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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much because yesterday's food

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is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some

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of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly
manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this
program, we are going to change all

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of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

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live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome
to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker Elle David Harris. Good
morning, good morning, good morning.

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It is Thursday, June thirteenth,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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is El David Harris. I am
your host, and this is your Daily

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Portion where we give you God's Word
every single day, and today is no

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exception. We are continuing in our
Lesson study series the Great Controversy. Our

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caption for today is the Beast from
the Earth, The Beast from the Earth.

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We'll get into that in just a
moment, but first of like to

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say welcome to you and give a
great big God thank you, and God

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bless you for people who are here
every single day. I'm grateful and our

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online community is growing by leaps and
bounds we've finally gotten beyond the six hundred

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person mark. And it's not just
the number for me, it is that

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if this number of people are in
that community, then that means that everywhere

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each of these individuals are, you
have an influence of hundreds and thousands of

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people, which means that you are
spreading the gospel throughout the world. Do

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you understand how this works for me? So I'm grateful that you're there in

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the community. Please don't hold back, Please share with other people, and

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of course share your thoughts and feelings
concerning our lesson studies in that community that's

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found at your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray and then

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we will get underway. Batherin Heaven, thank you for giving us the Bible.

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Thank you for giving us a connection
with you. Please help us to

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embrace these privileges and opportunities that you
have given to us, and to serve

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you with everything that we have and
everything that we are in Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, So now I want you

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to go to Amazing Facts Ministry and
look for or search for the Lamb like

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Beast or the United States in Bible
prophecy, okay, the lamb like beast

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or the United States in Bible prophecy. And that way you can actually study

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deeply what we have here in our
lessons study, because, as I've said

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for the last couple of days,
this style of discussion doesn't work in just

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ten minutes, okay, And so
I'm going to give you some principles to

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live by. I'll say some things
as a matter of fact. But now

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you can, like the Bahreans,
study for yourselves at Amazing Facts Ministry and

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look up the lamb like beast and
the United States in Bible prophecy. Okay.

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And so the beast that we were
talking about for the last two days,

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that power, historically we've understood and
believe that was the papacy. Long

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story, you would have already begun
your study because you promised you would go

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to Amazing Facts and look up the
mark of the beast. Okay. And

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so now we're looking at a very
interesting new creature in air quotes. Of

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course, this is symbolic Bible language, Bible prophecy language. This beast comes

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up from a populated or populous area
like so it comes to prominence in the

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seventeen hundreds from among a populous people. And we've understood historically this to be

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the United States of America. Something
very interesting happened in twenty seventeen. It

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wasn't the first part of the discussion, but it came to a head in

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twenty seventeen, and Protestants in America
said that the protest that the Reformers five

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hundred years prior started was over.
They said that the protest was over,

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even though even though the ninety five
feces of Martin Luther have not been yet

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answered adequately, have not been addressed
spiritually, they declared as a body,

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a united body, that the protest
was over. Well, there are a

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few of us who still are wondering, like, wait a minute, now,

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there are some things that Rome had
begun to teach that were completely outside

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of the Word of God. And
the protest is not over, okay.

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And so in the United States of
America, when they begin to just sort

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of unify and not think that that
is a problem, now we have a

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problem if we unify not based on
truth, now we have a problem.

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I know I said a lot,
but I want you to go and study

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that from amazing facts so you can
see the details. But what I'm saying

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is when Jesus was praying his prayer, he said to sanctify them in John

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chapter seventeen, by thy truth.
Thy word is truth. And then he

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said, in another place, make
them one, Lord, even as you

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and I are one. And so
Jesus and God our Father are unified spiritually

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and based on truth. They don't
unify on any other basis besides the fact

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that they are eternal right. Blessed
be their name. But what I'm saying

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is that the truth of God's word
is the unifying factor, that is the

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reality. So let's get some life
lessons based on what you will have studied

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from Revelation thirteen and beyond from the
lesson study. But let's get some life

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lessons here. From the Book of
Tewod Corinthians, chapter eleven and verse five.

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The Bible teaches us that and no
marvel, for Satan himself is transformed

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into an angel of light. And
so we have seen in our churches ha

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many times that there are preachers and
teachers and facilitators, elders, deacon,

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bishops, and cardinals and all kinds
of other air quote leaders who have been

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teaching things that were so far from
the truth, and even living in ways

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that were so far off based from
the truth, we wonder what was the

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origin. But we don't need to
wonder. There are us spiritual beings also

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who masquerade as ministers of righteousness.
Right. The Bible says, no marvel

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that Satan himself will be transformed into
an angel of light. Like we have

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seen this movie before. A devil
approaches Jesus in the wilderness, and he

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doesn't come as some scary, dastardly
being. He appears in a way that

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would have been deceptive to Jesus if
Jesus accepted the deception. See, and

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so we don't want to be misled, especially in the last days, by

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appearances. I said to you the
other day, don't believe the preacher.

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I said, don't trust the preacher. I'm a preacher. Don't trust the

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preacher. See if what we are
saying is lining up with what the Bible

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actually teaches. And so we go
to Matthew chapter twenty six and verse forty

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one. The Bible reads that we
are to watch and pray, Thank God,

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we can do this, that ye
enter not into temptation. The spirit

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is indeed willing, But the flesh
is weak. Of course, Jesus was

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speaking to one of his sons.
Yes, he was speaking to one of

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the disciples. But the reality still
remains today. Even though that disciple failed,

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he did not watch and pray.
Now we can look back and say,

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well, how did Peter mess up? Like, how did these disciples

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mess up? Well, they didn't
watch and pray. They chose to sleep.

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They chose to fall asleep at the
wheel. They chose to accept status

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quo. And those disciples forsook Jesus
and fled, every single one of them.

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Thankfully, eleven of them did repent. There was one who didn't.

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And so I guess the question for
me today is am I among the eleven?

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Or am I that one that did
not repent? Okay? And so

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we watch and pray that we enter
not into temptation. The spirit, indeed

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is willing, but the flesh is
weak. We should not be self confident,

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brothers and sisters, because we've memorized
a bunch of quotes from the scriptures

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and other inspired writings. We should
not think that that is enough. We

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should not think that if we intellectually
understand the truths that we're talking about here,

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that somehow that will insulate us.
M M. Watch and pray.

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Brothers and sisters, yield your will
to God in every particular, Brothers and

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sisters, do not trust your ability
to memorize scripture as the way or the

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path to righteousness. That is not
the key. The key is remaining connect

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to God in every way, in
every way now, of course in the

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last days, in particular now,
because this is what we're facing, we

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actually value and protect religious liberty or
freedom. Even back in the Book of

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Leviticus, chapter twenty five and verse
ten, the Bible says, proclaim liberty

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throughout all the land until all the
inhabitants thereof. I know the context is

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different, but the fact is that
if we are liberated in Christ, then

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we should be free to worship God
according to the dictates of our consciences toward

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Him, according to the Bible truth. And so there's a beast from the

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earth, but we need to be
connected to God in Jesus' name. Thanks

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for joining us listening. Friends,
Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God. This has

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been your daily portion with el David
Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,