Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good morning.
It is Thursday, June thirteenth, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today is no
exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy. Our
caption for today is the Beast from the Earth, The Beast from the Earth.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first of like to
say welcome to you and give a great big God thank you, and God
bless you for people who are here every single day. I'm grateful and our
online community is growing by leaps and bounds we've finally gotten beyond the six hundred
person mark. And it's not just the number for me, it is that
if this number of people are in that community, then that means that everywhere
each of these individuals are, you have an influence of hundreds and thousands of
people, which means that you are spreading the gospel throughout the world. Do
you understand how this works for me? So I'm grateful that you're there in
the community. Please don't hold back, Please share with other people, and
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found at your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray and then
we will get underway. Batherin Heaven, thank you for giving us the Bible.
Thank you for giving us a connection with you. Please help us to
embrace these privileges and opportunities that you have given to us, and to serve
you with everything that we have and everything that we are in Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, So now I want you
to go to Amazing Facts Ministry and look for or search for the Lamb like
Beast or the United States in Bible prophecy, okay, the lamb like beast
or the United States in Bible prophecy. And that way you can actually study
deeply what we have here in our lessons study, because, as I've said
for the last couple of days, this style of discussion doesn't work in just
ten minutes, okay, And so I'm going to give you some principles to
live by. I'll say some things as a matter of fact. But now
you can, like the Bahreans, study for yourselves at Amazing Facts Ministry and
look up the lamb like beast and the United States in Bible prophecy. Okay.
And so the beast that we were talking about for the last two days,
that power, historically we've understood and believe that was the papacy. Long
story, you would have already begun your study because you promised you would go
to Amazing Facts and look up the mark of the beast. Okay. And
so now we're looking at a very interesting new creature in air quotes. Of
course, this is symbolic Bible language, Bible prophecy language. This beast comes
up from a populated or populous area like so it comes to prominence in the
seventeen hundreds from among a populous people. And we've understood historically this to be
the United States of America. Something very interesting happened in twenty seventeen. It
wasn't the first part of the discussion, but it came to a head in
twenty seventeen, and Protestants in America said that the protest that the Reformers five
hundred years prior started was over. They said that the protest was over,
even though even though the ninety five feces of Martin Luther have not been yet
answered adequately, have not been addressed spiritually, they declared as a body,
a united body, that the protest was over. Well, there are a
few of us who still are wondering, like, wait a minute, now,
there are some things that Rome had begun to teach that were completely outside
of the Word of God. And the protest is not over, okay.
And so in the United States of America, when they begin to just sort
of unify and not think that that is a problem, now we have a
problem if we unify not based on truth, now we have a problem.
I know I said a lot, but I want you to go and study
that from amazing facts so you can see the details. But what I'm saying
is when Jesus was praying his prayer, he said to sanctify them in John
chapter seventeen, by thy truth. Thy word is truth. And then he
said, in another place, make them one, Lord, even as you
and I are one. And so Jesus and God our Father are unified spiritually
and based on truth. They don't unify on any other basis besides the fact
that they are eternal right. Blessed be their name. But what I'm saying
is that the truth of God's word is the unifying factor, that is the
reality. So let's get some life lessons based on what you will have studied
from Revelation thirteen and beyond from the lesson study. But let's get some life
lessons here. From the Book of Tewod Corinthians, chapter eleven and verse five.
The Bible teaches us that and no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed
into an angel of light. And so we have seen in our churches ha
many times that there are preachers and teachers and facilitators, elders, deacon,
bishops, and cardinals and all kinds of other air quote leaders who have been
teaching things that were so far from the truth, and even living in ways
that were so far off based from the truth, we wonder what was the
origin. But we don't need to wonder. There are us spiritual beings also
who masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Right. The Bible says, no marvel
that Satan himself will be transformed into an angel of light. Like we have
seen this movie before. A devil approaches Jesus in the wilderness, and he
doesn't come as some scary, dastardly being. He appears in a way that
would have been deceptive to Jesus if Jesus accepted the deception. See, and
so we don't want to be misled, especially in the last days, by
appearances. I said to you the other day, don't believe the preacher.
I said, don't trust the preacher. I'm a preacher. Don't trust the
preacher. See if what we are saying is lining up with what the Bible
actually teaches. And so we go to Matthew chapter twenty six and verse forty
one. The Bible reads that we are to watch and pray, Thank God,
we can do this, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit
is indeed willing, But the flesh is weak. Of course, Jesus was
speaking to one of his sons. Yes, he was speaking to one of
the disciples. But the reality still remains today. Even though that disciple failed,
he did not watch and pray. Now we can look back and say,
well, how did Peter mess up? Like, how did these disciples
mess up? Well, they didn't watch and pray. They chose to sleep.
They chose to fall asleep at the wheel. They chose to accept status
quo. And those disciples forsook Jesus and fled, every single one of them.
Thankfully, eleven of them did repent. There was one who didn't.
And so I guess the question for me today is am I among the eleven?
Or am I that one that did not repent? Okay? And so
we watch and pray that we enter not into temptation. The spirit, indeed
is willing, but the flesh is weak. We should not be self confident,
brothers and sisters, because we've memorized a bunch of quotes from the scriptures
and other inspired writings. We should not think that that is enough. We
should not think that if we intellectually understand the truths that we're talking about here,
that somehow that will insulate us. M M. Watch and pray.
Brothers and sisters, yield your will to God in every particular, Brothers and
sisters, do not trust your ability to memorize scripture as the way or the
path to righteousness. That is not the key. The key is remaining connect
to God in every way, in every way now, of course in the
last days, in particular now, because this is what we're facing, we
actually value and protect religious liberty or freedom. Even back in the Book of
Leviticus, chapter twenty five and verse ten, the Bible says, proclaim liberty
throughout all the land until all the inhabitants thereof. I know the context is
different, but the fact is that if we are liberated in Christ, then
we should be free to worship God according to the dictates of our consciences toward
Him, according to the Bible truth. And so there's a beast from the
earth, but we need to be connected to God in Jesus' name. Thanks
for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,