The Revelation 14:13-15 Review | Episode # 1107

January 13, 2026

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

The Revelation 14:13-15

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 I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, write, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, they said, the Spirit, they may rest from their labors and do and. And their work follow them. I. If you believe, which some people do, if you believe that the rapture happens halfway through mid trib, you believe that the rapture happens. This is the passage you point to. From now on, blessed are the deaths of the saints. This requires perseverance of the saints. If you believe that there is no rapture, then you believe that the saints undergo the wrath of God. Okay? There's only three times God's people can be taken. They can be taken at the first when he tells John in chapter four, start of chapter four, come up and there's a picture of literally the church in heaven. Okay? There's chapter 14 where it says, this requires perseverance of the saints. Blessed are those who die from now on. All that, okay? Or you believe that we're taken up at the very, very end and we undergo the wrath of God. Now I'm going to tell you, you can believe any of them. It's not like it's a hill to die on. It's not a theological problem. You'll have people make an argument that it's a theological problem. And I've listened to their argument. You know, it's making a mountain out of molehill. Okay? It's not that big a deal. All right? But I don't believe we go undergo the wrath of God. I don't believe that's possible. I don't believe that the church undergoes the wrath of God. If we undergo the wrath of God, then for what reason? It's not to purify the church, because Jesus has already purified the church. Okay, so to what end do we undergo the wrath of God? And then you've got the ones that are that Quite literally, the kids are sitting up. Do you know what I'm talking about? It's like an extension to the boat. You know, you got, you added to the boat for passengers so you. They can ride over, over, over, over, over again. All right, now you go. But you're the pastor. Listen to me, that's cop out. Are you following me? That is a cop out. It is a complete. You, you are removing yourself from the responsibility of living up to being the kingdom of God. The people that are going on in this, that this is mentioning, he says they're blessed. You know why? Because all they can do is be on the float back there with 12 people and only six places to hold on. And they're just barely holding on because the wrath of God is being poured out against all flesh. Notice the wrath of God is being poured out against what? Against all flesh. What's being poured out on flesh now? The spirit of God's being poured out on all flesh. Now. Christians have to. Believers have to learn to have expectation of God doing more than they can imagine in order for you to really be functioning in what God has given you. And I'm going to tell you, I could go through this. And we just talk about it from just theologically, all these poor folks, they're having to undergo all this. But you know, when I look at that and I say all these poor gut folks that when they under. They, they're having to undergo this, I look around and I say to myself. And they do. But I talk to Christians all the time. And I'm not talking about just in our church. I'm talking about out in the, out in the community. And there is such a lack of faith in anything. They literally think they're in there on the tube back there, hanging on to one of the handles. They literally think I'm just barely making it. And that's not what's happening today. It's not what's happening today. What's happening today is you are awash in the grace of God. You are literally have all the goodness of God all over you all the time. There is nobody in this room, nobody in this room who knows what it's to go through, what they're going through. None. Even at your worst time. Even some of the worst people that I deal with as a judge who are in the most terrible of situations are not anywhere near what these folks are going to be going through. And all the people in front of me can have the grace of God, can be changed by it, can have good things that Come from it. Just boom, just like that. All of them can. Every one of them. It's not one that can't. All of them. These folks bad. Notice. It sounds good when we first read it. And then you realize, oh, this ain't good. Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud. And on the cloud looked like. And on the cloud sat one. There's in italics. Y' all can see that because it's actually not the word one. Like the son of man. All right, so who's sitting on the cloud? Jesus is. Listen to this. Having known his head, a golden crown, which means he's what? He's in full authority. It's a picture of royalty. He's got full authority over everything. He's already taken the deed. He's totally in control. All right? And in his hand, a sharp sickle. Now, no, up until this point, a sickle, actually, biblically speaking, is a good thing. Now, we all think of the Grim Reaper because, you know, we do Halloween and stuff like that, right? And so the sickle is a symbol of, you know, murder and, you know, Halloween and all that kind of stuff. But historically, biblically speaking, the sickle is a picture of harvesting the goodness of God, right? So when we see the harvesting of the goodness of God, when you see the sickle in Jesus hand, he's got his royal crown on, you're sitting there thinking, he's fixing to. He's fixing to be Jesus, right? He's fixing to be sweet Jesus. We love Jesus. And even me saying that, even me, even if I went so far as to quote the great classic movie Talladega Nights, where he loves the sweet little baby Jesus, you know what I'm saying? The very fact that you can say that, the very fact that somebody even would ever even say that and it'd be so hilarious in a movie, is evidence of the goodness of God. Am I right? It's the evidence that God is good and he's wonderful and we all know Jesus. He's our Lord. He's our friend. He. He. He's the one that sticks closer than a brother. We know him like that, right? Let's see what the sickle's for. And another angel came out of the temple. Now, notice, this is the temple. This is the very presence of God. These angels are speaking. When they come out and speak, they're speaking from the very throne room of heaven. Notice the angels are the ones that are doing the business. What does that take us back to? That takes us back to Old Testament. And even before that, when There were no humans on the earth. You mean there were no humans on the Earth. Well, sure there weren't. For at least six days there weren't. And then you got to ask the question, what's the day? Right. Because in the first chapter of John Genesis, day is used five different ways, so we can't even correctly identify what day means. Am I right? But we know at least for six 24 hour periods there weren't human beings on the earth. And if a day is more than that, which quite clearly it is, at least once, if not twice, in Genesis 1 through 3, then it could be a long age, right? He cried out in Lord loud voice with him who sat on the cloud, thrust your sickle and reap, for the time has come for you to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe. Now, like I said, this passage right here points to the possibility of a mid trib rapture or amillennialism is what it's called. Okay, 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.