Commentary: False teachers in the church at Thyatia in the first century are the same problem we have in the 21st century church today! Jesus warned us there would come many false teachers driving people away from Christ! In life we can do ten things right and one thing wrong and it wipes out all the good things we have done! This is why it is so important to get Christ right because then you can recover from all your sin!`He took your sin upon himself and paid the price of death on a Cross for you! If we trust ourselves we will fail! In the Old Testament or what I like to call the 1st Testament Jezebel was the wife of King Ahab. She was an influence for evil! She even had a man killed to get his property! She was a idol worshiper of Baal. Remember in idol worship you will always make yourself God! Whether Hinduism, Islam, atheism or any other religion. Let me explain! I spent a number of years in India. I would ask the Hindus who God was? They have millions of idols! They would tell me God is who you create him to be in your mind! I would say my Bible says God created man! Just the opposite! I asked many Muslims there how do you get to heaven? They told me they must die for God through becoming a martyr! I told them my Bible says God died for us! Just the opposite! They make themselves God! God created man in his own image! Yet they make God in their own image! Just the opposite! Heaven and hell are opposites! Jezebel used her power and influence to do evil! What are you doing with your resources? Are you promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ? The dogs ate Jezebel but her spirit lived on in the 1st Century church and even today opposing Christ! There are many good women preachers in the church today but your only defense from error is to know your Bible! Any ideology or religious doctrine that says there is another way to God than through Christ is a heresy! Jesus commended this church in some ways but also disciplined them in their doctrinal error! He does the same with us as the Holy Spirit will put a check in our spirit when we deviate from the truth! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com
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False Religions!
Jude 11 “Woe unto them! for they have gone the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.” Commentary: The way of Cain is religion without the sacrificial blood of God! Cain brought an offering of fruit of the ground to the Lord? (Genesis 4:3) Cain made up his own religion! A religion based upon his own efforts not by faith in the sacrificial blood of God! Cain rejected God’s way of Salvation through the blood! He rejected scripture and tried to build his own road to God! Vegetarian sacrifices are not acceptable to God! God will never accept a sacrifice based upon the works of men! Salvation comes from heaven and is not of the fruit of the earth! His brother Abel brought a sacrificial lamb! (Hebrews 11:4) Cain’s false religion lead to the murder of his brother Abel! Cain shed blood because he rejected the sacrificial blood of God! The false religions of this world nailed Jesus to a Cross and shed his blood which purchased our redemption! The persecution of Christians around the world testifies to the false religions of this world who reject the sacrificial blood of Christ and shed the blood of Jesus followers in violence against God and his people! James & Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
True & False Prophets? I Kings 13:33
First and Second Kings were originally one book. They tell of David’s death, the golden age of Solomon’s reign, how the nation divided into two Kingdoms (Republican & Democrat), and their eventual captivity by heathen powers. (China) Could we be talking about America today? King Solomon compromised in order to achieve his political ends! The end justifies the means! He taxed the people so much it fostered a rebellion! The love of money today is the root of all evil! Abortion! He trusted his military more than God! The political changes reflected the abandonment of God by the culture! The good Kings (Southern Kingdom) tried to maintain the traditional worship of the true God! The bad Kings (Northern Kingdom) tried to abandon worship of the true God and replace him with Idol worship! The apostate Northern Kingdom led by King Jeroboam was destroyed! The Southern Kingdom Judah was more repentant and Jesus came through the line of Judah! What lessons can we learn from the Books of the Kings? 1. Human governments are faulty at best. 2. God’s rule continues in spite of the follies of men. 3. The will and purpose of God will prevail. 4. God still speaks through his prophets. Jesus Christ is the spirit of prophecy. 5. God shows his power through the forces of nature plagues, earth quakes, floods, droughts, famines and God incites foreign hostile armies (China) to accomplish his purpose. 6. God is always in control. 7. Time exposes true and false prophets. I Kings 13:33 “After this thing King Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but again made the lowest of the people priests of the high places : whosoever would, he consecrated him, and [he] one of the priests of the high places.” Commentary: Sounds like Saul and Samuel? Satan’s purpose was always to be worshiped! To replace God’s worship! Every evil spirit wants to replace Jesus as King! Remember Jesus is prophet, priest and king! He is a trinity within himself! False worship is exposed in any culture by the rejection of Jesus Christ! He is replaced by Darwin, atheism and other forms of Idol worship! The State becomes your God! The State gets prayer out of schools! Darwin replaces creation! They get Bibles out of schools! Crosses are removed across the land! From cemeteries? Nativity scenes come down by court order! Political correctness hides truth! Cancel culture removes Christian voices! Abortion! Open borders! Sanctuary cities! Fraud in elections! Foreign religions promoted! Foreign governments bribe politicians! Deceptions and lies everywhere! The State goes after the righteous! The nation weakened spiritually and economically! The priests do not resist evil but join them! Wicked behavior like gay marriage, homosexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism promoted by the State and many priests! The church the 501c crowd becomes the State controlled church! No resistance to evil! Popular culture becomes church culture! The wheat and the chaff grow up together! However there will be a harvest! Spiritual warfare leads to political warfare and then to violence! Two voices speak one for good and one for evil! Two Kingdoms! Heaven and Hell! A true prophet of God went to a false prophet and the false prophet lied to him telling him he was a true prophet! It cost the true prophet his life! How can you distinguish the true from the false prophet today? What they do with Jesus Christ! Is he the King, Prophet and Priest of their life? How about you? Is there someone greater? The Holy Spirit will affirm the truth in your Bible but you need to know your Bible! Read and study it everyday! Make it more important than your necessary bread! Jesus is the Bread of Life! Follow him to Bethlehem and the wise men did! Be wise and not a fool! James & Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
False Prophets in Church! 2 Peter 2:1
Greek translation: “But there were false prophets among the multitude of people, even as there shall be false teachers among you pretending to have the character of a Christian but promoting false doctrines, leading people astray with damnable heresies living in a state of death excluded from Salvation in a religious form contradicting the scriptures even declining and rejecting the moral authority of the Lord that bought them demonstrating this on the Cross yet bringing upon themselves swift destruction.” Comment: So what lie detector could I use to detect false prophets in the church? Your Bible my friend! Let me make this as simple as I can! Religion for dummies! Good title for a book! Anyone who tries to teach you that there is another way to God and Heaven other than through Jesus Christ is a deceiver and a liar! No organization can save you! No denomination can save you! Your mother cannot save you! Your Pastor, Priest, Pope and Rabbi cannot save you! A Republican or a Democrat cannot save you! Your religion cannot save you! Your money cannot save you! Your works however noble cannot save you! Your race cannot save you! Your gender cannot save you! Your earth worship cannot save you! You cannot save the planet and the planet cannot save you! Democracy cannot save you! Capitalism cannot save you! Socialism cannot save you! Your gun and drugs cannot save you! Your ideologies cannot save you! Your theology cannot save you! Your government cannot save you! Your flesh cannot save you for it will perish! Only someone outside of yourself and greater than yourself can save you! His name is Jesus Christ the only Son of the living God! No mortal can do that! Only God! Jesus has made a way for the mortal to put on immortality! Creator of heaven and earth is the only God who can do this! He has made it so simple that even a simpleton can figure this out! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
False Religions!
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes! Thomas Paine (1737-1809) English born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and supporter of the American Revolution. Comment: Really our Bible describes both! God and Satan! The war in Heaven started by Satan against God continues down here on the earth! Those in Christ wear the Victor’s Crown! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Witness of the Jews! Isaiah 61:9
- And their seed, offspring, family and race will be perceived and known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people, nation and tribes: all that see them shall recognize and acknowledge them, that they are the seed that the Lord has blessed. Comment: Salvation has come to the earth through the Jew! We need to be reminded of this because if forgotten history has shown us that even the church has been guilty of the persecution of the Jews! Yet congregations are very seldom reminded of this? If we are not taught the whole truth and nothing but the truth then error can enter into the church! The world will never have any problem persecuting the Jews! Did you ever observe that a right theology by the church leads to the persecution of the Jews and the church! Bad theology leads to the church persecuting the Jews! Jesus a Jew was persecuted by the Jews not because he was a Jew but because he claimed to be God! Would the Messiah not be God? The 1st Century Jews knew the scriptures but they believed their Messiah would be a world political leader who would conquer the Romans and the world! Much like the Anti-Christ will do in the future here on earth! The true Messiah conquers through love! A sacrificial love demonstrated on the Cross! So the Jews ignorantly offered up the sacrifice that would save the world! A Jewish sacrifice offered up by the Jews! Many Jews will turn to Christ during the 7 year Tribulation period in history! The Jewish Anti-Christ will set up his world reign from the re-built Jewish Temple at Jerusalem! The False Prophet will set up his co-reign with the Anti-Christ at Rome! The False Prophet will be the one world religious ruler! My guess is it will be Islam! The Church will have been raptured by then! When the Anti-Christ proclaims he is God the Jews recognize their error! Jesus said many false Christ’s will come! A Jew who hates the Jewish Messiah has been deceived! A Jew who loves the Anti-Christ has been deceived! A Jew or a Gentile who loves the Jewish Messiah has found the truth! Your defense against the false Messiah’s of this world is the Word of God! Read it, hear it and proclaim it! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Fast Forward Evolution!
Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: “What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all the Jews.” Anne Frank Comment: What a wise little teenage girl! She was way beyond her years! It is such a paradox that Hitler was blaming the Jews for Germany’s problems yet he was following a Jew named Charles Darwin? Darwin was an atheist and Hitler was planning out his genocide not only on the Jews but every race except the German race! Hitler through his propaganda minister spread the fake news to the Christians of Germany that Jesus was not a Jew! Hitler blamed the Russian Revolution on the Jews and it is true that Marx, Engels, Lenin and other founders were atheistic Jews! Hitler believed he could fast forward or speed up evolution by millions of years by getting rid of the undesirables which included everyone but the Germans! Do you see how racial selective evolution will lead you? One false doctrine lead to 60 million dead across Europe during WWII. Darwin is also responsible for the deaths of over 57 million babies here in the United States! Abortion! Yet I cannot condemn all Jews because of a few atheistic Jews promoted a ideology that has lead to the deaths of hundreds of millions of people! My savior is a Jew! The Anti-Christ will be a Jew! So this bright little Jewish girl sorted things out! What a difference had Hitler followed a Jew by the name of Jesus Christ! He could have become the greatest Evangelist for good the world had ever seen! Who we follow determines our outcome! Everyone will follow someone! Our Bible teaches Creation and that all people are created in the Image of God! We are all created equal before God! This is confirmed in our United States Constitution! Our Constitution is a Biblical document! When a false teaching enters the minds of men bad things happen! When men believe their is no God then they take things into their own hands! If men believe in a false God they again take matters into their own hands for a desired outcome! What new doctrine or old sin will men pursue in the 21st Century? Islam, socialism, racism, fascism, communism, Nazism and the Anti-Christ that lives in all these ideologies! Or will Christ come into the hearts of men causing them to live in peace with God and man? We know right now 1/3 of the earth is Christian. There are three major religions in the world. Their were 3 Crosses at Calvary but only one counted for the redemption of man! Even though a minority the Jews have played a major part in the redemption of man! Think about this! If the religious Jews would have accepted Jesus in the 1st century then their would not have been a crucified Christ! No redemption for man! God provided a Jewish Savior and the religious Jews made the sacrifice! If you fast forward evolution you come up with death! If you fast forward Christ he is waiting for you in Heaven and has prepared a place for you! You live for him because he died for you! So the choice is yours! The Christ or the Anti-Christ? James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Observations of God and Men!
I have done some studies about events and the leaders of the world prior to WWII. I have studied the ideologies of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Emperor Hirohito of Japan! What was the driving purpose for their ideologies was determined by their belief about God! Their supporting cast were their cultures! Much of Eastern and Western Europe at this time in history embraced Darwinism or Evolution! Charles Darwin was an atheistic Jew who believed that since there is no God things must have happened this way! That is we must have evolved from very primitive life forms! Japan was very different in their culture where they worshipped the Emperor as God! The west and the east were are on very different ends of the spectrum in their belief about God but with the same devastating results! What about Islam? What does believing in a false god lead to whether religious or not? If you are an atheist you make yourself God! If you make man god then you make yourself equal with God! Jesus was man but he was also God! I have noticed in history and in my own life that if you worship a false god you will sacrifice others for your own perceived gains! If you worship the real God you will sacrifice yourself to help others! Whether you wear a religious cloak or not this is the bottom line! The sacrificing could be your laying down your life for others as the disciples did or living one day at a time sacrificing for your family and the community! Sacrificing for friends and sacrificing for strangers! It could be coaching a youth basketball team! Serving in your church! The day I discovered God’s only Son Jesus Christ sacrificed his life for me for my sin I wanted to sacrifice my life in service to others! There is a righteous sacrifice and an unrighteous sacrifice! The righteous sacrifice will always benefit others the unrighteous sacrifice will always destroy others! Serving the living God will benefit all. We face the false god of Darwinism in American culture today! Sacrificing children through abortion to cover sin with 57 million victims so far! Death cannot be our motto! Gay marriage cannot produce children ending in the death of our culture! Gay’s, lesbians and transgenders have about a 40 percent higher suicide rate than the rest of the culture! The only ones holding America together today are the Christians and Orthodox Jews who vote Republican for traditional values that have always made America great! The Bible and the Holy scriptures promote life and not death! When we choose life and Christ we say no to death! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
John 3:16 Word Study “God”
God (Theos) Strongs #2316. This word was taken from Greek culture. Remember the Greek culture were nature worshippers! Idol worshippers! They worshipped creation! The gods of the sun, moon and stars! Their divine worship also included other deities! Much like the Aztecs and Hindu’s do! At Mecca the Muslim’s had 360 Idol’s! One for each day! They took what they thought was their best idol and named him Allah! The Greek word used here for “God”, is singular and masculine! That is correct God has a gender! The word Theos means the true God as opposed to false gods! False gods are man made gods! The famous Greek poet and musician Orpheus called the ancient Greek gods demons! How do you become a demon? It is a choice! Like Lucifer (The Fallen Angel), if you make yourself god and reject the true God you have as a created being worship yourself a created being and you become a demon! Atheism is self worship! You make yourself God by declaring there is no God! Charles Darwin was an atheist and based Evolution on the belief there is no God! The angels (Lucifer, Michael and Gabriel), are created beings so we must not worship them! Lucifer who became Satan in his rebellion was cast out of heaven! Elohim is a Hebrew word for God. It is also singular and masculine! It translates the God of gods! The God of Israel! God is set apart from creation though actively involved in creation! He is the cause for everything and the Trinity pre-existed creation and always was, is and forever will be! So in the Trinity do we have three gods? No! One God with three distinct purposes and functions! Hopefully this word study will help us as we examine each translated word in the context of John 3:16 James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
A Smart Bet!
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists! Blaise Pascal