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 Wednesday, June twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello,
my name is Elle 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 the final week of our Lesson study
series the Great Controversy, and our caption for today is Judgment in the Millennium.
So yesterday we were talking about the millennium on planet Earth, and now
we're going to talk about the judgment in the millennium. And I promise you
it's good news. It's great news. Actually we'll get into that in just
a moment, but first i'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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to get one final spot there in the Your Daily Portion coaching program that begins
tomorrow. Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Bather
in Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity to open up your word
today. Thank you for your Holy Spirit who has been so kind to teach
us what you have commanded. Father, Please help us to be looking forward
to the day where there will be no more sins, sinner's sickness, disease,
or anything of the sort, but where love will prevail finally one hundred
percent of the time everywhere in the universe. In Jesus name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. Judgment in the millennium. Now, let me
just say, yesterday there were two things that went wrong as far as I
am concerned. Number One, I never said, what does millennium millennium mean?
There are people who like me sometimes we take for granted that people know
what it is or you are going to look it up. So millennium millennium
means one thousand year period of time. Okay, So it's a thousand year,
real, literal year period of time. Okay. That's the first thing.
And secondly, I broke my own rule. Sometimes we get caught up
in the facts and figures and don't get to the spiritual reality of what we're
talking about. And so I gave you a lot of discussion about what would
happen with the devil and formlessness and void, and how it relates to the
sanctuary, how it relates to the Genesis account. But I never said what
the whole purpose of it is. Can I just say it right here?
I think there is a song Jesus paid it all all to him. I
yo, Sin has left a crimson stain, but he washed it white to
snow. So really the crooks of the matter of yesterday, with the devil
having nothing to do on planet Earth, is that God kept his promise.
I'm going to focus right there for a moment. God kept his promise.
He said, the accuser of the brethren is cast down. Who does accuse
those people? Both day and night. He's cast down, and we see
the full material reality of that in the discussion of what happens during the thousand
years on planet Earth. The devil cannot tempt anybody because there ain't nobody to
tempt. The wicked people who have sided with him are in the grave.
He's by himself. The holy people who decided, mmm, I'm gonna follow
Jesus. Those people are now in heaven, and we'll talk about that here.
But the fact is that Jesus kept his promise. The devil is cast
down, and guess what. We get to live throughout the ceaseless ages of
eternity and don't have to worry about anything going wrong ever again. No more
sin, no more sickness, nothing to disrupt the beauty of love and peace.
And so we now go into Revelation chapter twenty, continuing the discussion beyond
Earth. Now we go to Heaven. We go to that real place called
heaven, And beginning at verse four of Revelation chapter twenty, we read,
and I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given
unto them, And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the
witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not
worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received His mark upon their
foreheads or in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ. They
did what lived and reigned. Wait a minute, I think earlier in Revelation,
it says that God would give people to sit on his throne, even
as he has overcome and is set with God and his throne, God our
Father, in his throne. He's promised that humans would be able to do
what sit on thrones. And this is what he's doing. He's fulfilling his
promise. And it says that they did not worship and reigned with Christ for
a thousand years verse five. But the rest of the dead lived not again
until the thousand years were finished. Who are the rest of the dead?
Remember, the Bible says, as it was in the days of Noah,
so shall it also be when the coming of the Son of Man is Ah.
They were eating and drinking until the day that they entered into the ark,
and the flood came and took them all away. And so the question
is when someone is taken. It says that there will be like two in
the field, one shall be taken and the other shall be left. The
question is who is taken and who is left? And his disciples, Jesus'
disciples asked that very question when Jesus was having this conversation that I just jumped
into, and he said, well, where the eagles are gathered, or
the vultures are gathered, or the birds of prey are gathered, so are
the carcasses. So carcasses are what dead. So those who are taken are
God's people taken? God's people like on the ark, who was taken into
the ark? God's people who remained? Or who was left? Those who
did not come into the ark? Who are those people? People who chose
to not love God? Those people are left, and so soh When it
says here the rest of the dead live not again, those are the people
who were left. Those are the people who did not go to heaven,
who were not in the Ark of safety, who were not in relationship with
God at the time that Jesus Christ came. They will have already made their
decisions. Those who were filthy remained filthy. And those individuals who decided that
they loved self or the devil or whatever it is in place of God.
Those individuals decided on their own and those individuals at this time during the thousand
years are what in the grave. Okay, And so it says here a
thousand years are finished. The rest of the dead lived not again until the
thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. So the first resurrection
is where God's people go to heaven along with others who were God's people at
other generations. Okay, Okay, Blessed and holy is he that hath part
in the first resurrection. On such the second death have no power, So
that means we're saved, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ
and shall reign with Him for a thousand years. May I just say,
very clearly and simply, we only have just under a couple of minutes left
during the thousand year period. Notice I did not say it takes a thousand
years. I said during the thousand year period where God's people are in heaven
and we are on thrones in air quotes. This means that God is going
to open up the books of record where everything is faithfully chronicled for every human
that ever lived on planet Earth. In those individuals who chose not to love
love. We will see the record of the many millions of times I just
added that number, the many times that God beg them to come into relationship
with him, where God made opportunities for them to turn away from sin and
toward love. We will see that God is just, that God is holy,
that God did everything through the power of the Holy Ghost. He did
everything that he could have done, short of forcing people, which is not
according to his nature. He did everything that he could have done to save
our friends, our loved ones, people we do and do not know,
and they said no to God. We will see there that just and holy
are God's ways, and we know that during that time all things will be
laid bare until the thousand years are finished. Have a wonderful 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,