The Revelation 12:2-4 | Episode # 1079

November 27, 2025

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

The Revelation 12:2-24

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 being with child,

she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. Okay,

so she is a mother.

I've already told you,

virtuous woman that's motherly is always Israel.

All right? Now the child she's going to give birth to,

this is the ultimate purpose of Israel.

They were set apart to be God's plan to deliver a messiah to the world.

There were supposed to be a city on a hill. There were supposed to be light to the gentiles and the offspring of the Jews that would change the whole world would be a Jewish person.

Now you go, why are you focused on that?

Because you need to know that.

Listen to me.

Jesus is a Jew.

Some of y' all going, well, that just seems like that's obvious, Jeff. Not obvious to everybody.

Not obvious to everybody.

You need to hear that.

Jesus, listen to me.

Today,

at the right hand of God,

Jesus is a Jew.

Y' all got that?

All right, good.

All right. Your Lord is a Jew. You just need to know that, okay? He didn't somehow become not a Jew.

He wasn't metamorphosized into something else.

He was born of a Jewish woman conceived by the Holy Spirit. Jewish,

Circumcised. On the eighth day, Jewish.

Y' all following me.

Another sign appeared in heaven.

Behold a great fiery red dragon.

Red death.

Red is associated back with death.

Okay, we've got the Red Horseman. He. He brings about death on the earth.

It's a fiery red dragon.

He's described as a dragon,

by the way. If you go into mythology and all that and study that dragons were hyper intelligent,

could speak.

He's described as a dragon having seven heads.

Okay?

Heads are pictures of understanding,

knowledge.

Okay,

so he's got complete knowledge of everything that's going on.

Now, you need to hear this because this is important.

Your adversary knows everything that has happened from the day he was made until now.

Which includes everything about you.

Now, he doesn't know how things are going to take place in 10 minutes everywhere around the world.

He can make some really good guesses about it,

okay?

But everything that's happened, he knows.

Are you following me?

He knows it all.

He's got seven heads,

meaning seven's the number of completion. He has complete.

Not only does he have complete authority, but he has complete knowledge.

And you're going to see that,

all right?

He has seven heads and 10 horns.

Horns.

Now, we're not talking about horns, okay? We're talking about horns,

okay? So when you see the devil and he's got two horns. Wrong, he's got to have seven.

I mean ten. Ten.

All right?

Now,

horns in the Bible are pictures of authority or power,

okay? Some kind of power.

Now, I want you to hear me.

When the church really started getting into studying the end times,

okay?

The American church, and that happened in the late 70s. And I told you it started with a book called the Late Great Planet Earth.

Okay? Hal Lindsey's Late Great Planet Earth.

They believed that the Antichrist was going to rule a 10 nation confederacy.

That was the European Union.

Now England. They got in and they got out.

All right?

Now what are you saying, Pastor, he's wrong?

What I'm telling you is I don't know.

I don't know.

I know that Satan controls or has authority over 10 nations.

Now you go, well, Pastor,

and could they be nations or could they be people groups? Or could they be. Or could they be areas of the world?

The answer is yeah,

which one? Yes.

I don't know.

I don't know what the 10 are.

But when he operates, he operates having control of 10 great powers.

Could they be powers throughout history? Could it be like, could we pick them? Like, could it be **** Germany,

Napoleon, you know, he was really good at fighting Caesar,

Alexander the Great,

the Mongols,

and you know, just start naming them.

Could it be that maybe.

Yeah,

could be. I don't know what it is.

I know that he has great power. And the reason he has great power is because,

well, we need to read what comes next.

And seven diadems on his heads,

okay?

That is the word for crown,

okay?

And it's not the crown that Jesus wears,

okay?

The crown that Jesus wears is the victor's crown,

okay?

These are crowns which date back to time immemorial. These are. These are royal crowns,

okay? And you go, what does that mean? Well, that means that he's had royal authority over these 10 powers and over whatever. He's over. He's had authority over it forever.

Past tense.

All right, you go. Well, what do you mean forever? Well, I believe this and that. God created a being that was made lower than Satan and yet placed above him with the power to have authority over him.

And that being was humanity, was man.

I and man was made.

And no quicker was he made.

He gave his authority back to who?

Satan.

Okay?

He handed it right back over to him.

And death entered the world. Because the authority that he gave Satan brought about death and Jesus. The Bible says when Jesus died, he put to death he who had the power of death.

Who had the power of death?

Satan.

So Satan had authority over death.

Jesus destroyed that authority in regard to his people, but not in regard to the whole world.

Satan still is the authority in the world,

okay? Satan still is the prince of the power of the air.

He still runs this. This operation.

That's why if you watch TV and you're hoping that somebody will fix things,

I'm just telling you,

even if they want to, they can't.

It's like them taking them b that ball and then putting it under the three things and twitching around. And no matter which one you pick, the ball ain't under it because they're cheating.

Well, I'm just telling you, Satan's in charge.

And the only kingdom that has any power over him is the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God, the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

And if you're not functioning in that kingdom,

then you're not walking in the light.

And you are going to struggle because I want you to hear me.

You have the mantle of the Holy Spirit on you.

So you can't camouflage it.

You can't hide it from Satan. Go, well, I'm gonna just hide so Satan don't know I'm here.

You can't hide from him. He knows you're in the light.

He knows you've got authority, and he is doing his best to either lie to you and get you not to function in the authority or scare you and keep you from acting in your authority.

He.

He is an occupying dictator over the earth.

You go, he's an occupying dictator. Yes,

because we're going to see in just a minute.

He took a third of the angels with him and he's going to allude back to that. He's going to teach us that.

He says here,

and his tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth.

So when he fell,

and I hate to allude back to this all the time,

but you remember when Gandalf had Smoked the dragon,

the bellrock.

He said, you shall not pass.

And he fell and he reached up there and grabbed Gandor and pulled him down that way. That's what happened. He took all the angels that were under him.

Now, listen to me, if you don't know what I'm talking about. I've been telling you about the Lord of the Rings for at least three or four months. You gotta invest some time.

I'm sorry. Gotta do some homework.

All right?

And you go, well, why would I do that? Cause it was written by a Christian. And he's using all these illusions.

Huh?

He's using these illusions you need to watch.

You need to watch. The lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

They're using all these pictures from. From the Bible.

All right? Now,

Lord of the Rings is not quite all. It's more fantasy. But he's still using biblical illustrations,

huh?

No, Hobbits are not real. Although I've seen some people I thought were hobbits.

Okay?

One of my best friends from Montgomery's, I think, is a hobbit. All right?

Then he looked at me.

Yeah.

All right,

we know that there's some ogres,

right?

So if there's ogres, there's gotta be hobbits, all right?

In fact, my nickname in our fantasy football league is Stricken. Okay? All right, so I'm Shrek, all right?

And there is a guy in the league, that's Donkey, all right?

He is. And we go on wonderful adventures together, all right?

And I say that because you need to hear. You need to understand.

Satan was one of the three archangels. There's 10 ranks of angels in the Bible,

and I can't name them all to you, but power. There's arch power, principality, ruler,

Seraphim, Cherubim,

and there's a few more.

Okay? And you go. What do you mean, ranks? Well, they're created for a purpose.

They don't all look the same,

okay? And they function as an army.

And so Satan was over a third of the angelic host.

Michael was over a third of the angelic host.

Gabriel was over a third of the angelic host.

So when Satan fell, he drew his third with his tail to the earth,

and they occupied the earth.

They are the fallen angels that control the earth,

it says. And he threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman. Now,

he took you back to the very beginning when Satan fell.

And he said he dragged a third of the angels. And his whole purpose from then till now is to do what?

He stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her child as soon as it was born. And now I want you to hear me.

He did everything he could in the Old Testament to keep Jesus from making it here.

He did everything he could to stamp out the Jews,

to put them in slavery,

to. To destroy the bloodlines of humanity, which is what Noah's ark's all about.

Okay? Noah's arks,

not just about God's judgment against creation,

because it tells you what it's about. And see, sometimes when I'm talking to somebody and I say that,

it amazes me how it just tells you.

It'll tell you what it's. The Bible's not hard. If it was hard, nobody could get it.

Okay?

If God wanted to make it hard,

he'd put it in a language you couldn't understand.

Okay. And he would say things that would be unimaginable to your mind.

It's obvious what caused the flood.

Well, let's go to the chapter before.

Well,

there is a genealogy which tells me that there was a man called Adam. And in his line, I can see a line all the way down to who?

To Noah. Then it brings up Noah and it says Noah was perfect in his.

And we read it. Generation perfect means to be without sin.

Was Noah without sin?

No. How do I know that?

Because his great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great granddaddy was Adam.

And Adam passed on something to Noah which is called sin.

How'd I know that?

New Testament, Hebrews. Sin entered the world through one man, Adam.

It didn't disappear between Adam and Noah.

So it can't mean that at. That Noah was perfect in his generation and that he was sinless.

It could be. Well, Pastor, couldn't it be he was really, really good? No,

you can't be sinful and really, really good.

No one is righteous. No, not one. Each has turned to his own sinful ways.

Well, you can't turn to your own sinful ways and be one of the ones that are turning to that ways. And he said,

no one is righteous, so I can't be righteous. So I gotta be in that group.

So it could mean what? You can also translate that word to mean that Noah was perfect in his genealogy.

And that's obvious. Cause the chapter before showed me that he was perfect in his genealogy. What does that mean? Well, that means his bloodlines weren't messed up.

Mixed with who?

The fallen angels.

And then it describes the fallen angels having relations with women and create. And muddy in the bloodlines.

Are you following me? Messing Them up.

Are you with me?

And then God's got to destroy all the messed up bloodlines.

Now, what I love about it is,

is that we'll go back to the.

To the Christians who hate the Jews,

okay? One of the other crazy things you'll hear if you go down rabbit holes is that,

is that Cain, when he killed Abel, God made him black,

and so all the black people come from Cain.

Well, now the problem with that is all the black people died in the flood, so they can't come from Canaan.

All right? And if you really want to do something,

go on YouTube and find Billy Graham's sermon on the importance of Africa in the Bible.

It's an old sermon.

And if you're going to say that Cain killed Abel and God gave him a mark and changed his color,

then the strong likelihood is that he made him white because they were at least very dark skinned, if not black.

Yeah,

very dark skinned.

All right? So if you're going to make him something that everybody would know was a picture,

then you'd make him a Caucasian,

except he wasn't from Asia, so he can't be a Caucasian from the Caucasus.

Now, I want you to listen to me. These things hurt your feelings,

okay?

A lot of these things when we're studying, they hurt our feelings,

you know, because you've been. Been told a bunch of things that are not scriptural.

Listen to me. When God took the dust out of the ground,

it wasn't chalk.

You ever been. You ever seen the dust in. In the Middle east and in Northern Africa?

It's real dark.

Just saying,

real important. You see that?

So when I hear something like that, I go, does that make sense? No, it doesn't.

It doesn't make sense that Noah was really, really good. He wasn't.

That's clearly against the teachings of scripture.

Why am I telling you this? Because when you're reading this, he's giving me just clear. He's giving me clear bullet points about what happened.

Satan's whole purpose since the Garden when he tempted Eve to sin.

Didn't I tell you? He knows everything that's happened.

What does he know about that story that's important? Well, he knows he got the authority back because man fell. But something else was said that he got really worried about.

Does anybody know?

Yeah, that he would strike her offspring.

Happened.

I don't want. I don't want to let that happen.

So he's been working against that plan.

So he's gonna mess up the bloodlines.

We ain't talking about. We're all Jews again. I've already explained that to you. Right 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.