
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In 1982, the following word came to me by the Holy Spirit and that word was repeated over and over throughout that day: "The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God ... The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God ... The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God ... "
I didn't know what this was going to mean. But a few days later, God called to my attention several big-time ministers and things that they were doing, and messages to give to them.
When I couldn't get the message to them, I was persuaded by God to present the message on my radio broadcast, which was coast to coast in USA, and to name that minister by name along with the message.
Then that minister got the message.
I had a meeting in Seattle for the radio audience. The radio station manager was waiting at the door of the meeting room. When I arrived, he gave me this "warning". "Joan ... you have many good messages. Just speak those. If you continue to speak these judgment messages, I don't know what is going to happen to you. We might have to put you off the air."
Instantly, the Holy Spirit arose in me and I said, "George ... if I don't speak the message that I believe to be from God then I don't have a message and I may as well be off the air,"
If we deny that which God wants us to speak we deny the Holy Spirit.
John 12:42-43 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on HIM; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess HIM, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
On this Podcast, I will tell you a problem I had in 2021.
I Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Tuesday Jun 02, 2026
Tuesday Jun 02, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on April 28, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
As we see leaves begin to bud on the trees we know summer comes. As we see open approval and rise of homosexuals, we can know Jesus stands ready to remove the elect of God from this earth before the coming destructions appointed for the end of this world by God.
It is amazing to me to see how fast this approval of homosexual and lesbians and other sexual deviations is happening at this point in time.
I Thessalonians 5:1-5 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 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.
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The Bible shows us this is one of the signs of the end and the return of Jesus to gather the elect of God.
Matthew 24:32-33 Jesus says: Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Luke 17:28-30 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
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God destroyed Sodom in the days of Lot because of the open wickedness displayed by homosexual acts.
Genesis 19
1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. (have sex with them)
6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
10 But the men (who were really angels of God) put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
(Angels have great power from God.)
12 And the men (the 2 angels) said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
25 And HE overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Monday Jun 01, 2026
Monday Jun 01, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on May 7, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
When Jesus walked on this earth HE called 12 men to be HIS apostles.
But after the crucifixion and resurrection, Jesus called from heaven HIS ministers, just as Jesus called the apostle Paul from heaven.
At the time Jesus called Paul to be a minister, Paul was persecuting the church.
Acts 9:1-6 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt THOU have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
This scripture shows us Jesus calling Paul (by name) and appointing him from heaven to be a minister after Jesus was crucified and raised into heaven.
Jesus does this same thing today as HE sets HIS ministers into today's church. From heaven, Jesus speaks to HIS chosen ministers, appointing them into the ministry of the church and teaching them to do the work of the ministry to which HE has called them.
Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore HE saith, When HE ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
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:
I Corinthians 12:27-28 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God hath set some in the church (as ministers), first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Jesus, speaking from heaven, calls HIS ministers today.
But many ministers today do not have that call of Jesus on their lives. They put themselves into the ministry by going to Bible college or seminaries without being called by Jesus to do so. And they are the antichrists in today's churches.
Jude
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers (copiers of other ministers) in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
This is the end time apostasy.
2 Peter 2
1 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.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
(These false ministers explain away various scriptures and approve sins in the congregation by departing from scriptures such as Matthew 5:32 where Jesus said the man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
3 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.
Many false ministers in today's church covet greatness for themselves and try to draw large numbers of people to their church for this makes them look "great" and also brings more money into the church.
This is the end time apostasy in the church where they fall away from specific scriptures and set up other doctrines contrary to the New Testament Bible Doctrines.
II Thessalonians 2
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day 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, God said to me: "This falling away are not people leaving the church group but are church groups leaving various scriptures."
NASB calls this the apostasy of the end times that had to happen in the churches before Jesus returns.
II Thessalonians 2:3-4 (NASB)
3 No one is to deceive you in any way! For it (the return of Jesus) will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 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.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Sunday May 31, 2026
Sunday May 31, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on July 30, 2021)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Jesus is coming to gather the elect of God and take them off this earth to that new heaven and new earth which is created by God for the elect of God.
Jesus says: Matthew 24:29-31 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And HE (Jesus) shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
The elect of God are those persons chosen by God for salvation. Those persons to whom God reveals HIMSELF. Those persons who are instantly changed by God into new creatures, not by their own will or by their own works, but by God's will.
This is explained in Romans 9 and Ephesians 1.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Saturday May 30, 2026
Saturday May 30, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on May 5, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Luke 21
7 And they asked HIM, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?
Luke 17
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
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What was it like in Sodom in the time Lot lived there?
The sins of Sodom reached into heaven and God sent 2 angels to Sodom to destroy Sodom but first these angels had to remove Lot for he was a righteous man.
2 Peter 2:6-9 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
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:
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A rise in acceptance of homosexual sins will happen as a sign before Jesus returns to gather the elect to HIMSELF and God destroys this present world.
Lot knew homosexual acts were "wicked" and he states this in the following scripture.
Homosexuals lived in every "quarter" of the city of Sodom when Lot lived there. Lot knew these acts were wicked and he was vexed because of them.
Two men, who were really angels of God, came to Sodom on assignment from God, to destroy Sodom after they delivered Lot from the destruction that was to come.
Lot saw these two angels but he saw them as 2 men.
(Angels do not have wings. Angels look like normal men.)
Knowing the wickedness of the city of Sodom, Lot offered these men the protection of his own house.
Genesis 19
1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. (have sex with them)
6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
10 But the men (the angels) put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
(angels of God have great powers)
12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
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The open approval by the world and the apostate churches concerning homosexual acts is one sign of the coming of Jesus to gather HIS elect and also the pending Great Tribulation and the destruction God will bring upon this world.
These churches depart from the following scriptures concerning homosexuals and lesbians:
Romans 1
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
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;
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Friday May 29, 2026
Friday May 29, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on April 17, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
The world:
1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
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James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
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The people of this world do not have the Spirit of God in them. They do what is right in their own eyes and follow their own flesh and produce the works of the flesh of man.
Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft (living in superstitions), hatred, variance (to debate and vary with others), emulations (striving to be better than others), wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Genesis 6
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that HE had made man on the earth, and it grieved HIM at HIS heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth ME that I have made them.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted HIS way upon the earth.
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The apostle Paul said:
Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing:
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The apostate church:
II 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;
(Churches fall away from scripture which allows antichrist to come into their churches and set up doctrines opposite to scripture, approving all manner of sin inside their churches, especially in areas of divorce/remarriage and even homosexuals/lesbians.)
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.
Both the Catholic and the Protestant churches are filled with apostasy, idolatry, changing of doctrines from the New Testament Bible, and setting up doctrines not of the Bible.
The following doctrines are among those eliminated in church groups today:
Concerning divorce/remarriage:
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.
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.
Mark 10:11-12 Jesus says: Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Concerning homosexual/lesbians:
Romans 1:26-28
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;
The apostate churches also set up many things for their people to worship which are not in the Bible. Such as: lighting of candles in prayer; crossing themselves; praying to dead humans; trusting in dead humans by wearing medallions or putting medallions in their automobiles for safety; calling their ministers by names which are not in Bible such as Reverend, Vicar, Pope, Archbishop.
When Jesus returns, HE will destroy all church groups who have fallen away from scripture in the Bible and who have set up doctrines other than Bible for their church groups.
II Thessalonians 2:8 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:
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The elect of God:
The elect of God are those individuals chosen by God with whom God communicates directly causing them to be born again by the Holy Spirit of God, by the will of God.
The Spirit of God lives in the elect of God.
I Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
The Holy Spirit WHO is in us searches the heart of God to reveal the will of God to us so we can go in the way of God as we live on this present earth.
John 14:26 Jesus says: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:13 Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.
I Corinthians 2:9-14 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love HIM.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by HIS Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
At the end of this world, Jesus returns through the clouds and gathers the dead in Christ first and they rise to meet Jesus in the air.
Then Jesus sends HIS angels to this earth to gather the elect of God and they rise also to meet Jesus in the air.
I Thessalonians 4:13-18
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with HIM.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede/go before) them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord HIMSELF shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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When Jesus returns, HE will send HIS angels to gather HIS elect and take them into the air to meet HIM and the resurrected dead in Christ in the air.
Matthew 24:29-31
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
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The dead in Christ who have been resurrected by Jesus and the elect of God who have been raised to meet them in the air, will all be given new heavenly bodies.
I Corinthians 15:49-53
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
(Paul shows us we will be changed from these current physical bodies into our new spiritual body which is in the image of God. We will be changed in the blink of an eye. Blink. That is how fast we will be changed into our new spiritual bodies.)
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We will then be taken to the new heaven and the new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Revelation 21:1-5
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and God HIMSELF shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And HE that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
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God destroys this present heaven and earth:
2 Peter 3
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.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Thursday May 28, 2026
Thursday May 28, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on April 21, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. 2 Timothy 1:14
This means: Be diligent to focus on that which the Holy Spirit brings to our minds.
For this is what the Holy Spirit does for each of the elect of God.
John 14:24 Jesus says: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:13 Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Wednesday May 27, 2026
Wednesday May 27, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on April 15, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
After we are born again and have the Spirit of God in us, we learn to control our flesh by following that which is brought to our mind by the Spirit of God, going in that way of God in the issues of this present life.
Flesh never improves.
We simply learn to follow the Spirit of God when our flesh tries to rise us.
I John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Matthew 24:1-2 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Revelation 6:12-14 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
I Peter 4:1-2 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
I Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
If we follow that which the Spirit brings to mind, we will not walk in the ways the flesh wants to go. It is easy, for all we have to do is follow the Spirit of God. (He will remind us!)
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Tuesday May 26, 2026
Tuesday May 26, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on April 19, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
We see by the Bible that in the end times things become "perilous" in the churches. (2 Timothy 3)
Concerning the end times, Jesus even said unless the time was shortened, there would be no flesh saved.
Matthew 24:21-22 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
On June 21, 2021, I decided to offer my services to a few churches in the area where I live in Colorado, Springs (USA). We began sending letters to churches and planned out "Virtual Presentations" for those persons interested as follows:
# 1. Keeping ourselves ready for the return of Jesus:
* Luke 21:33-36 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but MY words shall not pass away.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
(Connecting continually to God through prayer, thus making ourselves "worthy" to escape that which is coming upon this world. Watch & pray: Pay attention to that which we are doing and saying, thereby giving ourselves a chance to correct ourselves as needed. Turning directly to God for help.)
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# 2. Settling all cares and concerns with God and living in peace daily:
* Philippians 4:6-7 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
(Is there anything you dread? Are you concerned over anything? Keeping yourselves daily as new concerns arrive. Developing a diligence in taking matters to God as situations surface daily. Examples of doing this and being comforted by God by HIS Spirit as a result.)
* 2 Peter 3:10-14 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.
(Focus on connecting with God continually through prayer thereby keeping ourselves in peace continually daily, as we submit all concern and cares and troubles to God through prayer.)
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# 3. Praying according to the will of God.
1 John 5:14-15 And this is the confidence that we have in HIM, that, if we ask any thing according to HIS will, HE heareth us: And if we know that HE hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of HIM.
- Seeking the will of God. (Did God tell me to do this?)
- How to recognize the ideas that are from God (James 3:17 & Matthew 11:30)
(Is this God's will for me? How do I know it is?)
The letter we sent to Pastors & Elders is recorded on this Podcast.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Monday May 25, 2026
Monday May 25, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on July 31, 2021)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Our own flesh and devils work together to destroy us as we follow them. The flesh of man fights, argues, strives, and always thinks himself to be right but he destroys himself by such.
The Spirit of God will take us in the following ways of the Spirit:
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
This does not mean we go along with sin. We state the scriptures on the matter at hand and if the person chooses to go another way, we just walk away, resisting the temptation to debate.
Titus 3:9-13 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
(Heretic is that person who resists godly counsel and continues in an opposite way, refusing to submit to the power of the truth of the scriptures.)
After the first or second warning, walk away and live in the peace given us by God.
For the apostle Peter tells us to keep ourselves in a continual state of peace as we wait for Jesus to return to remove us from this present earth.
2 Peter 3:13-14 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
We live in peace by committing all troublesome things to God in prayer, connecting with God this way, though prayer.
Philippians 4:6-7 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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Hating people and striving with them may seem to be right to a man but really that man is following his own flesh by doing such things.
Galatians 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance (to vary, debate, argue), emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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The apostle Paul says:
Galatians 5:16 Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
As we follow that brought to our mind by the Spirit, we will go in the way of the Spirit in the matter at hand and that way is opposite to the way of the flesh.
We win out over sin by turning from that sin and by walking away, staying in peace through that word given us by God.
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James 3:14-16 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations blog
Sunday May 24, 2026
Sunday May 24, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on April 29, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Sometimes when we try to share things of God with an unbeliever, it is like wading through thick mud and we feel a heavy weight. But when we share as God leads by HIS Spirit in us it is lightness and strength.
I have learned to do this: Don't try to share, but when God brings something to my memory when I am with another person, share that!
Examples are given on this Podcast:
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Saturday May 23, 2026
Saturday May 23, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on May 20, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Recently, I was really upset when a TV newsman said the 1921 Tulsa Massacre was the worst racial incident in the history of the United States.
I said, "What about the Civil War?" (and also the horrible years of reconstruction following the Civil War?)
The statement made by the TV newsman caused me to "puff up" and my flesh took on a type of scoffing attitude that was not good.
I was reminded of this scripture:
Matthew 5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
I have found TV evening news to provoke me in a bad way so when I understood that, I deleted the daily recordings from my television DVR.
I have felt myself grow arrogant over some of the reports, feeling "How can you say that?" As a result I even take on "scoffing", which is an evil fruit of the flesh.
If I want to keep up with those things going on in the world, I can check the written headlines on CNN International on my Kindle tablet. I find writings do not usually provoke me to evil.
Also I find sometimes seeing what people are doing today is depressing and could discourage me if I allow it to do so.
Jesus says: 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.
When we find ourselves in this position, we usually need to eliminate that activity from our lives.
Romans 13:12-14 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
The apostle Paul told us: For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: (Romans 7:18)
So if your right hand offends you, cut it off. Just stop doing that thing that provokes to evil.
The flesh never improves and it is with us as long as we live on this earth.
We control our flesh by walking in the Spirit, by doing that brought to our attention by the Spirit. We also control our flesh by cutting off those things (or people) who provoke our flesh to do evil.
But we must not continue allowing the flesh to rise up, for to do so is a type of death to us, keeping us from doing that assignment given to us by God.
In the end times, iniquity will abound and we certainly don't need to give entrance to things that we find detrimental to our peace and unity.
We live in a time where we see much delusion and iniquity.
As we wait for the return of Jesus, our goal should be the following as expressed by the apostle Peter.
II Peter 3:13-14 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
(This present earth will never be made righteousness but will grow worse and worse to the end.)
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.
Paul says:
II Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
We keep ourselves in joy and peace of God as we go forward, focusing on HIS truth as given us by the Holy Spirit. We can't allow ourselves to focus on that which people are doing but rather we keep ourselves focused on that which God tells us and on the good which God has done for us and the many examples in the Bible which show overcoming through believing that which God says.
Therefore put on the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Friday May 22, 2026
Friday May 22, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on April 6, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Is anything too hard for the God who made the heavens and the earth?
My faith in God soars each time I remember this!
And if I pray according to the will of God, that prayer will be answered by God.
I John 5:14-15 And this is the confidence that we have in HIM, that, if we ask any thing according to HIS will, HE heareth us: And if we know that HE hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of HIM.
It is so easy for the elect of God, for God has given to each of the elect HIS Spirit to live inside each of the elect of God.
I Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
It is not that we "try" to be godly. We are godly because the Spirit of God lives in us. And we follow HIM, doing godly things.
The Spirit who lives in us is the Spirit of Truth, The Comforter. HE will guide us into all truth.
HE will teach us all things. HE will remind us of all that Jesus has said. HE will show us things to come.
John 14:26 Jesus says: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:13 Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.
The Holy Spirit who lives inside of each of us who are the elect of God, searches the heart of God to reveal to us the will of God in the specific issues of this present life so we can go in the way of God in that matter.
I Corinthians 2:9-13 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love HIM. But God hath revealed them unto us by HIS Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Jesus says to us:
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
When we follow HIM, doing what HE says, things are even more abundant for us than we had planned for ourselves!
Examples on this Podcast:
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Thursday May 21, 2026
Thursday May 21, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on April 12, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
As the wickedness increases in this present world and in today's apostate churches, we are as those who walked through the Red Sea. We walk on dry ground without being touched by the world or the apostate churches.
Live in peace.
If something or someone steals our peace, we turn to God with the issues to see what God would have us to do.
Philippians 4:6-7 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (The Word).
Examples are given in this Podcast:
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Wednesday May 20, 2026
Wednesday May 20, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on April 16, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Jesus speaks to us today by HIS Spirit, guiding us, teaching us, reminding us of that which HE has said and even showing us things to come.
In the Old Testament, the people had to go to a prophet to hear what God wanted them to do. But in the New Testament all who belong to God have been given HIS Spirit to speak to them.
Hebrews 1:1-2 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by HIS Son, whom HE hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also HE made the worlds;
Each of us who are of God are sealed with the Holy Spirit of God and the Holy Spirit of God lives in us to show us the will of God in the issues pertaining to this present life.
Ephesians 1:13 In WHOM ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in WHOM also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
John 14:26 Jesus says: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:13 Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.
Always share that which the Holy Spirit brings to mind when with other people.
Resist the fear of offending them but rather submit to that which the Holy Spirit brings to your mind, sharing that. We don't try to witness but we are a witness when we speak that given to us by the Holy Spirit of God.
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Matthew 7 Jesus says:
21 Not every one that saith unto ME, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of MY Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to ME in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in THY name? and in THY name have cast out devils? and in THY name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from ME, ye that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
Tuesday May 19, 2026
Tuesday May 19, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on January 10, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
If you have a problem and don't know what to do, ask God. His answer might surprise you!
James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
I know there are many times God just puts something into my heart and leads me.
Psalm 37:4-5 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in HIM; and HE shall bring it to pass.
I've always thought this means God will put HIS desires into our hearts to lead us. We think it is our desire but really it is HIS desire for us, when we are praying, asking HIM what we should do.
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When I realize I have heard a word from God, I know what to do in the situation.
* A few days ago, I felt TV news was causing some bad fruits to come forth in me. I began praying about this. And I heard, "If your right hand offends thee, cut if off." I stopped watching these programs. Immediately I found I was at more peace. I don't like seeing things people of this world are doing and I don't like hearing their "wisdom".
Somehow the TV evening news was causing me to react, but I find I can look at the headlines that are written of the day's world news on Internet and rarely react. (I don't often pull up the details of the story.) So if I want to check events, I am now reading the headlines on Internet. Sometimes they trouble me and I have to pray to be free from the concern, but mostly they do not trouble me like the TV news with all the pictures trouble me.
If something troubles us, we need to deal with it through asking God for HIS help to know what is best for us to do.
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* One day, I was bombarded with thoughts: "What if this happens to you? What if that happens. What will happen to you if you get to where you can't walk? What will you do?"
I cried out to God, "Help me!"
Immediately the Holy Spirit reminded me of this scripture: "God will supply all your need." Philippians 4:19
"That's right", I responded. And all the weight of the destructive thoughts lifted from off my shoulders. I was at peace and had joy again!
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John 14:26 Jesus said: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
The Holy Spirit says: God will supply all my need when there is a need! Philippians 4:19
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth in all things and is also The Comforter to us.
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Monday May 18, 2026
Monday May 18, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on July 22, 2021)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
It would be terrible to have to seek the counsel of humans. And it would also be dreadful to try to figure out what to do based on our own reasonings.
We are blessed above all others for we have access to the wisdom from God.
James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
And God watches over us and leads us by the Holy Spirit who dwells in each believer.
John 14:26 Jesus says: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
In the Old Testament, the children of Israel are examples for they fought against God and did not prosper.
Psalm 81
10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But MY people would not hearken to MY voice; and Israel would none of ME.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that MY people had hearkened unto ME, and Israel had walked in MY ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned My hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto HIM: but their time should have endured for ever.
16 HE should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
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Sunday May 17, 2026
Sunday May 17, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on July 24, 2021)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
If they ask us what we think, we should tell them what God thinks! That is what matters.
The apostle Paul says:
2 Timothy 4:2-4 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
If they are offended and they don't want to be around us anymore, we should understand the following:
I Corinthians 7:13 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
Though Paul is speaking the above scripture to those persons who have unbelieving mates, I also know this applies to unbelievers in general when we are around those unbelievers.
God says:
II Corinthians 6:14-18
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be MY people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
It is not that we have to argue with the unbeliever. We just speak the truth from God and let the person make his decision.
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Saturday May 16, 2026
Saturday May 16, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on July 29, 2021)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
A friend is one who supports you in that which you are doing.
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Recently a woman asked me: "Do you support Gays and Lesbians?"
My reply: "No!"
And I sent the following scripture and several other scriptures to her.
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;
(I sent to her scriptures from both Old and New Testaments and told her, "This is God's view of homosexuals and lesbians and I support God's view of homosexuals and lesbians.")
This woman has not come to my house to "visit" since I responded to her.
If the unbeliever depart, let him depart.
This is the best way I know to separate in peace from the unbeliever, speak God's truth on the subject at hand when you are with the unbeliever and the subject surfaces.
Also we keep ourselves from being deceived by thinking we can have "fellowship" in the spirit with them when one has the Spirit of God and the other has the spirit of the world and the spirit of the various church denominations.
It is the elect of God we are interested in identifying, for they have the Spirit of God as we do.
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Do I support the churches where pastors perform wedding ceremonies between a divorced woman and a man?
I do not support these churches for Jesus said: "Whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery."
(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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Do I support churches where they teach the divorced woman that she can remarry?
"No." Multiple scriptures show that the divorced woman who remarries while her husband is still living is an adulteress.
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.
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.
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.
Mark. 10:6-12 Jesus says: 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.
10 And in the house HIS disciples asked HIM again of the same matter.
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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I am a Christian. I support the elect of God who are born again by the Holy Spirit of God, those who live by the Bible, and those who demonstrate that they pray and follow the Holy Spirit of God and the Holy Scriptures.
Paul said concerning those who show a form of godliness but deny the power of God, just turn away from such. That is what I do when I encounter such persons. (2 Timothy 3:5)
But if I do encounter them, I speak as the door opens in the conversation to speak, I speak the word of God to them.
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Many people love their church buildings and their pastors and their stained glass windows and their choirs but they do not love the Word of God. By their actions we see they are not of God though they love the religious trappings. I do not support these persons.
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I support the elect of God and live in peace and fellowship with the elect of God.
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I believe we must begin to distinguish between "the elect of God" and church goers, for these are not the same. Many are church goers, putting themselves into the church by their own will. The elect of God are those persons chosen by God to whom God has revealed HIS truth and they have the Holy Spirit living inside of them.
Notice these scriptures in the New Testament Bible where the term "elect" is used.
2 John 1:13 The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.
Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge HIS own elect, which cry day and night unto HIM, though HE bear long with them?
2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of th Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
2 John 1:1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Mark 13:20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom HE hath chosen, HE hath shortened the days.
Matthew 24:31 And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mark 13:27 And then shall HE send HIS angels, and shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
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The elect of God are those who are chosen by God and God has revealed HIS truth to them, causing them to be born again by HIS Spirit, and they are changed by God into new creatures immediately.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Has this happened to you?
Only God can do this.
(I suggest you fall down before God asking God to please have mercy on you if you have not had this experience with God.)
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Friday May 15, 2026
Friday May 15, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on April 25, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
This world today is active and violent in trying to accomplish their purposes, none of which have anything to do with us, the elect of God, as we wait for Jesus to return.
The apostate churches are big and powerful looking, but their power is of man and not of God.
The elect of God, those individuals to whom God has revealed HIMSELF, do not seem to have any power when it comes to the world or to the apostate churches. But our hope is in God! God is power.
The apostle Peter told us what we are to be diligent to do as we wait for the return of Jesus.
2 Peter 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Being in peace does not in any way mean we support the apostate churches today, nor do we support the works of the world which go against that which we read in the Bible. If we try to appease either the world or the apostate churches, we will be in danger of going down with them at the judgment of Christ.
When they try to come among us as they speak contrary doctrines and tell of their many "good" works, we simply remain steadfast in the upholding of doctrines of the Bible and I have found they no longer want to come "visit" with me and they don't want personal conversations with me so I remain waiting in peace, untroubled by them.
Many times I have sent the word of God to various church goers, Catholics, Church of Christ, Baptists, non-denominational ... and they have stayed away from me en-mass. (continuing in their denominations) while I continue in the peace of the word given me by God, continuing to exhort the elect of God through Internet by blog and Podcasts.
Recently there was a brief moment of attempted communication between me and a Catholic woman. But a great wall seems to exist keeping us from fleshly "fellowship" that we might have pursued, left to our own devices. God spared me! She said, "I'll call you this weekend." I called on God asking HIM to "help me". There was no phone call that weekend.
Our flesh does get stirred up as we desire to renew communications with them, but how can light fellowship with darkness? It is not possible.
Only when we are truly one Spirit are we able to fellowship as the elect of God.
When we are the elect of God, born again, and they are the church goers, there is a great gulf between us.
Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
So we continue our wait for the return of Jesus speaking to the elect of God.
It seems important at this point in time for us to differentiate between the elect of God and the church goers.
Jesus is coming to gather the elect of God to HIMSELF.
Matthew 24:30-31 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
If the church goers become born again by the Spirit of God, then we are one Spirit with them and we are all the elect as we await for Jesus, and in some individual cases this could happen. But I doubt this will happen with entire church groups.
The elect will never be able to share with the church goers because we are different spirits, although we will speak as led by the Holy Spirit given the opportunity to speak. (After I speak I see them withdraw.)
We cannot pretend to have fellowship with this world or with the church goers who do not have the Spirit of God else we are continually troubled by them.
Light and darkness cannot co-exist.
But we can be at peace away from them, putting our trust in God.
2 Corinthians 6
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be MY people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
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Thursday May 14, 2026
Thursday May 14, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on April 11, 2022)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
II Thessalonians 2:8 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:
God will destroy the world, but Jesus will destroy the churches who "fell away" from various scriptures when HE comes.
This is justice because it was the antichrist churches who removed portion of scripture eliminating Jesus, the Word, destroying Jesus, in their churches.
When they removed scriptures and set up another doctrine other than the doctrine of Christ, they removed the restraint which had been keeping antichrist out of the churches.
II Thessalonians 2:3-4 NASB No one is to deceive you in any way! For it (the return of Jesus) will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 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.
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 (Jesus The Word) who now restrains will do so until He is removed. 8 Then that lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will eliminate with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;
Paul warned the elders in Ephesus:
Acts 20:29-30 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
They "killed" Jesus in the churches when they removed scripture and changed the meaning of the scriptures.
So it is justice that Jesus would be the one who destroys those church groups, which HE will do, with the brightness of HIS coming.
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The apostate churches removed many scripture such as the following:
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.
They sanctioned adultery inside of their own church groups by removal of scripture.
And the people in the congregations loved it that way.
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.
They did not hold to the instruction given to the church by the Holy Bible.
Thus they killed Jesus and denied HIS shed blood by denying HIS doctrines.
Jesus will destroy them with the brightness of HIS coming.
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And in the day of judgment they will be turned away by Jesus.
Matthew 7:21-27 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
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Revelation 16:5-6 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
As the Jews hung Jesus on a cross shedding the blood of Jesus, the churches of the apostasy today killed Jesus, The Word, by removing scriptures and changing the doctrines of those scriptures allowing sin in the churches today and destroying themselves and their congregations, crucifying Jesus afresh.
Jesus will destroy them, these church groups of the apostasy, with the brightness of HIS coming in the day of the Lord when Jesus returns to gather HIS elect.
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Wednesday May 13, 2026
Wednesday May 13, 2026
(This podcast was previously published on July 27, 2021)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
We know by the Bible, certain things must happen before Jesus returns for the elect of God.
* There will be wars and rumors of wars and famines, pestilences, and earthquakes.
Matthew 24:6-9 Jesus says: And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
WWII was the worst war in the history of civilization according to Winston Churchill in his book The Gathering Storm. (Chapter 1)
So far as pestilences, we've never seen anything like Coronavirus of 2020. There have been many pestilences in times past, but never before a pestilence that covered the entire world.
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* According to the apostle Paul, before Jesus returns there has to be a "falling away" where churches depart from some scriptures and antichrist moves into the church groups and the apostasy comes into the churches.
2 Thessalonians 2
3-4 KJV ... 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, God said to me: "The falling away are not people leaving the churches, but the falling away are the church leaving the scriptures."
In NASB the "falling away" is called "the apostasy". v3 No one is to deceive you in any way! 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, 4 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.
The apostasy had to come into the churches before Jesus could return for the elect of God.
6-8 NASB 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. 8 Then that lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will eliminate with the breath of HIS mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of HIS coming;
In 2015, God called to my mind the word "restrains": I found this in the above scripture of NASB.
I asked God, "What is it that restrains antichrist?"
Instantly I heard, "Jesus, The Word, keeps antichrist out of the churches."
And my understanding was opened by God. "When churches remove portions of scriptures or change scriptures, they remove Jesus (The Word) from the church and antichrist enters ... for only the scriptures, The Word which is Jesus, can keep antichrist out of the churches."
And I knew this is what I had been seeing in churches for the past 40 years when pastors changed scriptures and were not ashamed of that which they had done when I talked with them about this.
Some even admitted to me that the thing they had just taught was not in the Bible and they had just made it up. But there was no shame.
In the end, in Revelation, we read even when the plagues were sent by God, they would not repent but they cursed God because of those plagues.
Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give HIM glory.
And then I understood what I had been seeing pastors do from the time I was born again in 1975, in the first church I went to after being born again.
(That pastor was teaching tongues were of the devil ... while in the Bible Paul said, "forbid not to speak with tongues." I Corinthians 14:39)
The apostasy was already taking place in the churches in 1975, and even centuries before as denominations broke away from the Holy Bible and set up their own groups, eliminating scriptures as they chose to do and installing religious symbols not prescribed by Bible.
This had to happen before Jesus could return for the elect, according to the apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:3.
And the breaking away from Bible grew worse and worse as the time continued through the centuries.
2 Timothy 3 Paul says: 1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come ... 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away ... 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth ... 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
To the end of this earth, church denominations will continue setting up their own doctrines and departing from portions of scripture in the Holy Bible and will grow worse and worse.
Jesus will destroy the apostate church groups when HE returns to gather HIS elect.
II Thessalonians 2:8-10 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.
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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* Another thing that had to happen before Jesus could return for the elect is the gospel had to be taught through all the world.
Matthew 24:14 Jesus says: And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
I believe we have seen this by Internet as well as by individuals who have spoken the gospel to all nations.
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The great tribulation of God comes:
Jesus says:
Matthew 24:29-31 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
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When we are taken into heaven to meet Jesus:
2 Thessalonians 4:13-18 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede/go before) them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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The apostle Peter tells us what we should do as we wait for the return of Jesus:
2 Peter 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot,
and blameless.
We keep ourselves in peace, without spot and blameless while we wait for the return of Jesus.
We must not allow ourselves to be troubled by the apostate churches nor by the evil of those in this present world. For that will consume us.
We must avoid those people and things that steal peace and cause us to depart from peace and joy of the Word of God.
And we must not join them in the evil by rejecting the scriptures which would allow antichrist into our own selves.
Matthew 24:12-13 Jesus says: And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
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