The Revelation 21:2-8| Episode # 1181

April 27, 2026

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

The Revelation 21:2-8

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.

Now, he says this. Then I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. So there is this giant city that is coming down out of heaven, all right, and. And it is a city that has been built by God in heaven. Now Jesus says, Jesus says, he starts talking about him going, and we're going to get to that, you know, in the next five years in John, all right? We're going to some point in time in John. We're going to get there, all right? And the disciples ask him, well, I think it's Thomas that asked him this. It's always Thomas. He says, we don't know where you're going. How can we get there? And Jesus says, I go and prepare a place for you. Okay, well, he starts off with, in my Father's house there are many. King James calls it mansion, but the best translation is dwelling places. Okay? In my Father's house, there are many dwelling places. I go and prepare a place for you, and if I go, I come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, you may be also. Okay, what he's telling him is, you don't know how. You don't have to know how to get there. I'm coming to get you, okay? I'll come get you and take you back with me, all right? Understanding that is an understanding of why this city is built like it is. And I want you to hear me because it's important that you see how this city is built like it is and how many people actually live in the city. Okay, let me just. Let's read it. It says here, and I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people. God himself will be with them and be their God. All right? So God is going to dwell in that city. Jesus is going to rule in that city. No longer is God going to dwell in the heavens. He's going to dwell with us. Do y' all see that? He says here, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. So there is going to be some weeping, and he's going to handle it at the start, but it's not going to remain. You're not going to weep the whole time, he says. And he will. He says there shall be no more death, no sorrow, and no crying, which means he's going to. He tells you he's going to wipe away the tears. There's not going to be any reason for sorrow. There's not going to be any reason for death, and there's not going to be any reason for crying, he says. He says there shall be no more pain for the former things have passed away. Notice it's not like they're gone. What does he say? You pass from those things to life. It's a transition. And. And that's what. That's what is clearly described in this pr. In this passage is there's a transition, he said. Then he who sat on the throne said, behold, I make all things new. Like the Passion of the Christ got this wrong. Y' all remember that? All right? He said that to his mama on the Via Dolorosa, right? In the Passion of the Christ. It's in the Bible. It's just not there. Okay, but, boy, isn't it the perfect place to put it if you were gonna put it in the Passion of the Christ? It's my favorite line from the Passion of the Christ, and it ain't in the right spot, but that's okay. I can live with it. Because Jesus said, look, Mother, I make all things new. I like that. That's my favorite part of the Passion. Elliot's just by far my favorite part of the Passion. But that movie. Y' all know what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about Jesus of Nazareth. That was the original. Y' all remember that? Back in the day, if you haven't watched Jesus of Nazareth, it's good, too. But the Passion of the Christ is fabulous. He says here, he says, behold, I make all things new. And he. And he said to me, write, for these words are true and faithful. What he's saying is, describe these things. I'm fixing to tell you. I'm fixing to tell you this stuff. I want you to write this stuff down. He said to me, it is done. Now, he also said that on the cross, so that was right in the passion of the Christ. But here, there he said, the work of redemption is finished. Here, the work of. The work of total reclamation, totally making everything right is finished. He said, it is done. I am the alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. Now you need to understand that what he's saying is I exist in the beginning and I exist in the end. I am the bookmarks of all time. But he has eternal life, which is described. And remember, every time you read everlasting life in scripture, it's usually translated wrong because there's not another word that really. There is a word that means that, but it. But it means to live from now forever. Most of the time when you read scripture and you're reading, it's saying eternal, everlasting. It's the word A I N A I N o n I think, okay, A n on and it means to have no beginning or end. Okay. Which means I don't have a start, I don't have an end. That's what alpha and omega means when he says I am the alpha and the omega. Or what he's saying is I was there at the start and I am here at the end. Okay? And when he, Jesus says, those whom the Father give me, I give them a anon, I give them eternal life, which means the life that he gives you. You. Now you really, if you're going to really understand this, you need to spend about five years thinking about this in context of the whole scripture. Okay? All right. You really do. If you're going to really understand this, you need to spend some lot of time thinking about God gives me life when he gives me the new spirit that has no beginning or end. So would it be crazy for God to have always known me? Because if he gave me at some point in time a life that had no beginning or end, that means at the time I got it, then I have no beginning nor end. So that would be the case. Now you go, well, is there any passage that would tend to indicate yes, there is one and I'm not remembering. I think it's in Isaiah. It says when God. When God formed the stars? No, when he formed the foundation of the. I can't remember exactly what it says about it speaking to the beginning of all things. It says that the morning stars sang. Okay, now the morning stars. Well, what does that mean? Well, stars in the Bible represent three. Three groups, one of them being singular. Okay. Stars represent first of all. Jesus is the bright and morning star. Okay? So Jesus is, is described as a star in Scripture. The second group are the angels. Okay. In fact, even the, even the, even the fallen angels are described as angels that come as angels of light. In fact, Paul says if an angel, even an angel of light, comes to you preaching a gospel other than the one I preached to you, let him be eternally damned. Okay, so, so the angels themselves are described as morning stars. The only other group of people that are described as stars are the born again, okay? The kingdom of God. All right, now let's think about this. Who would be described as the morning stars? Well, we can take out one of the groups and that one of the groups is a singular group. It's not Jesus because he's not plural. Okay. All right, so it's not talking about him. All right, what can indicate to me what the answer is? Well, let's use the adjective. What kind of stars are they? They're morning stars. Okay. All right. Morning represents resurrection. It always represents resurrection. And so if I, if I use the idea of resurrection for mourning. So he says the resurrection stars sang. Well, would that be the angels? No. Well, then who would it be? It would be us. Okay, so when God laid the foundation of the universe, the Bible says the morning star sang. How are we there? Well, there's only one explanation for how we're there. We have eternal life, so we have no beginning nor end. So when I. When I have begin eternal life, I've always been and I ever shall be, just like God is. Does that make sense to you? All right, so knowing that as you think about it, Jesus said, I'm the beginning and the end. I will give the fountain of water of life freely to him who thirsts. What he's saying is, I'm going to fill you up. Same thing he said to the woman at the well. I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you a spring of living water that place in you and you'll no longer thirst again. He over overcome shall inherit all things. What does that mean? Well, we're co heirs with Christ, so we inherit everything. We are the owners of the heavens and the earth. He says he shall inherit all things. And I will be his God and he shall be my son. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the murderers, the abominable, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, the liars shall all have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death, by the way. The Bible says that those who trust in him shall not suffer the second death. Okay? They're suffering what is called the second death. You go, well, Pastor, why didn't you go through all these? Well, well, first of all, it doesn't have anything to do with us. Second of all, it's a description of the sin nature. The cowardly, the timid and the fearful. Okay, the unbelieving. Notice I'm fearful and I do not believe. Both of them point to no faith. Right, no faith. The abominable means they've slipped into abominations. The murderers. Which specifically speaks to a criminal act. Okay. An act of breaking the law of God. The sexually immoral. Remember that. That represents worshiping other gods. Okay, the sorcerers. Now you go, what are the sorcerers, by the way? That's the word. Pharmacy. So where do we get pharmacy from? Pharmaceuticals. Okay, what does that mean? Well, those who are addicted to the drugs of this world, the idolaters and all the liars, shall have their part in the lake which is burning. So he's saying that the people that are going to dwell on the earth are not going to be the people that have rejected him and not believed upon him. 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.