“And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many.” Commentary: We all know the story of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel. They were in political power destroying the lives of their own people trying to stay in power! Kind of like what goes on with some in Washington D.C. There are two kinds of leaders! The few that sacrifice themselves for the people and the many that sacrifice the people for their own gain! The honesty or the corruption is an outcome of the spiritual condition of man! For good or evil is a spiritual condition! Corruption begins in the heart! Do you want to get by any means what you do not have or do you want to give what you have? You may say well I do not have much but remember Jesus commended the widow when she gave all she had! Jesus said she gave more in the offering than the rich men! They just gave a little off the top! They tried to give God a tip! Jezebel confiscated property that did not belong to her and even killed to get it! Eventually she was eaten by the dogs not enough left to bury her! She made victims and she became a victim of her own ways! The judgment of God works this way! Jesus said those who live by the sword die by the sword! So what led to her destruction? It was the spirit that lived within her! An evil spirit! The two words used in this scripture that are rarely used in our culture today are whoredoms and witchcrafts. Whoredoms is idol worship! It is making your own god being unfaithful to the true God! It involves embracing the gods of this world living in denial of the God of heaven! I want my own way so I make my own god! Gods that are foreign to the true God! Sexual sins are closely related to evil spirits controlling people for destruction! Idol worshippers have fertility gods that even involve child sacrifice! Abortion to cover their sexual sin against God! Even King Solomon got into trouble bonding with women who served foreign gods! When you bond with Satan you become one with him just as you bond with the true God you become one with him spiritually and the result is the character of your life you live out here on earth! Later Solomon wrote all is vanity! No purpose to life! Our bonding to China through our political leaders has brought death to America through the Coronavirus with over one million dead! The trade imbalance for years has prospered China where they have built up their military where they now threaten the world with conquests! What effect will we have with these vaccines have that were hastily developed over time? Only time will tell! The drugs that crossed our southern border from China killed over one hundred thousand young people here in America last year! Be careful who you bond to! Life or death are the results personally and for our nation! Our next word is witchcrafts! This is not a witch riding on a broom on halloween night! Witchcraft often called whisperers is the evil act of trying to cast magical spells on people to control them for a evil purpose! Satan is a spirit just as God is a spirit! Satan uses his spirit to destroy people and God to save people from Satan! Sorcery is another word to describe witchcraft! Witchcraft is always connected to idol worship! You make your own gods in self-worship to do evil! Satan did not become Satan until he made tried to make himself God! I observed witchcraft in India the three years we were there in the Hindu Temples! People would come to the Hindu priest an offer money to cast spells on their enemies! Sometimes it was a husband who wanted to get rid of his old wife and get a new young wife! The cases were unlimited! Funny thing was the opposing party would come to the priest and offer more money to get rid of their opposition! What the Priests told me was this works on everyone except Christians! An example in history would be when the church sold indulgences to save their departed! Martin Luther had enough and the reformation began for the church! To collect money from both sides sounds like a politician! Maybe a lawyer? There is no peace unless the Prince of Peace lives in you! Throughout the history of man there is a temporary peace until the next war comes along! The next disease or pandemic! The next political upheaval! The next sickness and death! The next accident or financial collapse! The next storm or earthquake! The next gun poked in your belly to remove your wallet! The next house break in! The next layoff from your job! Your next cancer or heart attack! Your coming funeral! Jezebel rejected the true God and Satan then took over her life! Jesus has promised us eternal life and his peace he gives us in the midst of a troubled world! He will never leave us nor forsake us! Have you forsaken the true God with an idol? People will reject you because you follow the Savior but Jesus holds your future not them! Jesus holds their future also for he will judge the living and the dead! You can serve the God that created you or you can create your own gods! Which way is it for you? Only God can handle absolute power because he is God! His power is demonstrated to you in love that he sacrificed himself for you on a Cross to deliver you from your evil ways! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYouChurch.com