The Revelation 16:17 | Episode # 1131

February 16, 2026

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

The Revelation 16:17

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.

Leave it to mean.

And they can't. They have. They're just making guesses. Okay. Because there's some of it that it said that it's talking about that we're not sure about,

But I will say this about it.

It alludes to things that I think are very, very important, especially as we go into chapter 17,

but they're very, very poor. Important,

important ideas and understandings that,

that we should have.

And, and I want you to hear me. I believe in, I believe in science. Y' all know I love physics, I love chemistry, but I love those things that, that we have actual proof and evidence.

I, I am,

you know, changing the whole world or especially changing the way we do things based off of what I call pseudoscience. Okay. And what I mean by that is.

Well, in a lot of ways, social sciences. Okay,

Social sciences. In some ways,

I have some real issues with that because we've made decisions on a societal basis because of that, and many of those decisions have been influenced by worldviews that are not,

not, not biblical, not true, and in fact, many ways godless. Okay?

If you, if you're taught social science from a university where, where those who are in charge of the university are,

are lean towards what I would call socialist or communist, then we know that communism's got to. An understanding of truth. Now can you?

Can you? And, and by the way, you can't have science without God because the whole purpose of science, which is the philosophy of philosophy of the natural world, that's what science began as, the philosophy of the natural world.

And it was based off of Romans chapter one,

meaning that all that might be known about God is clearly seen in that which he created. And so the whole idea of science,

the modern idea of Western science that we have comes from the idea that God made everything and that we can come to know and understand what God did by studying what he did,

okay? Because Romans said all that might be known about God from His general revelation is clearly seen in what he created,

his divine attributes, his eternal glory. All those things are clearly seen in what God has created. Now when you come to anything scientifically or, or otherwise, when you come to a situation and you preclude or you remove a whole swath of possibilities and you only leave it open to what you believe is absolutely the truth,

and then you come to conclusions based off of that, even if it doesn't follow the science and you push those conclusions. And we've seen that go on over the last 30, 40, 50 years in our world, world and especially in our country,

when you preclude those things and then you base, you base everything you believe and do off of those things. That is a faith,

okay? That is a, that is a,

that is, that is a belief in a system that is beyond you, that you don't have good explanation for,

okay? That's called, that's called faith, okay? And, and if your faith is, is based on the non existence of something,

then that's real faith,

okay?

If your faith is based off of everything beginning without a mind in charge of it, without someone in charge of it, then that's real faith, okay?

That's way greater faith than what we have,

okay? Because we have revelation, we have things that we can clear to see. There's things that are understandable. And if I preclude all the other options based off of just what I believe, then your science is based off of your faith,

okay?

And so I'm saying that for a lot of reasons, because what's going to be talked about here are things that allude to what we would say are fundamental ideas of how the world was made and created and how civilization has existed on the earth.

And it might not be the way they say it is,

okay? And I'm going to give you that because God's judgment here is his judgment over Satan and His power and authority over the earth, okay? Because the Last Judgment is an air judgment.

It's a judgment that takes place in the atmosphere and ultimately works its way all the way through. It starts from the atmosphere and it works all the way through the earth, okay?

I'm going to show you that and I'm going to stop and I'm going to just throw some things out there to you, okay? Because there's some understanding, some ideas that he's going to deal with that will lead us into the next chapter, but it will also begin to get you to ask questions,

okay?

And begin to look at things and say,

are the things that I was told are definitely true?

Are they really true? Or does the Bible really know that? And is the Bible telling me something different?

It says the seventh angel poured out his bowl. Notice it says into the air,

okay? So this bowl, it's an air raid, okay?

The last angel doing an air assault on the earth, and a loud voice came from the temple of heaven,

from the throne, saying,

it is done.

Which if you. If you want to draw the corollary,

you, you, you, you have Jesus saying, it is finished. Now, those. The problem with that is it's not the same.

Okay? All right.

Jesus used the word telesta.

I can't text anyway.

Telestai. He uses the word telesti, which means it is completed,

okay? It has been fulfilled, all right? I've. I have finished. It is. It is done in that, you know,

the loaf is cooked,

okay? The steak is ready to eat.

What the work I've done has come to come about a completion,

okay? That's what he's saying there, all right? In this, it says, it is done, which means it's over,

okay? Which means once. Once. Once this judgment happens,

then God's judgment of the earth,

of his creation is over and all is left is his judgment of human beings. And you go, well, why are they different from. From what he made from. From the earth?

Well, they're different from the earth because God,

we are beings with consciousness, and we're beings that have a capability of knowing God and have relationship with God, okay? And so what's done is God's judgment of creation, his judgment of the not God or the sin that's in the world, okay?

So you have a loud voice from heaven saying, it's done.

Now,

we don't know whose voice that is. We have a tendency to think it's Jesus.

But you don't know whose voice it is.

It may be the voice of the Father, but remember, the voice of the Father sounds like the sound of many waters. So the voice of God himself is a voice that speaks.

And all languages understand it, know it, okay? No matter where you are, when he speaks,

all languages know what he is saying,

okay? It's not like speaking in tongues where, you know, you may be able to interpret it. I speak it.

That's not what it is, okay? When God. When God speaks, he is. The sound of his voice is like the sound of many waters, which tells you it's the sound of many languages.

Many people are speaking,

okay? He, you, everybody can hear it. This loud voice is not that.

So it would most likely to be an angel or Jesus himself.

All right, he says it's finished.

And then it says this.

And by the way,

the judgment of the air is important Also, because Ephesians 2, 2 tells us that the power of the earth,

the authorities over the earth, Satan's authority over the earth, the darkness's authority over the earth, is a power of the air,

okay? And so Ephesians 2, 2 tells us that God is God is God has he, that he has overcome the power of the air. And so this is a correlation to that.

It's a direct correlation to that. He says,

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.