The Revelation 17:11 | Episode # 1143

March 4. 2026

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

The Revelation 17:11

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.

The beast that was and is not is himself. Also the eighth.

Okay,

so he's telling you the beast that. Now listen, he's given us ties off. He keeps saying this about this beast. Remember, this is the beast out of the sea.

He was,

he is not.

And now he's back and he comes from the pit or he comes from perdition.

All right,

now,

of all the things in this chapter, I think could very well be,

I think this is Judas,

because Judas and this beast are the only ones in the Bible that are called the son of perdition.

And it says that this beast comes from perdition.

And then now it says this beast was,

is not,

and then will be.

So now I want you to think about that.

He's going to perdition. That's right.

So that gives me some thoughts, but it doesn't really change how I live my life. You know what I'm saying?

It says the beast was and is not in. In. In himself also is the eighth and is of the seven and is going to perdition.

So he says that he is.

He is,

was, is not. And now is that he's from the seven.

Well, we know that the seven,

at least the ones we know of now, are all tied to that pagan religion. So he's going to be tied to that pagan religion. What's the last vestige of.

Of world dominance that is that pagan religion?

What is it?

It's Islam.

It's Islam today.

Saying, pastor, you gonna mess this up on Facebook.

I know it is.

And by the way,

would it make sense for.

A whole portion of the world to chase after a Muslim leader or someone who had Muslim ties?

Would. Would whole parts of the world follow him?

Yeah,

first of all,

all the Muslims would.

That's a quarter of the world's population.

Second of all,

there's another group of people.

There's another ideology that ties itself to Islam. Even Though I don't understand why. Do y' all know what that is?

Huh?

Marxism.

Marxism ties itself to Islam.

Marxists tie themselves to Islam.

The Marxist in this country tie themselves to Islam.

The communist, the socialist. I want you to hear me because they call us this, but they don't know what that means. The fascist,

okay?

Fascism is an economic system in which that's born of a godless Marxist ideology,

just like communism and fa. And socialism is.

Communism is the public ownership of the means of production.

Complete socialism is the public ownership of the major means of production.

Fascism is private ownership of the means of production which is controlled by the public or by the government. When I use say public, I mean government.

Okay,

you go, well, where did they come from? Where did those ideas come from?

They came from Karl Marx.

And when they were disseminated,

they,

they.

After his death,

the different followers of Karl Marx fell into three camps,

okay?

There were three camps of Marxists.

There were the pure communists.

And at the start of that,

the. The purest form of communism was where?

In Russia,

okay?

Remember, Marxism teaches that the world's workers unite to control everything,

but it always leads to totalitarianism.

It always leads to a.

A dictator running everything.

Russian. The Russian Revolution happened and you had a home for communism.

The teachings of Karl Marx were taught through the universities of Europe in,

in the 18.

Late 18 and 1900s,

okay?

The Europeans,

generally speaking, were socialist.

The Marxists who were Europeans were socialist,

okay? They meant what they wanted was for the government to control most of the means of production.

Europe is socialist today,

all right?

And then there was this aberration of Marxism which was an effort to create Marxism using capitalism because Marxism never works.

It never works.

The great theory is we. The great theory was we've got to find the right place to start it so that it'll work.

Now. It's just got. We got to do it just because we got to.

But fascism said, listen, the way we produce a lot of product is we put the people in charge of it. So we're going to let the people own the means of production.

We're just going to control them using totalitarianism,

all right?

Control of all burdening of Christ. Satan right now is in control of all the governments.

Satan is the. Is the prince of the. He's the prince of the power of the air.

That's right. That's right. All right,

I know I'm teaching you some stuff that's not.

Okay,

so you've got. If you're going to rule as a Muslim leader and if you're going to be head of the Muslim, the world Muslim order. You've got to come from Muhammad.

Okay?

The Shiites don't believe that.

The Shiite believes that the strongest person rules.

I want you to notice. What do they believe in?

They believe in war and they believe in totalitarianism.

Every Muslim nation is a totalitarian nation.

Every one of them.

What does Marxism result in?

Totalitarianism.

Was. Is Russia totalitarian?

Yeah. Is China totalitarian?

Absolutely it is. Was Germany totalitarian?

Was, was,

was Japan totalitarian?

Absolutely. Was it, Was Italy totalitarian?

Absolutely.

No, ma'.

Am.

No ma'. Am.

We have. We,

we are the, the, the world home of freedom and capitalism.

And capitalism is based off of freedom,

okay?

It's the. Based off of you having a right to the product of your labor,

okay?

That's a biblical idea. You have a right to benefit from the product of your efforts,

okay?

That's the way it works.

Capitalism says the more you produce, the more you have a right to enjoy the benefits of it.

Okay?

Now it's a whole lot deeper than that. And I could spend weekend after weekend explaining to you capitalism and the great writers of capitalism and great writers of all those things.

But the world we live in is a world that's basically run mostly by totalitarians,

including Europe.

What are, what, what do the European nations do when things aren't going right?

They seize people's assets.

They do it now.

It's been done in Greece.

It's been done in Italy.

There are plans to do it in Britain even right now.

What do they do when things go bad? They seize your bank accounts.

Just letting you know it's the way things work.

There is. Now listen, there is a sovereign.

There's nothing wrong with totalitarianism if one person's in charge and that's God,

okay? Because he's a benevolent God. He's a loving God. He's a self sacrificial God. Everybody else, no.

So we don't believe in that.

We don't live that out. That's not been our heritage, not been our history. We've been delivered from that.

That's why we are who we are.

Right?

We are one nation under God.

And by the way, I want you to listen to me. They'll tell you we weren't founded as Christian nation. That is a lie.

56 of the 57 signers of the Declaration of the Declaration of Independence were churchgoing believers.

Okay? You'll hear all kinds of all kinds of slurs. Thomas Jefferson,

he didn't believe in the Bible. He made his own Bible. No, he didn't. You know what he did?

He said, I want to send a,

a book to the Indians.

He was a member of the American Bible Society.

So what did he do?

He took passages from the Bible. He said, this is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to just take the teachings of Jesus and I'm not even going to take the teaching. I'm just going to take the stories of his miracles. I'm going to cut them out and put them in a book and send it as a pamphlet to the Indians.

And people say, well, he cut out parts of the Bible. No he didn't.

He made godposts with it.

Isn't that what we do now?

We take passages from the Bible, we cut them up, we put them in pamphlets, we comment on them and we send it out to people.

We call them Bible studies.

I want you to hear me, you say, well, how did we get slavery?

Well, the way we got slavery was from the British.

By the way, can anybody tell me what religion is involved in the most slavery today?

Islam.

There's many Muslim slaves today, as there were when slavery was abolished in the United States.

If they defeat you, they take you into slavery.

The word slavery comes from,

from enslaving the Slavs.

Who enslaved the Slavs?

The Ottoman Empire.

Thomas Jefferson understood scripture.

He understood freedom.

He understood the Enlightenment.

And when they made the Constitution of the United States,

when he wrote the Declaration of Independence,

he wrote,

we hold these truths to be self evident,

meaning they're obvious that all men are created equal.

Created equal by who?

There's a Creator and they are created equal.

Not equity, but equality.

Not equal.

Not sameness of outcome,

but equality of value.

Okay,

Equity means everybody turns out the best.

It is Marxism.

What happens when you have equity? Does anybody do great?

No, everybody turns out the same.

Terrible.

All right.

He said, we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator, who with certain inalienable rights.

That means they were given by God among them life,

liberty.

It wasn't pursuit of happiness.

It wasn't pursuit of happiness.

All right,

it was, it was property.

But there was a problem.

They, they, they had to change that because if you're going to endow all human beings with the right to freedom,

you can't have slaves.

Humans can't be property if they're endowed with liberty.

And I want you to hear me. Thomas Jefferson wrote property.

Now I want you to hear me. You'll hear Marxists tell you I don't even know why I went down this aisle.

I guess I'm just going to give you my.

My economics and history background,

all right?

Marxists don't believe in that.

They don't believe that you have a right to benefit from your labor or your will.

Your will has to be submitted to the. To the authority of the government.

Your will has to serve the will of the government.

Okay?

So the product of your labor can't be yours, it has to be the government's, because you don't have a will.

But we all know, we all have a soul.

And our soul is the embodiment of our personhood and our will.

And that will was endowed by our Creator with liberty and with life. God gave us life.

Jesus said in him was life and that life was light to men.

I want you to hear me. Jesus believed in property.

How do I know that?

Well, there was a man who was going into the far country.

To one he, one of his servants, he gave five talents.

To another, he gave two talents.

To another, he gave one talent.

Put it to work.

I'm giving you my property.

In fact,

you can go through the parables in scripture and you will find in those parables the right to property.

You have a right to the produce of your will.

Okay.

Why is that? Because God wants to teach you to submit.

Not force you to submit,

but teach you to submit to his will,

your will.

So that you can have the greatness of his increase.

The enemy wants you to submit to his will.

As you go today.

I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you you. That he'll make his face to shine upon you and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.