The Revelation 17:15-17 | Episode # 1146

March 9, 2026

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

The Revelation 17:15-17

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.

If you would like to revisit today’s Bible study, please visit our website at https://hopealive.buzzsprout.com/ to download the transcript. 

If this podcast ministered to you, please subscribe, and leave us a review on Apple podcasts. Reviews help us reach more people and spread the wisdom of God. 

Please follow us:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hopealivewithgod/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/hopealiveministry/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LakeComChurch/ -Lake Community Church

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.

All right then. Now notice it says this. These will make. He says verse 50:15. Then he said to me, the waters which you saw where the harlot sits. Remember, the harlot is the woman that's on the beast. She is the false religion. The waters where the harlot sits are peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues. So what is he telling us? That this one world religion, that the Antichrist or the beast out of the sea led by Satan the dragon, is going to unify the world religions in this one world religion. Okay. And that one world religion is not going to be ethnic. It's not going to be nation dependent. It's going to be people from what? Every tribe, tongue and language. Why is that? Because those who are part of evangelical Christianity are what? From every tribe, tongue and language. What is Satan trying to do? He's trying to copy or replicate God's plan. So he's going to have people from every tongue, tribe and nation. All right? I want you to notice that nowhere in the Bible does it say race. Just throwing that out there. I always try to throw it out there. It's a nice curve ball for people. Because where did the idea of race come from? Well, it came from man, but it came from an ideology. Does anybody know? Huh? Marxism. Marxism is the idea of race. Okay, and, and, and what is the idea that the Bible has of people from different backgrounds? Well, they're nations, tribes and tongues, meaning different languages. Okay, so, so there may be a lot of people in here that we would call Caucasians. Right? How many are y'?

All?

How many of y' all are Ukrainian? Anybody here come from the caucus mountains? Anybody done 23andMe? Well, then you're not Caucasians. Okay? Most of you are a mixture between some, some tribe from the British Isles, maybe some tribes that I'm from that came from the Nordic areas and pillaged and worshiped A pagan God up there. All right? Or you might be a German from a German tribe, a Germanic tribe. Or you might be from an Italian tribe if you're Caucasian, but you're not really Caucasian, are you? Because you didn't come from the caucuses of Asia. Right? All right? And the same is true of all the different. When we use the word race, they're not races. If you're African American or if you're from African descent, you came from some tribes in Africa. If you're Asian, you came from some Asiatic tribes, okay? And some of them became nations. So I wouldn't call the Japanese a tribe. I'd call them a what? A nation. I wouldn't call the Chinese a tribe. They're a nation. But then you've got, you know, these other Chinese on this little island that don't want to be with the other Chinese, and they're Taiwanese and the Taiwanese are from the same tribe as the Chinese, but yet they're not from the same nation. Makes sense. See, all of a sudden when you really start doing it, you get this big old mixing pot and you realize you, you know, maybe me saying that I'm, I'm from, from this race is not actually accurate, okay? Because 23andMe says I'm 0.6% sub Saharan African. Did y' all know that? So somebody in my background is from sub Saharan African. That means they're beneath the Sahara. And that's, that's the black folks. Okay, all right. That, I mean, I'm just giving you those ideas. Notice he's Bible does not talk race, okay? If it talks anything in that regard, it's either Jew or gentile, which means Jew or not Jew, okay? Now some of us in here are all not Jew, okay? Some of us in here are all or some Jew. And I know of at least two who are partially or some Jewish. One of them I'm married to, okay? Her great.

Great grandfather, my mother stylist.

Was fully full blooded Jewish Ashkenazi Jew. Right? And your dad came. So you're. So you're more than 18 Jew. Glad you wasn't born in **** Germany. All right? So because they would had you all Jew, right? It's the way it works. So I want you to think about that. I want you to think about that because it's. Because it does change the way you look at things. Heavily changes the way you look at things. Because we in America are a whole big old mixing pot of a bunch of tribes. I mean, we're a huge mixing pot of a whole bunch of tribes. And you came from tribes all over the place. I bet you unless you are. Unless you're pure blooded Jewish, other than that very likelihood is that you're not any of it. He said you're not anyone. And the ten horns which you saw, and here's the key. And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot. Now, there's a weird alliance that exists in the world and in our American modern political culture, okay? And that alliance is an alliance between the Muslims and the Marxists, okay? And you go, well, why would the Muslims and the Marxists have anything in common? Makes sense, right? Well, they have one major thing in common. They both believe in totalitarianism. They're both totalitarian in nature. All right? Every Muslim country in the world, even the ones that claim to be somewhat democratic, Turkey, are led by strongmen. Every one of them. Every one of them. Not. Not a single one. That's not even our allies. Jordans led by King, am I right? And a pretty totalitarian king at that. Iraq, before Bush decided he wanted to take it. I say that in that way for a reason. Was led by a strongman, right? Saddam Hussein is. Is. Is. I'm going through the major pers. Major Muslim countries of the world is Persia, led by a strong man, Iran. Afghanistan slid by the Taliban. Okay, what about Pakistan? Yeah, it's led by a totalitarian leader. Now they supposedly are somewhat democratic, but then everybody votes for the same guy or they die. So you know, it's very Russian democratic, right? It's very totalitarian, communist, socialist democratic. And I say that because. Understanding that, that that's why there's an alliance. But I want you to hear me. Our modern version of what we would call social. Well, Marxism, they believe in things that are totally antithetical to Islam. Like, you know, these people who march around and say they're Marxist and then they're also pro Palestinian or pro Islam and that, you know, Islam is. Is okay with their lifestyles. Well, I can promise you, if we piled us all up and put us under one of those dictators, the first ones that get killed are the modern day Marxists. You know why? Because the Muslims hate the Marxists. They just have to be allied with them to get. Get what they want. You need to hear that, all right? And that's why I think that these nations are Muslim nations, because what do they do? They hate this one world religion because to them it's pagan, to them it's heresy. They hate. Says that the 10 horns hate the harlot. Why would they hate the harlot? They're all in a. In it together. But they're not in it together. They're not in it together. Okay. When the Russians left Afghanistan, what did the Afghanis do to all the people who were aligned with the Russians? They killed them all. It's happened over and over and over again. They seem to be aligned, but they're not, says they. They hate the harlot. They make her desolate and naked, which means they expose her for what she is, a fraud. Okay. They eat her flesh and burn her with fire. So what's going on? You have these 10 kings that come into being, and then all of a sudden they turn on this religion and they start killing. Who? The people who worship that religion. So the Muslims start killing the who? The Marxist. Now, could you see that happening? Absolutely, I can. That's why I think that's what it is for. God has put it into their hearts to fulfill his purpose to be of one mind, to give their kingdom to the beast. What is he saying? They have a what? A purge. So that everybody is of one mind. Now, I want you. I want to ask you something. What does that make you think of Marxism? Right. Everybody's got to think the same. What are the tenets of capitalism or representative democracy? What are the tenets of it? Well, you have freedom to say what you think, and then this person has freedom to say what they think. You have the freedom to worship who you want to worship. Right. And they have freedom to worship who they want to worship. What amendment's that? That's the first one, right? Right. All right. Yeah. You have a right to free association. You have a right to speech. You have a right to religion, to worship who you see fit to worship. And everybody else is supposed to what? They're supposed to respect your rights. All right, let me ask you something. Do Marxists respect your rights to religion or to speech? In fact, they tell you that certain things you can't. What say, am I right? They do. So understanding that, that. And whenever Marxists take over or whenever Muslims take over, there's always a what, A purification and a cleansing? Yeah, there's thought police. Always is. Always. Can you name place that hadn't been anybody? Can you name a Muslim or Marxist nation that did not go down the road of thought police and controlling speech and religion? You go, well, what about Europe? I thought they were socialist. Did the Germans allow you to worship who you want to? No. Do, do, do. Do the British believe In free speech? No. No, they do not. Neither does Germany. They'll cut your speech off. Will the Italians cut your speech off? Sure they will. Because they're socialist, which means they're Marxist. You need to hear that. You understand that there's heavy, heavy crackdown on free speech going on in England right now. Heavy control of speech. Free speech. And by the way, all those nations don't believe in the Second Amendment, which was made to protect the First Amendment. You don't have a right to protect yourself or a right to defend yourself in those countries. I thought. I thought they were our allies. I came from them countries. Well, ain't you glad you're here, right? Only if we protect them. For God to put their hearts to fulfill his purpose, to be one mind. Notice who's guiding this. God's guiding this. This is not. This is not. Something's out of control. God's lost control of it. This is all part of his plan. You gotta understand this. If it's good part of his plan, bad part of his plan. Everything's part of his plan. He's everywhere, all the time. It's all in his plan. What you've got to do is you've got to change your thinking from your own perspective and gain his perspective. Make sense. Which sometimes is painful and sometimes you don't understand why his plan is the way it is. 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.