The Revelation 11:8-9 | Episode # 1072

November 18, 2025

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

The Revelation 11:8-9

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 follow me.

And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city.

Hmm.

So they're killed by a creature we know to be Satan in a battle outside the city. Now,

you don't talk about some major ratings for the nightly news networks.

This is going to be a big night for them,

even bigger than the. Than. Than the campaign night. Okay? There are going to be a lot more. A lot more people watching than that night.

All right?

And then it says this about Jerusalem, which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt.

All right? Sodom, pointing to the decadence of the city.

Now, Jerusalem is not decadent. Now,

it is not.

Okay?

Not by a long shot.

No matter which quarter you go to or what area you go to,

it is controlled by one of the three major monotheistic religions, and it is not decadent.

It's not.

Which would be Sodom. And it's not worldly, which would be Egypt.

Remember, Egypt's a picture of the world. Sometimes we want to make it a picture of hell.

There is a city that's a picture of hell. Does anybody know what that city is?

No.

No, not Atlanta. No, not Atlanta. Not Atlanta. Not Atlanta. Not Vegas.

In the Bible, Rome.

Rome is a picture of hell, okay?

Egypt is a picture of the world.

And Pharaoh in Egypt is Satan. He's a picture of Satan ruling over the world,

okay? And so when. When the children of Israel were enslaved in Egypt. Picture of the world under the power of Satan, there was a deliverer sent. That's. That's the overarching picture of the Old Testament, right?

So he's saying that Jerusalem.

And you go, well, he didn't say Jerusalem. Well, let me read where our Lord was also crucified.

All right, so that's Jerusalem. All right? He's saying that Jerusalem at this time will be decadent and worldly.

Is that today?

No.

There's going to have to be a whole lot of decadence and worldliness piped in.

It says their dead bodies will lay in that city.

Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues and nations will see their dead bodies. Three and a half days.

Well, how they going to see them?

Yeah,

yeah.

And for us that seems. Well, that's just obvious.

But if.

How many of y' all were born before tv?

Honestly, you were born before TV was in your area? Well, I mean,

we got people raising their hands.

We didn't have the three channels,

huh?

No, not color tv. Just tv.

Just tv.

All right. For those young people that are here now, listen to me. There was a time,

and I remember this, where TV wasn't colored.

Some of the shows were in black and white and you had to fix these things on top of it so you could see the tv. And if you were from Dayville, it was really hard.

Turn the antenna on the top.

Now listen, we're laughing about that.

But people literally have powerful TVs that they walk around with now.

All right?

Which means that up until,

up until just recently,

this prophecy couldn't be fulfilled.

Now they're dead for three and a half days.

All right,

why three and a half days?

Well,

I want you to hear me because this has significance and importance in,

in the days of Christ. And it's being carried over because we're. Is the, the,

the tribulation is back in the way God dealing with the earth in the Old Testament.

Remember, Jesus is the turning of the page from the Old Testament to the New Testament. Now I want you to hear me.

The New Testament begins at the resurrection.

What are you saying, Pastor? Well, the last and greatest Old Testament prophet is who?

John the Baptist.

Okay. He's the greatest Old Testament prophet.

Jesus with his life,

with his crucifixion and death is the fulfillment of all the promises of the Old Testament.

The New Testament age begins at the resurrection.

Are you following me?

Now why do we put. Then why do we put Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the New Testament? Because that's the turning of the page. The Gospels are the turning of the page from the Old Testament people of God to the New Testament church of God.

All right,

so understanding that is real important.

And so Jesus is the,

is the fulfillment of all that.

He's the turning of that page.

All right,

when you're studying this, you need to think of yourself that way. Now in the Old Testament starting we don't know where this began to be. A best way for me to describe it is an old wives tale.

They believe that your Soul remained with your body for three days,

huh?

That's right. That's right.

And you go,

why is, why are you asking that? Well, because Jesus resurrected Lazarus intentionally, waiting for the three days to pass so that he could prove that, that he didn't just in some way regenerate him back to life.

Because according to their understanding of life,

I'm not saying it's a biblical understanding. It was a wives tale understanding that after three days your soul left your body.

Okay,

all right, we know that the Bible says to be dead in the body is to be present with the Lord.

I'm just telling you that that's what they believe.

So Jesus was going to make sure that not only they understood that Lazarus was a true resurrection,

but that his resurrection was a true resurrection.

Are you following me?

Right?

That he, he, he, he, he made sure that they understood that this is going to be,

this is going to be a supernatural work of God and he was the fulfillment of that.

So if we're talking about Jerusalem, we're talking about measuring the courts and all that kind of stuff,

they're going to leave the bodies of these witnesses laying in the streets until after they would have believed that their soul would have left their body.

All right?

Which is, I want you to hear me,

the ultimate sign,

the ultimate revelation of God and his hand at work is the power over death.

All right?

Now they also believed making a lame person walk and a blind person see was a similar work,

but the ultimate work of God.

That that was the mark of God which people, which even the leaders of Israel had trouble with,

was that he resurrected some.

He resurrected more than one Lazarus in Scripture.

3. But,

but we don't. It could be more, way more than that.

Okay.

He was,

he was a resurrecting prophet,

which means when they struggle with why to arrest him and,

and all that kind of stuff,

the reason they struggle with it is because,

you know,

nobody else has done that.

And we know that only God does those things.

And you need to kind of understand that as you study God's word,

as you study the New Testament, especially meaning the Gospels,

okay,

It says they were. The dead bodies were three and a half days and they did not allow them to be put in graves.

So you know, there's. They're being watched the whole time.

This is not a trick.

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.