Product Description: The Prophet In Today's Church

I went to coffee with two Baptist women and one of them told me pastor was building a new church building.  She went on to say there was a woman in their church group who was often  against the pastor in his projects.  She said to me, "What do you think might be wrong with this woman?"

Without any thought at all I replied, "Maybe she's a prophet."



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Most people in churches today do not have any understanding of New Testament prophets and the work they are set in the body of Christ to do by the will of God.

(Many churches do not even realize there are apostles and prophets in today's church.)

But the Bible says:

After Jesus arose, HE gave to the church five ministry offices:

Ephesians 4:11-12    HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;  For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:



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In the OT, the people went to a prophet to inquire of God to see what God wanted them to do.

In the NT, each person who believes in God is given the Spirit of God to show the person the heart of God in the issues pertaining to this present life.  I Corinthians 2 & Ephesians 1

Jesus said the Holy Spirit would do the following work for the believer.

- teach us all things  
- remind us of words of Jesus
- guide us into all truth
- show us things to come

(John 14:26 & John 16:13)


This equips us to know the way of God for us as we  live on this earth.



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So what do prophets in the church do today?

In this book, several examples from Old and New Testaments are presented showing the assignments God gave prophets.

It is a bit like walking a tight rope without a net, for the prophet warns people, often without visible evidence.

God often gives His prophet spiritual gifts of word of knowledge, word of wisdom, and discerning of spirits to help the church.  I Corinthians 12

A prophet just knows without knowing how he knows.  (but as God wills)

A major work of a prophet is to warn the church as we see in Acts 11 & Acts 20.



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Several years ago, one of our church members was going to marry.  Two of us prophets in our church group warned her.  She postponed the wedding.

Then the man she planned to marry told her about his son who was going to marry a woman who was divorced.

Our church member spoke up saying that Jesus said the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.  Matthew 5:32   

Her fiancĂ©  did not believe the scripture although he said he was a Christian.  And after she spoke this scripture, he no longer wanted to marry her.  

Years later, she rejoiced at having been spared a wedding she felt would have been disastrous.


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As John the Baptist went before Jesus to prepare HIS ways in the first coming of Jesus, we, HIS prophets go before HIM to prepare the church for the second coming of Jesus, delivering warnings and corrections to help the church to repent and be ready for Jesus.

It is a very important work of God.

That is the subject of this book:  The work of prophets in the NT church today.

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet









The Prophet In Today's Church: 1 - The work of prophets


John the Baptist is a prime example of prophet in the church.  The angel told his father the role John the Baptist would have: 

Luke 1:16-17  And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.  And he shall go before HIM (Jesus) in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. 

John the Baptist did this before the first coming of Jesus, making the people prepared for Jesus' coming, the Messiah. 

Today we, who are called by God to the church as prophets, do the same work ... preparing a people for the second coming of Jesus and the judgment seat of Christ. 

II Corinthians 5:10-11  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;

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* John the Baptist was out in the wilderness until the day of his showing. 

Luke 1:80  And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel. 

The radio station manager in Detroit (USA) once said to me, "It is amazing.  You just appeared all of a sudden.  Most people who come to us for radio don't just appear." 

I find most prophets in Bible are just out there, often alone ... Elijah, Elisha ... Also the prophets in Bible often traveled in packs with other prophets ... The apostle Paul often took Silas, a prophet, with him. 

God just opens the eyes of prophets and gives them understanding, often without evidence to back up the wisdom from which they speak. 

They just "know" because God quickens them. 

They are shown the evil the congregation is doing. 

(If you are interested in knowing more about this, read the book of Isaiah the prophet in Bible.  Look at what Isaiah saw concerning the congregations and the messages Isaiah gave to correct them.)

You can't run around with the evil doers in the church and correct them.

If you are a companion of evil doer, you are evil. 

Prophets are often very isolated, for the ministers and the people do evil in the church groups and try to hide that evil but God causes prophets to see what they are doing.

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Once I went to a small church to speak and pastor called for a prayer line at end of the service.

I walked up to one woman and I said, "And what is it you want from God?" 

She replied, "I just wants more of the Lord." 

I said, "God will tell me what it is that you are doing." 

She raised her hand, began waving her arms in agitation and cried out before all,  

"Oh NO, Lord. Don't tell her."

That brought the house down!

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Prophets are different from other people. 

God shows the prophets the evil in the church, evil in ministers and evil in congregation. 

If you consider the various Old Testament prophets you see this.  They went from village to village in the nation of Israel. (the church) 

God gave the prophets harsh messages for the people of God to turn them away from their various sins and to stop them and to turn them back to righteousness. 

Also they dealt with the rulers of Israel. (the ministers).

Consider Samuel (the prophet of God) dealing with Saul and then being sent to anoint David as king of Israel to replace Saul(I Samuel 15) 

When Saul did wrong and God removed the nation of Israel from him and gave it to David, Samuel grieved over Saul's wrong doing.

God said to Samuel, "How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons."  I Samuel 16:1 

I feel exactly the same grief over these evil men who call themselves "pastors" who have sent me their e-mails. 

You even get to the point that you want to die as did the prophet Elijah want to die. 

I Kings 18 

17-18  And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? 

And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim. 

(Then Elijah said to the king:) 

19  Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. 

20  So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.

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21-24  And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. 

Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. 

Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:

And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. 

And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.

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25-29  And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under. 

And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. 

And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. 

And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.  (their own works to reach their god) 

And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

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30-40  And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.

And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name: 

And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.

And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.

And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, 

LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that Thou art God in Israel, and that I am Thy servant, and that I have done all these things at Thy word. 

(I have often prayed that God would show them that I have done all these things at His word to me.) 

Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that Thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, 

The LORD, HE is the God; the LORD, HE is the God. 

And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

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Obviously NT prophets do not slay people with a sword ... but they do slay evil doers with the sword of the Spirit, the word of God. 

These men who say they are ministers send me terrible emails, asking me to do all sorts of things that are not what God tells me to do. 

How do I handle these letters?  With the sword of the Spirit, the Word God gives me and it will cut into their flesh and blood will flow, killing the wicked ideas of their own flesh.

Here is an example of a letter from a man who says he is a minister. 

I use red print to state my reaction to his various points.  Each comment I make is like Elijah hitting that man with a sword.  (the red print reminds me of blood)

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Letter from man in Africa: 

Man in Africa 

Blessings ,

Greetings in Christ’s Mighty Matchless name. We are doing well by God’s grace. It’s great to reading your website Jesus mission

After reading your teachings, we prayed and shared with our Church members and all accepted your teachings very much, we are a group of over 10 churches under me, am the founder these in Kenya, We also involve on orphans Ministry and Hospital Ministries Evangelism.

Please is there anyway possible you can COME on JUNE and Minister to us even 15 days? Please COME and SHARE with us 

(JB ... come at your own expenses half-way around the world ... It is always the same ... I have received many invitations and no one ever offers financial assistance to me to come to speak to them ... they are selfish, inconsiderate of my situation and my needs, and they are greedy.) 

We thank God for your life. we shall be doing a soul winning campaign. 

(JB ... I am an apostle/prophet ... sent to the church, not to the world.  I would not participate ever in a "soul winning campaign".  That is not the work to which God has assigned me in the ministry.  That is the work of an evangelist.  I am certain the men who write such letters to me do not actually read our blog.  Otherwise they would know the difference in the ministry offices of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher.  They see everything as evangelist.  You have to work in the office to which you are called by God.  I am set here to work with the church bringing corrections such as this correction to those ministers who say they are of God but know nothing about the ministry offices and the difference in assignments in the ministry.  Ephesians 4) 

We shall be outreaching the lost soul in our neighborhood. This our soul winning campaign to fulfill the Mathew 28

As per the request of bibles this has been our campaign. We shall give a bible to every single born again Christian to help them grow in the lord. 

(JB:  The giving of Bibles to all is a very fleshly plan of man and would require much money which they often hope to obtain from us as they think they do a good work and they think we will want to participate in such a work.  But it is a very pompous, arrogant plan of man to think to do such a thing.  Further, it can be very evil to give things to men, causing them to expect everything to be given to them by ministers.  Let them buy their own Bibles and they will show a real interest in Word of God when they spend their own money.) 

I know and belief you are prayerful and you can try and hear from God to the best way we can partner to advance the kingdom of God. 

(JB:  What this man believes is wrong.  There is no way I would enter into a work with this man.  He comes speaking of his own works but says nothing that God has said to him.  I believe this is the way antichrist comes, displaying his own works while never telling the church anything to edify the church in the ways of God for antichrist is against the ways of God.) 

We expect hundreds to turn out during the soul winning outreach, we are targeting over hundreds of people to give their lives to Christ this end month Crusade new year opening. 

(JB:  God adds to the church daily such as should be saved.  Acts 2:47 ... A human has no right to make such a pompous statement nor to think he can "target" hundreds to "give their lives to Christ."  This man sets himself up as god when he says this.  Antichrist:  II Thessalonians 2:4 ... 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.) 

You are most welcome to Kenya to team up with us for kingdom advancement. We are holding you in our prayers & your family and ministry. 

(JB:  I believe this "praying for you" statement is a lie ... and I have no family, other than the church.  And I am appalled to think what they would pray about my ministry.  They don't even know what the ministry of an apostle/prophet is.  But God will not hear them.  I know this.  For they are fleshly, sensual in their pursuits.  And their good works are devised out of their own fleshly minds.  They just copy what others have done.  They are like the ones Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24 when HE warned the church about men such as this.
Matthew 24 

3  And as HE sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.



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please help us with our local languages,for the oldage people to read and understand easier, we need 200 KIKUYU Bibles and 200 LUO BIBLES copies through American Bible Society so we can pick them here bible society of Kenya, is there any way possible you can help us monthly support of bibles even 160 bibles for our evangelism? 

(JB:  Always:  "Give us your money to pay for our works."  The work is their own fleshly idea which they can't pay for and now want others to pay for their works.

In the end, at the day of judgment, they will be turned away by Jesus because the work is not authored by God but by their own flesh: 

Matthew 7:22-23  Jesus says:  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

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(Back now to Elijah) 

I Kings 19 

1-4  And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 

Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.

And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; 

(But God had more work for Elijah to do so God sent an angel to feed Elijah and God restored Elijah from the discouragement of his flesh and gave Elijah another assignment.) 

The answer to this desire to die is this:  God has another job for you to do in the church. 

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Consider Moses: 

Deuteronomy 6 

1-3  Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: 

That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all HIS statutes and HIS commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 7 

1-6  When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;  

And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

For they will turn away thy son from following ME, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto Himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 

(I have noticed that OT prophets, such as Moses, look like NT apostles in giving the law of God, in establishing the church in the doctrines of God.)

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The apostle Paul said, 

Ephesians 5:11  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. 

We do not go along with the evil and the various superstitions, old woman fables.  We stop them when we see them.

And we especially do not accept nor receive the false ministers who are really ministers of the apostasy and antichrist.

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My mother always read horoscope books.  All my early life she would read my daily horoscope to me. 

After I was born again, I visited her and when I opened the kitchen cabinet I noticed 4 horoscope mugs which I had given her before I was born again.

My mother was watching me.

I took a garbage bag and began putting those horoscope mugs into the bag.

My mother realized what I was about to do and she began crying out:  

"STOP ... What are you doing. I want to keep those. You gave them to me."

I didn't say a word. 

I took them to the garbage can in the alley and broke them and threw them away.

When I went back to my mother's house, I found my Bible and began reading the following aloud. 

Deuteronomy 18:9-14 

When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 

For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

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My mother sat there silently in thought for a few seconds.

Then she said, "Well ... I guess we'd better not do that any more." 

I believe she was born again with that decision.

See, it is not saying, "Jesus is Lord," rather it is a matter of making the WORD of God, which is Jesus, Lord in your life.

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These are the works prophets do, to turn people from their sins and turn them to God ... making ready a people for the Lord. 

We don't give the people a bunch of sweet, sickening words to make them feel good about themselves in their way of living.  (flattering them, that no one turn from their evil) 

But we speak the word of God to try to turn them from their sin and turn them to God ... making a people prepared for the Lord.

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 I've not seen anyone more ungodly than these so-called "ministers" who have written to me lately whose letters I have published on this blog for the past two weeks or so ... they are so religious, phony, unreal ... and evil. 

Jesus said:  (concerning the last days) 

Matthew 24:12  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 

The iniquity I saw in these men who called themselves "pastors" was beginning to cause me to hate.  I was crying out to God for HIM to help me.

I knew, for a season, I had to publish their letters so others among us could be awakened to the horrors going on in the ministry today, but it was really beginning to affect me, just as Jesus said iniquity will affect us.  You feel like giving up. 

Matthew 24:13  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 

I was crying out to God, over and over, "Help me! ... Help me! ... Help me!" 

One day, I was printing the following: 

II Peter 2:7-9 

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 

(The filthy conversation:  all their pretense in puffed up flowery words of hypocrisy and flattery.) 

(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

 Immediately I knew what to do. 

Remove my e-mail address from our blog and print only our mailing address. 

E-mail makes it too easy for the false ministers to contact me. Let them use their own money now and write a letter! They will rarely do that for it costs them something.

I was instantly delivered from them and I was free to focus again on the real church and saw to write about the work of apostle and prophet in the church, for I know few people in the church understand that apostles and prophets are different from the other ministry offices in that which they do for the church. 

So I began writing these reports concerning the work of apostles and prophets in the church.

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The Prophet In Today's Church: 2 - God shows prophets evil in the ministry and evil in the congregation


Moses, a prophet, was with God in the mount, receiving rules for the people of God to follow.

God knew what the people were doing at the time, but Moses did not know. 

Exodus 32:1-4  And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.

And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

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God, seeing the evil the congregation was doing, said to Moses: 

Exodus 32:7-10  And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: 

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 

And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

Now therefore let me alone, that MY wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. 

Moses began to intercede for the sins of the people and God did not destroy the people for this sin as HE had planned to do. 

But then when Moses got down there and really saw that which they were doing, Moses' anger waxed hot against the evil doers and he caused the sons of Levi to slay 3,000 of the people. 

When we experience their sin our fury expands to godly righteous judgment.

God is wholly righteous and cannot stand the evil done by HIS people.

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Exodus 32:15-19   And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.  And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. 

And he (Moses) said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear. 

And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. 

(These evil people didn't deserve to have the word of God delivered to them.  Sometimes we feel like that too.) 

Exodus 32:20-28  And he (Moses) took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. 

And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? 

And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.  For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.  And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.

And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) 

Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.

And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. 

And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

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God is appeased by judgment.

It is God who shows the prophets the evil and then the prophets must take action.

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*  In the early 80's, God called my attention to Jimmy Swaggart. 

He had told his advertising agency that he was tired of small groups and he wanted large groups at his meetings.

His agent told me, they had told Swaggart to get large groups, stop preaching so much at the meetings and play more music and more people would come to his meetings. 

God opened my eyes to see the evil Swaggart was doing in this ... changing the meeting into entertainment by the country-western type music which attracted the audiences to his meetings. 

When I couldn't get the message directly to Swaggart, I broadcasted this message over his own radio stations.

This caused Swaggart to get the message.

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*  I had a similar thing happen over Kenneth Copeland. 

They took up a "birthday offering" at one of Copeland's meetings to send him and wife to Hawaii. 

God opened my eyes to see this was wrong.  (I don't believe IRS would approve taking up tax-deductible offerings for birthday gifts.) 

When I couldn't get the message directly to Copeland, I spoke the message at my Fort Worth meeting which was filled with Copeland followers and where Copeland lived.

After that, Copeland got the message.

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*  Marilyn Hickey came to Dallas in early 80's and I picked her up at airport to take her to her hotel. 

She had many boxes of books which she was selling at her meetings.  These books were in cargo of airplane with luggage.

Marilyn told me how she managed to ship so many boxes of books without paying airlines for shipping. 

She said:  You get a large number of dollar-bills ... Go to curb side check-in and allow the porter to see that large roll of bills in your hand ... Check the boxes and give the porter the bills. 

When she told me this story, I didn't realize she was defrauding the airline. 

Later God opened my eyes to see the evil she was doing in stealing from the airlines to ship her Bibles and books."

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*  God had me send a message concerning adultery to Jim Bakker. 

I didn't realize Bakker was committing adultery at that time.

I identified myself as a prophet when I mailed the message.

Our letterhead held the name of the ministry, Jesus Ministries, on top of the page where I wrote the message. 

Bakker sent me a form letter saying, 

"Dear Jesus:  Thank you for your inspirational message.  Jesus, I want you to know that Tammy and I prayed for you today."  Jim Bakker 

Lies and hypocrisy ... from Jim Bakker. 

A year or so later, Jim Bakker was arrested for fraud.  He was put in prison.  His wife, Tammy, divorced him and married another man and then died of cancer.

It turns out at the time I sent that message about adultery, Jim Bakker was committing adultery with a secretary at his church.

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God knows what we are doing every day and every night. 

Matthew 10  there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

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Some messages are sent by God to turn us from our sins and return us to the way of God.

Other messages are an indictment against the evil doer and will be used at the judgment seat of Christ to condemn that evil doer. 

It is the prophet's job on earth, to deliver that which God has given him, faithful to God.

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Consider Noah, 

Hebrews 11:7  By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. 

II Peter 2:5  And (God) spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 

We see by these scriptures that Noah preached righteousness of God to the people.

Noah condemned the world because he believed God and they did not believe.

Any time we believe God and act on the word God has given us, we condemn the world who does not believe.

At the day of judgment, God can use this, saying:  "She believed ME ... how is it you did not believe ME?" 

Thereby we condemn those who do not believe when we believe and act upon that which God has shown us. 

II 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.

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In the period of 1981-82, I was on radio in many cities throughout the USA.

God said to me:  The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God.

After that, God began showing me the evil some of the big-time radio/TV ministers were doing. 

I warned them by giving them the message God had given me about themselves. 

When I could not get these warnings directly to the minister, I just presented the case to the churches on my radio broadcast, naming the minister by name and telling of the evil way which had been taken by the minister. 

In Seattle, the radio station manager was waiting for me outside the meeting hall. 

George said to me, "Joan, you have many wonderful messages.  Just speak those 'good' messages.  If you keep speaking these judgment messages I don't know what is going to happen to you.  We might have to put you off the air." 

Without any thought at all, the following from the Spirit of God, came out of my mouth to define my way. 

"George ... If I don't speak the message I believe to be from God, then I don't have a message and I may as well be off the air."

They kill a prophet when they stop that prophet from speaking the messages he has been given by God.

There are various way to "kill" a prophet. 

When God put me on radio, before any program was ever broadcast, there was one instruction I was given by God ... Have your telephone unlisted.

It was not a pleasant experience to do this.  I did it.  I got used to it.  It was a critical thing for me to do.

If the people can get to you, they "kill" you by draining you ... If they argue another doctrine, it keeps you from going forward until you can get settled again.  (They kill you.) ... If they can plant the seed in you that you are wrong, they kill the message temporarily until God restores you. 

While we desire to be around other people, especially when they seem to be of God or are even church members, it can be detrimental to a prophet to put himself with them.

We notice how often the prophets of the Bible are alone. 

I Kings 17:1-6  And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. 

And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 

Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. 

So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

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After I went on radio, somehow an elderly man found out where I lived and showed up outside my apartment.  He knocked on door and I did not open door but did ask what he wanted.

He said I had a message for him and he insisted that I let him in to get that message.

He wouldn't leave but kept banging on my door and crying out.

I phoned a man who was in the ministry and told him what was going on.  He said to tell this man if he didn't go away, he would come over and beat him up. (rather fleshly but he did leave) 

When I travelled to cities where I was on radio, I had to use my mother's maiden name to check into hotels.

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And after the judgment messages began in 1982, God showed me in a dream I would be in great danger if I went out.  And in the dream, God even told me, "Don't go until you see Exodus 15."

I cancelled all meetings that I had scheduled for the entire year after hearing that message in that dream. 

A woman who was in the faith movement and worked for me at that time asked, "Do you really believe God would let them kill you?" 

I said, "God let them kill John the Baptist." 

Another woman who worked for me said, "Joan, you have to go out.  If you go out and have meetings they will give money to you.  If you don't go out, they won't give money." 

I replied, "God said, 'Don't go.' "

"I'm not going."

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John 16:2    Jesus said: 

yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

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Another way they would "kill" you is by getting you to travel to the other side of the world to speak to ministers at their conferences.
(Not only does this wear you out physically, cause enormous drain of your finances for they never offer to pay any expenses, and drain you mentally, but it keeps you from doing such assignments of God as writing the blog.) 

The devil gives them various plans for you to get rid of you (even to causing death) so you cannot deliver the messages of God.

The devil works through other people, especially through men who say they are ministers.

The important thing is for us is to be faithful to God, to that which HE has told us.

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Here is a very important example for us in Bible. 

I Kings 13 

And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

And he (the man of God) cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee. 

And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out. 

And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he (the king, Jeroboam) put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him (the man of God). 

And his hand (Jeroboam's hand), which he put forth against him (against the man of God), dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. 

(Prophets often cry out against the "altar", against the churches, against the ministers of those churches for they are doing evil, not good, and the fact they call themselves by the name of God does not make them godly.  God renders judgment against these evil ministers and against these evil congregations through HIS servants, the prophets.) 

The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.

And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. 

And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.

And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward. 

And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:  For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. 

So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.

Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.

And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.

And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,

And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? 

And he said, I am. 

Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. 

And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:  For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. 

He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:  And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, 

Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,  But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers. 

And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.

And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which HE spake unto him.

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We must do what God tells us to do and continuing do that word. 

My assignment from God, at the point in time I write this, is:  stay home and tend to the blog. 

I can't be travelling all over the world physically.  I do that by the blog.

To travel physically, as preachers often try to get me to do, would probably kill me physically. 

Two men who identified themselves as "pastors" were coming to USA and wanted to come to see me in Texas.  They gave reason of wanting to know more about Holy Spirit.  I did not want them to come here.  They would drain me terribly so I could not tend to my assignment, the messages for the blog.  It takes approximately 4 hours per day to write and proof read the messages for the next day on blog. 

When I asked God about these two men I was shown everything I have been given concerning the Holy Spirit is already written on our blog.  They can read about it by going to the previous writings which are listed on the right side of the blog.

I don't know what these two men really wanted but I know it would have stopped the work of God to which I am assigned. 

You must follow the assignment God has given you. 

They will try to do all types of things to you that are not of God. 

The young prophet had an assignment given by God.  The old prophet said, "I'm a prophet too and God has told me to get you to return to my home and eat and drink."  But he was lying to the young prophet. 

Because he was a prophet, the young prophet made a deadly mistake and disobeyed what God had told him to do.  

Ministers often try to get me to follow them and do things opposite to that which God has assigned me.
Several times in past God has said to me:   
"Stay free ... and follow ME."

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