The Revelation 9:5| Episode # 1061

November 3, 2025

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

The Revelation 9:5

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.

So we're in Revelation, chapter nine, and. And I'm going to kind of do a little recap just to make sure. I know last time we were here,

we talked about this fiery pit.

Well, this bottomless pit. It's called the pit here in the Revelation.

And I know we talked about the demoniac and the demoniac coming to Jesus.

And the demons.

Jesus asked what their names were, and they said, legion, for we are many.

And they asked Jesus to cast them into because they knew Jesus was fixing to deliver the man that they were.

They were possessing.

All right?

And when Jesus was there, they said, please cast us into the pigs.

And so there's a lot of information there,

but that tells you that the demons have to have a place to live,

okay? And they like to live with people.

They would love to live inside of people,

but they love to live. They love to be around people. That's because of who they are and their nature.

And remember, there's a difference between demons and fallen angels,

okay?

Fallen angels were created by God, and they are exactly similar to and the same as the angels of heaven, only they decided to reject God and to worship Lucifer, who was a fallen angel himself.

Okay? The Bible says that hell is made for the devil and his angels.

Okay, what does that mean? Well, that means that hell was created prior to humans being made.

And so when it was created, it was created for the devil and his angels,

okay?

And we know that these demons can also be cast into the pit as the angels were bound in the pit when they left their first estate and cohabitated with the daughters of men.

And that's where demons came from. They are the unclean spirits of the disembodied humans that died in the flood and were the offspring of the angelic and humans. Now,

we can go into all kinds of stuff like this, and if you watch your crazy history channel now, some of that stuff that they talk about on there is not necessarily crazy.

There is some real history in it. And I think that history draws us back to this time in this place.

But I can't explain it to you and don't know how to explain it to you.

And so when we get to this,

I go through that for you to understand that the creatures that are going to come out of the pit here are not specially made creatures for this time.

They are creatures that at some point in time existed. And they are likely either demons are fallen angels. Now, Pastor, if you said, pastor, could they be something else? I would say perhaps, but I don't know what they would be and I don't know why they would be created.

Does that make sense? Because God didn't originally create anything for judgment.

He didn't originally create anything for that.

All that is being judged,

and all that will be judged is judged because they have rejected God. They've decided to choose not to worship God,

but to worship not God.

Does that make sense? And what I mean by that? Well, they decided to worship something other than God,

primarily something he made.

Usually the prime thing he made as far as your life's concerned yourself.

So human beings either worship God,

they worship something God made,

or they worship themselves, which is something God made, okay? More specifically, most human beings worship themselves,

okay? Most human beings worship themselves.

And so understanding that's important before we get to these creatures,

because these creatures come from this pit,

all right? They come out of this pit.

So it says,

I'm gonna start with verse three, then out of locust,

okay?

All right?

And yet.

Okay,

all right. It says,

and remember,

remember, John's just describing what he sees,

okay? And we talked about that last time. And I want to make sure I lay that down, you know, because sometimes we have visitors. We have people that first time here.

Remember,

John is giving you a vision of what he's seen,

okay? Which is a difference than John giving you a prophecy of thus saith the Lord.

So when John describes these things, he's giving you a description from his limited perspective in the time and the season he lives in,

okay?

Now if we saw it, we might describe it wholly different.

But he's describing it the way he's seen it, okay? And God told him to do that. He said, write down that which you see and hear,

okay? So God's telling him to write these things down and he wants him to describe it in his language,

okay? Now you go, well, why would God do that? Well, God wants for us to seek him out so that we can know these things to the extent he wants you individually to know them and apply them to your life.

Okay.

And, and, and God's in the business of doing that with us. Okay?

Jesus. The Bible says that Jesus spoke to them in parables.

Why?

So that they would be forever seeing and not perceiving.

That they'd be forever hearing and not understanding. Why?

Because you can't perceive God or understand God unless the Holy Spirit teaches you these things.

And the reason he taught them in parables is so that they would hear the parable. And if they were born again and they had the Holy Spirit inside of them, the Holy Spirit might reveal that to them.

Those who heard it and were not ever born again,

they don't understand these things.

They don't get it, they don't. They don't perceive it, they don't understand it.

And so when, when we describe these creatures, I want you to understand that he is describing something that I don't know what it is,

but I believe that it's a created being.

And I have no reason to believe from scripture that it's created being that was created specifically for this task.

The beings that come out of there or a are a.

I don't know, they're a perversion of God's creation.

Okay. And they're unleashed on humanity.

It says they were commanded. Notice God is in control. He says they were commanded not to harm the grass on the earth, the green grass,

or any green thing or any tree, but only those men who did not have the seal of the Holy Spirit on their foreheads.

Now, there's two things that are there.

I really spent a lot of time during last Bible study on the mantle of the Holy Spirit or the Holy Spirit's presence being upon you. Okay.

In the New Testament, when Jesus breathed on them and said, receive you, the Holy Spirit.

We move to a time where the Holy Spirit now can indwell you and commune with an aspect of you that is perfect, meaning your human spirit. When you're born again, you have a perfect human spirit.

The Holy Spirit comes in and communes with your human spirit spirit. Prior to that?

Prior to that, when the Holy Spirit acted upon someone, and you'll see this throughout the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit comes upon them.

Bible says that David was anointed and the Holy Spirit came upon him and never left him.

Okay,

so. So the Holy Spirit is upon you. Now, does the Holy Spirit come upon you in the New Testament?

Yeah.

Okay, now don't you hear me?

But he starts from the inside and he Moves to the outside.

Why? What causes the Holy Spirit to be upon you?

Okay, well, that is faith.

Faith is what makes the well.

The well that springs up to life inside of you, makes the well start operating,

okay? And so when you hear God, you believe God, you act upon God. You walk in that. You don't walk in darkness. You don't walk.

You don't walk outside the light. You walk with God, The Holy Spirit comes upon you empowered. Now, here's the. Here's the thing about that.

Even for those who are doing right, even those who. For those who are. Who are acting and trusting God,

okay?

Some of you have allowed yourself to be told what you're not so much that you don't really know who you are,

ok?

And in some ways,

there's an aspect of danger for that,

okay? Do you know what I'm talking about?

All right? Because if you keep walking around with the Holy Spirit upon you and you aren't realizing it,

you're not realizing who you are in the kingdom, you haven't studied God's word.

You don't really know who you are.

Well, I mean, it's like a soldier out in the field at night with a giant light shining right on top of you. I mean, you're a target.

Now,

you do have the Holy Spirit, which is the power that created all things,

but you do need to realize that.

And why, Why I say that? Well, I want you to only encourage you to continue to seek God out so that you have eyes to see and you see,

that you have ears to hear and that you hear who you are,

you go, well, how do I know who I am?

Well, I can tell you how you know. If you've heard God speak to your heart, if you've heard him draw you to him. If you've heard him tell you something about your life that he wants you to be a part of, be in.

You've already got him there.

He's there.

Okay?

All right?

He's at work. What you've got to do is you've got to repent. As. As we were talking about earlier about someone needed to repent, you've got to turn and turn to his will and to his way, and then you've got to learn of his will in his way.

Okay? You got to seek that out.

All right? If I'm not doing that, if I'm not doing that, well, then I might be being obedient as well as I know. And that pleases God.

Remember, obedience born of faith.

I'm doing what God told Me to do.

But born of faith. But I'm walking in ignorance. And remember, he says several times in Scripture, I would that you not be ignorant. I don't want you to be ignorant.

Unknowledgeable,

okay? That's what ignorance is. I don't know. Ignorance has nothing to do with your capability of attaining to knowledge. It has to do with how much you've actually taken in.

Okay? So he says here,

they were commanded not to harm the grass, meaning God has control of these beings.

They exist for a purpose. In this story,

there's a reason for them.

All right? It says, and they were not given authority to kill them. Meaning. Notice this is the second time in verse five.

First time in verse four. Second time in verse five. They weren't given authority. Who gets authority?

Who gets authority?

God. Who has the power to give that authority up?

God. God has the power to give authority. Now you need to hear that because,

you know, on one end of the spectrum we've got folks who, and I say this as far as just Christians altogether.

On one side you have a group of folks who are Christians and they're trying to chase after God and they're serving God, but they're really kind of babies,

you know what I'm talking about? And they just,

they got it. I mean,

they're walking in it, but they really don't know. And they really need a whole lot of,

they need a whole lot of on the job training.

Okay? Then you got a group of people who know some stuff.

God taught them some stuff,

but they're getting good at not doing anything God told them to do.

Okay?

And both of them have pitfalls that are huge,

huge pitfalls.

Why?

Because you have the power and authority.

You are a part of a kingdom.

Okay?

And that kingdom has dominion.

Okay, what is a dominion? Well, there's a king.

What's his name?

Jesus. He has a kingdom, which is us.

We are the kingdom of God.

And that which we've been given by Him.

That which we've been given by him both by his promises and by our will and action.

Okay?

When you go to the. When you go to the. When you go to the. You can't mix these two. I, when I went to law school, I realized that I can't take the law and separate it from God's word or take God's word and separate it from the law.

Because the law came.

The law came from God's word.

Our, our, our, our Judeo Christian law legal system came from the word of God.

And so, so when When I read in the Declaration of Independence where he says, we hold these truths to be self evident,

that all men are created equal and endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. Notice they're taking the word of God and applying it to governance.

Does that make sense?

Now you go, well, we don't have to do that. We got that right.

But you do need to use the same process.

Word of God applies to how I live.

Same way,

same thing. And what do they say? Well, those rights are life,

liberty,

and.

And we say pursuit of happiness.

And it's. It's a. It's not a good substitute. Okay. It's just terrible substitute. All right?

It's the pursuit of gain,

of my will,

which is happiness.

But I have a right to the things that I create by my obedience and by my will.

I have a right to have dominion over those things.

All right.

Why did I go into that? Well,

you as a. You as a child of the king, a heir. Co heir with Christ,

you in your life. God has set aside things for you to have dominion over.

That we're going.

To get to eventually.

Story. Caleb is a great story.

Y' all know who Caleb is?

Caleb is the old dude,

okay? He's the old dude who you had, Joshua, the young guy, and Caleb, the old dude. And they came in and said, hey,

we saw the giants. No big deal. Let's go into promised land. And what'd they say?

What did they say? Because God said we could go,

so we should go.

So you got the young lieutenant of Moses,

Joshua, and you got the old curmudgeon, Caleb, all right? And I call him a curmudgeon because he. He just kind of a lone ranger,

you know, a renegade. Okay, and how do I know that? Well, when they go into the promised land, he fights for everybody's land. But when it comes time for him to take his portion of the land where.

Which, by the way,

is kind of the land that Israel's taken now.

Okay,

all right.

When it was time for him to take the land,

you know what they said? They said, we'll go with you to take your inheritance. And he said,

no, y'. All. I mean, I don't been with y' all long enough. You know,

I mean. I mean, y'. All. Y' all maybe spend 40 more years in the wilderness. I mean, I'm. I'm done with y'. All. I'm gonna go take it myself.

All right? And that's what he did notice he didn't have to have anybody's help to go Take the promised land for him. What did he do?

He went and took it.

He took his family and his clan and his tribe, and they went and took their promises on their own.

Now, I want you to hear me.

That's in there for a reason.

You have a right, the right, the power and the authority to take your promises on your own.

Take possession of those promises.

And so when it's talking about that these creatures were given this authority,

you need to understand that there's the idea of authority. God said, they can do this.

I'm allowing them to do this,

okay? I'm allowing this to happen.

And that happens throughout Scripture. Job,

he let Satan do certain things right in a progressive order.

Jesus did that with Peter, didn't he?

That night Peter said, lord, I'm. I'm on. I mean,

I'll go with you to the grave. I mean, we going all the way. I mean, you know, listen, you can't be talking about we're going to scatter and stuff like that.

I'm in with you.

And, and, and, And Jesus, he rebuked him. But then he said, y'. All. Y' all remember what he said?

He said. He said, satan has desired to sift you as wheat.

Now, the cool thing about it is, is that Jesus didn't follow that up with. But I told him no.

He. He says, when you return,

meaning once he's done with you,

right?

Once he's done with you, you know, you take care of the other disciples,

huh?

So remember, the enemy only has the power that God gives them.

And that's happening here.

That's happening here. That goes on all the time.

Now, the question for you is not what the enemy is being kept from. To do to you.

The question for you is, what are you not taking as a kingdom? Taking what is yours that you're not taking,

what is yours that you're not possessing.

And that leads to the question, what are you going to do when you grow up?

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 Je