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

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

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

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

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

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to 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

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morning. It is Wednesday, May
twenty nine, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is Elle David Harris.
I am your host, and this

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is Your Daily Portion where we give
you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are
continuing in our Lesson study series the Great

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Controversy. Our caption for today is
the Mark of the Beast. Huh,

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the Mark of the Beast. We'll
get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome
to you and ask you to please go

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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father
in heaven, thank you for giving us

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this new day. Thank you for
giving us your seal, teaching us that

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all we need to do is be
fully connected to You and then nothing else

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will matter. Father, Please give
us the fullness of your Holy Spirit in

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these last days. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again.

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So I remember reading a quote some
years ago, probably about twenty years ago,

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where inspiration says that the devil has
twelve or has tenfold more the power

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to tempting to deceive than he did
in the days of the apostles. You're

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like, well, why would you
start out with that day? Like,

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why would you start about the devil? Like I thought this was all about

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God. It is Ah, But
let me say this, there are people.

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And by the way, that was
way back in the nineteen hundreds,

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the early nineteen hundreds when that quote
happened. Okay, so what about now,

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like what kind of power does the
enemy have today? Now, don't

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get stuck here, do not switch
off the broadcast here. So since that's

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the case, I think the Bible
writer under inspiration already had the antidote.

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It says, where sin abounds,
grace doth much more abound. And by

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the way, we need the fullness
of latter Rain, as the Bible teaches

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us. Latter rain power in the
last days that is by far and exceeds

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by far the power of the enemy. This is why we need to be

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God, and so the key for
today's study. Because some people are so

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fearful and have all kinds of misgivings
regarding the mark of the beast. We

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don't have any fear of the beasts. We don't have any fear of the

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dragon, the devil. We have
no fear of the future, except we

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forget how God has brought us in
the past. So, if He was

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able to take care of the apostles
Ah and they received the early reign,

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is he not even more able in
our day, through the power of the

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Holy Spirit under the latter reiin to
keep us. Yes, if He was

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able to keep the children of Israel
as they saw the plagues that fell on

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Egypt way back then, is he
not able to keep us through what some

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people call the tribulation. But we
call the time of trouble. Is not

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God able well able to keep you, just like he kept Daniel when he

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was in the lions Dan and the
King said, oh, Daniel, ha,

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serve it. I'm the living God. Is your God? Was your

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God able to keep you from the
lion's mouths? And of course so King

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lived forever. Was the resounding call
back, of course my God was able

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to keep me. And of course
now I'm ready to serve. And so

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the mark of the beast is only
for people who reject God in the last

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days, full stop. The mark
of the beast is only for people who

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reject God in the last day.
So the question I want to ask is

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why does Satan focus his wraths specifically
on those who are obedient to God's commandments.

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Let's read from the Book of Revelation, chapter twelve and verse seventeen.

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And I have already said multiple times, but maybe this is your first day

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with us, that the only way
that a person can keep God's commandments is

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if we have God's love resident in
our hearts. And when God's love is

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perfecting us, it's in us.
Then his ten commandments become ten promises.

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If we love him with the power
that he has given us to love him,

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then we will live according to his
principles. And so in Revelation twelve

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and verse seventeen, the Bible says, and the dragon was wroth, that

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is the devil. He was wroth, that means really really angry with the

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woman that's God's people, and went
to make war with the remnant of her

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seed. So God's people in the
last days, which keep the commandments of

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God and have the testimony of Jesus, why would the devil be so angry

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about this? Oh, because we
look like Jesus when we are perfected in

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love, as first John chapter four
talks about, when we are perfectly or

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we are perfected in love, and
there is no fear between us and God.

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That is angering to the devil because
he's looking forward to destruction. He

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is going to be destroyed. His
fate is sealed. There's no way out.

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When he was kicked out of heaven, that was the end of it,

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you see, because he and those
evil angels that got kicked out with

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him. According to the same Revelation, chapter twelve, Yeah, they chose

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not to repent, as the character
of God would have dictated. I said

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to you the other day he had
the opportunity to repent, but he and

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those particular angels, the one third
that got out of heaven, those did

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not repent. And so he's angry, the Bible writer says, because he

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has a short time. And so
that's why. That's why, So consider

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the importance of continuing to connect with
God on a daily basis, momentarily every

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day, in direct counteraction to the
devil's attempt to destroy you. Bible says

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that we don't wrestle against flesh and
blood, but against principalities and powers and

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rulers of the darkness of this world
and spiritual wickedness and high places. So

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put on the armor of God.
And if you go down through the text

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in Ephesians chapter six, you will
see that when you go down through those

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seven, not six, those seven, seven is a perfect number. This

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council is perfect, seven all the
way down through prayer. Yes, once

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we have all of that on,
we realize that each of them are about

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Jesus. The Bible writer circles back, and he says, to put on

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the Lord Jesus Christ, and make
not provision for the flesh to fulfill the

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lusts thereof. So those fiery darts
of the wicked one will not penetrate the

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characters of individuals who are covered,
covered with the life of Jesus, covered

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with the armor of God. And
so we go now to Revelation, chapter

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thirteen and verse seventeen, and the
Bible says, and it was given unto

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him, meaning the devil, to
make war with the saints. Here we

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go again, and to overcome them. Wait a minute, and the power

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was given him over all kindreds and
tongues and nations. But guess what this

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was temporary. There was a time
that the people of God were buffeted for

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all kinds of different things related to
their faith twelve hundred and sixty long years.

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You can read about that in Fox's
Book of Martyrs. During the Dark

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Ages, God's people were buffeted.
But was God able? I'm hearing the

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call again of King Dorias shouting down
resoundingly into the lions. Den was your

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God able to keep you? The
answer is yes, now, you would

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say, but Dave, there are
a lot of people who lost their lives.

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I think the Book of Hebrews chapter
eleven resolves this, and it says

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that there were some people who had
these trials, and they did not yet

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get their perfection in terms of their
in terms of their eternity with God.

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Yet no, because we're waiting for
the second coming. And those rest in

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the tombs, and we'll talk about
that next week about resting in sleep meaning

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death. But those faithful ones,
at the appropriate time, when Jesus returns,

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he will give them their reward.
And so even though the devil has

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his wrath, he's firing on the
people of God who keep his commandments,

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because we look just like God and
we keep even in the last days his

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holy seventh day Sabbath, when the
world is saying to forget, God says,

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remember it is a measure that God
is the one who sanctifies us.

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And I'm thankful that even though the
mark of the beast is there and the

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devil is angry, God is able
to keep his people in the last days

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peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live

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by bread alone, but by every
word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with
el David Harris. Make it a

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great day. Yeah,