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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 Tuesday, June
eleven, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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

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your Daily Portion where we give you
God's word every single day, and today

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

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Our caption for today is Identifying the
Beast, Part one. Identifying the

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Beast Part one. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first

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

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your Daily Portion dot com. Please
join our online community. This is where

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we can actually have more discussion,
especially during studies like these where there is

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more detail that is needed than what
we can cover in just a few minutes

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here. Also, pick up the
Your Daily Portion book and join join the

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coaching program for Your Daily Portion at
your Daily Portion dot com. This is

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a way that we continue to build
faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and

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pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for

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this new day and for the privilege
that we have to come into your presence.

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Teach us how to study your word, teach us how to serve you

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and to do your will. In
Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. Well, I have
to admit that I am between a rock

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and a hard place considering how much
time that we have here. The lesson

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study was not written so that I
can have a Your Daily Portion program that's

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only ten minutes in length, you
understand, and so there are certain subjects

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periodically over the years that are a
little too heavy to be able to do

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it justice in our few minutes.
So this is what I need you to

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do. I need you to commit
to going back to the actual quarterly and

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I need you to commit, if
you're not understanding, to coming into our

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community to have more conversation. And
then one last thing, I want you

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to go to the Amazing Facts website, the Amazing Facts website, and then

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search for the mark of the Beast. Search for the mark of the Beast,

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and there you can have a fullsome
study with the appropriate understanding, so

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that we are not just doing some
rush thing here in the morning and just

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firing off some facts and saying,
okay, now you know the information,

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move on into your day. This
has to be a devotional experience on this

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particular program because of the brevity of
our time together. Okay, and so

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please do that. And the question
really that arises in my mind is once

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we understand who the Beast power is, we understand that this power has decided

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that it was blasphemously going to try
to change God's law like the time in

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God's law, that is, to
try to change the Sabbath, try to

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remove the sanctity of the Sabbath and
transfer it to the first day of the

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week. Like Now that we know
this and we know that this will come

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to a point of critical mass.
We've seen this movie before. As I

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think I said yesterday, how do
we actually how do we actually remain connected

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to God? Like how do we
keep our god focus and relationship with God

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despite the conflict that we read about
and will ultimately experience in the Book of

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Revelation. Well, the Bible will
give us a few few guidance points here

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in two Timothy, chapter two and
verse fifteen, the Bible reads, study

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to show thyself approved unto God.
A workman, not a person who's just

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talking, Not a person who is
lazy, not a person who is who

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is comfortable with status quo, but
a work person, a workman that needeth.

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Not to be ashamed when you're teaching
the truth concerning God's word, right

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not to be ashamed rightly, that
is a good word, rightly dividing the

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word of truth. And so our
goal when we are studying the scriptures is

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to remain connected to God, to
hear the voice of God, to say

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this is the way, walk ye
in it. And when people, even

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if they are are they are our
relatives, even if they are our pastors,

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preachers, teachers, facilitators, coaches, trainers, people that mentored us,

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people who actually have prayed for us, and God came through for you

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once you receive prayers. Yes,
but if the word of God is in

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conflict or if their words are in
conflict with what the Word of God says,

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because you've rightly divided the word of
truth, then you have to stay

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away. So prioritize the truth of
God's word. Over every relationship, every

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historical whatever it is that you thought
you understood before, and I'm speaking to

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me too, and over everything that
people are saying. Prioritize what God actually

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said. And by the way,
we can't just study the word of God

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and think that that's enough. I
know what I just said. We can't

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just study the word of God and
think that that's enough. We need to

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be praying constantly, okay. In
First Thessalonius, chapter five and verse seventeen,

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it's very simple. The Bible says, pray without ceasing, and in

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the New English translation it says,
pray constantly. Well, what does praying

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constantly look like in twenty twenty four, Well, it looked the same as

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it did when Enoch lived on planet
Earth. The Bible says that Enoch walked

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with God. And so when you
are walking, when you are moving throughout

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your day, do it with God. Ask God what he sees in your

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life, what he desires for and
from you. Ask him for the strength

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and energy to push through every trial, tribulation, and temptation. Ask him

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how you need to relate to people, How you are to relate to laws?

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When laws are written, Are these
laws that please you? Yes?

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Then good, Yes, we follow
those. Is there something that is in

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conflict with you? Then wait a
minute, God, give me the strength

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to walk away from those things that
society says is appropriate when it conflicts with

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you. And so we pray without
ceasing because we need an unceasing connection with

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God, especially in these last days. And of course we have said over

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and over and over again that the
issue at hand will become just like they

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attempted to make it in the eighteen
eighties. I need you to look up

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your history, especially those in the
United States of America. Uh. Yeah,

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the Sabbath is going to be a
big problem for people. There's going

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to be a big problem for people, and it'll spread throughout the world.

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I remember reading about in history in
the eighteen seventies they were bracing for the

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same thing. And then in the
eighteen eighties it was like, wait a

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minute, now, all of a
sudden, that body of lawmakers what it

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was called then, I know,
but it can't say it. I can't

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say it off the top of my
head. But they came to a point

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where they were about to institute a
law that would enjoin upon all people in

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the nation a holy day that was
different than the Sabbath. And it was

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like, wait a minute, what, And so the Church of the People

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of God sent at Jones at Jones
to give his argument. I think it

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was like two hundred and fifty two
minutes in length, because I put it

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in audio form one time. It
was some long period of time that he

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made his argument to show that the
Word of God cannot be broken and that

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we must not impose any relief religious
edict upon people, because that is not

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God's way, especially especially to cause
people to turn our backs on the holy

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seventh day Sabbath and to somehow venerate
another day. In that case, it

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was Sunday, okay, And so
we remember the Sabbath day in twenty twenty

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four to keep it holy six days. The Bible says, shalt thou labor

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and do all thy work, but
the seventh day is the Sabbath of the

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Lord thy God. And another couple
of places, the Bible says that the

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Sabbath is a sign. It's a
sign between God and his people that he

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is sanctifying us. He's setting us
aside for a holy use, and so

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we keep that as a feature of
our lives, even in twenty twenty four.

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But the Bible says, my little
children, these things write unto you

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that she sin not. But if
any person sins, you have an advocate

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with the Father, Jesus Christ,
the righteous One. So what I want

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you to do is keep your record
clean with God, agree with him,

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confess and forsake everything that does not
please God, and remain in good connection

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with him. Peace. Thanks for
joining us listening. Friends. Always remember

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we cannot live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the

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mouth of God. This has been
your daily portion with el David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,