Revelation 1:4 “John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace unto you, and peace, from which is, and which was, and which is to come, and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;” Commentary: We have done an earlier post on this scripture. If you go to the search box on our blog we made a post on October 23, 2018. Did you ever notice the scriptures never tire with age! He is the same yesterday, today and forever! Did you know God identifies you by the spirit living in you! He knows his own! Satan has a spirit! The spirit of Anti-Christ! The Holy Spirit is identified by seven spirits! Catholics believe their are seven spirits or gifts of the Holy Spirit and Protestants believe there are nine! Regardless the Holy Spirit will dwell in you only if he sees the Blood of Christ applied to your life! The Holy Spirit will not enter where he is not welcome! This is why the disciples asked new converts have you received the Holy Spirit? Jesus ascended back to the Father in heaven so he could send the Holy Spirit! After salvation through Christ you must ask for the Holy Spirit! He then will help you in your walk with Christ! He will warn you and protect you from the wicked one! The Anti-Christ is recognized by a foul spirits apart from God! He hates the Blood of Christ! He hates Christians! He works through political powers of principalities of darkness to fight Christ and his follower here on earth! Christ came to save the world! Satan to destroy it! To neutralize salvation of men living on the earth! To steal their heaven and give them a hell! To reject Christ brings war, violence, riots, plagues, abortion, death, drugs, homosexuality, transgenderism, wokeness, open borders, anti-law enforcement, crime, with invasion of liberty, justice, freedom and law and order! Have you received the Holy Spirit? We never so much as heard of the Holy Spirit? Read Genesis 1:2 “For the Holy Spirit moved upon the face of the waters.” He was active in the creation of this world! He wants to be active in your life! Invite him in after you have applied the Blood of Christ into your sin! The Holy Spirit will recognize you only by the Blood of the Lamb! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com
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Test the Spirits!
1 John 4:2-3 “Hereby know thee the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is the spirit of Anti-Christ, whereof you have heard that it has come; and even now it is already in the world.” Commentary: Why not first test yourself? Judas Iscariot would not confess Jesus or God had come in the flesh and he proved that by his betrayal of Christ! Caesar, Herod, Pilot and the Pharisee’s would not confess Jesus Christ was Lord and had come in the flesh! If you do not confess him then you will crucify him! There are evil spirits like Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, atheism, Marxism, secularism, ANTIFA, Communism, BLM, rioters, looters, arsonists, thieves, liars, rapists, child molesters, drug abusers, murderers, fraudsters, deceivers, homosexuals, lesbians, transgenders who will most likely never confess Jesus or God has come in the flesh? Why? Because they would have to change! Repent of their evil sins! If you reject Christ here on earth you will meet him after he raises you from the dead at the Judgment seat of Christ! Did you reject the Judge that took your judgment on the Cross? If you will not serve Christ here on earth you will never serve him in heaven! It is never too late while you have breath to change the destiny of your eternity! Do you want to keep your sin more than enjoy the benefits of heaven? It is your choice alone! Do not stand naked and alone in front of the living God! Have his blood covering over you then your judgment will be passed over! The plague and judgment of sin will miss you and your household! James & Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
7 Spirits? Revelation 1:4
“John to the seven churches which are in Asia; Grace be unto you, and peace, from which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne.” Comment: So who are these 7 Spirits? First we have to look at the Greek root word for our English word Spirits! This is not booze! The Strongs number is 4151. This word denotes wind or the breath of God! Remember at Pentecost the Holy Spirit came as a mighty strong rushing wind upon the disciples? Your breath is the invisible part of you but without it there is no life in you! God breathed into us his breath at Creation! Though invisible it the most powerful part of us! In the tongue is the power of life and death! Jesus spoke words of life! Hitler, Marx, Lenin, Darwin, Stalin all spoke words of death! Why? Because they spoke words that opposed God and his Christ! We all use the breath God has given us to make words! The biggest mistake people make is to think their breath is their own! Then abuse will come! Hate speech! With our breath we can praise or curse God! If we speak God’s words we honor him and bring life to others! If we speak words against God we separated ourselves from him! Satan used God’s breath to deceive Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden! He told them God was a liar! People do this same thing today! Satan got kicked out of Heaven by taking God;s very breath and using it against him! The same goes on today! Even thought the 7 churches of Asia were not perfect as we are not perfect yet their words of Praise for their God brought them before the Throne Room of God! Your words will either move you closer to God or further from him! The most distant place from God is Hell! If you gave someone your breath and they cursed you with your own breath how would you feel? The Christ which was, and is, and is to come is listening to our words! Our words describe us even better than finger prints and DNA! Your eternity is based upon your words! When I hear someone curse God and use his name in vain I cringe inside! Not for God but for them! James & Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Seven Spirits! Revelation 1:4
John to the seven churches which are in Asia; grace be unto you, and peace, from which is and which is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his Thrown. Comment: The seven churches in Asia Minor were not the only congregations there! They were the nearest churches to John who was exiled on the island of Patmos. The phrase “from which is and which is to come”, refers to Jesus Christ. Grace and truth comes through Jesus Christ. Where some controversy can come is the phrase, “Seven spirits who are before his Throne”. Some believe these are angels! However the problem here is the word used is not angels but spirits! The word spirits, Strongs #4151, translates breath of God or the mighty rushing wind of God! This leads me to believe this was the Holy Spirit part of the Trinity! Remember the Holy Spirit was already sent to the church at Pentecost! Jesus said I must go back to my Father to send the Holy Spirit! Where is the Holy Spirit sent from? Heaven! From the Throne of God where He resides! Remember the Holy Spirit is not a created being like humans and angels! However the Holy Spirit resides in created beings like me and you! Why? For God’s purposes! Remember Lucifer who became Satan and 1/3 of the angels rejected God and His Holy Spirit! God does use angels like Gabriel and Michael and are his servants! They have a choice just like we do! Some believe these spirits are the gifts of the Holy Spirit! The Catholics believe there are 7 gifts and the Protestants believe there are 9 gifts! The gifts are for His church! Later in this Book of Revelation we see these 7 spirits help the churches is Asia Minor! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
No Hope Without Christ! Matthew 12:45
Greek Translation: “Then goeth he, and takes with himself seven spirits that are strange, foreign, teaching with different doctrines unequally yoked together more wicked with malice and mischief, more demonic than himself, and they enter in and live permanently there: and the lowest and furtherest and final state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be unto this wicked generation.” Comment: Remember Jesus cast seven evil spirits out of Mary Magdalene in the Book of Luke? Then she became Jesus disciple! Jesus cast devils out of people and they became his disciples! In 21st century America what would be seven evil spirits you could identify today living in our culture? The spirits would be strange or foreign to the believers in Christ teaching opposition to our scriptures as found in our Holy Bible! These spirits would be unequally yoked together wicked with malice and mischief! Judge Kavannah touched one of these evil spirits called abortion! He had a snake by the tail. How about Darwinism which opposes creation? Opposes a belief in God’s existence! Gay marriage, lesbianism, transgenders, socialism, fascism and how about Islam? There are more than seven evil spirits but those are the top ones! One of the real conflictions in America is that these spirits are not resisted from the pulpit’s of America! Why? There are some exceptions but most Pastor’s play the political correct game! Why? Because these evil spirits are linked to a political party! The Democrats! Since the churches across America took the bait for the 501c deduction they fear losing there tax exemption? Is the love of money worth sacrificing our culture? You cannot defeat Demons pretending they do not exist? My suggestion to American Christian’s is to bind these foul spirits in prayer everyday! Make this part of your prayer life! Encourage your Pastor to speak out on these issues and confront these issues with the scriptures! Raise up a standard against them! Our mid-term elections are coming up in November! Support candidates who hold Christian values! If you do not vote you have given your vote to the enemy of Christ! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Psychics in America! Isaiah 8:19
Annual Psychic Industry Business Revenues in United States: $2.1 Billion Dollars. Source; Statistics of the American Federation of Certified Psychics and Mediums on the Profession of Psychics, the Business of Divinity Arts, and their clients. 2015-2016. Comment: What got my attention to research this is the flood of psychic adds on major cable news channels lately! This takes millions of dollars to run these ads! The 1-800 adds are on your screen for us to call about our future! It is obvious Americans are not taking the advice of Isaiah the Old Testament Prophet? How many Christians are visiting psychics? I shutter in my boots when I hear a Christian tell me, “Ya, but that is the Old Testament and the New Testament has done away with the Old Testament!” Then why did Jesus quote the Old Testament so much? Did He quote something He did not believe? Let us in brief cover the words used in Isaiah 8:19. A familiar spirit or spirit of divination is the act of trying to conjure up spirits from the dead to predict future events! This is an occult practice and sometimes is referred as sorcery. Wizards are of the same spirit and this word actually means to howl. These acts involve chanting, howling to try to call up dead spirits! Sometimes while living in India I would walk past Hindu Temples and Mosques and would hear this chanting and howling while beating drums and tambourines as these Hindu Priests would try to mesmerize their victims! Remember the witch at Endor that King Saul inquired to about his future? Israel was ready to go into captivity and Isaiah tried to warn them! Isaiah asked the Jews a simple question! Why would you seek the dead instead of the living God? The same question needs to be asked to America today! Why would you worship death instead of life? As Halloween approaches there is not a more appropriate question to be asked! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
First & Last? Isaiah 44:6
What did God mean here? We probably have a general idea! Elementary Watson! Let us break the Hebrew words down for a deeper understanding! The word “First”, used here means to be foremost in order of rank! It is like a new year! Remember God instructed Moses to set up the Tabernacle in the first month! Remember Satan’s Kingdom also has an order of rank! Remember in the Book of Genesis (First Book), that the seed of the woman would crush the head of the Serpent! That is the birth of Christ would accomplish this! Satan is the head or first in rank in the Kingdom of Serpents! What about the word last? No one likes to be last! This is an interesting word in Hebrew! It means to follow as facing the east! God is going to see tomorrow! He watches the sunset and will see the sunrise! His days are not numbered! Do you remember something about Jesus saying he is the first and the last? (Revelation 22:13) He said i am the Alpha and the Omega! Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet but interestingly has a Hebrew origin! Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet! What did Jesus mean by saying he was the first? From the Greek we learn that he is first in importance! Is he first in your life? What did Jesus mean by saying i am last? According to the Greek it means he is the finalist in rank and time! He is the only guy left standing! He is on the gold metal stand and no rivals! Jesus goes on to say in this verse that he is the beginning and the end! The word beginning used here means he is the first in order of time, place and rank! Remember those hard headed Jews did not get it when he said before Abraham i was! The word end means that he is the goal. Is he your goal? A running back in the NFL has only one objective! He needs to cross the goal line! The Cross of Jesus will get you across the goal line! The word end used here means to a conclusion! What one word would represent the conclusion of your life? Debt? Pain? Sickness? Death? Fear? Guilt? If you prioritize your life where Jesus is first and last in your life these evil spirits will die at the Cross! Remember the scripture that says the first will be last and the last first? They are the same thing! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
What is a Familiar Spirit? 1 Samuel 28:7
Common sense would say a familiar spirit is a spirit you are familiar with! It is connected with Satan and sin! Before you were born again in Christ this is the spirit that ruled you! Saul sought a woman with a familiar spirit. Why? We will answer this soon! The word familiar spirit translated from the Hebrew means a necromancer. This is the occult practice of consulting the dead! It is one who proclaims to give revelation in uncertain times. Today a fortune teller or a palm reader would be an example. The Jews were strictly forbidden from engaging in this practice of consulting mediums! There is also another meaning for this Hebrew word. It can signify a leather bottle that may burst under pressure! Remember the Jeannie in the bottle! Remember Jesus said not to put new wine in old wine skins! A necromancer will beat skin stretched drums with chants and burn incense to draw spirits. The connection between the two meanings could be that a medium was seen as a container for a conjured spirit. Samuel the Priest had died and Saul had no one to consult about God’s plans and purposes for him. The Lord was angry at Saul for his disobedience! King Saul was facing the Philistine armies in war against Israel. God had already prepared David for the next King of Israel. Saul continued to try to contact God through the Prophet’s and the Urim. The Urim is a noun meaning fire. It refers to the fire of God’s judgment and God’s destruction of the wicked. It is used to speak of a form of idol worship! That is people burning other people in fire! Saul got no answers so his servant’s advised him to contact a woman that had a familiar spirit. So he went to the medium of Endor and Saul asked her to bring up Samuel’s spirit! Samuel was really upset for Saul disturbing him from the Bliss of Heaven! Samuel gave Saul the bad news that the Philistines were going to defeat him soundly! Saul was later killed in battle. The New Testament of our Bible also talks about spirits! There are unclean, dumb, foul, infirmity, divining, evil, bondage and world spirits. John warned us not to believe every spirit! In the case of Saul and the woman with the familiar spirit an evil spirit revealed a good spirit Samuel! It is usually God’s spirit that reveals an evil spirit! We must remember that at one time we were evil in sin apart from God! So our sin revealed the goodness of God sending His son Jesus Christ to atone for our sin! It was our wickedness that revealed the goodness of God! Remember this when you think you are so Holy above everyone else! John told us to try the spirits! He went on to say that every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is from God! Thankyou. James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com