The Revelation 14:4-5 Review | Episode # 1101

January 5, 2026

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

The Revelation 14:4-5

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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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 here, these are the ones who were not defiled with women. Now you go, what are you talking about with that? Well, it either mean, you know, and it says, for they are virgins. All right? And you go, well, that explains it. Not totally. And not totally. Not sure what it means. Okay, I'm just being honest with you. They were either actually not virgins. I mean, virgins in the general sense of the term. Okay. Or. Or they had not. Because remember, in Scripture, women can represent different things. And one of the things women represent, especially women who are unchaste. Okay, I'm using that terminology because we do have a child in the room. I. Unchaste, represent worshiping false gods. Okay. So you really could translate that to mean that they had never worshiped false gods. Okay. Or you could take it to mean that they literally were. That. I want to hear. I want you to hear me. This is where the Catholic Church gets priests not having families. Yeah, it is. It's really where it gets it from. That's where they get it from. There really is where they get. Get the priest from. Okay. All right. If you. If you ever wondered where it comes from, here it is. All right. All right. And so you go, well, that don't make sense. Well, I didn't say it made sense. I just told you that's where it came from. Okay, all right, And. And if that's the case, then that's the case. Okay? But I don't think that that has anything to do with being a priest today. And any. Any. Anyway, we won't get into it too deep, but I'm just letting you know that when you ask, why is that the case? Catholic Church has struggled with that several times in its history. Okay. And there have been a few times where they were coming to the conclusion that that was not good for their priest to not have families and to not do that. Okay. And there have been a couple of times where in fact, there were a couple of popes who actually issued a couple of decrees that priests could have families, and then that was retracted. All right, Why? I don't know. Anyway, sometimes we get into traditions for tradition sake. Are you following me? That are not necessarily godly reasons for doing it. Okay? So these are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. Okay? Which means they were consistent, regular followers of Jesus Christ. All right? They were real disciples of Jesus Christ. They were redeemed from among men. Okay? So it's telling you they're not something special. They're human beings, right? They're redeemed from among men being first fruits to God and to the Lamb. Now, he says first fruits. Now how are they first fruits? Well, they're first fruits in this regard. In this regard only. And you do need to understand that, because first fruits to God are very, very. You with me? They're very, very important. We or the. The apostles were the first fruits of God under the new covenant that is Jesus Christ. All right? What he's telling you is that these guys. These guys are operating under a. And I'm going to use a word that is used. And some people really don't like it theologically, but they're under a different dispensation from God. Okay, and what is a different dispensation? Well, Old Testament saints under a different dispensation than a New Testament saint. Are you following me? The way they come to God, the way they're made new, all that kind of stuff is different. You with me? When the church is removed, and remember, I've told you that some people believe it's not ever removed. Some people believe it's removed at the beginning of the seven years. Some people believe it's removed in the middle of the seven years. I'm not arguing that. When and if the church is removed and these 144,000 prophets, priests, whatever you want to call them, go out and start preaching the good news, there is a different dispensation taking place. And when the church is removed and the Holy Spirit's not functioning as he's functioning during the church age, then how things work out as far as redemption is different. It's the same redemption, Old Testament redemption, New Testament redemption, Tribulation, redemption, finished work of Jesus Christ. Old Testament redemptions based off the finished work of Jesus Christ yet to be done. New Testament redemption is based off finished work of Jesus Christ which has been done. Tribulation, redemption would be based off the Finished work of Jesus Christ after the church age, where we go back to the Old Testament way of dealing with it. Except they know Jesus. You go, I don't. What are you talking about? Well, I'm telling you that there are some fundamentals that are exactly the same, but how that works itself out on the earth does change. What's necessary by. For Old Testament saint. What is the evidence of an Old Testament saint Faith. What's the evidence of a New Testament saint faith. What's the evidence of a tribulation saint faith? All of them. All of them. But how that works in the earth is different. It's definitely different. And their relationship. Can. Can a tribulation saint be the bride? No. Why can't she? Why can't a New Testament? Why can't. Why can't a tribulation saint be the bride? Well, they've already had the wedding feast of the land. Can you be the bride and not be at the wedding? Have you ever seen a bride not at the wedding? Did they have the wedding if the bride wasn't there? No. I've seen movies about them running away. Right. They could have gotten sick. But if they're not there, there's no wedding. If you have the wedding feast of the lamb, then anybody who is redeemed after that would be by definition not. What? Not the bride? Which means they're not the church. Does that mean they're not the people of God? No, because we got Old Testament saints that are not the church either. Now do you understand why they call them dispensations? Now? I try to, you know, when I'm explaining something, I always want to explain it. I always want to. First of all, I want to. I want to chew on it. Are you following me? And I don't chew it down enough to where anybody can eat it. You go, that's disgusting. I know. I know. That is disgusting, but it's true. It's true. If I'm going to explain something to you. Are you following me? Is it any good for me to explain to you, having not broken it down to the point where it makes sense to you, Are you following me? All right. If I explain to you currency, and that's a lubricant for the economic. For the economic system we call capitalism, and it's actually the lubricant for all economic systems, and I went through all that ways, that is, and I used all the big economic words I learned at Princeton to explain to you, what would you do? You go, am I right? So if I'm Going to explain that to you. I need to break it down in such a way that it makes sense to you, right? That, that, that I'm using words that you can relate to. Okay, well, if I say dispensation, there's the Old Testament dispensation. When living in New Testament dispensation. And we got the, we got the, the, the tribulation dispensation. And then after that, there's a dispensation of some kind of dispensation of this. And you're sitting there going with dispensation. Is he talking about constipation? What is he talking about? You know, you, you don't. That's not how it works. All right, but if I say to you there, there's some things that are necessary for all of them, but they do work out differently in different times then. And I said, that's a different dispensation. You would know what I'm talking about. And that's what I'm talking about here. I want you to understand that. Same God, same Father, Son, Holy Spirit, same redemption, same faith, same baptism, different ways it works out to the glory of God. Okay. Different seasons, different times. All right? These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruit to God and to the Lamb. What he's saying is, are they the first fruit to God? No. Are they first fruit to God in this time? Yes. Okay. They were the first ones called and sealed after the church was removed. Now, that's why I believe in some kind of rapture, either pre or ah in the middle, because it said these. You get these clues. It's a little signal. How can they be the first fruits if the church is still there? They're not the first fruits. Can they be the first fruits in another way? Yeah, they can. They're the first fruits. They're the ones that were sealed by the Holy Spirit right after the church was removed and the church age ended you with me. That's how you got to think about it. If he says something that doesn't seem to make sense, step back and go, okay, how does this make sense and fit with everything else? And that's how you generally can find understanding. What's the simplest way to make this fit and work with the rest of Scripture? Must be that there's a new, different work going on that would cause them to be able to be the first fruit. And in their mouth was found no deceit, for they were without fault before the throne of God. Wow. Okay. And I'm just saying to you. Wow. And I say that wow because this is a pretty. It says there was no deceit in their mouth and there was no fault found with them. Now you can explain that and that everything that they did wrong was redeemed, but they never said anything deceitful at all. Huh? Yeah, but those words are not time sensitive in that way, which would also tell me that they were a different dispensation. Okay. God's making a very high statement about them when he says there's no deceit found in them. I mean, that's not a that. And. And that they were without fault before the throne of God. Meaning they said things. They related God's word perfectly. No deceit and no fault. Now you go, Pastor. What does that mean? Not sure. Love to find out. Looking forward to it. Okay. No deceit and no fault. I like it, though. Okay. That means they're going to be better preachers than the ones I'm around in the future. Okay. Make me feel good about it. We're going uphill, not downhill. Am I 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.