2% Chance But God!

By Bishop David Reed

This book was inspired by events that occurred in my life. While my life was hanging between life and
death God paid me a visit and revealed to me things that were going to happen in the near future. He
tasked me with warning the people so that they would be prepared. God desires that all men be saved
and escape the judgment that is to come. I pray that you will benefit from the words written on the
pages to come.

May God bless you
Bishop David S. Reed, Sr.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9781312371170

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2% Chance but God

Bishop David S. Reed Sr.

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Cover illustration by Emmanuel Wallace

Editing by Emmanuel Wallace My grandson and my lovey wife Ivy Reed

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Table of Contents

Foreword       6

Chapter 1: I Owe God My Life                                      11

Chapter 2: God’s Obedience School                              28

Chapter 3: I Escaped Death to Tell the Story                  35

Chapter 4: So Glad I Found It Out in Time      55

Chapter 5: The Calling unto God to Be Sent      65

Chapter 6: My Time of Deliverance Came      80

Chapter 7: Deliverance Ministry is What Got Me Free      90

Chapter 8: Saved but Still Needed to be Delivered      103

Chapter 9: The Greatest Teacher Of all      125

Chapter 10: A Reminder      135

Chapter 11: It’s Holiness or It’s Hell      144

Chapter 12: Learning from the Mistakes of Others      153

Chapter 13: When God Asks a Question?      164

Chapter 14: I Got a New Lease on Life      167

Chapter 15: Carelessness      173

Chapter 16: Propaganda in its Fullness      179

Chapter 17: I was attacked by the Devil In the pulpit      192

Chapter 18: Coronavirus Before and After      195

Chapter 19 God Made a True Believer out of Me      200

Chapter 20: As a True Pastor      205

Chapter 21: Women’s ministry                                      210

Chapter 22: The Glory of God Had Departed              219

Chapter 23: No Conviction; No Conversion                224

Chapter 24: Name Change                                            232

2% Chance but God!

Foreword

I nearly died with Covid-19, but I’m back with a clear vision of The Word of God. It’s too bad I had to go all the way to Hell just to understand the real love of God, to fall in love with him, and to willingly obey his word. I blame myself and no one else. It could have been too late, but God had mercy on me big time and I am beyond grateful. It’s amazing how we can learn something through the things we suffer. Learning things, the hard way is a lesson you will never forget. I will never forget the year 2020 and the Covid-19 experience that could have taken my wife and me out.

This book is a sequel to my first book, Back with A message After Covid-19 Vision.  If you haven’t gotten that book you might want to get it. It will help you better understand this book. Thank you so very much for your support.

To the reader of this book, it is God sent and full of truth. I will be disclosing myself from birth to where I am now. All I can say is it’s by the grace of God I am still alive.

The main focus of this book is to share with you the biblical vision God gave me to tell the world. The Bible is and has always been the answer to what we seek (True Love). We all need a clear vision and true understanding of God and his great Love for us. God has been reaching out to his creation (man) since the fall in the Garden of Eden to bring us back into relationship with him.

I would like to say a prayer for you as you read this book.

Dear Lord Jesus, will you please bless the eyes that read this book. Let them fully understand and obey your word. I ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Thank you again, so much for choosing this book. I hope and pray that you will be blessed and will share it with someone. 

It was in December 2019 that God gave me, in my spirit, the core of this book.

My wife and I with some of our church members had returned from the holy land tour in Israel. God said to me that a disaster was coming, and it was going to be global. I did not know at the time that I would experience this disaster first hand.

The Coronavirus or Covid-19 appeared in January 2020 starting in China and rapidly spread throughout the world. My wife and I contracted the virus in March 2020. At that time there were no vaccines and they were not quite sure how to treat it. March 31st, I was hospitalized for 18 days, during that time I was placed on the ventilator with only a 2% chance of survival; But God intervened! I was near death, when God told me that this was the global disaster He spoke of. It continued to worsen, and God told me many deaths would occur.

Now, it’s January 2022. I have already written a book about me and my wife’s experience with the Coronavirus. Since our experience with Covid it has mutated into other variances. At the time of this writing the Delta variant was deadlier than the Omicron variant and the virus continues to mutate.

I am still amazed at how God gave me a vision on this global disaster, and now I am seeing all of it unfold before my eyes.

"I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." Habakkuk 2:1-3 (KJV)

A vision is an audiovisual means of communication between a heavenly being (God) and an earthly recipient (man); showing and telling you things that are to come.

I am writing the vision that God gave me; to make it plain, so that we may all understand that God is speaking to us in this crucial hour. 

I believe God is warning us to take better care of ourselves as Coronavirus can be a death sentence to many depending on their health condition. The majority of people that passed away or became very ill from the virus had underlying health conditions or an insufficient immune system. You can verify this by visiting the CDC website.

My health situation was not the best before I contracted the virus. I had scarring in my lungs due to a previous bout with double pneumonia while in the Army. I also suffered with blood clots, kidney stones and high blood pressure. I believe these factors played a role in the severity of my sickness.

I am still suffering long term effects of the virus. My kidneys were damaged and took a while to heal, the damage to my lungs still cause some shortness of breath from time to time, I still struggle with some memory loss and have difficulty focusing for long periods of time. Three months after I came home from the hospital Blood clots developed in my left leg, and I had to go to the ER, the doctor said I got there just in time because the clots were traveling up towards my lungs and that could have killed me.

The Coronavirus has been such a disaster for the whole world, just like God told me it would be. The world has suffered an enormous amount of death. It is now 2023 and people are still dying from this virus. It not only caused a lot of death it also weakened our economy, many small businesses had to close their doors for good because of financial loss caused by sheltering in place. Many people are still trying to recover from loss of their jobs during the peak of the virus. This fact can be verified by doing an internet search on Economic Impact of Covid.

I thank God that they have developed a vaccine and boosters that has slowed the number of deaths from the virus. I advise everyone that can to get vaccinated.

Chapter 1: I Owe God My Life

Psalm 116:12-15 (KJV) What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

If I had died my death would not have been precious in God’s sight. Instead, he had mercy on me and let me live to tell the story and deliver a warning to his people. No one could have done what I needed (a second chance to live) but God himself. I am so thankful to God for his Grace and Mercy. I rushed through the writing the first book, "Back with a Message After Covid-19 Vision", I felt a since of urgency to share what God had shown me; and I was unsure how long the effects of Covid would linger on. So I may repeat a few things from the first book for clarification; now that my memory has improved somewhat. I want to be totally clear about my near-death experience and other things that happened with me during that time. I really want to relay the message I received from God in a vision that involves the whole world.

It was the middle of March 2020 and Coronavirus was really hitting hard.  The Virus had moved across the world and all non-essential businesses were being shut down. That included some essential businesses as well. My business was pastoring the church God had allowed me to establish over 40 years ago and I was not ready to shut it down just yet. The governor of the state of Kansas wrote an executive order for churches to shut down for safety. I knew it was the right thing to do, God had already instructed me (before the executive order) to shut down the church, I said I will, after one more church service. Well, that decision got me in trouble with God and landed me in a bad place. I went against him and that was a willful act of disobedience and disobedience is sin. The Bible says the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23 KJV).

After my recovery from the Coronavirus, the Lord revealed unto me that Coronavirus was not a punishment for my disobedience, it was air borne, and I contracted it. He let me know I already had the virus prior to him telling me to shut the church down; shutting it down would have help prevent further spread among the congregants. This act of disobedience placed sin on my record with God. The Devil knew I was wrong and it was his opportunity to take me out but God had mercy on me. The Devil meant it for my bad, but God let it all happen for my good! I am so glad he did.

It was July 2021 and I had been out of the hospital 17 months. After speaking with my lung and kidney doctors I discovered just how close to death I had come; they were amazed that I survived. They knew that I was dying and it was out of their hands, they had provided all the care they could to sustain my life. Once again I thank God for his great love and mercy towards me.

As I started this second book, I reflected back on how doubly blessed I am to be granted mercy and be given a message and a mission.

In my first book, I talked about how missing out on heaven is not to be taken lightly. There is no other place to go but to Hell. You may wonder why God would let me go all the way down to Hell just to tell me that he could leave me there. The Lord allowed me to experience that great ordeal so that I could better convey to you how great his love and mercy is by making a way for us to escape that place of eternal suffering. What great mercy. I believe God knew I was going to repent when I realized my sin and observed the consequences of it. He wanted me to see, hear, smell, and feel all that heat in my surroundings so there would be no doubt that Hell is real. God gave me a Hell tour. He let me look over in that big fiery hole in the ground and I was thoroughly convinced that Hell is real. That part of the vision became very personal to me and I will never forget it! God said to me all of those that are in that fiery hole are never coming out because of disobedience; that’s when he said to me that he could cast me in and leave me there. I asked him, why? He said it was because of the sin on my record. Because I disobeyed him when he told me to shut down my church service due to the Coronavirus, and the governor had already issued an executive order for all churches to be shut down.

1 Peter 2:13-15 (KJV)

¹³   Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

¹⁴  Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

¹⁵  For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

All sin is wickedness unto God and if it’s not repented of the wrath of God will come on the children of disobedience. After all of this I see now more than ever the need of being obedient unto God in every way. If it wasn’t for the mercies of God, the Devil would have had me in Hell forever. On the front cover of my first book, there is a depiction of the Devil coming out of the pit to take me down to Hell. He knew that as long as sin was on my record he was justified in claiming my soul. No one can go to heaven unless they repent; there will be No sin in heaven.

 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13:3 (KJV)

 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. Revelation 21:27 (KJV)

  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

¹⁰  Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (KJV)

I could have ended up in Hell but by the grace and mercy of God, he saved me. You can be a good person but if you have sin in your life, grace and mercy can cover you until you repent.

Grace is a benefit; a segment of God's love toward us. It’s a space in time to get sin off your record. However it’s not a license to practice sin. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 (KJV)

I can’t stress it enough the importance of always having a repentant heart towards God. That is what saved my life from a burning Hell.

But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?  Jonah 3:8-9 (KJV)

It didn’t happen so easily with me. God rebuked me hard, in love after he told me why he brought me there to the place of the wicked dead. It seemed as though it went on for days. He told me how he died for the sins of the world and how he loved me and forgave the things I had done in the past. I let sin of disobedience come in between us and now I am at the point of death and there is no place for me in heaven in my present state (unrepentant sin on my record). God left it just like that and said no more to me as he vanished away. The spirit of conviction came on me so strongly that I began to cry from my heart to God! It was not because I was afraid that I was going to Hell, it was the fact that I hurt God and I was truly sorry. This went on for a good while (crying and repenting). God not talking to me didn’t make things any better.

As I mentioned previously, God began talking to me again, and he said to me, I see that you are truly sorry, and he forgave me. My crying began all over again. This time it was tears of joy. The mercy of God is so real.

Lamentations 3:22 "It is of the LORD'S mercy that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not."

God said to me, I want you to go back with this message, a warning to my people; tell them just what you see so they won’t come to this place of torment. I am on a mission for God of the utmost importance. I would like everyone to know that God is real and so is the Devil, and they are not to be played with.

The vision God gave me was unyielding and it seems to be for the church (or the ones that attend church faithfully). In my mind I said, if they are in church everything is ok, but God said the church is the place you need to be very sure that your life is in order with God (no unrepentant sin or disobedience). Just as I thought I was (ok), thinking that because I was the pastor of the church I could do things