Building your house on the word from God

God will destroy this present heaven and earth with fire

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Because of the Bible, we know that which is coming in the time ahead.
 
Peter tells us:
 
II Peter 3:10-13 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.
 
Knowing the future things that are coming, according to Bible, changes everything!
 
We cannot put our hope in a continuation of things on this earth as we have know them.  We cannot build lives on this earth as we have done.  
 
Everything we can see with our natural eye will be destroyed by God and that could happen at any time.
 
I see it as something similar to Coronavirus.  Those things we had were gone immediately!  In one day, all sports in the USA vanished from our sight.  Businesses closed.  Streets became vacant.  
 
When God sends the great tribulation, at first, some people will not even realize anything significant is happening.
 
Plague #1:  Revelation 8:7  The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
 
A third of the earth was affected.  If this happens in USA, will the people in Russia know anything that will affect them has happened?  (A virus in China has nothing to do with us in USA? does it?)
 
But look at that which happens with the 4th tribulation from God:
 
Revelation 8:12  And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
 
Now everyone all over the entire world will know something is happening.  And this world will be greatly affected.
 
And far more is to come:  10 more tribulations which will be even worse
 
Revelation 8:13   And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
 
Daniel 12:10  Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
 
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Persecution comes for the "Word's sake" to steal the Word from our hearts

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
As soon as God speaks to our mind by HIS Spirit to give us an instruction, and we believe and go that way, the devil will likely come to try to make us doubt that it was really God speaking to us:  "Hath God said?"   The devil said to Eve.  (Gen.3)
 
Often circumstances of this life fight that direction God told us to go.
 
We must have full assurance that it was God who spoke these words to us.  And we must hold fast to that which God said to us in the matter at hand.
 
In this Podcast, I present examples of fighting the good fight of faith and recognizing God when HE speaks a word to us.
 
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The devil tries to destroy us by getting us to do "good works"

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Men come to us saying they are ministers asking us to send money to them and asking us to give them such things a computers and Bibles.  They cause us to feel guilty over the blessings God has given us.
All this are devils working through these "ministers" to harm us.
We have blessings from God because we deliberately set ourselves to follow God by HIS Spirit.
These men who want us to give them things do not seek God as we do therefore they "lack" when they should have plenty as we do.
Psalm 23:1   The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
There are many deceivers today, especially they of the ministries.
Don't be deceived by them.
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When Jesus returns for the church

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
The word, "Rapture", is used in many churches to describe the church being removed from this present earth and taken into heaven.
 
The first time I ever heard this word, "Rapture" used at church, I was very shocked.   
 
I checked New Testament Bible and found this word, "Rapture", is not in the Bible.  It is a word that was made up by man.  
 
I never use this word to describe the church being taken into heaven.
 
The following scriptures wonderfully tell us what will happen:
 
I Thessalonians 4:13-17 ... The dead in Christ rise first. 
 
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) 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.
 
("In the air" is very important for it shows us Jesus' kingdom will not be on the present earth.  After we are removed from this earth, God will destroy this heaven and earth by fire.  We will be in our new spiritual bodies and will be taken to the New Heaven and the New Earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.)
 
I Corinthians 15:48-52  ... We are changed into new spiritual bodies. 
 
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.
 
(On this earth we have the physical form resembling our parents.  In heaven we will have the form of God and Jesus which is a spiritual form.)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.
 
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God shakes the heavens and the earth and then Jesus returns to gather the righteous

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
God created the heaven and the earth and kept them in place by HIS Word.  At the end, before Jesus returns, God shakes the power of the heaven and the earth.
 
The prophets of the Old Testament saw the end of this present world.
 
Joel 2:1-2  Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in MY holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;  A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
 
Joel 2:30-32   And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.  
 
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.  
 
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
 
Amos 5:18-20  Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.  As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.  Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
 
Isaiah 13:13   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.
 
Jesus also tells of this end time: 
 
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.
 
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:
 
30-31  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.
 
Then God destroys this present heaven and earth by fire:
 
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The last 7 plagues of the wrath of God before the return of Jesus

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Revelation16:1-2 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome (smelly) and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
 
Many doctrines in churches today are doctrines of men and not doctrines of God.  As churches follow the doctrines of men, the people of those churches take on the mark of the beast, worshipping something that is not God.  Upon these people comes the wrath of God.
 
Plagues of blood to follow:
 
Revelation 16:3-4  And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
 
And the angels in heaven rejoiced saying:
 
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.  For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and Thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are THY judgments.
 
But the men of this world who have taken on the mark of the beast curse God over these plagues and they repent not of their works.
 
The fourth angel of the 7 angels, brings a plague that affects men greatly.
 
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These scriptures show us what to expect to see just before Jesus returns

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Matthew 24 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.
When the sun and the moon go dark and the stars fall from heaven, know that the coming of Jesus and the end of this present world is very close!
 
God keeps the solar system in place now but when God shakes the powers of heaven, everything changes.  The earth will be moved and the entire heavens will be changed by God and affected.
 
Notice the following concerning this earth:
 
Isaiah 13:13   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.
 
God gave me a dream in the mid-80's as follows:
 
The earth slipped on its axis.  People were very frightened.  The governments of men and the scientists and the religious leaders were meeting to see what might be done about this.  (Nothing can be done for it is God who has made this happen.)  A TV newscaster was trying to report the story on TV but he was so frightened that he just stopped speaking and stood up and left the studio.
 
What about the 14 plagues and woes of the great tribulation?
 
(Discussed on this Podcast)
 
 
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Is there a "Law of God" for the New Testament church today?

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
 It is important to read New Testament Bible and to keep scriptures of what God says before us so we will not drift away from God's laws with the thinking of humans and be turned over by God to a reprobate mind.
 
Romans 1:28  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;
 
II Corinthians 13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
 
The only thing important is:  What does God say?
 
By the New Testament Bible, we set our thinking to match God's view.
 
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There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God ... when did all these denominations and divisions begin in the church?

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
At Ephesus, the apostle Paul called the elders to come meet with him because Paul knew they would never see him again and Paul had a "charge" to give them concerning the church.
 
Acts 20:25-30   And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.  Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.  For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. 
 
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which HE hath purchased with His own blood. 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. 
 
The early church was already to feel division by those persons who were "antichrist".
 
The apostle John explains:  I John 2:18-19  Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
 
And the apostle Paul explains the way some were trying to worship the preachers, which divides the body of Christ.
 
I Corinthians 3:1-4  And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.  I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?  For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
 
(One says, "I'm Baptist." and another says, "I'm Methodist.")
 
Ephesians 4:4-6   There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;One Lord, one faith, one baptism,  One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
 
(To try to keep from dividing the church, we can just say, "I'm a Christian," if we feel we must identify ourselves.)
 
But often the person who hears this will ask, "What church?" for that person is carnal, failing to know there is only one church and that church has nothing to do with all these denominations set up by man to divide the body of Christ.
 
The division in the church comes because some people put themselves into the church without having the spirit of God.
 
Jude  17-19   But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;   How that they told you there should be mockers (copiers/imitators) in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.  These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
 
Such in the church groups are just waiting to have opportunity to say what they think.  And without the Spirit, they speak their ideas to the church, what they think, and these are "perverse" things as Paul knew they would speak after his departure from the church at Ephesus.
 
And Paul knew they were just waiting for an opportunity to draw away disciples after themselves.
 
And by these the various denominations began where the church was divided one from another through their churches.
 
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They say Jesus is Lord but they do not confess in their hearts that Jesus is Lord therefore they do not do the Word of God

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
If we confess in our hearts that Jesus is Lord, then Jesus, The Word, rules over us and we obey the scriptures and see the Word as Lord.
 
Romans 10:9-11  That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
 
Jesus said many would come saying He is the Christ and they would deceive many.  
 
These are those who confess with their mouth but do not believe the Word in their hearts.  They believe something other than the scripture of the New Testament Bible and therefore they do something other than the instruction given by scripture.
 
Matthew 24:3-4  And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
 
They say Jesus is Lord and they say they are Christians, but they do not believe all the scriptures, such as:  
 
* The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.  Mt. 5:32
 
* If woman leaves husband let her remain "unmarried" or be reconciled with her husband.  I Cor. 7:10-11
 
* Homosexuals and lesbians have been turned over by God to do "vile affections."  Romans 1:26-27
 
Some will believe some scripture but not all of these scriptures because of their personal preferences.
 
One person might believe homosexuals are wrong but might believe it is permissible for a man to marry a divorced woman.
 
We who are of God are rebuilt by God to believe all the scriptures not just some scripture.
 
Thereby we have the Spirit of Truth in us and are led by the Spirit of Truth.
 
Flesh cannot understand things of God with the natural mind.  Only when the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit, lives in us can we understand things of God.
 
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.
 
John said there were already many antichrist in the church in his day.  (I John 2:18)
 
Paul said to the elders at Ephesus that he knew there were men among them who were just waiting for him to depart so they could bring "perverse" things into the church.  (Acts 20:30)
 
After Jesus was taken into heaven, antichrist could set up various denominations and teach what he wanted to teach in the churches, things opposite to the doctrines of Christ in the Bible.
 
II Thess. 1:4  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.
 
The falling away from scripture was sitting there among those elders in the church at Ephesus as the apostle Paul warned them at Ephesus, recorded for us in Acts 20.
 
And the falling away from the doctrines of the scriptures has been taking place in church groups for 2000 years before the eyes of those who can see.
 
And today the churches have grown closer and closer to this world through the changing of doctrines from the instruction of the New Testament Bible in order to draw men to themselves just as Paul said in Acts 20.
 
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which HE hath purchased with His own blood.29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
 
Thus setting up their own denominations, dividing the church of Jesus Christ.
 
But the falling away began from the time Jesus was resurrected and the true doctrine was given to the men of God which became the New Testament for us where all scripture is inspired by God.  (II Tim. 3:16)
 
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None of the wicked will understand the plagues of the last days but the righteous will understand and be purified

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
During the great tribulation that God sends upon this earth, we read: 
 
Daniel 12:10   Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. 
 
God sends HIS wrath upon this earth:  great hail stones, fire mingled with blood, a great mountain moves into the sea and all mountains disappear, a great star falls and the waters are poisoned and many die, the solar system changes and there is 1/3 less sun, moon, and stars, locust come out from the bottomless pit and "sting" men who have the mark of the beast upon their foreheads and hurt them for 5 months with torments of their stings, 4  angels come from the river Euphrates and kill 1/3 part of the men upon this earth, the 7th angel declares there shall be time no more.  (Rev. 8 & 9) 
 
Then the vials of the wrath of God are carried by the next 7 angels and they are poured out one by one upon the earth and the men who have the mark of the beast on their bodies: great smelly sores came on these men who worshipped the beast, the sea became as blood and every living soul in the sea died, the fountains and rivers became blood, the sun scorched men with fire, the kingdom of the beast was filled with great darkness whereby men of the beast suffered pain and gnawed their tongues, spirits of devils working miracles were loosed from the river Euphrates and the water dried up, the 7th angel pours his vial into the air and announced, "It it done," and there were voices and thunders and lightnings and a great earthquake and the cities of the nations fell and every island fled away and every mountain disappeared, and great hail fell ... "and men blasphemed God."  (Rev. 16) 
 
Revelation 9:20-21  And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 
 
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. 
 
Even when the plagues came, they could not repent and they did not repent.  They had taken on the mark of the beast, antichrist.  They blasphemed God instead in the midst of the plagues. 
 
"None of the wicked shall understand."  (Daniel 12:10) 
 
The main way we recognize antichrist today in the churches today is when we speak they cannot understand what we are saying for they do not have the Spirit of God but the spirit in them is another spirit. 
 
Jesus said: 
 
John 8:43-45 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 
 
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 
 
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. 
 
The Holy Spirit is The Spirit of Truth.  They do not have the Holy Spirit in them though they say "Jesus is Lord".  So like their father, the devil, when they speak they speak lies and they do not understand the truth therefore they do not repent of their sins. 
 
*  But the righteous understand  ... and are therefore refined and purified in the tribulations ... and repent of their past sins. 
 
But none of the wicked understand.  (Daniel 12:10)
 
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Are you able to recognize the 14 plagues of the great tribulation? I think it is a good idea for us to know what they are so we will understand if we see them.

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
In the Bible, concerning the end time, we read: 
 
Daniel 12:1-3   And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.  2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.  3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. 
 
During the plagues, the scientists will look for reasons for the various happenings, as they always look for reasons. 
 
But in Daniel 12:10, we read:  Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. 
 
The plagues and woes of the great tribulation are divided into two parts.   
 
The first seven plagues are loosed by individual angels who sound their trumpets. 
 
Revelation 8 & 9 
 
The first trumpet sounds and there comes hail and fire mingled with blood coming on  1/3 of the earth.
 
The second trumpet sounds and a great mountain burning with fire is cast into the sea and 1/3 of the sea became blood and the 1/3 part of the creatures in the sea died and 1/3 part of the ships were destroyed.
 
The third trumpet sounds and a great star which was burning fell from heaven and it fell upon 1/3 part of the rivers and the fountains of waters and the waters became bitter and many men died of the waters.
 
The fourth trumpet sounds and the third part of the sun and moon and stars were "smitten" so they were dark, and the day shown not for 1/3 part and the night likewise.
 
The fifth trumpet sounded and a great star fell from heaven and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit which he unlocked, bringing smoke of a great furnace which darkened the sun and air and out of the smoke came locust upon the earth and they had great power to hurt those men for five months who did not have the seal of God in their foreheads.  
 
The sixth trumpet sounded and the 4 angels which were bound in the Euphrates were loosed and killed the third part of men. 
 
The seventh angel sounded and made the declaration that there should be time no more. 
 
Then 7 more angels poured out vials of the wrath of God upon the earth: 
 
Revelation 16  (each angel pored out a vial of the wrath of God) 
 
* There fell a smelly and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast and which worshipped the image of the beast. 
 
* The sea became as the blood of a dead man and every living soul died in the sea. 
 
* The fountains and rivers of water became blood. 
 
* The vial was poured out on the sun and great heat scorched men with fire. 
 
* The next vial was poured out on the seat of "the beast" and his kingdom was made full of darkness and the men of his kingdom suffered pain and gnawed their tongues. 
 
* The sixth vial was poured on the river Euphrates and the water dried up, and three unclean spirits like frogs came out of the mouth of the dragon and the beast and the false prophet, for they are the spirits of devils working miracles. 
 
* The seventh angel poured out his vial into the air and a great voice from heaven said, "It is done." And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings and a great earthquake, and the cities of nations fell, and every island fled away and every mountain disappeared, and great hail fell, and men blasphemed God.
 
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Is Coronavirus of 2020 a preview leading to the woes of the coming great tribulation?

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Coronavirus changed everything all over this world.  Isolation became mandatory.  It didn't end in a few days or few weeks as does flu.  Endurance became a great trial.
 
The great tribulation will be like this, a test for the elect who are still on this earth and a great woe for those who are being judged by God.
 
We've never seen anything like this virus and in the days of the great tribulation it will be something never before seen by man.
 
The prophet Amos described the end of the world and the great tribulation as follows:
 
Amos 5:18-20    Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.  As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.  Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
 
There will be one problem after another without end.  And each new "woe" will go on and on and on.  And men will become weary, just like now, except it will be much worse during the great tribulation.
 
It will be so bad, Jesus says, that none would be saved except the time be shortened.
 
Matthew 24
 
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.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.
 
With Coronavirus there is great hope it can be ended with the new vaccine.  But even in this the end will not be all of a sudden.  And people are already so tired of the problem they have tried to break out and socialize again, breaking through the barrier of isolation.  And many will die before they can be vaccinated for they can't stand the separation from the life they had before this problem came upon this earth.
 
Coronavirus has tried men and so will the great tribulation that is coming upon this world.
 
I see a strong parallel between the effects of Coronavirus upon humans on this earth and the effects that will happen when the plagues and woes come during the great tribulation.
 
Life will never be the same as it was before, in either case.
 
 
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Christmas? Where is that in the Bible? Christ's mass?

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
According to Wikipedia (Internet Encyclopedia) "Christmas actually evolved from pagan traditions celebrating the winter solstice."
 
It was a long winter so they met to celebrate the sun ... they worshipped the sun.
 
Christmas is not mentioned in the Bible.
 
At one point, God even said HE hated those solemn feasts:
 
Isaiah 1:13-17   Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto ME; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts MY soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.  And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide MINE eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before MINE eyes; cease to do evil;  17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
 
Men establish so many feasts and holidays which are not appointed by God and they become idols of worship to men.  Much sorrow comes through these things which are not called for by God.
 
In the early Christmas, it was a worship to the "sun" for the long winter was ending in the north countries.
 
When God commands something, how often does the world flock to do that commandment?
 
The vast popularity of Christmas testifies to it being something of man that he thought to be a good idea.
 
There is no word from God in the Bible to "celebrate" Christmas or Easter.  These were ideas of man and set up by pagan men and became idols of men.
 
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Why do men allow other men to call themselves "Reverend"?

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Recently a man wrote to me and at the bottom of the letter he called himself "Reverend."
 
Immediately I told him he should not call himself "Reverend", for only God in the Bible is called "Reverend."  
 
Psalm 111:9  HE (God) sent redemption unto His people: HE hath commanded His covenant for ever: holy and reverend is HIS name.
 
This man said he went to Bible college and they told them now they could call themselves "Reverend".
 
God said to me:  "But you wouldn't allow them to call you Reverend."
 
(I thought about this.)
 
How is it that I wouldn't allow this when they do?
 
Then I realized it was because I have the Holy Spirit of Truth in me and they do not.  They have another spirit.
 
Then I saw the following scripture, concerning the mark of the beast.
 
Revelation 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him (the dragon & the beast), whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
 
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One says, "I'm Baptist." Another says, "I'm Methodist." Paul says they are carnal and divide the body of Christ. (I Cor. 3)

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
People think they witness to God when they tell the name of the church they attend.  But when a person does this, he shows he is carnal and he brings division to the body of Christ according to the apostle Paul. 
 
I Cor. 3:1-4  And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.  I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.  For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?  For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? 
 
If we speak of God, we should speak of that which God has done with us or of that which God has said to us.  
 
(They don't do that!  They speak of their church and love to tell where they go to church.  They think they witness to God when really they are promoting their church group.)
 
If we feel we have to identify ourselves, we should just say, "I am a Christian." 
 
Ephesians 4:3-6    
 
3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 
 
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
 
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
 
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
 
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Our bodies are the temple of God housing the Word of God in the New Testament church. We must carefully create this temple!

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
I Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
 
From the time we are born again we carefully construct ourselves as the temple of God which houses the Word of God.  We cover ourselves continually, day by day, with pure gold of the Word of the New Testament, living that Word on this earth.
 
As the apostle Paul says, we present our bodies a living sacrifice, " holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."  (Romans 12:1)
 
In the Old Testament, God was very specific about the building of the ark which would house the Word of God.  (Ex. 25-27) 
 
How much more careful should we be about the construction of "the temple" (ourselves) which houses the Word of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit today?I Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
 
In this Podcast, we will look at the directions God gave in building the ark of the tabernacle in the Old Testament and consider how we must go forward in God as "HIS temple" housing all that is holy for the New Testament church today and for the world.
 
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Thorns in your sides and pricks in your eyes

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Numbers 33:55  But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. 
 
I have found this to be true, that they are thorns and thistles, and I have learned to do this very quickly when I recognize people that have to be continually corrected by me.  
 
When a person has the Holy Spirit in him he does not have to be corrected continually by us.
 
But without the Holy Spirit to lead him, we have to lead him and that will end up pulling both of us down.
 
Recently a man, who said he was a pastor, kept doing and saying things that were not scriptural, and I corrected him, and he twisted the correction, and I corrected him, and he twisted that correction.   
 
II Timothy 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
 
Finally I told him I would not read any more of his e-mails.
 
One woman was with our church group for 39-years.  I had to correct her almost every time I spoke with her.  God removed her.
 
In the end times, these people who are ever learning but unable to come to the truth will be rampant and Paul calls this "perilous times."
 
II 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.
 
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 ;  (We know it is God who taught us the spiritual things we know.)
 
The main problem I see with these deceivers is this:  They appear to be learning as we share with them but they are always off for they try to understand spiritual things with their natural mind.
 
I Corinthaians 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.
 
Learn to walk away.
 
II 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?
 
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Prayer

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
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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Many in the church are weak and sickly and many die because they mishandle the Word of God

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
In both the Old and New Testament we have strong warning about the misuse of the Word of God. 
 
God gave very specific instruction concerning the building of the ark of the covenant.  It was to be made from specific wood and covered inside and outside with pure gold.  For the ark was to contain the most precious thing of all things on this entire earth.  What did they carry in the ark?  rubies, gold, diamonds?  
 
No that which they carried was far more precious than the most precious things of this world. 
 
 God said:  "And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee." 
 
And only select men could carry the ark.  When a man who was not appointed to touch the ark, reached up and steadied the ark when the oxen stumbled, God struck this man dead.
 
II Samuel 6:1-7  Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.  And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims. 
 
And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.  And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark. And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
 
And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
 
Uzzah was not one of the men who was appointed by God to touch the ark, the Bible.
 
Paul explains to us that because men use the Bible unworthily, many are weak and sickly and many die.
 
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We admonish one another showing them the way of God as we live on this earth

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Romans 15:14  Paul says:  And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
admonish:  to warn one another and to show the way of God ... to reprimand, to drive a person to turn back to the way of God.
When we see a person going in the way of this world, contrary to the way of God, we tell that person of the way of God and we urge that person not to go in the way of this world, which causes destruction to themselves.
Multiple times, I've witnessed Pam Padgett trying to turn both men and women to the Bible.  She shows these people the scripture on the subject, giving them a chance to turn from the way they are about to go and conform themselves to the Word of God.
I do this both to the church people and to the worldly people, for why would I want either to be destroyed in the way they are going.  
(When they repent and heed the scriptures they are saved from this world and its ways.)
We conform ourselves to the image of Christ when we follow The Word and we give them an opportunity to do the same thing as we "admonish" them.
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Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. (Rom. 15:13)

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
When we believe the Word of God we are filled with joy and peace and hope.
 
There are thousands upon thousands of great promises of God for us in the Bible.  
 
2 Peter 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
When the Holy Spirit of God reminds us of one of these promises of God in the situation of this present life, we can focus on that promise and live above the troubles of this world because we know the God who created this world is far greater than this world.  We hope in God!
 
The church is built upon that Word which God reveals to us in the problems of this life.  We stand upon "that word", the word that comes to us from God by HIS Spirit.  Therein is power.
 
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Deuteronomy 28: Blessings of God valid for NT church today

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Here are some of the blessings and promises of God that are valid for today's NT church:
Deuteronomy 28
1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all HIS commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and HE shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto Himself, as HE hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in HIS ways.10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.12 The LORD shall open unto thee HIS good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
 
And there are many more blessings of God valid from OT for today's church.
 
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Building your house on the Word from God

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
We can build our house by doing a scripture ... or we can build our house by doing a concept which is brought to us by the Holy Spirit of God.  Each time we do the Word from God, we are recreated in the image of Jesus, The Word, and we have the promise of God that our house will not fall in the storms of this present life.
Jesus says:
Matthew 7:24-27  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:  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.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:  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.
Here is an example of building your house on a concept brought to you by the Holy Spirit of God in the form of a thought:  I had moved from Texas to Colorado in 2019 and had put the house in Texas up for sale.  It did not sell.  Coronavirus hit the USA in March, 2020.  It was a fear filled time to try to sell a house.  I prayed, "God, is there anything I should do about that house in Texas."  Immediately the Holy Spirit brought the following concept to my mind:  "Lower the price of the house and put it on special sale for 1 week."  I did this that same day and the house sold within the week.
Here is an example of building your house on a scripture:  The following scripture caught my attention.  I felt God was showing me to do this scripture so I began meditating on this verse to enable me to have strength to "live" this verse, doing this verse in my life.  Ephesians 4:29  Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.  I had many opportunities to do this scripture through the coming years.
An instruction can come through a scripture or through a concept brought from God to our mind in the form of a concept.  Either way, when we do the instruction we build our house on a rock and our house will not fall and we are recreated each time we do the Word from God into the image of Jesus who is THE WORD.
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When a minister teaches another man's work

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Recently when a man came to me identifying( himself as a "pastor", he said he needed a projector to be able to share my teachings with his church.  I told him, "Just teach Bible." (This man was trying to get me to buy a projector for him and send it to him in the Philippians.  I live in USA.)
The apostle Paul spoke to the people that which God had given to him to speak.  Paul said he spoke by the "grace" God gave to him.  Paul didn't copy other men's works nor build on the works of other men.  Paul shared with the church that which God had given to him.
The apostle Paul said:
Romans 15
15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,
18  For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,
20  Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:
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