The Revelation 10:3-11 | Episode # 1069

November 13, 2025

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

The Revelation 10:3-11

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.

He says the foot was on the land and he cried with a loud voice. Meaning this is something that's going to be really, really clear. Okay, I'm going to cry out with a loud voice.

I'm going to make it known. It's going to be obvious to everybody when it happens. So obviously this hasn't happened yet. Okay. For those of you who wonder, well, has any of this already happened?

No, this hadn't happened yet because we don't know how God's going to connect the church and Israel. We don't know how. Although it's going to be put together. It hadn't happened yet.

All right? But when it does, it's going to be in a loud, thunderous voice and we'll know.

It'll be. It'll be just obvious. It says. It says he uttered. He cried out seven thunders, uttered their voices. Now, seven is the number of completion. It's the complete understanding.

The thunders are. The.

Are the. Is the word of God from the throne of heaven.

It's described as. Usually it's described as seven thunders when it's dealing in some way with judgment.

And then it's described as the voice of many waters, when it is a complete revelation that it's understandable.

And remember, waters represents people groups. So if it's the voice of many waters, it's basically God speaking in such a way that every person on the earth in a tongue and a language can understand his voice.

And isn't it cool that God can speak in a voice that everybody would know? He's like a universal translator from Star Trek.

When God speaks,

everybody around him hears them, hears him in their native tongue. And you know that's true. We know that when the Holy Spirit speaks to the heart of a Japanese person, he doesn't speak to the heart of a Japanese person.

In Southern English, like I speak, he speaks to the heart of Japanese person in Japanese. And when he speaks to the heart of a Kenyan, he's not using, he's not using Old English, he's not using the King James version of the Bible.

He, he's speaking to him in whatever his dialect is in Kenya.

God speaks. When God speaks,

his voice can be heard by all.

And really that's so cool to me. When I see God speaking in the voice of many waters. When I see him speaking the voice of many of seven thunders, I know that there's completion to it.

I know that there's revelation to it. And then I also know that there's judgment about part of it too. And so there has to be some of that.

And remember, our redemption is born of God's judgment of sin. It always is, always has been. And so when you hear, when you hear judgment so many times we think negatively.

God's judgments are good, right and true. And boy, do I need them sometimes. Am I right? You do. I need him to judge me,

find me wanting and provide with.

Provide to me the things that I need so that I'm not in that judgment. I need that without it I'm not changed.

I need him to reveal to me that which is not.

So that that which he's done to make everything is or true. I need it to happen for me.

And so when I hear the seven thunders, I know that God's going to redemption is right around the corner.

So he says. Now, when the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about to write. Which means John heard it.

Obviously he would have heard it because when God speaks, every human heart hears.

But John was also a Jew.

John was born in the old covenant and was brought to newness of life in the new covenant. When Jesus walked out of that tomb and breathed on him and said, receive ye the Holy Spirit.

John is,

has lived in both.

Well, he's lived under both covenants.

And wow, what a John sitting there and he's hearing that voice and he's about to write. He's about to tell what the voice said. He's been doing it for nine chapters.

Why not now?

And he says, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, seal up these things which seven thunders uttered and do not write them.

What he's saying is seal them up. Now God, so many times you'll hear people say that God has given us everything and he's revealed everything. There's nothing hidden.

Well, that is absolutely true except for Revelation, chapter 10, verse 4. The only thing that's hidden in scripture that's left is Revelation 10. Now, we may not understand all of the book of the Revelation.

Like I said, some of the things that haven't happened, so it's not easily understandable.

Maybe, maybe the Holy Spirit could reveal it to somebody. Maybe the Holy Spirit has revealed how it's going to happen to some people.

But,

but,

you know, it's still, still murky is still we see in the glass darkly as, as,

as, as Paul said to the Corinthian Church. But then we'll just see face to face. There's going to be day when it's not going to be murky. But this right here, it's not murky.

It's just opaque. You can't see it. It's just yet, no, seeing it, God sealed it up and said, I'm not going to explain it.

So God's plan to bring about a unity of the Jewish people and the church is covered up. Now, I have said this and I say it all the time when we're studying the book of the Revelation, somebody say, well, this happened in news.

Does that mean that. Is that clear? Is that one of those things that happen that we know for sure, we're 100% sure that that means that Jesus is coming back soon.

And the answer I usually give to folks who say that is the answer is no.

No, it's not.

Usually not.

But there is one thing that I think is for sure a sign that Jesus is coming back. And that is a true revival or a true awakening that takes place among the Jewish people.

Both.

Well, in the two major countries that Jewish people live in, in America and Israel,

basically there's 16 million Jews in the world. Eight live here and eight live there. And, you know, somewhere around a quarter of me and to half a million live elsewhere in the world.

So the majority of Jewish people live in, in the United States and they live in Israel. And I believe that a sure sign of the coming of Jesus Christ is that the Jewish people will have a great awakening as to who their real Lord is.

And the Jewish people will turn toward Jesus.

And when that happens, I believe that you're going to see that's, that's a sure telltale sign that the end is near.

And I think that whatever, however that works itself out is spoken in these seven thunders. And then God says, seal it up, because what would we try to do? We try to make it happen.

And it's not going to be something that we can make happen.

It's going to be a supernatural work of God that is clearly only going to be able to be seen by God. I love that about God.

He gives us things that really can just only be him. And we find that here.

So,

so as we're studying this,

I just.

It's. It's powerful, it's exciting.

It says the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised up his hand to heaven and.

Huh.

So this angel that is given these,

that's a part of this unification process that's going to take place. He. He turns and he raises hand to heaven. And he swore by him who lives forever and ever.

So he's swearing by God, Okay?

Now this is what makes me think that this is not Jesus, okay? This angel is not Jesus because Jesus would not have to swear by the Father. He could swear by himself.

His name is above every name, and he is God himself. And so there would no need for Jesus to swear by the Father in heaven now because he is the Lord God,

the Lord of heaven and earth. And so there's no need for him to swear by that. That makes me think that this angel is literally a messenger from God that who's bringing us a cool message and interlude during the revelation it says he swore by him who lives forever and ever,

who created heaven and the things that are in it. Well, that he'd be swearing by himself if it was Jesus. The earth and the things that are in it, the sea and the things that are in it, that there should be delay no longer.

Which means once whatever this thing happens,

happens is.

However chapter verse 4 plays out, however these thunders play out,

there's not going to be any delay after that. We're moving toward the end quick,

okay?

And that's why I think.

I'm just telling you what I think it is. I think,

remember what I think it is, is just, you know, one of 20 billion thoughts, okay?

I think it is in some way the awakening of the Jewish people because remember, he brings redemption. He's got that diadem, and he brings full revelation and it's born of judgment.

He's going to judge them and then he's going to redeem them.

And so I think that this angel who is swearing by him, who created heaven and all that's in it, created the earth and all that's in it created the sea and all that in it is he swearing by him.

And John wrote this book. He also wrote John chapter one.

And in John chapter one, he says this about Jesus. He says all that was made was made by him. And nothing that was made was not made by him.

So who is this angel swearing by?

He's swearing by God, who made all things. Who made all things. Well, John,

same John who wrote this book, says that Jesus made all things,

that everything that was made by everything was made by him, and that nothing that was made was not made by him.

So this is a story about God revealing some really, really wonderful thing that is going to take place right before everything culminates. And that is Jesus himself.

He says, but in the days of the sounding of seven angels,

when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished. Meaning. Meaning when, when, when everything is about to be completed, when all the angels have spoken, when everything has been done,

it will be, will be right at the end. And that's what chapter seven, verse seven says. The mystery of God will be finished. And he declares to his servants the prophets, meaning he declares these things to us.

He gives us prophecies. He. He lets us know.

And when, when whatever this is, this,

this message in the seven thunders that takes place with the angel who is connecting the Jews and the church, the Jews and the Gentiles, whenever that happens, it's going to bring about the culmination and the finish.

It's going to bring about the culmination and the finish. And he gives this message to his prophets, which means that this understanding is weaved into Scripture. It's weaved into the prophecies of Scripture.

That's what he says,

verse 7. But in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, this is the seventh angel. When he is about to sound,

the mystery of God would be finished, meaning this mystery in verse four is going to be finished as he declares to his servants the prophets, which means that it is a fulfillment of all the things God has promised with the prophets.

It is a fullness and a fulfillment of that.

And where are the prophets? Well, the prophets are the minor and major prophets of the Old Testament. Moses is a prophet of the Old Testament.

So it's the Pentateuch. It's the, it's the,

it's the major minor prophets.

David is a prophet.

It's in the Psalms and the Proverbs, all these things are going to come about and they're going to be. Be totally finished, meaning God's covenant with Israel is going to be brought to its full completion.

It's going to be complete.

So that brings us to the book,

the little book that is in the angel's hand. It says, then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, go take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth,

huh?

So God tells him to go take that little book.

So I went to the angel and said to him, give me the little book.

And he said to me, take and eat it, and I'll make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.

And that to me is a beautiful, perfect description of the Bible. In fact,

the little book, the word book there is biblos, okay? So it's the little biblos,

all right? And you go, well, the Bible isn't little. Well, really, it is little. Okay?

The Bible is. You know, John says even in his gospel, that he supposed if you wrote all that Jesus had done, the. The volumes would fill the whole earth. And I've heard.

I've heard it said that, you know, even for just one human being,

if you took the genes, the. The. The DNA code of all the cells of your body, every cell in your body and all the DNA code in your body, and you were to put them in books,

that the books would fill the Grand Canyon 70 times over.

Did you know that.

That if you wrote down the DNA code, just the DNA code of you,

nothing else, not the story of your life, not the situations that are going on around you, not an intense, detailed understanding of everything that happened in your life, if you just took the DNA code that's in your body throughout your lifetime, because remember,

it gets messed up. And we've got little machines in our cells that are fixing our DNA code all the time, but they're not properly fixing. And as. As. As time goes by, more and more the code gets, you know, not met, not right, not messed up, and the cells begin to get worse and worse,

and then you die.

That DNA code over your whole life, if it were to be written down, you know, in. In 12 font in a book, and. And those books were to be. Be published,

the books would fill the Grand Canyon 70 times. And you know what? I don't doubt that.

I don't doubt that. In fact, I would guess that just the DNA code of one of your cells would fill a whole book. It would.

And so if that's the case,

then Has God written all that down? Is God is. Is all that a part of his plan and all that a part of his book? Yes.

In fact, we know that there is a book about all that God does in reference to life,

and it's called the Lamb's Book of Life and that Lamb's Book of Life. Many of them think it's, you know, St. Peter sitting there with a ledger book about who gets in and who doesn't get in.

That is not the Lamb's Book of Life. That is. That is terrible. And I'm married to an accountant, and it just doesn't appeal to me, not one little bit, that that explanation of what the Lamb's Book of Life is.

The. That is some kind of ledger book with your name in it. And if your name's not in it,

you're out. And if your name is in it, you're in.

That is just a very superficial version of what. Sure, if your name's not in it,

you don't have the life of God, but if your name's in it, then you have some major, major chapters written about you, okay? All that God has done is in reference to life on this earth and especially in reference to his redemption about you.

It's all written down in heaven. Did y' all know that? And that's the Lamb's Book of Life. And that book is huge. That book is able to fill what John said.

It's able to fill the whole earth,

okay?

God is written down. He, you know, he's way better than your mama was about scrapbooking, okay?

He. He's way better than. Than anybody you've known about.

Even if you spend all your day posting on social media, you're not even close to as good as God about posting what he's done for his beloved children.

He is writing down every aspect of what he's done for you.

And that book that he's writing is called the Lamb's Book of Life. And it has got billions and trillions of chapters in it. And it's all about you and all about the work he's done in your life.

And so in comparison to that,

the Bible is just a little taste of the goodness of God. It's just a little taste of it. It's not even close to all that God has done.

It's not even close to all that God has done for you. The Bible and its promises are just a taste of the goodness of God and the power of his redemption in his son.

It's just a taste of it. And so God says, go take that book.

And he get. He. He says to that angel, give me that little book. And the angel says, you take and eat it, and it's going to make your stomach better.

Because remember,

sin and God's judgment does make our stomach bitter.

It does but what is sweet as honey in our mouth because we taste and see that God is good. He is.

He's really, really good.

And what a great, what a great message that is for us, isn't it, Isn't it a wonderful message that this little book, if we'll take and eat it, it will change us because it'll make our stomach, you know, it's kind of like taking good medicine, makes your stomach kind of mess.

But then,

but then in your mouth it's sweet because it's, it's the goodness of God. But any.

Wonderful that God does that for it. And he said, then I took the little book,

the angel from the angel's hand and ate it. And it was sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I'd eaten it, my stomach became bitter.

And he said to me, you must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues and kings. What he's saying is,

you're speaking the word of the Lord. You're, you are prophesying in this little book. And sure enough, John's writing the last,

the last book of the little book,

the last book of the 66 books. Now, if you're, if you're Catholic, it's 72 books. And you know, there's, there's some question about five or six books whether or not they're actually scripture or whether they're good history.

None of the books in the Catholic Bible are heresy. They're not that.

We just don't agree that they're scripture, meaning they're God's Word revealing himself to us. We think of the Book of Maccabees as historical books. And you can go through those arguments.

It doesn't really matter. I want you to hear me. We've got the Revelation of God. We've got it. And if you pare it down to 66 books or you push it out to 72 books, it doesn't matter.

We've got the Revelation of God. And if you eat is good to taste, but it does change you.

It does make your heart better. It does make your stomach better. It changes you. And knowing that God's word is going to change you is powerful too, isn't it? It really is.

And then that angel says to John, he says, you're going to have to prophesy about peoples and nations and tongues and kings.

You've got a lot to say to God's people, and God's people are going to hear you throughout the generations. And we have,

we're studying this book that John wrote, you know,

a little bit less than 2000 years ago,

and we're still studying it today because he's. He's making a prophecy that speaks to many peoples and nations and tongues and kings,

and we're a part of it. And God's word is his revelation to us.

And the Lamb's Book of Life is a chronicle of the great life that God has provided us through His Son.

And aren't you so excited to be a part of it? I am. I'm excited when I read this. This interlude's been a powerful interlude. It's a great interlude in Scripture.

It's a great stepping aside. We dealt with a lot of judgments the last two chapters, but, man, we get to this and it's exciting. He's saying, I'm gonna fulfill all my prophecies.

I'm gonna fulfill all my promises to the Jews. I'm going to fulfill all my promises to the church. I am going to bring about this thing called redemption. I'm going to bring it to its fullness.

And wow, what a. What a great Bible study we've had. Am I right?

What a great study through God's Word to re read this short little chapter and get so much out of it. Because God is.

Well, He's a good God.

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.