John was baptizing people for the forgiveness of their sin in the Jordan river! Jesus was baptized by John! Did Jesus need to be baptized? He was doing this in obedience to the Father and showing us by example the right path! Confirmation was given afterwards by the Holy Spirit descending on him! The Holy Spirit will come into the life of a believer to accomplish the work God has given us! For Jesus it was preparation for the Cross! In this verse sinners were confessing their sin! The word confessing means to be in agreement with God! That is i have broken his laws! I have broken his commandments! I am guilty as charged! If we have truly made the first confession then a second confession will follow! That is Jesus has saved me! We will not be able to keep quiet about this! Your second confession is the result of your first confession! That is confirmation of your salvation! People that claim they are saved but never want to talk about it are suspect? People that are saved will act like it! Excited! The world will try to shut you up! They hate your testimony because it exposes them! Don’t wear your religion on your sleeve they will say! People that have never made the first confession are uncomfortable about your second confession! Think if our criminal justice system worked this way! You confess your crimes to the judge and then he says you are free to go! However if you truly repented you will not repeat your crimes! Jesus is our judge because he took your judgment upon himself! This is why only Jesus can forgive our sin! Would you forgive someone who you had to go to prison for 30 years yet you did not do the crime? God took our death penalty upon himself! People cannot forgive because they do not understand someone has taken the punishment for their sin so they need to get vengeance for themselves rather than to forgive as they have been forgiven! Happy Easter! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
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Two Beast’s!
There are two very different beast’s mentioned in the Book of the Revelation! That is there are two different Greek words used in this Book used to translate our same English word “Beast.” Why is this important? Because if you think the four beast’s described around the Throne of God is the same Beast in the” Mark of the Beast” mentioned later in this Book you will not understand the scriptures! This is why I suggest if you want to be a student of the Word and show yourself approved then get yourself a Hebrew-Greek Study Bible! I have several but my latest I got on Ebay for 10 dollars! Used but not a single mark on the book? It sat on a Book shelf or in a storage container for 30 years! It is well marked up now! So how many different Hebrew words in the Old Testament are used to translate our English word “Beast”? There are seven different words from the Hebrew! Let us pick up on the two Greek words used for “Beast” in the Book of Revelation. The first word used in the description of the four beasts worshiping around the Throne of God is Strong’s #2226. This word translates as a living creature created by God and the images are of a lion, calf, man and an eagle. The word for Beast used to describe the “Mark of the Beast” is the Strong’s #2342. This word in the Greek translates as a viper or poisonous snake! So the people during the tribulation when they take the Mark of the Beast on their foreheads will look like they are snake bit! You may know people today who act like they are snake bit? So when your critics who want to challenge your faith ask you how can both of these beast’s be the same for God and Satan you will have an answer! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
No Deposit! No Return! Acts 1:11
“Which also said, ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” Comment: Do you remember that old Walt Disney movie ‘No Deposit No Return’ produced back in 1976? Two rich kids found out their mother was not coming home for Christmas so she purchased them airline tickets to go stay with their grandfather. She was in Hong Kong working an executive business job and could not get off work! So the kids went to the airport trying to figure out how to get money to buy tickets to Hong Kong? At the airport they met two thieves who took them home to their hideout! When the kids explained to the crooks their problem they told them to demand a ransom to get the money! So the movie, ‘No Deposit No Return’ got its name! God made a deposit into the earth his creation to redeem us from our sin! He invested his only Son Jesus Christ to accomplish this! The deposit of his birth, death and resurrection purchased our freedom from eternal separation from God! Jesus will return one day soon to redeem his deposits he has put into us! The only way people can lose his deposits is to reject his deposits he has made for you! Then no redemption for those that do this! God has purchased your tickets to heaven! God is merciful but if you reject his mercy what is left for you? Then your own sin will condemn you rather than letting God take your sin upon himself! Christ will return for his own so why not be one of his own today! Only God is trustworthy no one else including yourself is! Do not trust in yourself with your eternity! Satan trusted in himself and created a hell for those that follow his ways! One road leads to heaven and one road leads to hell! Which road are you on? James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh!
What was done with these gifts? What did Jesus do with these gifts given to him by these Kings of the East? Since Jesus was only about two years old his parents Joseph and Mary had to decide! Did they give them to the poor? They were poor themselves! Did they give them to Herod paying taxes on them? Did they distribute them to a local charitable organization in Bethlehem? Did they give them to the local synagogue? They used these funds to finance their trip down to Egypt to escape the clutches of King Herod! They used these funds to live in Egypt for two years and returning to Israel after Herod died! Joseph used the funds to set up his business as a carpenter in Nazareth! God will always make a way for his people when there seems like no way! You say no way my friend? He is the way, the truth and the life and no man comes to the Father but by him! Wise men still follow him! Merry Christmas! 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
Why Two Political Parties?
” Founders did not mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his farewell.” Marianne Williamson Comment: I do not agree with Marianne on much of anything especially her spiritualist promotions that are not Biblical based! However she is a smart Jew but I would call her a secular Jew! Her comment about our Constitution is correct! The question she did not answer is so why do we have two political parties? Simply we have two Kingdoms! The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Satan! Heaven and Hell. Our Constitution is Christian based and God’s fingerprints are all over it! One group of people want our Constitution enforced as written by our Founders! The other party wants to get rid of our Constitution! Replace it with atheism, secularism and a completely socialistic government controlling every aspect of your life! It is like Communism revisited hoping against all odds it will not fail like in Russia with hundreds of millions of casualties! The Democrats in power want a socialist revolution! Overthrow of our government! They want open borders! No protection for the citizens! If enough illegal immigrants come in by the millions they can overwhelm our financial system and cause a collapse! Sanctuary cities where criminals are free to roam and live off the state! No respect of Military and police officers and attacks on them are encouraged! Get rid of ICE? They are for the complete breakdown of law and order so the Revolution can happen! One party believes in Nationalism where the other a new world order with a one world government controlling all people! So this is where we are today in America! Faith in God mocked and persecuted and the Godless promoting a Satanic agenda! Christ made America great and a return to Him will lead America back to her roots and again to be the Greatest Nation on earth! If the people will make God great again then America will be great again! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Nazi Killers! No. 303 Polish Squadron
The No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron was one of 16 Polish squadrons in the Royal Air Force during the second world war. It was just not the highest scoring of the Hurricane squadrons during the Battle of Britain but they had the highest ratio of enemy aircraft destroyed to their own lost (safest). The squadron was named after the Polish and United States hero General Tadeusz Kosciuszko who served during the Polish Soviet War (1919-1921). Comment: With the latest accusations against the Poles that they were complicit with the Nazi’s is really not supported by the evidence! Poland being located between the eastern and western front has suffered untold destruction by invading armies from the west and the east! Some people will with the fear of death cooperate with invading armies! However the Poles fought vigorously against the Nazi’s and did what they could even so out numbered by the German machine! So many were sacrificed resisting the Nazi’s! The real story that history misses is what drove Hitler to do what he did? Evolution or Darwinism is what fueled Hitler’s passion that the stronger should defeat the weaker! The superior should destroy the inferior! Racism and tribalism at it’s best! Sadly our young children here in America are taught this junk science as truth? When a lie is taught as truth and fills the vacuum by discounting the Bible as truth bad things happen! We thank the Polish people for their sacrifices to stop this mad man of the 20th Century! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
One World Two Kingdoms! Acts 17:26-27
Greek Translation; “God has made one flesh and blood of all nations of an organized people of men (Democracy), to dwell in a fixed dwelling place on the face behaving to the eye of another on the earth and has set boundaries for the time (not chronos), but the opportunity to do something with my specific Commands for my specific purpose. That they should seek the Lord, if decisively, then they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.” Comment: So is God a Nationalist or a Globalist? We see here that God created everything but yet set boundaries! Boundaries like the ten Commandments and territorial boundaries! God respects sovereignty! No sanctuary cities in Heaven where criminals can hide! Heaven has a border and so does Hell. Notice we are to decisively seek God making a conscious decision to do so! We have one world but two Kingdoms! Two Kingdoms competing for dominance! God promotes life and Satan promotes death! God wants righteousness to reign and Satan wants evil to reign! This is what this war on earth is all about! God has an immigration policy that prohibits illegal immigrants from entering Heaven! The screening process is the Blood of the Lamb! Jesus atoning blood must be applied to your heart and mind! This will legalize your status into Heaven! The refugee’s from Hell are looking for illegal entry into heaven! Satan wants a one world government with no borders or rules must like his first attempt at the Tower of Babel. God thwarted his plan dividing one language into many to confuse their attempt! God’s rescue plan was to send His only Son Jesus Christ into the world to save humanity! God promised Israel a land of their own through His Covenant promises! A case for Nationalism here! Jesus said to go out into all the world and preach the Gospel. Not to destroy cultures as marching armies have done throughout history but to redeem people within the context of their own cultures! That is to recruit people from wickedness to righteousness! One nation under God! Did you ever wonder how the Book the Bible ends? Read the Book of Revelation! Read the last Book! Want to see the ending! The two opposing Kingdoms of this world go into a final battle! Satan rules the world during a short seven year tribulation period! With the greatest destruction known to world history! Christ returns with the saints at the end of the seven year period conquering Satan and his armies and setting up Christ’s Millennium reign for a thousand years! Want to know more well read the book! So which leader of which Kingdom are you following right now? You can ignore the truth and believe a lie but it will cost you your eternity separated from God! My responsibility is to warn you of future events and the importance of your decision about Christ! Eternity is a long time in fire! The rich man tried to warn his family still living on earth about the misery of Hell but Lazarus told him if they would not believe Moses why would they believe me? The truth is you can thank someone for your redemption in Heaven but who will you blame in Hell? James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Lazy Brain?
There are two ways to slide through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. Theodore Isaac Rubin
Babylon is Fallen! Isaiah 21:9
Isaiah wrote this prophecy between 701-681 B.C. Babylon fell is 539 B.C. The Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylon allowing the Jews to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple. Isaiah also wrote many Messianic prophecies about Jesus birth that came to pass hundreds of years later! Babylon was never rebuilt again even though many tried! The accuracy of the Bible is as accurate as the science God created! You can trust gravity and your Bible! There are many more prophecies in your Bible that have not come to pass yet but will such as Jesus second coming to earth! Your Bible is history waiting to happen! Whether you believe the Bible or not it still will come to pass! Don’t be on the wrong side of history with the unbelievers who will be proven wrong! Do not gamble your eternity! Let us not forget that the truth came to us at a great cost including God’s own blood! Isaiah was sawed in half by a timber saw by King Manasseh! As we celebrate Christmas soon remember the price He paid to leave Heaven and come to earth for you! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com