The Revelation 8:12-15 | Episode # 1057

October 28, 2025

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

The Revelation 8:12-15

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.

Then the fourth angel sounded and a third of the sun was struck and a third of the moon and a third of the stars,

so that a third of them was darkened and a third of the day did not shine,

and likewise the night.

Now,

if you go back to the.

To. To creation, the creation account,

the stars,

the sun and the moon were sources of light.

Sources of light,

okay?

So the ability of humanity.

And I'm going to tell you, I know what this means,

okay. The ability of humanity to understand God is greatly lessened.

Okay.

The ability for humanity to even have an understanding of who God is is lowered.

Does God totally take it away?

No,

he does. Later on,

he cuts all the stars and all the sun and the moon. He cuts them totally off. And Jesus is the only thing you can see. And they can see him coming in space, coming toward the earth.

All right? That's when God cuts off everything and says,

here he comes.

But right now, in this spot,

he just dims the lights.

Now, I want you to hear me because it's important that we kind of deal with this section.

This is important understanding for those of you who are people of light. And that's us, right?

In fact, he. He. He tells us in First John that we are to be in the light as he is in the light.

Okay,

all right.

Understanding that is important.

And a lot of Christians spend their lives trying to live in the kingdom of darkness under the authority of the fallen angels,

and then also play in the light and live in the light at the same time.

I want you to hear me because this is important.

If you play that game spiritually,

he will dim the light on you.

And so your ability to understand,

to perceive what God's doing is lessened.

Does he cut it out?

No,

he just dims it on you.

And so what would seem to be a situation where I could really find an answer,

I seem to be Searching in the darkness a little bit.

In situations where it seems to be I, I ought to be able to overcome this.

I just can't quite overcome. How many Christians have you known that they,

you know, they know, you know they're Christians. You've seen them.

They produce fruit, right?

We're not in the business of determine who ain't a Christian, but we can know who are for sure, right?

I can't tell you that this person, that person are for sure not. But I can for sure tell you people that are because I've seen fruit in their lives, right?

I've seen the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives, and so I know they're believers without that. If the Holy Spirit's working in your life, then you're a believer,

okay? You're one of us.

But how many times have you been around those in your work,

in your family,

in your church,

who they just always seem to think carnally,

worldly,

kind of darkly.

And so what would seem to be an easy swim is always a little perilous,

you know,

I just can't quite do it.

That's because you can't play games in the world.

You can't live in the doorway.

One room light and one room darkness.

There's not any of that.

You do need to understand that mixtures in the Bible are never good.

He says, I'd like for you to be hot or if not cold,

but I don't want you to be lukewarm.

I want you to have bread.

Yeast is good, but I don't want you to mix them together and worship me with it.

You can be salt or no salt,

but I don't want salt. That doesn't really have its saltiness.

You kind of get where I'm coming from.

There's a whole lot of that that goes on in the world by Christians.

You can't do that.

You can't live that way.

You might well just live like a heathen,

really.

At least you'll get to the pig pen faster and you'll be headed back the right direction.

Am I right?

You don't need to go out there and live like the world and head back to Poppy's house and get and, and. And sleep in your own bed.

Can't do that.

And Jesus didn't want that from his disciples.

He said, you got to count the cost. You got to decide.

And of all the.

Of all the judgments that we've read, and we've read some bad ones, right?

Grass, fruit, trees, dying,

seas of the ocean,

fish in the Ocean dying, bitter water, no fresh water. Those all seem horrific.

But I'm going to tell you,

dimming the light is perhaps the worst thing that can happen to you because you think everything's okay, but it ain't.

And it ain't never going to be.

It ain't ever going to be.

Look,

you can be ignorant of some of the things of God.

You can be inexperienced in how to do it.

You can be young in the faith or young in your actual walk.

Run headlong as fast as you want to after God. Mess it all up. The whole time you're doing it,

and it won't be a problem.

Every time you fall down, he'll pick you up.

Every time you mess something up, he'll fix it along the way.

But if you just wander around, kind of like nothing,

he can't fix that.

Because you keep knocking the same thing over all the time.

You keep tearing up everything. And the truth is, you never, ever really get anywhere.

A judgment that takes away light,

takes away hope.

And you can't live without hope.

You can't live without it.

Of all the things you ought to be afraid of,

that's the one you ought to be afraid of.

You want to be in the light as he is in the light.

You want to be light as he's light.

And sometimes that means getting rid of things like college football.

You don't have to totally get rid of it. Just can't be an idol, right?

Huh?

No.

He starts getting rid of cake, I'm gonna have a problem.

All right.

Yeah.

It says,

by the way, we got two kinds of cake in our refrigerator. He says,

a third of them were darkened, a third of the day would not shine, and likewise the night. And I looked and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying in a loud voice,

woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth.

Because of the remaining blast of the trumpet and the three angels who are about to sound.

The Bible gives some woes,

especially in the prophets.

Okay?

I think it interesting that at this. At this. In this spot right here that an angel flies over and says, whoa, whoa, whoa.

And that doesn't mean stop a horse, okay? All right. That means it's woeful, bad.

But the woe in the Bible that always gives me pause is this one.

Woe to he who calls evil good and good evil. Amen.

I find it interesting that that comes after the light gets dimmed.

And churches that are unwilling to walk in the light, preach the light, hold themselves to the light,

always seem to Wander off in the craziest directions, don't they?

And they'll come up with every reason why God ain't right and whether what they're doing is.

And I'm sorry,

I just ain't got nothing, nothing for that.

I don't have an answer for that,

and I'm not going to.

We do not play games with the light.

Do not play games with the light.

Just don't you go, Pastor, what are you talking about? Well, I'm talking about the things that are kind of clear in Bible,

and there's a lot of it.

And anybody who picks a passage to tell you something that you're sitting there going, but I think somewhere else it pretty complain about this.

They pick a passage, tell you that the what's plain in the Bible is not plain, so that you might do what you want to do.

If they do that.

Get away from them.

Get away from them. That's exactly right, Pastor Jimmy. Run, Forrest, run.

Get away from them.

Because they ain't nothing ever going to come good from that.

Because when he cuts the lights off, the worst comes.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

This is bad. Bad.

All right,

Pastor, what are you talking about?

Well, if you don't know,

let the Holy Spirit tell you.

But there are those out there who call themselves believers who openly reject truth from God's word.

I'm sweet to them, I love them, I'm light to them,

but I ain't going to do nothing with them.

Make sense,

because we can't. We ain't going to have no darkness.

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.