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 Tuesday, June twenty five, 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 for the
final week the Great Controversy, and our caption for today is the Millennium on
Earth. The Millennium on Earth. We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first I like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those
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Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and giving us
the opportunity to do to connect with you and to read in your word so
that we can know how to share with others. Father, I'm asking you
to give us hope, hope for the future. Father in Jesus's name,
I pray, Amen and a man again the millennium on Earth. I want
you to be focused here because as I was preparing, I wasn't thinking about
exactly what it says. It says millennium on Earth. My mind took me
to Heaven. Okay, And so what we're going to do is go ahead
and begin with a question. No, actually it's a statement. Let me
say it this way. It is time for a refresh. Can I say
that again? It is time for a refresh? And why do I say
that? Well, in the beginning, the Bible says before Jesus said,
let there be light, and there was light the Bible says that the Earth
was without form, it was formless, it was void. And so yeah,
after all of these years and all of the challenges that we have had
down here on planet Earth and all of the sin and its impact, God
is going to have to do a refresh. Now, maybe that's not the
right terminology. He's going to recreate the Earth. Yes, and so you'll
see what I mean in just a moment. Let's go ahead and begin in
the Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah chapter four, beginning at verse twenty three, and
prophetically, the Bible says that Jeremiah beheld the Earth and lo, it was
without form. Wait a minute, I think we've seen this before, and
void, and the heavens and they had no light, you see. And
so we believe that this is the same period of one thousand years on planet
Earth. We'll read about that in just a moment, but that is what
we believe is going on here. Verse twenty four. I beheld in the
mountains. I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all
the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and low there was no man.
Okay, so we're going back. We're going back like God created the heavens
and the earth there was light. He said, let there be light,
and then eventually he created the heavenly bodies, and then he populated the earth
with animals, vegetation, and humans. And now it's saying that there is
no light, there is no man, and all the birds and the heavens
were fled. So we know that this is not talking about the creation story,
because now it's saying that everything that God created has gone away in terms
of you know, like everything I just described verse twenty six, I beheld
in low. The fruitful place was an now ada word now a wilderness,
and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and
by his fierce anger. And so it's a context that we need to have
because by this time Jesus will have come, and those who are were alive
when Jesus came, that where his children were taken to heaven along with those
who had died in faith of God, they were resurrected. And now those
two sets of people are taken to heaven and during a thousand year period,
which we're not talking about at this moment. We're not going to talk about
the heavenly part they are in heaven, and the Bible says that something happens
on planet Earth. Besides, all of the birds of the heavens had fled.
Besides that there was no man, because the wicked dead remained dead,
and the holy dead were resurrected and taken to heaven. The hills trembled and
moved lightly. And yeah, there's no light. It's formless, it's void,
and it's like, well, what's happening? Verse one of Revelation,
chapter twenty. The Bible reads, and I saw an angel come down from
heaven, having the key of the bottomless Pit, or some call the abyss,
and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold upon the
dragon and that old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound
him for how long? One thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless
pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, and
that he should deceive the nations no more. How is it that he will
not deceive the nations anymore? Why is it that he is locked up?
If you want to say, he's locked up by a chain of circumstance,
because remember the mountains. That's weird. Something changed all of the creatures,
they're gone, the light is gone. Holy people are in heaven. Unholy
people are in the grave still for this thousand years period, and it's like,
well, what's happening now? Well, the devil has nothing to do
except think. He can't create a blade of grass. He cannot tempt anybody
because there's nobody to tempt. You understand where we're going with this, And
so the Bible says till the thousand years, we're fulfilled, and after that
he must be loosed for a season. We won't get into that part yet
yet. And so I want to take your mind back. We had done
a study on the sanctuary very recently, in an entire quarter on the sanctuary,
and listen, have some we have like some insight into what's happening here
from the sanctuary. On the book of Leviticus, chapter sixteen, we see
that after the atonement had taken place, or God did what he needed to
do to make us at one with him. That is, we're forgiven.
If we are as children, we've chosen to confess our sins and to turn
away from them through the power of God. Yes, and in that reality,
now we are cleansed. We are forgiven. All of our sins are
forgotten and will not be brought up again. And so that is done because
Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the
world, has done his work. Even in the sanctuary, was pointing forward
to that right on the on the day of Atonement, this is what is
represented. And there were lots cast and there were two creatures that were identify,
the Lord's goat and the scapegoat. The Lord's goat would have represented holiness,
represented God's side of the equation. And with the Lord's goat, we
know now that that has to do with our salvation. Now the scapegoat.
The scapegoat now is the devil. Two goats, y'all. Don't get caught
up with the term goat, because the Bible says there's the Lord's goat and
there's the scapegoat. Well, the scapegoat. Now, after God's people would
have been atoned for, after God's people would have been cleansed, and so
forth. Now the representation of the sins have to be taken out of the
camp. And the Bible says that a fit man. Wait a minute,
I think I read something about an angel here in Revelation twenty, a fit
man lays hold of the scapegoat and takes the scapegoat into a wilderness. Wait
a minute, I think I just read something in the Book of Jeremiah about
a wilderness like scene, and that fit man takes the scapegoat into the wilderness
with the representation of the sins of people who confessed our sins, and God
was faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Those sins with the scapegoat are taken out into the wilderness. And now we
know that this scapegoat represents the devil, and we'll read soon what happens to
the devil. But the fact is that God knows how to do things,
make all things new like he promised, and we're looking forward to that day.
Peace. 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,