The Revelation 10:1-2 | Episode # 1068

November 12, 2025

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

The Revelation 10:1-2

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.

Now we're in chapter 10, and chapter 10 is a transition. It's a transitional chapter. And we see these transitional chapters in the midst of God's judgment. And God's judgment begins to be spelled out after the church is revealed in 2 and 3.

And then God's revealed in chapter 4. And then, and then you begin to. You begin to move toward these judgments. And you've had these seals open. The six seals have been open.

And then we're going to move into two other phases of judgment. But every time you have a judgment period, a period in which God pronounces judgment immediately following that is always an interlude.

And what I mean by an interlude, well, the Bible stops with the judgment and dealing with the judgment and comes back and gives us some piece of information. It may be a piece of information about.

About some aspect of the prophecy. It may be a piece of information that is un.

That is un known from the rest of Scripture, meaning that God is fulfilling something that he's not made fully known in the New Testament, in the Old Testament,

in the Gospels, in Jesus, he may be filling in parts.

That's really what's going on. In chapter 10.

We have the first major interlude during God's judgment. And it's a pretty powerful interlude. In fact, God gives us some need insights in this. There is a lot of question about it.

As we study through Scripture and especially as we study through the Book of Revelation, there is a lot of question as to what is actually going on.

And I've told y' all before that there's a lot of symbolism and that we can't be super dogmatic about a lot of these things because they're things that are going to be revealed.

If we're not a part of the rapture, part of the end times,

we're not going to be alive for them. And so God's revelation is intense. It's personal,

it's worldwide, it's creation wide revelation, but it is also temporal.

It continues to unfold before us.

God's Word.

I wonder so much about the Old Testament.

It's so wondrous. I guess not the word for wonder,

not understand, but it's wondrous because God gives us so many understandings and then he gives us so many just passages where he goes through genealogies or geography and gives us locations so that when we're studying His Word, we just see that God is revealing himself.

He is revealing himself. He's making Himself known.

And when he's revealing Himself and making Himself known through geography and through situations in life,

we can know, we can go back and find those things.

And he is putting his, it's the best way to describe it. He's putting his fingerprint on His Word in the prophecies.

He's doing something that no other religious text does. He is telling us something that's going to take place in the future. And they do prophecies about Jesus,

prophecies about kings and kingdoms that we get in the Old Testament, prophecies about the end times, prophecies about the day of the Lord, all those things,

a lot of them we can look up. And then he gives us these geographical explorations like we find in the book of Joshua and like we find in the Book of Numbers,

these kings and kingdoms and places and events and.

And now that we've been,

well, been searching the Holy Land for,

well now a couple hundred years, ever since we began to search for oil there,

we then began to realize, hey, there's a lot of things that we can find. We're finding all these towns and little cities, little communities. We're literally finding Sodom and Gomorrah and then the other two cities that were destroyed during that time period and the one right in the middle,

which the Bible says wasn't destroyed, we know where those locations are. And so when we're studying the Book of Revelation, it's not just about judgment and it's not just about telling us how it's all gonna end.

Sometimes God is filling in the gaps. And chapter 10 is one of those filling in the gaps. He says, I still verse one it says, I saw still another mighty angel coming down from heaven.

Now remember, when you have an angel, this is a messenger.

Now it could be Jesus. Especially in the Old Testament, if he's the angel of the Lord, it's Jesus. Although I'm will tend to tell you that. And there are those who believe that Jesus appears in the Revelation as an angel, I tend to not believe that.

But like I said,

these things are things that are yet to be fully seen and understood. And so if they're yet to be fully seen and understood,

we can't be saying that for sure. We know exactly that this is or isn't Jesus. But it's a mighty angel. And remember, an angel brings a message from God. So whenever you have an angel showing up,

you always have God at work or acting in some way where he's revealing himself. And so this angel is obviously a messenger from God, and he's a mighty angel,

which tells us that he. He's got something very important to be said.

Now you can kind of see what the message.

You know, when God describes characters, especially in the book of the Revelation,

his description of them is gonna give you some insight into what they've got to say. You know, when you see Jesus as the Lamb of God that was slain, well, when he's appearing like that,

he's working his redemption. When we see him with the hair white as snow and the eyes like fire, well, he's being the Lord God in that situation. So whatever he's gonna be doing is gonna be being the Lord God.

And so when we come to chapter 10, we see this mighty angel. He's clothed in a cloud. Cloud's always symbolic of the Shekinah glory of God.

It is the glory of God that is so palpable that you not only can see it in its radiance, it just kind of hovers over God like a cloud does.

So this angel's got something to say about God glorified himself.

He has a rainbow on his head. Now, rainbows are always in scripture. I know we live in times where the enemy's taken them and used them for other purposes. But rainbows are a picture of God's grace,

His desire not to have judgment,

but to have redemption. And so this angel's got a mighty message. He's got the glory of God around him.

He's got a rainbow on his head, which means his message is likely to be a message of redemption. And then it says his face was like the sun.

That's the picture of God giving us pure, complete revelation.

One of the things that I do at the end of these Bible studies, y' all heard them.

If you're following along or if you've ever been to our church,

when we end our worship service,

I pronounce a blessing, an Old Testament blessing on the people. And one of the things is that he make his face known to us, that he would reveal Himself to us.

When you see God,

when you see a character in the revelation and their faces like the sun, what he's saying is, I'm fixing to reveal something to you.

You're going to see the face of God, you're going to see the character of God.

You're going to know that I'm revealing something to you. And that's what's going on here. He's got a face like the sun and his feet are like pillars of fire.

Now he's got, he's got the Shekinah glory of God. He's got the redemption of God in the rainbow. He's revealing himself like face like the sun. But you got to remember at the, at the end, at the bottom, the foundation is God's holiness.

And that pillar of fire represents the, especially his. On his feet. It represents God's holiness and his. His judgment.

So even in the midst of God's revelation, and you do need to understand, and so many times we want to have all of God's goodness, all of his love, all of his redemption, and we don't want to have the, the other aspect of it.

You can't have God's goodness and his redemption without his holiness and his judgment of that which is not him because that which is not him causes death.

And if that which is not him is present and there's no judgment of it,

then you can't have his redemption. You can't have his goodness, you can't have his revelation because you're in the midst of sin. God must judge sin and,

and must bring it in line with his will in order for us to really ever have any, any, any understanding of him, for us to ever really understand him or see him or know him or have any, have any idea that he exists.

Redemption, redemption,

even the redemption that we get through Jesus comes out of judgment. And you go, what do you mean by that? Well, did not Jesus take on the sins of the whole world?

The Bible says He bore the sins of the whole world. The Bible says that God placed the sins of the whole world on him and then judged him and gave him the judgment of death and he was crucified.

So our redemption is born of God's judgment.

God's, even our great and wondrous redemption through Jesus Christ is born of God's judgment that he placed on him. He placed on him the sin of the whole world.

And so, so many times we, we don't want to look at the, at the judgment of God.

And, and therefore, we miss out on seeing that full brightness of God's face. We miss out on seeing that because we don't want to realize that first comes first,

God making things right.

And then once he makes things right, then we get the full benefit of him making things right.

But if he never makes it right, then how do we ever get the benefit?

And so then you. Then you hear, hear this angel. He's got the. He's got the feet of fire. He had a little book opened in his hand.

And I'm going to talk about that little book later because I think it's interesting what I believe the little book is first of all. But, but I think it's also interesting that it's called a little book.

It's a little book opened in his hand and he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land. All right? The sea is always in scripture, the Gentiles, the land is, you know, think of the promised land.

Who was the promised land promised to? The Jews?

The Israel. Israel. So you've got redempt. You've got the. The sea, which is the Gentiles and the Jewish people, which is the land. What is this angel doing? Well, he's placed one foot on the sea and one foot on the land,

all right?

And his right foot is on the sea, which is a picture that the sea is being held more highly than the land. And that's true,

that the church is more important in the kingdom than the children, but the children are still important.

Don't miss that. We live in a time period in Christianity where there's a lot out there that want to diminish what God has done and is going to do in the Jewish people.

And that has been going on for centuries and centuries. But remember that the promises of God are irrevocable.

The promises and the. In the work of God that he says he's going to do with a group of people, it doesn't go away.

His promises are yes, and amen. What God says he's going to do, he is going to ultimately do. And he's not fulfilled all his promises to Israel, okay?

And that's quite clear in Scripture.

And if he's not fulfilled all his promises, then they're still a part of his plan.

And for us as Christians to not recognize that is to miss out on part of God's revelation.

And in this book, in chapter 10, this interlude of his judgment, his initial judgment of the seven seals, this is between the sixth and seventh seal,

this interlude is telling us that God is going to, at some point in time, unite those two things.

Because he's still got a plan for Israel. Even though his,

the fullness and the beauty of his full revelation is encompassed in Jesus and the church, he still got all the promises that he's given Israel from Abraham on are still yes and amen.

They're still true. And they don't, they didn't get taken from them and given to us. Okay, we got, we got all the new promises, the new covenant in his blood.

They are under the old covenant and the old covenants of the Old Testament, but they still get those covenants. They still God's prom. God doesn't back off his promises. He doesn't, he's not a man that he should lie.

He doesn't, he doesn't make a promise. And then, and then in that promise that, that's just not how that works. And, and, and when, when you're studying scripture and when you think about these things, you have to have these overarching understandings.

And one of the overarching understanding is God doesn't lie.

God lives throughout all space and time. At the same time, he's omnipresent.

And when he made a promise back 3,000 years ago to the Jews,

it wasn't a promise that he thought that he made that promise and he didn't know how they were going to act. That's not true.

God exists in the end times, just as he exists in Abraham's time. At the same time,

he knew what was going to happen. This has been planned from the beginning. Jesus was slain from the foundation of time,

meaning from the very beginning of the earth when God said that all these things would be formed. And then Jesus formed those things in the midst of that, both him and the Father and the Holy Spirit, they all knew that Jesus was going to have to be the redeemer of this creation.

That was known fact. It was not something that was hidden from anybody. The Holy Spirit, Jesus and the Father all knew that there would have to be a redemption. It was created to reveal his redemptive power.

The universe was created to reveal God's awesomeness, its wonder. But it was also made to reveal God's redemption, his ability to redeem that which is lost.

And so if God knew that back then, it's not like these promises somehow expire. They don't have expiration dates. God's promises don't have those things. And so there is a plan Paul talks about is identified in the prophets.

There is a plan for, for God to glorify himself with his chosen people, which is not the church. We're the bride of Christ with His chosen people. There's a plan for him to reveal himself in his full redemptive power with those people.

And those people are the Jews, okay? And so he's got his right foot on the sea, which is the Gentile church, and his left foot is on the land,

which means there's still promises there. And notice this angel with, with the, with the face of understanding, with the. With the rainbow of redemption, with the Shekinah glory of God and with judgment is connecting these two.

So this story, the whole point of this chapter is about God connecting,

putting a connection between the two. Now that's what makes it real interesting because there's some aspects to it, you realize, oh, we still don't even know.

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.