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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 Sunday, May five,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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name Iszelle 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 two Witnesses,
Two Witnesses. We'll get into that in

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just a moment, but first I
like to say welcome to you and ask

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

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and pray, and then we will
get underway. Father and Heaven, thank

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you for giving us this new day
and for the opportunity that you have entrusted

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to us to open up your word, and not just to open it,

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but to live the principles that you
have given us. Father, Please let

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your word be a witness that we
have chosen to serve you. Help us

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to agree with what you say,
and then, once Jesus comes, help

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us to live with you eternally,
eternally in Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again, two witnesses. Okay, so this almost sounds like

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what we were saying yesterday, but
we're going to drill down some more and

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let me just ask you a question. What do witnesses do? What do

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witnesses do? Yes, I know
there are a number of ways that you

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could take this, but they testify. Let's go with that. That's a

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simple way of saying, what witnesses
do? They testify? And I remember

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Jesus saying when he was dealing with
some people who should have loved him,

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who had the privilege to love him, who who feigned that they represented god

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Ah. But he said, you
search the scriptures, for in them,

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ye think ye have eternal life.
So people were trusting in memorizing scripture,

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wearing scripture on their bodies, being
able to recite scripture right, being able

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to wax eloquently regarding the scripture.
But they didn't necessarily live the scriptures.

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So he said, you search the
scriptures, for in them, ye think

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ye have eternal life. They are
they that testify of me. And so

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Jesus gave us a paradigm. He
said that the scriptures testify of him.

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So in twenty twenty four we understand
that the scriptures are both Old and New

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Testaments. Yes, the Old and
New covenants. Yes, So the scriptures

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testify two witnesses testify. Now let's
go ahead and read from the Book of

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Revelation, chapter eleven, and I'll
read beginning at verse three. The Bible

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reads, and I will give power
unto my two witnesses. So now we

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have sort of a peak into these
witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand,

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two hundred and three score days clothed
in sackcloth. And of course this

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represents prophetic period that is completely outlined
in our lesson study for today. But

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we won't go into those details because
we have to get to application, since

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our time with here with one another
is short. Verse four. These are

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the two olive trees and the two
candlesticks standing before the God of the Earth.

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And if any man hurt them,
fire proceedeth out of their mouth and

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devoured their enemies. And if any
man will hurt them, he must in

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this manner be killed. These are. These have power to shut heaven that

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it rained not in the days of
their prophecy. These have the power over

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waters, to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with all

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plagues as often as they will.
And so we see the power of God's

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word in the time of Elijah,
in the time of Moses, we see

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that these two witnesses the scriptures,
the scriptures have the power to do whatever

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God says. Okay, yes,
we'll get into that as well. And

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so the lesson writer points out that
in Psalm chapter one hundred and nineteen and

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verse one five, it reads,
your word is a lamp unto my feet,

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and a light unto my path.
Oil represents the Holy Spirit, and

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so John's revelation in the Revelation chapter
eleven is describing God's word being proclaimed in

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the power of the Holy Spirit to
lighten the world. Yes, there is

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so much more language there that I
wish we could get into, but alas

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in just about four minutes, we're
not able to cover it. But go

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back to your lesson, Sunday's lesson
and go there through the detail. But

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really I want to highlight now how
both the Old and the New Testaments,

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how both the Old and the New
Testaments manifest the power of God in different

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ways. So let's go to Genesis, chapter one and verse one. The

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Bible says, in the beginning God
created the heavens and the air. And

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so this account of creation establishes a
foundation about the power of God in this

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same earth that we are living in
in twenty twenty four. And so we

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see that the Bible witnesses to the
power of God. There is no other

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God in air quotes that can create. I want to go down through a

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list, but I think I don't
need to. No other God can create.

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And so we see the Creator in
his glory manifesting his power, and

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the Bible is a witness to it. And then we see in the Book

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of Exodus, chapter fourteen, beginning
at verse twenty one, and Moses stretched

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out his hand over the sea,
and the Lord caused the sea to go

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back by a strong east wind all
that night and made the sea dry land,

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and the waters were divided, and
the children of Israel went into the

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midst of the sea upon dry ground, and the waters were a wall unto

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them. And they're on their right
hand and on their left. And so

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we see the power of God again
witnessed by the scriptures, that the Lord

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parted the Red Sea for his people
to go over on dry ground, and

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through the night he dried that sea
bed so his people could walk through.

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And then we see in the rest
of the story that of Pharaoh and his

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armies ran after they charged after the
people of God, and of course the

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sea came back and then drowned all
of the enemies of God. So we

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see the power of God to do
miraculous things, to continue to lead his

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people even in twenty twenty four.
But we see it in the Red Sea,

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where God led his people against all
odds, not only to safety,

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but to victory. Okay, let's
go into the New Testament. We see

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in the Book of Mark in verse
thirty nine, and he arose and rebuked

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the wind and said, unto the
sea, peace be still, and the

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wind ceased, and there was a
great calm, because more than one time

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Jesus calmed the seas. But in
this case we see that even though the

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sea and the waves were against the
people of God who were with Jesus,

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even though there was fear in their
hearts, and Jesus needed to correct and

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rebuke that faithlessness. We see that
the New Testament witness has demonstrated the power

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even in the hands of Jesus as
he lived on planet Earth, to calm

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nature, to command that which he
created, as we see in the Book

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of Genesis chapter one, that which
he created, to calm down and guess

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what nature had to comply. Because
the maker of nature was speaking, he

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said, calm down, cease,
and it did. So. We see

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that the New Testament actually indicated and
manifested the truth about God's power. How

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about even in the Resurrection Matthew chapter
twenty eight and verse five, the Bible

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reads and the Angel answered and said, unto the woman, fear ye not,

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for I know that you seek Jesus, which was crucified. But he's

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not here. He has risen,
Come and see the place where the Lord

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had lain. So we see the
power of the resurrection of Jesus manifest and

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shone forth in the witness of the
New Testament. So what are we saying?

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There are two witnesses, the Old
and the New Testaments. They manifest

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the power of God? Did they
manifest the power of God in your life?

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

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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 great

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day. Yeah,