The Revelation 7:2-4 | Episode # 1045

October 10, 2025

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

The Revelation 7:2-4

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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Transcript

This is Chad Harrison, and you're listening to Hope Applying God's word to your daily life.

Hi, this is Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and have been serving as a pastor for 25 years.

I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life.

I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open up his word to you and allow you to see him and to know him and to know his will, that you might glorify him and that you might walk in faith and power each and every day,

especially today,

in Jesus name.

All right,

so does God provide for that in the end times?

Well, yeah, he does.

He says, then I saw another angel ascending from the east,

having the seal of the living God.

And he cried out in a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea. Meaning he's telling these angels that are harming the earth and the sea, he cries out to them,

and this. This.

This angel's got a seal.

All right,

now I want you to hear me.

Old Testament and New Testament are not oftentimes. We want to make them totally different.

They are different,

but they're. But they're not totally different.

How? How do I know that I am a belief. How do I know that I'm.

I'm connected to God in the Old Testament faith.

That's exactly right, Miles.

Exactly right. How do I know in the New Testament, I'm connected to God Faith. If I've got faith, that means I've heard from God,

I believed him, and I've acted. I've got it both places.

In the Old Testament, I'm redeemed by what?

The blood. In the New Testament, I'm redeemed by the blood. In the Old Testament, the blood is a foreshadowing of the complete work of the New Testament of the blood.

All right, but are they the same? They're not the same. They're not. Why? Because I have to trust God in the Old Testament by trusting in his law. I trust God in the New Testament by trusting in the fulfillment of the law, which is his son, Jesus Christ.

Are you following me? It's not like they're disjointed and they have two totally different messages because they don't.

But one of them is not complete, and the other one is complete.

Okay, so understanding that is an important idea. It's important way to think through it.

As I'm thinking Through the scripture. I need to think that way. I need to look at it.

He says, so then I saw another angel. This is a fifth angel,

and he was descending from the east, having a seal.

Now, this seal is the seal of God,

okay?

And by the way,

Isaiah,

there's lots of passages, especially in the New Testament, that talk about this. Ephesians 1:13, Ephesians 4, 30. I'm just giving you some verses. Second Corinthians 1, 21 and 22.

They talk about us as believers being sealed with the Holy Spirit.

Okay? Being sealed by God.

Now,

why is that important?

Well, it's another one of those theology things, okay?

If I'm sealed by God,

who can break the seal?

What,

somebody talk that to you sometime?

Didn't we learn that about the seals On. On. The only. The only person that can break the seal is God or someone equivalent to God.

Right? Jesus the Father.

All right, now I'm gonna let. Let me ask you something.

After we've studied through John, especially the end of John,

we've spent a lot of time. John six.

We spent a lot of time in John six after studying that. Does Jesus ever get rid of anybody that's his?

No. He says he does. Clear. I mean, it's in the red, right?

He says, I'm not letting you go.

You're not getting. So is Jesus going to break the seal?

Is the Father going to break the seal? Well, no, because the seal was placed by the Father.

He decided it.

So this seal that's being used here is a seal that goes back into.

Before metatalta.

Before metatalta.

It goes back to the church age.

It goes back to the times before.

So that seal's not gonna get broken.

It's not gonna be taken away by God.

All right? He says here. He says here,

he cried out to a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea. He says, do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of God on their foreheads.

I do not know what that means, okay? I don't know it's on their foreheads, okay? But I do know that it's important. And how do I know it's important?

Because anything that God does, Satan tries to counterfeit, and he tries to counterfeit this,

okay? He's gonna counterfeit it later on. So anything God does, Satan, when he's trying to be God, counterfeits it in some way. And by the way, that's what the book of the Revelation teaches us also.

The. That's one of the overarching ideas. We've talked about several of the overarching ideas in Scripture. One of the overarching ideas of the book of the Revelation is Satan is trying to be God, and God is judging that.

Okay? So when we read about the work of Satan in the book of the Revelation, what you're really reading is Satan trying to take the place of God.

Okay,

well, these seals that he's gonna place on these folks is important,

okay?

He says we're not going to harm anything until God has sealed these people.

He says, and I heard the number of those who were sealed,

144,000. All the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed,

all right? So he seals 144,000 of them,

all right? And that's all they get to go to heaven. And. And we're going to sell magazines about it later on.

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, there's a. There's a group that really bought into this 144,000 group, okay? All right, the 144,000. That is important.

They are important, which means they have a seal from God.

Get this.

Who does the ceiling?

God does.

The angel comes down, the messenger of God. Angels only do what God says. Do and say what God says to say,

okay, who does the ceiling?

Do the ones who got the seal on them, do the ceiling?

Do the one who get the born againness, do they do the born again?

No, God does it.

God chooses these. He decides on these.

There are 144,000 of them,

12,000 from each tribe.

All right? Now this is important because as we go through history, people will run down rabbit trails, okay? One of the rabbit trails they'll run down for this is. And I actually spent about six hours one night going through Virginia and North Carolina, coming home from Princeton, listen to a guy trying to explain how the.

The Celts and the Irish in the British Isles were actually the lost tribes of Israel. And the whole time I was listening to him, it just didn't quite make sense.

But he was interested. He really believed it. That didn't mean he was right,

but he really believed it.

And oftentimes we get into that. And it made me wonder for a long, long time until I realized as I was reading through the Old Testament,

that when the Northern kingdom began to worship the God of the Canaanites, the peoples that they displaced and began to practice their practices which involved human sacrifice,

okay? When they began to do that,

many of the people of the Northern tribes moved to the southern kingdom.

Are you following me?

So when we talk about modern day Jewry or Jewish peoples of today,

when we talk about them,

oftentimes people think that there's only two tribes that are left,

Judah and Benjamin. Because those were the two tribes in the southern kingdom. And if you. If purely from a land perspective, that would be true. The northern kingdom was taken into captivity by the Assyrians and were heard from no more.

Okay. Why?

Because they began to worship the Canaanite gods that God told them not to worship, and they began to involve themselves in that sacrifice.

All right,

but when the north.

When the southern kingdom was taken into captivity in Babylon and promised that they'd be brought back,

it wasn't just the Benjamites and Benjamin,

the people from Benjamin,

it wasn't just them and the people from Judah. It was also other Jews from other tribes.

So when you run into someone, you can't just walk up to them say, are you from Benjamin or Judah? Because I really believe that in college, okay. Thankfully, I never asked a Jewish person that question, but I wanted to a couple of times.

I just never could bring myself to ask the question, are you from Judah, Benjamin?

I would have been utterly amazed to find out there's a strong likelihood they weren't from either.

Okay. They were from one of the other 12 tribes. All right.

Why? Why is that important? Well, because like I said, there's a whole group of people that you can go down that rabbit hole with and you'll begin to think that you're, you know,

a lost tribe if you're from Scotland or Ireland.

Are you with me?

I'm mostly Viking, so I'm just letting y' all know. All right? Anyway,

so I wasn't from there.

I worshiped other pagan gods, all right?

That's where my heritage comes from.

But if you could go down that rabbit hole. And like I said, this is a unique passage of scripture because there's a lot of rabbit holes that have been gone down reading through this, okay?

And one of them started a whole culture,

okay?

And, boy, if you study that one,

they are weird.

All right? Not. Not just weird, but it's weird who's in charge of them,

because there's some reason to believe that there's some mainline Christians that are in charge of them,

which is kind of strange.

He said. He said, I heard the number of those who were sealed,

144,000 of all tribes of the children of Israel were sealed as you go today. I pray that the Lord will bless.

You and keep you that he'll make his face to shine upon you and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.