Building your house on the word from God

Going forward

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Galatians 5
 
15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
 
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
 
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
 
18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
 
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
 
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, 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.
 
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
 
23 Meekness, temperance:
 
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 In peace:
 
*I avoid seeing and hearing men wearing long robes.  (expecting such to be Catholic priests, why would I want to see or hear them?)
 
* I would avoid seeing any person carrying a poster.  (likely protester)
 
* I try to avoid strife, anger, fear ... (and I deal with such if I do feel this way by taking the matter to God as soon as I can asking God to heal me.)
 
* I would avoid all electoral ads on TV for any politician, animal fund raising, children hospital fund raising, disaster fund raising ... (I feel the world deals with this and as the church I help the church.  I often pray for animals and children.)
 
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Without spot:
 
* When I go out into the world, and return home, I often pray:  "Create in me a clean heart, Oh God, and renew in me a right Spirit."  (Psalm 51:10)
 
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Blameless:
 
* I would not want to take advantage of another person or merchant.
 
* If I hear myself speaking in a scornful way about another person, I would know I have taken sin into my heart and I would ask God to forgive me and straighten me up.
 
* I try to keep a "right" Spirit and speak and write to other when being in a right Spirit.  If I'm upset I try to straighten the matter up with God and then speak or write.  I do not want to write or speak with the wrong spirit.
 
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Sometimes God will heal us even when we don't know we need to be healed!

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
On the day they announced the jury verdict on the Donald Trump trial, God brought me a healing concerning the way I felt about Donald Trump.
 
The morning of the last day of the trial before the jury verdict was announced something happened to me.  
 
That morning, all of a sudden it was as if a weight was lifted from inside me.
 
At first I didn't know what the subject was.  But I was so happy and free.  
 
Then I realized it was concerning Donald Trump.
 
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I'm a non-political person.  
 
As a child, my father said his father always told him "Stay out of politics and never take any of their give-aways."  
 
My mother and father did not vote and were not registered with either party, so far as I know,
 
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The first time I was aware of the name "Donald Trump" was on a television weekly show where he fired someone each week.  I did not like the show and thought this man who was doing the firing to be very harsh and unpleasant, and crude.  
 
I only saw him two or three times, briefly on the episodes and then I watched that show no longer on TV.
 
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To show you how little I think about politics ... During the presidential election when Jimmy Carter was elected president, I was visiting my parents and one of them mentioned a man named "Jimmy Carter".  I said, "Who is Jimmy Carter?"   
 
My parents were shocked that I had not heard of him before, since he had just been elected President of the United States.
 
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I'd never thought much about how our government works in USA but I do recall our elementary school teacher saying the reason it worked is that the 2 party system provided a natural check and balance, so not much ever happened.
 
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Through the years, if a politician came on TV or if a news story came on about politics, I changed channels, having no real interest in politics.
 
I never registered to vote except one time and that was because some of my friends, when I was a young teacher, were going to vote and they insisted I go with them.
 
They showed me the process and told me I had to register for one of two political parties.  I don't recall which one it was.  They told me which party to register with and I can't remember whether it was Democratic or Republican.  It meant nothing to me at all. That was in sometime in the late 1950's.
I never voted again. 
 
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I was born in 1937.  Presidents (and wars) came and went.  I usually knew the name of the President, but rarely listened to any of them them speak.
 
I was born again August 5, l975.
 
I continued my non interest in politics.  
 
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In 2016, there was a woman running for president.  I remember wondering if she were elected, would they call her husband, "The first husband?"
 
I recall hearing that "Donald Trump" was this woman's opponent.
 
(I kept thinking of "Donald Duck"... remembering that "You're fired" TV program.)
 
I never heard either of the candidates speak during the campaign. 
 
Again, I did not vote and I heard Donald Trump was elected.
 
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When there was a press conference on TV, I began listening to some of that ... briefly.
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Mr. Trump shocked me when he began demeaning the female reporters who asked him questions.  I especially recall a reporter named, "Connie Chung" because Mr. Trump seemed even more harsh with her.
 
I only listened to a few minutes of these press conferences during that first year Mr. Trump was president.  (I continued to think of Donald Duck"  as president.)
 
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I happened to be watching TV on January 6, 2020, when some men were speaking to a mob of angry people.
 
Something was obviously going on, so I continued watching.
 
I heard Mr. Trump speak to them.  He was President at that time.  I didn't know what they were upset about.  But they were obviously mob angry.  Mr. Trump was stirring them up with his words.  And he was telling them they would have to march to the capitol building and "he would be there behind them." 
 
I watched them as they stormed the capitol and broke into the building.  
 
It was a riot against the capitol building, breaking windows and fighting back the police who were trying to keep them back.
 
They got inside and were calling out the name "Nancy", who they were hunting.
 
Later they had broken into some of the offices and some individuals were shown sitting at the office desks, one man with his feet up on the desk.
 
I saw the Secret Service hurrying Mike Pense downstairs to safety.
 
I knew this man was Vice-president of the United States.  Some of the mob were hunting him, and it appeared he was in danger from the mob.
 
I saw some of the mob in the assembly room of the capitol building.  They were wandering around looking at the head podiums in the speakers area.
 
Finally the news people explained the situation.  
 
The mob had come to Washington DC at the request of President Trump who asked them to be there that day, January 6, 2020. 
 
The goal:  To stop the counting of electoral votes for President of the United States.
 
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I've never seen anything like this before in USA but it was obviously an attack against democracy as we have know it. (These people attacking seemed to be citizens of the United States.)
 
I was very sorry to see this for I think our way of government works pretty well, on a whole, as governments go!  
 
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On subsequent days, some of the mob were arrested and put in jail, and later tried and sent to prison.
 
But the person who called the mob to the gathering at Washington DC, and sent them to the capitol, was not charged with anything nor put in jail for instigating the riot although we all watched Mr. Trump do this on national TV News live at the time.
 
We saw a sign carried by one of the mob.  The sign said, "Hang Mike Pence."  We saw a rope formed into a noose and a wooden type of scaffold in the yard of the White House or capitol where the mob gathered.
 
Some of the mob carried weapons of metal type pieces of rods.  Some even had guns.  They "stormed the capitol" breaking windows of the building and forcing doors to open ... and they went inside and began wandering through the various hallways, going into some of the closed rooms.
 
It was pretty fully shown on various TV news stories in the USA. 
 
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By this time, I was pretty interested in what had happened and what was going to happen to that Mob and especially to Mr. Trump who called the mob to come to Washington DC for that specific day and sent them to the capitol to stop the counting of electoral votes for President of the United States!
 
I think I heard each session of the Congressional Committee which later investigated the situation.
 
Apparently I took evil into my heart when nothing was done concerning the man, President Trump, who formed the mob and incited the attack itself.
 
There was no execution of justice in the matter.
 
This really upset me.
 
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To me, this was the beginning of the end of democracy in the United States, as we had known it, and it would only be a matter of time before another type of government would be formed in the United States.
 
I think I began to hate Donald Trump when he would say the election of 2020 had been stolen.  To me this was not true.
 
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God did not want me to have hatred against anyone, so God simply changed my heart and cleansed my heart and Spirit, and removed the evil from my heart on the morning of Thursday, May 30, 2024, ... before the jury announced the verdict in the Donald Trump"Hush Money" trial late that afternoon.
 
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Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
💥  Lay hands suddenly on no man:
 
I believe that mean don't be so quick to approve the other person.  Let him first be proven to your church group.
 
💥 Neither be partaker of other men's sins:
 
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:
 
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
 
Other people often try to get us to do that which they are doing.  They may not know what they are doing is opposite to that which God wants.  What they are doing may "seem" right to the majority of the people around them.  But it may not be godly.
 
2 Thessalonians 5:21   Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
 
Romans 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
 
(I find the answers for me are in the Bible.)
 
💥  Keep thyself pure.
 
When I come in contact with people of this world, often they are friendly and smile and I am quickly taken in, thinking them to be "good guys".
 
God reminds me that Paul told us what people are really like in the end times.
 
💥  2 Timothy 3 
 
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
 
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
 
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
 
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
 
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
 
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
 
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
 
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
 
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
 
10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
 
11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
 
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
 
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
 
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Being involved in politics and things of this world is like thinking this world will not end up being destroyed by God as it says it will in the Bible

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
You will not be able to overthrow the plan of God by politics and by participating in worldly things. 
 
The following will happen regardless of what anyone does because it is what God says in the Bible will happen at the end of this world.
 
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.
 
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. 
 
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God sends a strong delusion that they will believe a lie

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
2 Thessalonians 2
 
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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Learning about God's judgment

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Recently I re-read the Book of Jeremiah.
 
If you want to view the way God judges that which we do on this earth, I suggest you read the Book of Jeremiah.
 
You will see the people of God doing evil.  You will witness their failure to turn from their evil when God sends HIS prophet to warn them.
 
Then over and over you will see God assign penalty for that which they do which is against HIS will.
 
You will see how God judges.
 
And I believe you will see why Hitler was raised up by God and what is coming next upon USA for refusing to judge properly. 
 
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Seek God!

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Pam Padgett was diagnosed with a severe form of bladder cancer in September, 2022.  The doctor told her she must have chemotherapy followed by the surgical removal of her bladder.  The doctor said she would die within 2 years unless she took immediate action.  They began sessions of chemotherapy immediately with plans to remove her bladder after these treatments.
 
Pam sought God immediately.
 
Just because a doctor tells you something doesn't mean that is the only way to go.  God may know another way.
 
Pam said to God:  "I don't mind having chemotherapy but if there is another way other than removing my bladder, please work it out for me."
 
There was another way and God caused it to be revealed to Pam.
 
This remarkable story is recorded on this Podcast.
 
And it should encourage each of us to "Seek God" regardless of what other humans might tell us.
 
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Book of Jude

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Jude warns us to keep ourselves in our "most holy faith" and he tells us of the problems we will encounter in the end times.
 
Jude
 
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
 
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
 
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
 
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
 
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
 
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
 
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
 
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
 
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
 
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
 
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
 
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
 
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
 
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
 
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
 
17 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 in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
 
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
 
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
 
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
 
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 
24 Now unto HIM that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of HIS glory with exceeding joy,
 
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
 
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Keeping yourself in joy, peace, and faith

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Sometimes we awake in the morning and are instantly troubled.
 
We can turn this around by thanking God. Devils flee when we thank God for those good things that HE has allowed into our lives. 
 
Being thankful to God is one of the powerful weapon we have in spiritual warfare.
 
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Day of vengeance.

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Hebrews 10
 
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
 
20 By a new and living way, which HE hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, HIS flesh;
 
21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
 
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
 
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for HE is faithful that promised;)
 
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
 
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
 
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
 
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
 
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
 
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
 
30 For we know HIM that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto ME, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge HIS people.
 
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
 
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Romans 12
 
20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
 
21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
 
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Jesus says:
 
Luke 21
 
20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
 
21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
 
22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
 
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"I the LORD love judgment." (Isaiah 61:08)

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
judgment:  The end of the matter; a misfortune or calamity viewed as a divine punishment;
 
I've seen salvation through judgment.  Often people change when they see the frailty of their bodies and sometimes they know then that their only hope is in God who created the heaven and earth when they see their helplessness.
 
And God saves us by truth.
 
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Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. Amos 5:15

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
I John 5
 
19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
 
20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know HIM that is true, and we are in HIM that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. (The Word) This is the true God, and eternal life.
 
21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
 
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I Corinthians 2:14  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.
 
You must be born again, given a new heart of God and the Holy Spirit of God.
 
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Isaiah 59:14 
 
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
 
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And the LORD saw it, and it displeased HIM that there was no judgment. (Isaiah 59:15)

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Some people, even those who call themselves Christian, hate judgment.  They love the evil and hate the good.  They speak to men and approve the evil doers. They show evil works by their approval.
 
They are wicked.
 
And there is no repentance when justice is gone.
 
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Isaiah 56 & James 4

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for MY salvation is near to come, and MY righteousness to be revealed.
 
2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
 
3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from HIS people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
 
4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
 
5 Even unto them will I give in MINE  house and within MY walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
 
6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve HIM, and to love the name of the LORD, to be HIS servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of MY covenant;
 
7 Even them will I bring to MY holy mountain, and make them joyful in MY house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon MINE altar; for MINE house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
 
8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to HIM, beside those that are gathered unto HIM.
 
9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
 
10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
 
11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
 
12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
 
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James 4
 
13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
 
14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
 
15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
 
16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
 
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Isaiah 55

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Isaiah 55
 
6 Seek ye the LORD while HE may be found, call ye upon HIM while HE is near:
 
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and HE will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for HE will abundantly pardon.
 
8 For MY thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways MY ways, saith the LORD.
 
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are MY ways higher than your ways, and MY thoughts than your thoughts.
 
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10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
 
11 So shall MY word be that goeth forth out of MY mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
 
12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
 
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
 
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Going out not knowing where I was to go

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Hebrews 11  (Concerning Abraham)
 
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
 
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In 1979, I owned a small business in Dallas, Texas.
 
I knew, after I was born again in 1975, that God was training me to be a minister.  I knew the 2 offices to which I was called by God, apostle and prophet.  
 
I had no idea where I was to go to be a minister.
 
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I closed my business on July 31, 1979.  
 
From that point forward I waited for God to show me "where" I was to go to do the work of God. As I waited I stayed at my apartment in Dallas and continued to read the Bible throughout the day as I had been doing for the previous 5 years.
 
On the night of January 10, 1980 ... I was asleep in the night.  A very loud trumpet like voice spoke 3 words into my ear:  "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"
 
I jumped out of bed and wrote "KWJS" on a notepad beside my bed.
 
When I found KWJS to be a radio station, I said to God, "Are YOU telling me to go on radio?  I wouldn't know how to do that."
 
Immediately the Holy Spirit brought this to my mind:  "Call the radio station manager."
 
I called KWJS and asked to speak to the station manager.  He came on the phone immediately.  I said:  "God might be showing me to go on radio.  How would you do that?"
 
He replied:  "Make an audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and send it to me and if you fit our broadcasts we will offer you a contract."
 
Immediately, that same morning, I recorded a broadcast and took it to the mail that same day and sent it to the station manager at radio station KWJS.
 
Within 5 days I was broadcasting exhortations for the church on radio station KWJS.
 
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Revelation 18 "The fall of Babylon"

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Isaiah the prophet spoke of the coming of the Day of the Lord in prophecy of Isaiah 13.
 
Here is what it says of "Babylon" in Revelation 18, which is that which I believe Isaiah was shown that was to come.
 
I believe Isaiah saw the fall of great cities of this world.
 
Revelation 18
 
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
 
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
 
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
 
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, MY people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
 
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
 
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
 
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
 
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
 
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
 
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
 
(When Coronavirus struck in 2020, we saw how fast great cities can be shut down.  Times Square in NYC became almost void of people.  It caused me to understand more about how fast things can stop.  And I recalled the time we will see the fall of great cities never to rise again at the end of this world and in the great tribulation which God will send upon this earth at the end of this world.)
 
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
 
12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
 
13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
 
14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
 
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
 
16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
 
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
 
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
 
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
 
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
 
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
 
22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
 
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
 
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
 
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Isaiah the prophet tells of the destruction that will come from God at the end of this world

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
I don't believe this has come yet, but the iniquity of this world today and the terrible antichrist removing scripture from churches to set up doctrines which suit sinners in the church today makes me think this prophecy spoken by Isaiah the prophet is near, along with the coming of Jesus and the great tribulation of God.
 
Isaiah 13
 
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
 
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
 
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
 
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and HE shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
 
desolate:  deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness;  feeling misery, unhappiness; loneliness; make bleakly and depressingly empty; make someone feel utterly wretched and unhappy; abandoned; alone.
 
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
 
11  And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
 
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
 
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of HIS fierce anger.
 
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
 
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
 
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
 
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
 
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
 
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
 
(I believe this "Babylon" is symbolic and many of the great cities of this world are "Babylon."  See Revelation 18.)
 
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
 
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
 
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
 
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Isaiah 54:17 (Promise from God to the believer)

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of ME, saith the LORD.
 
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Glory in the Lord, in that which HE has done

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
💥  Bringing salvation to us and others.  And showing us they are born again as we are to comfort us in their deaths.
 
💥  Healing Pam Padgett of bladder cancer in 2022-23.
 
💥  Having someone make a car for me as I asked in approximately 1985.
 
💥  Causing me to have a place to live when I was 81 and could no longer live alone.
 
💥  Giving me open visions to help the church.
 
💥  Giving us the Holy Spirit to lead us in HIS way.
 
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James 1:5

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
 
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Psalm 111:10  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
 
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John 5:30  Jesus said:  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent ME.
 
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Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
God gives us the Holy Spirit when we are born again and leads us by HIS Spirit by bringing thoughts to our minds by the Holy Spirit of God.
 
Examples on this podcast of some of the information God has given me by HIS Spirit.
 
I Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
 
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.
 
These are things the Holy Spirit does for each person who is born again by the Spirit of God.
 
   * HE teaches us all things.  (secular & spiritual)
   * HE reminds us of all Jesus has said.
   * HE guides us into all truth.
   * HE shows us things to come.
 
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Jesus said: "My kingdom is not of this world."

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
The Jews thought Messiah would set up HIS kingdom on this earth.
 
But Jesus said to Pilate:
 
John 18:36  My kingdom is not of this world: if MY kingdom were of this world, then would MY servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is MY kingdom not from hence.
 
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Peter explains:
 
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.
 
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.
 
God will destroy this present heaven and earth with fire.
 
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Jesus explains:
 
Matthew 24
 
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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God has made a new heaven and new earth for HIS people.  He showed this new Jerusalem to the apostle John.
 
Revelation 21
 
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. And HE said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
 
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I Thessalonians 4
 
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 (go before) them which are asleep (dead).
 
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 Paul said: "Evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse."

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
When truth and justice diminish, people often become discouraged in nations of men.
 
The apostle Paul told us in the last days "perilous times" would come.
 
2 Timothy 3
 
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
 
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
 
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
 
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
 
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
 
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
 
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
 
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
 
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
 
10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
 
11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
 
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
 
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
 
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
 
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
 
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
 
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
 
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When truth and justice vanish

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
"People didn't care about the truth ..." 
 
And Joseph Goebbels called it "The Big Lie" ...
 
And he said, "People didn't care about the truth."  "Tell the story and keep on telling it,"  because people didn't care about truth.  
 
They just wanted what they wanted for themselves and it basically didn't matter if what they said to the German people was truth.  
 
And with this "big lie"  (as Goebbels called this)  they began to speak lies about Jews and later gather up Jews and put them into the concentration camps to work them to death or exterminate them in gas camps.    ("Netflix:  Episode 9:  Greatest Events of WWII in Colour", 17:16 to 17:42 seconds unto episode.)
 
First concentration camps: 1937
 
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William Shirer, in his book, "The Collapse of the Third Republic", wanted to study the way nations fell and he wrote about the rise of France and then the Fall of France when they simply gave up in June, 1940, to the Germans while they had an army far greater than the Germans.
 
He concluded there were 3 things that caused integrity to disappear in France:  
 
* People not caring about "truth".
* Journalists were uninformed and people didn't care as a rule. Often inquiry was not even made into the matter. (Chapter 1)  Same problem in churches where scripture on matter is not considered important.
* Events, such as the Dreyfus matter, (Chapter 3) saw basic "justice" withheld so the innocent were penalized.  (Even high government officials in France in 1895 put documents they knew were lies into evidence to benefit themselves.)
 
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I see this in churches today, as well as in masses in USA.  "Considering that "little things" just don't matter."
 
In such as:  Matthew 5:32  where Jesus said the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
 
So they just stop speaking this scripture ... If they speak that scripture, it will cause people to "leave the church group" and with the leaving, the church group will suffer "the loss of money."  And they reason "it's such a little matter".
 
Matthew 5:32  (Jesus said)  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.
 
Matthew 19:9  And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
 
(The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.)
 
Comments by Joan Boney:
 
In going to church 40 plus years, I've never heard these 2 scriptures spoken in any Bible class or at any church group that I have attended.
 
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The apostle Paul said:
 
2 Thessalonians 2
 
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
 
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
 
In 1982, I was reading these scriptures and God said to me:  "The falling away are not people leaving the churches ... The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures."  (antichrist)
 
When any portion of scripture is omitted or changed, integrity is eaten away in that church group and antichrist moves through the open door and sets up another doctrine opposite to the doctrine of Christ in the Holy Bible.
 
I've often heard long time church goers say, "Things at church are watered down now.  It isn't the same at church as it used to be."
 
This is the end-time apostasy that would come allowing antichrist to come into the church group by the changing of scripture "just a little" or not speaking "that" scripture at all if people might consider that Word to be "offensive".
 
Not caring about "truth" weakens and destroys churches and nations and justice evaporates and the church and nation falls, in time.
 
(As we see in the Trump issue today where judges and the USA justice department bring issues before the public, but nothing gets done and truth fails to be identified by officials ... and it seems the masses don't care and just want to go forward to things they consider important ... like in Germany during the Nazi rule and Hitler reign ... Integrity is gone when individuals don't care about truth and justice.)
 
Of course God cares and will judge justly at some point in time.
 
2 Corinthians 5:10  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.
 
But now ... fear is rampant ... in leaders of governments of men and also in church groups.
 
This leads to the weakening and eventual fall of nations and churches. which is happening today before our very eyes!
 
Jesus comes soon and will straighten everything out.
 
2 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:
 
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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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 (The Word) 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.
 
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.
 
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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:
 
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
 
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
 
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
 
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
 
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
 
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
 
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
 
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17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
 
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
 
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
 
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
 
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
 
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
 
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