Mark 3:10 “For Jesus had healed many; insomuch that the crowd pressed upon him to touch him, as many as had plagues.” Comment: Jesus had just healed a man with a withered hand in the synagogue on the Sabbath and the religious leaders were furious! They plotted together how to kill him! However the crowd had just the opposite response! No one could heal like this except God! Massive crowds followed Jesus! If we could just touch him we will be healed! Jesus can touch you today during this Coronavirus plague! Jesus was in danger of being trampled by the crowds! He had his disciples prepare a boat so he could go on the other side of the lake and get away! Jesus knew he must only die on a Cross! For your disease and mine! For our sin! Touching each other as humans promotes sickness and disease! We spread pandemics! We spread sin! Jesus was more than human! He was God in the flesh! One touch of the Savior and disease and death are gone! Ask Jesus to touch you! God sacrificed himself for you! Most men will sacrifice you for their gain! The Kingdom of God is a sacrificial system! The higher sacrificing for the lesser! Then after the sacrifice the lesser becomes the greater! Nothing can compare to the love of God! The crowd knew this! They experienced his love! The politicians and religious leaders refused to believe with no benefit! They opposed Christ because they viewed him as competition to their earthly kingdoms! Jesus was taking the worship of the people away from them! He was a threat to their systems! The same is true today 21 centuries later! That is why politicians craft laws to oppose the Kingdom of God! Laws to oppose followers of Christ! Persecutions! Religious leaders inventing another way to heaven than through Christ! Today as then God is still God and Satan is still Satan! You have already made a choice who you are following! Are you on the wrong road? I love that old hymn out of India! I have decided to follow Jesus! No turning back! The Cross before me and the world behind me! Have you decided to follow Jesus? Politicians and religious leaders can do some good things but they cannot raise you from the dead! But Jesus will! Some to everlasting redemption and some to judgment! The choice while still on earth is yours to make! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
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Disobedience & Plagues!
Deuteronomy 28:58-59 “If thou will not observe to do all the words of this law, that are written in this book, that thou may fear this glorious and fearful name, the Lord thy God; Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.” Comment: A few months ago in the church in America most would have said well this is just Old Testament! Like it really does not count? Is the Coronavirus an Old or New Testament plague? God wrote one Book! Not two! My Bible contains both Old and New Testaments! Leave out one scripture from your Bible and your GPS will not work! You will have the wrong image of God! That my friend can turn deadly! Jesus said I am the truth! The way! The life! Why did Jesus quote the Old Testament all the time? So how many times does the word “Plague” appear in your Bible? It appears in both the Old and New Testaments in a total of 135 separate scriptures! The word “Pestilences”, which also means plagues is used 50 times! Jesus used this word in Matthew 24 describing the world before his second coming! Is God trying to get our attention? The Pastor’s here in America are just too comfortable! The money is coming in! They sell their popular endorsing popular culture books not resisting evil! The fools in the 21st Century church here in America are ignoring the warnings in scripture! I can remember when I graduated from aviation school on my first job I told the boss according to the Douglas aircraft maintenance manual we are to torque this nut that holds on the propeller on to 2800 foot pounds! He told me just torque it as tight as you can plus 1/2 turn? Your manufacturer maintenance manual is your Bible! It is your creator’s manual for correct living! If you take care of it it will take care of you! It includes the Old and New Testaments! The redemption and judgment of men is based on both testaments! You cannot have one without the other! The gay capital of the world was Sodom and Gomorrah it is in your Bible! Drop down and look a verse 62! God said I will reduce your population! The world population in the Day’s of Noah was reduced to eight people! What usually follows a pandemic? A famine! What will it take for America to repent of her sin? Repent of gay marriage, homosexuality, transgenderism, abortion, mocking Christ and his followers? Will it take a round two of this Coronavirus? Continual plagues? No government on earth has the resources to ward off a continual round of pandemics! All governments would collapse and we would have a new socio-economic system! All things will pass away and everything will become new! The cure for this plague is repentance! Yet the church is still holding out that they will not have to face the wicked! No call to repentance from the American church? Stranger then fiction! Repentance is good news but it requires people to humble themselves and repent of their sin! It may take more pressure from God to get us to change our ways! Slow learners! However God desires that none should perish but he cannot help us until we acknowledge him and our wicked ways! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Prophecy & Plagues!
Revelation 11:6 “These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy, and have power over water to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues.” Comment: The prophecies of God predict good things and bad things! Redemption or judgment! Right now we are in the dispensation of grace! However here this grace period has ended in the last 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation period of history! Jesus has sent his two prophets Moses and Elijah as preparations for his return to earth! When Christ returns the Kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign forever and ever! Jesus will return suddenly with his saints from heaven for the last great battle on earth! Armageddon! Man is deceived and stubborn so he will put up a fight to the end! Satan cannot win but he has deceived men into thinking they can! Deceived into thinking they can build their own Kingdom! A kingdom that will perish! Here God sends two of his prophets from heaven back to earth! Moses and Elijah! Remember Moses turned water into blood in Egypt thousands of years earlier! Also Elijah stayed rain from heaven for 3 1/2 years thousands of years earlier in history! Jesus gives them power to defeat the Anti-Christ and his followers! Power to bring plagues upon men in judgment of rejecting Christ! The Millennium cannot come by the efforts of men! Men will oppose Christ then as they do today! Taking prayer out of schools! Removing the Ten Commandments from the view of our children! Taking Crosses down across our land! Removing Bibles from instruction to our children in schools! Removing nativity scenes! Promoting evil with legalization of deadly drugs to our children! Promoting homosexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism confusing children of their sexual identity! Promoting gay marriage! Promoting abortion and open borders! Did you know heaven has a border and so does hell! Satan may win some battles but he will lose the war! They will lose their eternity to hell! The battle on earth today and then is between good and evil! It will continue until Christ returns and binds Satan for a thousand years! Jesus will put all his enemies under his feet! The season of grace will end soon! Get serious with God for he got serious with you and went to the Cross for you! Time will close the final chapter on our life here on earth! Did you use that time to promote or resist Christ? Time is short for all of us! What you do with Christ determines blessings or plagues! Either forever! You will never be able to blame God for your rejection of Christ because that is a decision you have made! Choose this day who you will serve! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Servants & Plagues!
Matthew `10:1 “And when he had called unto his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and “to heal” all manner of diseases.” Comment: When Jesus calls anyone to the ministry he gives them power over evil spirits and the associated diseases! What has happened to the 21st Century church here in America is the church has submitted to secularism and has been neutered of it’s power! You cannot find a Bible in a hospital anymore! Years ago was not the case. Hospice forbids Bibles! When I had my back surgeries back in the 1990’s I was witnessing to another man in the same room I was in! I prayed for him and shared the love of God to him! He wanted a Bible! I went down to the nursing station and asked for a Bible he could use while he was in hospital. None were available! Sad to hear New York is kicking out Samaritan’s Purse who set up their hospital beds to help New Yorkers! Now that they do not need these beds they say get out because we disagree with your position on LGBT communities! When you really have the love of God in your heart you help people who even disagree with you! That is what a servant does! Whether the woman at the well or the woman caught in adultery! Jesus did heal me and with human intervention! The Apostle Paul instructed the church to call the elders of the church to pray for the sick! To anoint the sick with oil and pray! To anoint the sick translates in the Greek to apply medicine and then to pray! We always pray with expectation! Sometimes Jesus either says yes, no or wait on me! Why did not Jesus heal himself on the Cross? Not my will but thy will be done! Jesus could not heal anyone in his home town because of their unbelief! When you come to Christ the greatest challenge is convincing your family! Why? They only remember the old you! Not the born again you! The religious leaders mocked Jesus! He saved others can he not save himself? Come off the Cross if you are God! Jesus ministry was to defeat disease and death! He had to go through death and hell to deliver us from both! He could not raise the dead if he were dead! What is an unclean spirit? What is a clean spirit? A spirit is either manifested from God or from Satan! A clean spirit is from God! Remember Jesus promised to send his Holy Spirit to his disciples at his return to heaven from earth! The Holy Spirit has the power over an unclean spirit! Without the Spirit of God dwelling in men an evil spirit has power over men! The word “to heal” is an interesting Greek word! It means to be a servant! To come along side and help others! The Holy Spirit is a servant! To have the interest of others over your own interests! That is why Samaritan’s Purse went to New York! To be exposed to death while helping the sick of the plague! Jesus said he who is greatest in the Kingdom of God is servant of all! We serve regardless of the cost because that is what our Savior did! In the midst of the struggle to pray for the very ones that mock our Christ like in New York! In Christ you will never die alone! He will be there to receive you to heaven or he will heal you for a purpose of ministry down here on earth for a season! Paul had a thorn in the flesh! He may leave the thorn to humble you for an effective ministry here on earth! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Blessings & Cursings!
Deuteronomy 28:22 “The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.” Comment: So how did we get here? In chapter 28 God outlines the promise of blessings and cursing’s depending on what you do with his Word! Do you respect God? His Word? His Commandments? Statutes? Honor the Sabbath? Tithes and Offerings? Many preachers in the 21st Century pretend this scripture does not exist? If you throw out one scripture you have to throw them all out! You have heard of the Jefferson Bible? There are lessons to be learned from the past and if we miss them we tend to repeat them in the present and the future! God said do not reject my laws! Do not mock me! Is Jesus a curse word from your lips? Laugh at his word? If you obey his word then blessings come! The problem and the cure depends on the words that come out of your mouth! Sometimes the 21st Century church speaks as though Jesus is just a good additive for your life! Like STP oil treatment! He is not preached as a replacement for sin but an additive for your already good life! You do not hear from the pulpit anymore here in America you are a sinner headed for hell! If sin and hell are not preached then the Cross means nothing! Jesus took your curse upon the Cross to release your blessings! The curse is your sin! It has to be replaced! Repentance is required! You have to get serious with your sin because God got serious over it to die on a Cross for you! The ignorance of the scriptures is America’s greatest threat! I repented of my sin and came to Christ about 45 years ago! Before Christ my life was a mess! I thought my success was based on my own performance! So when people failed me and I failed people great anger came out of me! No forgiveness because I did not know God has forgiven me! I was miserable! Always a slave to my circumstances! All things work together for good for those that love God and called according to his purpose! In 1980 we had 20 percent inflation and 20 percent interest rates! So our house doubled in value and we purchased another house and it doubled in value! We sold them both and went to India as missionaries for three years and lived and did ministry off the profit! Negative circumstances were turned around for our good and the good of others! This is how God works! Not victims but victors! My success is not on me but on God! Then you can relax and enjoy the ride! Jesus has done more for me in my lifetime than I could do in a million lifetimes! When you achieve something you could never do on your own you know it is from God! You cannot save yourself! Why not let Jesus save you? James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Corona & Crowns!
The word corona is a Spanish word that means crown! The CDC named this virus because it’s covered with crown like spikes. Let us look at our scripture today: Revelation 19:12 “His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns, and he had a name written that no man knew, but he himself.” Comment: Mortal men who succumbed to disease and death nailed Jesus to a Cross with spikes! They put a crown of thorns on his head! So even this coronavirus is a picture that points to the need of a Savior! Science itself reveals the truth of a people who without him evolve into death! Jesus wears a Victor’s Crown! Victory over death, hell and the grave! He rose from the dead and will raise you from the dead! Some into everlasting life and some into everlasting judgment! Creation itself even in it’s death points to life! Points to the remedy for sin! Remember that old hymn? Crown Him With Many Crowns! The Lamb Upon The Thrown! Some things never change! Evolution will never change God! It will never change death! It will only confirm it! The same yesterday, today and forever! Life, death and Redemption is a constant! If on this earth your cannot see the Savior while living you will see him after your death! At the judgment seat of Christ! Either your life here on earth or your life after death will point you to the Savior! Live for him today with joy, peace, and praise for him! Some here on earth praise him and some curse him! What will you do with the breath he has given you? God conquered hate with love! He conquered death with the resurrection from death! By his stripes we are healed! His blood as a sacrifice for our blood! Only he deserves to wear a Crown! The twenty four elders around the throne in Heaven cast their crowns down before him! Only he is worthy! He won a victory for you! The question is will your receive this victory for your life? The crown of the Coronavirus with it’s crowns and spikes reminds us that there is only one crown that will defeat it! Defeat death with life! The Christ that wears the Crown for you in Heaven soon to return to earth! A true picture of the Cross is a Crown of Victory over death demonstrated by a God that loves you so much that he gave himself for you the only sacrifice for sin that is acceptable to him! His sacrifice makes you acceptable to him! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Plague & Cure!
Numbers 16:46 “And Moses said unto Aaron, take a censer and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them, for there is wrath gone out from the Lord, the plague is begun.” Comment: Let us look at the phrase, “Make an Atonement.” This phrase is one word in the Hebrew. Here is an easy way to remember the word atonement! AT-ONE-MENT. At one moment! The word means to cover, reconcile, forgive, cleanse or cancel. Cancel what? The plague of death for the penalty of sin! Atonement is always connected with the blood of the sacrifice for sin! Aaron took some fire off the altar! Why is this significant? Because the fire was the instrument to consume the sacrifice! The fire produced the heat to burn the sacrifice that the ascending smoke pleased God! Remember Isaiah was given a hot coal off the alter and touched his mouth! He said I am a man of unclean lips! The word atonement also has another Hebrew root word used in Genesis Chapter six where Noah placed pitch on the inside and outside of the ark. The judgment or flood of water could not come into the ark! It protected them from judgment! Are you sealed in the Blood of the Lamb? Sealed from judgment? Remember in Book of Revelation the seals were broken that released the plagues upon the earth! The rejection of Christ by the world broke the seals and released the judgments! By the time Aaron made it to the congregation or church thousands had died! How many Americans have to die before we do repentance as a nation? No call from the churches across America? How stubborn are we? Things will never be as they were before? Our national sins are abortion, gay marriage, lesbianism, homosexuality, transgenderism and these are a result of rejecting the atonement for their sins! The church in America has also been a partner in this by its muted voice on sin! Some States are saying with death all around them that we need more money for more abortion? So how does God take away abortion from our land! Take away our money! Financial collapse! Plagues and famines! No one has ever fought God and won! Rather than accepting the sacrifice for our sin we then become the sacrifice! Our covering is the blood of Christ! The only sacrifice that will please is the one where God became the sacrifice! The strange fire of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and all man made religions are sacrifices unacceptable to God! They are human sacrifices! Sin being sacrificed for sin will never work! America is stubborn in their pride but God knows how to turn up the heat! They will eventually get it! Either in repentance or judgment!Too late for some but remember God saved Noah and his family and the rest of the world perished! God is cleaning his House! His church! He is cleaning it politically, financially and spiritually! At one moment at the Cross the plague is stayed! At one moment a nation must change! In one moment the sinner is redeemed! This is our moment as the Church! Will we speak up and call for a National repentance? Jonah was reluctant yet repented and cried unto the city of Nineveh and a city and nation was saved from judgment! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Jesus & Plagues!
Mark 3:10 “For he had healed many: insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.” Comment: Twenty one centuries later your answer to the plague is still Jesus Christ! Looked what happened in the next verse eleven! When those with the plague touched Jesus with the plague unclean Spirits came out of them! Then the unclean Spirits confessed that Jesus is the Son of God! Evil Spirits recognize the Divinity of Christ! Why is it that stupid people do not? Evil Spirits recognize the authority of Christ! The Devil is smarter than most people! That is how he deceives them! Every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord and every knee shall bow! It is just some people do that later than others from Hell! Do it while you are still living and have breath on earth! Notice the Coronavirus takes your breath away! You can no longer curse God and your ability to praise him is also gone! Notice in this chapter the religious leaders got together after Jesus healed a man with a withered hand on the Sabbath and plotted to kill Jesus! How is it that the Devil and the Spirits of darkness confess Jesus as Lord yet the religious leaders try to kill him? What fools! To be dumber than the Devil is not a compliment! Can a man survive this Coronavirus without the protection of Christ? No way! No science is going to save you! God made the sciences so he can figure out what the scientist never will! To little too late! Cover yourself in the atoning blood of Jesus Christ! Confess your sin and receive his forgiveness! No Pastor can save you! No church or organization can save you! Only Jesus! This is why Jesus is separating us from organized religion so you will discover you have only one Savior and one God! Take Communion in your home every Sunday! Identify with Christ with your words and your actions! Jesus knows the pretenders and the true followers of him! Judas was a pretender! This plague will sort out fakes from truth followers in Christ! Confess his blood over your life! Take the elements of Communion into your body! Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord to yourself and everyone you meet! Ashamed of him he will be ashamed of you! Bad place to be in! If so change that! Take action! Change your ways! Your life here and after is dependent on what you do with Jesus! Shame him or proclaim him the choice is in your hands and your outcome in life and in death! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Plagues & Signs!
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences (plagues), and earthquakes in diverse places.” Revelation 18:4 “And he heard another voice from heaven saying, come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.” Commentary: Plagues and the signs of Christ’s second coming are all around us! When you add together the prophetic pieces of the puzzle from the Old and New Testaments you see the big picture! We are commanded to separate ourselves from the sins of the world! From homosexuality, transgenderism, lesbianism, abortion, socialism and open borders, lawlessness, evolution, divorce, idol worshipers, sex change promotions for children and the hell these sins created within our culture! Did you ever notice that those who reject creation for evolution create sins! Christ is the only cure for our sin! However if you listen to the pulpits across America you would never think these acts were sins? They are never called out from our scriptures? Did God shut the church down for a good reason? You must identify yourself with Christ right now! No time to wait for another plague! Hand out Gospel Tracts! Most of the store clerks wear rubber gloves now! Get your Christmas Tree up! I placed the red color on our doorposts of our home with lipstick representing the sacrificial blood of Christ! People will laugh but when the plagues come death will Passover your house! Take communion at home! The homosexual city of Sodom had one righteous man living there by the name of Lot! He was spared but the city was destroyed by fire! Moses was instructed to put the sacrificial blood on the doorposts of every Jewish house! The plague passed over the Jews but not the Egyptians! No television ministry can save you! If they are doing their job they will call out our sins as a nation and request we repent! I hear none of this? No Pastor can save you! Only Jesus! If a Pastor is doing his job he will point you to Jesus to repent of your sins! Your identity is key to salvation! Identity with Christ! Some will mock but when the plague comes they will perish! Read and study your Bible daily! Either you or your Bible will collect dust! Pray in the name of Christ for your family! Help others in need generously! Show the love of God to those in need! The only lasting hope I can give people that will transcend life and death is Jesus Christ! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Pestilences & Signs!
Matthew 24:7 Commentary: Jesus disciples asked him what will be the signs of your second coming? What will be the signs of the end of the world? Jesus gave us the signs in Chapter twenty four of Matthew! One of those signs was pestilences in diverse places! The word pestilence in both the Hebrew and the Greek means plagues and diseases. When you put all of these signs together in Chapter 24 the end times becomes very clear! It is very near! The Lord told Daniel in Daniel 12:4, to seal up the Book for the times of the end when people would run to and fro and knowledge would increase! We had the Black Plague in the 1350’s spread from Asia into Europe. In 2009 we had the H1N1 Swine flu. Daniel when he talked about running to and fro was talking about air travel! These plagues can be spread very rapidly today! The economic impact is already taking effect on the economies of the world! Even though your Bible was written thousands of years ago it is like reading front page news! Jesus prophetic words along with Daniel and many other prophets are true! They will or already have come to pass! Men still try to build their Tower of Babel today! The prophecy of the persecution of Christians and Jews is all in Matthew 24! Why? Satan knows his time is short here on earth! He will ramp up his persecution of humanity for his time will end for his attempted destruction of man! The author of these calamities is Satan not God! Satan’s whole purpose from the Garden of Eden forward was to do the crime and then blame it on God! Jesus second coming is to redeem the world from destruction executed by Satan! Until Satan is defeated this chaos will continue in the earth! Satan was defeated on the Cross! Greater is Christ in you than he (Satan), who is in the world! God has given us dietary laws to protect us from disease! In Leviticus it says do not eat birds of prey such as bats! Do not eat pork, shrimp, fish without scales, ect. But even some Christians do not take the Bible seriously! The Word of God protects you! It saves you and heals you from all your diseases! Call on the name of Jesus to deliver you from your sin! Your disease all authored by Satan! The deception of Satan is to try to get you to doubt God and his Word and chose your own ways! His ways are higher than our ways! Jesus is the way, the truth and the life! Jesus has promised to raise us from the dead! Believers unto eternal life and unbelievers unto eternal judgment! A fool has said in his heart there is no God! Do not play the fool! The price that you cannot afford! Jesus paid your price on the Cross! Death! Death for your sin! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com