The Revelation 20:9-10 | Episode # 1175

April 17, 2026

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

The Revelation 20:9-10

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.

It says they went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints of the beloved city. So they literally come and attack Jerusalem. Now, I want you to listen to me. It's not going to be like you see on YouTube, where they air an army around this city with these big walls on it. Okay? And you go, what are you talking about? Well, you just going to have to wait because it's going to describe. Just describe Jerusalem. Okay. And why they would surround Jerusalem. When you read about what Jerusalem is, I have no idea. Okay. But it's pretty fantastic. Okay. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. That's not a great movie. Okay, I'm just letting you know it's not a great movie. They all get together. Satan goes out and deceives them. They all come to Jerusalem to attack Jerusalem. And fire comes from heaven, burns them up. Yeah. The end for them sober. You got nothing more to say about that, Pastor? No, that's pretty much what happens. At least it says it here, and I believe it. The devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. So he takes him from the bottomless pit and he throws them into the lake of fire, and it says, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Now, that is. That's not eternally. That's everlasting. Okay, Remember, what does eternal mean? Very good has no beginning or no end. There we go. Amanda, that's what eternal means. It has no. It is a word. And a lot of times in your Bibles, they will translate it Everlasting. I want you to listen to me. They'll translate it everlasting. You go, well, why do them. Sorry. Translators translated that way? Because. Well, they don't like physics. They don't. And they don't realize when it Says has no beginning or no end. That that is actually a physical. It's a physical principle, okay? Eternal. The scientists believed before Einstein's theory of relativity and the results of it on into the 40s and 50s, they believed that the universe was eternal, which mean it had no beginning and no end. But then once you extrapolate out both, both general relativity and special relativity, you realize that the universe has a beginning. Okay? All right? And knowing that the universe has a beginning, that means it's not eternal. And if it's not eternal, I want you to hear this. This is the, this is the number one best evidence in science for the existence of God, okay? If the universe began, nothing begins without an initiator. So who began the universe? Because we know it began. All right? If you want physical evidence that God exists, that is it. And there is no answer for it. And I've heard people try to give an answer for it. There is no answer for it. Yes, Big Bang, because God initiated it. Is that. Well, you can definitely call it the Big Bang. Yeah. And how that all came about and how long ago it is, is. Is point of debate. It is. And you go, what do you mean? Well, I do believe in a 6,000 year old civilization, how God has made us. Okay? But there is a gap between verse one and verse three of Genesis. And it's a clear gap, okay? It says in beginning God created the heavens and the earth. All right, when did that happen? At the beginning. And then it says the earth became formless and void. When did that happen? It doesn't tell us. Isaiah tells us that God did not create the heavens and the earth formless and void. It's wohu ta bohu. Okay? That's what, that's what it means, okay? I mean, that's the Hebrew for it. So chapter two says the earth became formless and void. All right? Then, then Isaiah says God did not create the earth formless and void. So there has to be something that made it formless and void or empty or, or it's really, if you want to think of physics terms, it's really full entropy, okay? Meaning complete chaos. Entropy is. Everything is a physical. It's a physics principle that everything tends toward chaos. It's the second physical principle of thermodynamics. Okay? Everything tends toward chaos. All right? So the earth became chaotic. Are you following me? Formless and void. God didn't make it that way. So something happened between verse one and then God stepping in and saying, let there be light. All the things that God. The f. God The Father says so. He says, do this, do this, let there be. Let there be this and let there be this and let there be that. And then when that account of creation ends, then you have the account of God making it happen, which is a different God. Because I want you to listen to me. It's a different person because the one who is saying is Adonai. Okay? The one who is forming, he formed this and he formed that, and he formed this is Jehovah. So are we Jehovah's Witnesses? No. Okay. No. No. All right. Jehovah's a name for God. It is the name for Lord. All right, so the second creation account in Genesis is the Lord God forming all the things that Adonai said should be. Adonai is the Father. Okay, so you have two create. How many? Ever heard that you had two creation accounts? Not many. Two creation accounts in Genesis, you can read them. And when you're reading them, you're sitting there going, didn't he already say this? But what you're not reading is the first time it was said, Adonai said, let there be. The second time, Jehovah forms whatever Adonai said. Okay, So who is it? The Father and the Son. How do I know that? John says, in the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He, meaning it's a person, was with God in the beginning. The next verse, all things were made by Him. Who? He that was with God in the beginning, who is the Word made flesh. Next verse. And everything that was made by Him. All things were made by Him. And nothing that was made was not made by Him. Meaning there's nothing that wasn't formed by Him. Now I'm just going to give you a little insight because I'm sure I'm over. What time is it? It's 8:30. That's what Terry would say. All right, I don't need y' all to resurrect him just for that, okay? If you're gonna resurrect him, we need something else other than just saying it's 8:30. All right, what time is it? Okay, listen to me, listen to me. There were creatures who were placed over creation. Okay? What were they? The angelic host. Okay, all right. The Bible says that there was war in heaven and that Lucifer, the great dragon, Satan, the deceiver of the saints, was thrown out of heaven, okay? And. And he dragged with with his tail a third of the angels. All right, now, once you hear me, because this is very important. He created And I'm using the word entry because it's. God created everything with energy, by the way, everything is energy. Okay, with his power, which is third person of the Godhead, what did Jesus use to form everything? The power of the Holy Spirit. He is what I always say to you about the Holy Spirit. He is the power and the eternality of God. Who is. What's Jesus? He's the physical manifestation of God. What's the Father? He's the character and will of God. Three in one. Does that make sense? Okay, so the angels were over the earth, there was war, and creation came to the fullness of entropy, of chaos. Okay? God fixed the chaos and proved that he had power to fix it. And even more, because there was one aspect of his nature, one aspect of his nature that was not understandable in the original creation. And that aspect of his nature was his power to take something that's dead and make it alive. His grace and mercy was not understood in his creation. So what did he do? He didn't create spirit beings to be over the earth again like they were before. What did he do? He created beings, literally from the substance of what he made. He created us from the dirt, dust of the ground. All right? He formed. This is in the creation account. All right? When I started out, he formed. Who's doing it? Jesus. He formed man out of the dust of the ground body. He breathed into him the breath of life. That word's used twice, and it's translated both ways in the word. The word ruha means to breathe, and it means spirit. All right, Now I want you to listen to me. Anytime you have two Hebrew words that are the same word in the same sentence, and they have two different definitions. You've got to figure out which definitions being used in each one, but it's not the same. So your translation sometimes will read, he breathed into him the breath of life, or he ruhaed in him the ruha of life. But it's better translated this way. He ruhad, or he breathed into him the spirit of life, just like in the upper room. Once he'd been resurrected and they believed that he was resurrected. And what did he do? He's breathed on them and said, receive ye the Holy Spirit. All right? And then it says that he says it breathe, breathed on them the breath of life, and they became a living soul, Body, spirit, soul. Now that creature was made to fall. Does anything happen outside the divine will of God? No. By the way, if it's outside the divine will of God, it's not God. Now, you get this. He made man to fall so that he could prove to these powerful spiritual beings that a being made of the substance of the universe, Weak in every way, could fall and then be redeemed and have his full power in them, which makes them above the angels. So he says he formed us lower than the angels and set us above them. How did he set us above them? By his grace and mercy and by his resurrection power. So who judges the angels? We do. Why? Because he made us lower but set us above. Now, I want you to hear me, because some people will be going, where did he get this? Okay. All right. I want you to listen to me. You may be able to find people who agree. I mean, I read something the other day that explained all this, and it was in a counseling book. And as I was reading, I was going, man, there's somebody else that thinks the way I think, okay? Which I thought was great. There are prophets in the case. You know what I'm saying? I'm not the only one. All right? Which I already knew that. I knew that because I'd read. Other people understand other people, ancient guys from way back. But I want you to get this. How did you figure that out? How did I figure that out? Well, I did get some teaching from some really good folks, Spurgeon. And you just start naming them all from some of the ancient folks, you know, the folks way back in the day. But there's another place I got it from. It's the Bible. Okay? It's the Bible, which means you probably ought to read it. Okay. All right. Now, is everything that I just told you exactly how it. How it happened? Well, once you kind of. Once you get to heaven, you're going to go, well, Chad had it. But, I mean, he was. That was not really good about it. It was not done well done, okay? Because then you'll know it perfectly and it'll be like, well, Chad was like that. He just got lucky. Okay? And probably so, because what I explained to you, I can't fathom how that happened, okay? All I know is I'm just telling you, like, the puzzle pieces that I've seen, now, when it comes all together, it's going to be really a lot better than that. Like, way better than that. All right? What I explained to you is probably just like a really poorly written prologue to the book, okay? I mean, it's probably really horrible prologue. When I get to Jesus, I'm gonna go, I know Jesus. I know. I didn't. I know. I know. You don't have to say nothing. I know. That was not. Not that one. That wasn't really. I was as good as I had. Okay? That's all I got. He says, I. He'll say, I know. You know? I know. But then I'll know everything, just like, you know, everything we'll know even as we're fully known, right? But that's not an excuse not to know it now, okay? And see, when you know that kind of stuff, then when things happen around you that are kind of, you know, crazy stuff that's going on in the world, you go, well, that had to happen. I mean, you know, that's just why it's got to be, I guess, you know, then you. Then you can be children of light because you're not worried about what all the darkness is doing. Because you know that the darkness got to be the darkness, right? And it has not overtook us. Right. By the way, the next verse is, in him was life, and that life was light to me. And. Right. That's the next verse, which is pretty cool. If you go back to the first verse, it says the third verse, he says, let there be light. Let there be light. It fits together. I don't know if y' all notice that. It's kind of like this goes down. It's amazing. It's almost like God wrote it, you know? So, I mean, it's. I mean, it's pretty cool.

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.

Sam.