The Revelation 14:1 Review | Episode # 1099

January 1, 2026

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

The Revelation 14:1

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.

Interlude here. And what I mean by that is, you know, as you have things happen, then you'll have a situation where. Where. And it's just like we've been going through the Book of Revelation. You have things that happen, and they may happen while other things that have already been talked about or maybe going on later. It's almost like, tell you the truth, it's a lot like a movie where you have scenes happening over here. These people are talking, this is going on. Then they move to this scene over here. And they may be going on contemporaneously, they may be going on around each other. And so when we're studying through the Book of the Revelation, you'll see that that's happening. And even though chapters and verses were not written, you know, when these books were written, they were not chapters and verses were not added to them. That wasn't added until, well, several hundred years ago, but it would have been over a thousand years after the Revelation was written. And for some books in The Old Testament, 4,000 years, they were written that they came in and they added chapters and verses. And the main reason they did that is because of the understanding that this is the word of God. And so they wanted to be able to direct people to certain passages of Scripture quickly. And I can't even remember the name of the guy who did it. There was a person who did it. And I want to say it was in the 1500s, but I could be wrong about that. It could have been 1300s that he came in and he added the chapters and verses to the book. And especially when you're studying the Book of the Revelation because of the nature of the way it's written, it's really good to have the chapters and verses because it really does break them down into literally the scenes that are taking place. This is happening, then that's happening, then this is happening, then that's happening. Okay? And so Revelation chapter 14 is the same way. And it's going to give us some insights into what. What is about to happen. It's also going to give us some insights into some things that have already been shown to us. And then it's going to give us. It's going to give us some insights into what's. What. What is coming up. What's. What's. What's happening down the road. It says, then I looked, and behold, a lamb standing on Mount Zion. All right, so, you know, already we have the pictures, we have the symbolism that goes on here. If we got a lamb, a singular lamb, I mean, you know, especially in the Book of Revelation, especially when you see in the first couple chapters when he describes Jesus as the Lamb of God that had been slain, it's obviously, this is Jesus. Now, the. The issue is, where is he standing? Okay, now if we say Mount Zion, Mount Zion is a place. Mount Zion is the hill on which Jerusalem is built on. And the way we know that is from the Book of Psalms. There's three major passages, three major psalms that deal with Mount Zion and Mount Zion being Jerusalem. And then Isaiah. The Book of Isaiah gives us a whole chapter that talks about the work of God on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. Okay? So the question is, in this scene, is Jesus on Mount Zion in all actuality, right where we're at? Okay, Right where we're reading from, right where we're looking at, is he on the physical Mount Zion? And you go, what are you talking about, a physical Mount Zion? Well, I need to take you to Hebrews, chapter 22. I mean, chapter 12, verse 22. And let me read this to you so that we can get some explanation. It says, but you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly of the Church of the firstborn, who are registered in heaven, to God, the judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of the new Covenant, and to the blood sprinkled, that he speaks better things than that of Abel. All right, so what you have here is you have a. You have in the Book of Hebrews, which is one of the theological books of the New Testament, and it is the Jewish theological book of the New Testament. That's why it's called the Book of Hebrews. You have him describing. Describing heaven or the throne room of heaven or the temple in heaven as what, Mount Zion. All right, so if that's the case, then we know that there's a physical Mount Zion where in times past and in times to come, there's going to be a Jerusalem built on the top of that mountain, okay, which is Mount Zion, and Jerusalem is on top of Mount Zion. All right, we know that, but we also know that the temple that is made by human hands or that has been made and that will be made by human hands is just, is just a, a foreshadowing. It's not, it's not the perfect temple that is in heaven that God sits on his throne at all, right? So we know that when it says I saw a lamb on Mount Zion, I've got to ask the question, is that Jesus on the earth or is that Jesus in heaven? All right, now the obvious answer to that is it's gotta be Jesus in heaven. Because when we're going to have a whole, and, and as we look forward, we're going to have a whole passage, a whole, whole chapter that describes the coming of Jesus, okay? The, the, the coming of Jesus to set up his millennial or a thousand year reign on the earth. So we know that Jesus is going to come back. He's going to be riding a white horse. There's going to be a great company with him. We're going to get into all that. We know he's coming back. And we know prior to this, when he described the Lamb of God in I think chapter five, maybe chapter four, when he described the Lamb of God in heaven, he was in heaven. All right? Now why do I say that? Because if where, where Jesus is at in this passage informs everything else, it makes the decision for everything else. Where Jesus is at in this passage decides what, what everything else is interpreted as. Now I'm going to tell you that I don't have any doubt in my own heart in the way I interpret this, that this is Jesus in, in the heavenly Jerusalem, in the heavenly temple on Mount Zion, okay? Now I am going to interpret the rest of the passage based off of that, okay? And I'm going to tell you, if it's him actually on Mount Zion, then there's a lot of stuff that I couldn't tell you what it meant, okay? But if it's him on Mount Zion, which is the heavenly Mount Zion, then everything fits. So that'd be a good reason to make it the heavenly Mount Zion because it makes sense. Otherwise it doesn't really make sense. All right? He said and with him 144,000. Now we know that, we know that that was, that was Jewish men, 12,000 from each tribe. 12 tribes, 144,000. And we know. And if they had the seal of God on them and we know they went out preaching the gospel, okay? We know all that. We know it. We got it. It's in the books, all right? Now here's the thing. If I see Jesus on Mount Zion and the 144,000 are with him on Mount Zion, then I'm just going to take a. Make a logical inference. If he's on Mount Zion and they're with him, then they're not on the earth, okay? And to be dead in the body is to be present with the Lord, okay? So apparently they're all martyred, okay? Or they're all dead anyway. They're all in heaven. All right? So now, don't you hear me? The methodology by which the gospel is spread on the earth after what I believe to be the Rapture, but at least during the three and a half years of the Great Tribulation, the way the gospel is spread on the earth is through these 144,000 prophets, okay? Or preachers. They go out and they preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, okay? That's how it's done, by the way. That's how it was done in the Old Testament, okay? That's how things were handled in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, you went and you had the gospel preached to you or the word of God told to you. Some people ask me questions about prophecy, and oftentimes you can get caught up in a very nuanced, singular way to look at what prophecy is. Okay? Prophecy in its very general terms is the relating of a spiritual truth to another person by the Holy Spirit. Okay? All right? That is what prophecy is, okay? I am giving you a spiritual truth by the power of the Holy Spirit using my gift, and you are receiving that truth, that revelation, that understanding from God. You're receiving that. That truth from me, okay? And from the Holy Spirit or from God. All right? You say, well, could. Could teaching at times be prophecy? Sure. Could preaching be prophecy? Yeah. Could evangelism be prophecy in the general term? Yeah, it could be. Could me telling you that I believe this is going on in your life and maybe a word of knowledge that I might give you, could that be in the. Could that fall under the rubric, the umbrella of prophecy? Yeah, that could fall under the umbrella of prophecy. If I told you, thus saith the Lord, right? And this is gonna happen, that would definitely be prophecy. Right? That would be the way most people think of the Word Prophecy, Right. If I write a book and it's the book of Isaiah, is that a prophecy? Yeah. Is the book of the Revelation a prophecy? Yeah, they're all prophecies. All right. From the general idea and understanding of what a prophecy is. Okay, now are there those who prophesy in very specific ways this is how they do it? Absolutely they do. Is it a New Testament gift? Sure it is. All right, so how do we. How do we. How do we determine that? Well, we understand that God reveals Himself through His Son by His Word, using the Holy Spirit to bring about revelation. Okay. So we understand that that's the way it works. God reveals Himself through His Son by His Word and gives us personal revelation, general revelation, the specific revelation of Jesus Christ, all those things. I've been through those before. It's very. Understand important that you know that. Could a certain person say, I saw God in the clouds today and God revealed this to me? Sure, he could. That would be him revealing himself in his creation. That's general revelation. Okay. Could. Could a person say, I was reading the Word of God and I came to this understanding of Jesus and it. And it changed the way I saw things? Absolutely, I could. Why? That's the specific revelation of God in His Son, Jesus Christ. Could I say that God spoke to my heart while I was hearing this song, this worship song, or while I was praying and God told me that I needed to be part of this? Sure, I can. That's. That's personal revelation from God. But it all needs to come from the Son as codified in the Word. And I say that all the time so that you'll get that. Okay. If, if, if somebody says to me, thus saith the Lord, but it's not in line with God's Word, then it ain't that. What? Thus saith the Lord, it's not what God said. Okay? It's gotta come from His Word. It's gotta. It's gotta manifest from His Word. Okay. If I say that I saw this in the creation, but it has nothing to do with God's Word. Or maybe it's antithetical to God's Word. It's out of line with God's Word. Is that a revelation? No. Okay. Because the specific revelation of God is in His Son, Jesus Christ. Okay. If I've got prophets that are to go out there, as they did in the Old Testament, and tell people what God had said to call them to repentance to Him. Okay. Did what they say have to be exactly right? Yeah. If it wasn't exactly right. What do you do? You stone them. Right? Had to be. Exactly right. All right? And I want you to hear me today. God speaks to us in all kinds of ways, but it's your responsibility to have the working knowledge of God's word, to know God's word, so that you can know whether or not you're getting a word from God or a word from somebody else, okay? Or something else. All right? So he says 144,000 having his father's name written on their foreheads, all right? The last time we saw them, we saw that they had the mark of the Holy Spirit, okay? Now what do they have? The Heavenly Father's name on their forehead, which gives us even more of an understanding, all right? When they're on the earth, you have the mantle of the Holy Spirit. When you're in heaven, you have a name from the Father, okay? So, so it would. It would make a. It would make sense that in heaven they're no longer functioning under the. Under the. The. The mantle of the Holy Spirit. When I use the word mantle, y' all know those little, little rings that were above the angels? Y' all know what I'm talking about? All right? That's, that's. That is to. That is to symbolize in paintings from the middle Dark Ages and from the Renaissance that those, Those. Those rings above the head is. Is a. Is a indication in a painting that this person is a believer. This person is a Christian. Okay? So they have the. They have the Shekinah glory of God upon them because of the mark of the Holy Spirit, okay? Or the seal of the Holy Spirit, by the way, you got the seal of the Holy Spirit in you, okay? You have it all the time. So when you're going around, you need to understand, even though you can't see it, even though others may not be able to see it, all the spiritual sees it, okay? All the spiritual sees it. So you can't hide from that. Okay? You can't hide from that. The spiritual is always seeing. What I mean by spiritual. Angels, fallen angels, demons, Holy Spirit, God. Those things are clearly visible on you. All right? So we've got these, these. These guys, and they're in heaven, which means what would be the case for their ministry on earth? It's over. So we've gotten to the last set of judgments, which are the bowl judgments, which we're going to get into really soon. Okay? We've already gotten to the last judgments. And once we get to the last judgments, what is happening? Okay, well, there's no more preachers on the earth preaching the gospel. Okay? There's no more two witnesses at the gate. They've been dead and raised again. Okay? And they're gone. They're out. All right? So there's nothing on the earth to relate the gospel of Jesus Christ now. There is something that's going to happen. We're going to see it in a little bit. 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.