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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, March thirty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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

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

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no exception. We are continuing in
our Lesson study series through the Book of

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Actually we're not in the book and
you see, I told you this first

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week when we make a transition always
throws me off. The concept where we're

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looking at is the great Controversy.
That is our theme for the next thirteen

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weeks. The Great Controversy, and
our caption for today is war in Heaven,

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War in Heaven. And let me
just say I put a question mark

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a question mark after the caption because
I'm like a war in heaven? Well,

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how did that happen? Yeah,
we'll get into that in just a

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moment. But first I'd like to
say welcome to everyone joining us, especially

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those joining us for the very first
time. I just want you to please

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Portion dot com. This is the way

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to 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 and for the privilege
that we have to open your word again.

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I'm asking you now to please let
us be subject to you, teach

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us submission, so that when the
war is raging between you and our enemy,

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that you will win in our minds, our lives. In Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen and a man
again, War in Heaven, and

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again. My first question has often
been really, well, how and I

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know that some of you are thinking
the same thing, So let's just go

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ahead and resolve that. And I
have a quote here and I'm ashamed that

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I forgot to put the reference.
But just please hear the quote. Regardless,

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the beginning of evil within this perfect
angel. We're talking about when he

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was Lucifer. Now he's becoming Satan. The beginning of evil within this perfect

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angel Satan will remain a mystery.
Now I need you to get that,

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because we're going to see why this
is important. There was no reason for

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it, no reason for it.
If there ever were a reason, we

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could excuse sin. Evil began first
with a small step. Lord, teach

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us some things here God. It
started in Lucifer's heart. He felt jealous

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of Jesus. Lucifer also made the
wrong use of his God given freedom.

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This can be an entire coaching series
about how to remain connected to God.

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I hope you're listening. It took
us. It was a small step.

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There is no reason, because if
we give a reason, then that means

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we are excusing sin. Right.
Evil began with a small step. It

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began in his heart. He was
jealous ah of Jesus. Lucifer also made

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the wrong use of his God given
freedom. Well, I think I'm actually

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going to do a coaching program on
this. His sins led to a great

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war in heaven. It was an
open rebellion, a war against God.

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Today, each one of us is
living with the results of this war.

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Whenever someone dies or suffers, this
is the result of the rebellion that began

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inside of Lucifer. But do not
lose hope. This is the part I

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need you to get. Don't lose
hope. As we learn in future studies,

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Christ came to bring a fair and
just that means holy or righteous solution

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to the problems that caused this great
war. I could say so much here,

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but I think I'm going to let
it settle right there. So please,

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we're going to consider this over and
over again for thirteen weeks. So

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please just keep that in your mind. And so the question is, if

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the war is in your mind,
and I'm saying this to myself too,

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like, if the war is in
my mind, will you ask Jesus to

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repeat his success in your mind and
life? Well? Where am I getting

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that from? I'm getting this from
the Book of Revelation, chapter twelve,

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The Book of Revelation, chapter twelve, verses seven through nine. And those

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of you who are among my brothers
and sisters already, like you're among those

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the fellowship of Last Day's Believers,
like you already have heard these lessons over

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and over again. I need you
to answer that question though, because sometimes

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we read this passage and then it's
like, where did war begin in heaven?

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What happened? The devil lost the
war and Jesus kicked him out of

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heaven? Next question, And I'm
like, that isn't even close to scratching

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the surface. If the war is
in my mind, will you ask Jesus

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to repeat the success, do the
same thing he did in heaven. Repeat

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the success, but do it in
your mind and in your life. Okay.

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So we're reading now from the Book
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seven with a little bit more understanding. And there was war in heaven.

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Okay, Michael, that's Jesus and
his angels fought against the dragon. That's

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the devil and the dragon fought and
his angels. So now we understand that

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there were some sympathizers with the devil. There were some angels, holy angels

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who went rogue. They decided that
the devil's argument was was worthy of consideration,

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to the point that they would not
repent. I need you to get

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this This was not a one time
decision on the devil's part or his evil

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angels. They made their decisions over
and over as they go down this slippery

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slope toward destruction, toward full rebellion. There had to have been, because

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of the nature of God, there
had to been opportunities for them to turn

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away from those sins, but no, they chose not to. Now now

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there is full on rebellion in heaven, and so and so there was a

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war, and verse eight prevailed.
Not neither was there place found any more

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in heaven. And the great dragon
was cast out, that old serpent called

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the devil and Satan, which deceiveth
the whole world. He was cast out

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into the earth, and his angels
were cast out with him. So now

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you know why it's such a mess
down here. Now you know why there's

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something that some people call global warming. Like now you know why nature seems

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to do weird things, like just
random fires, Like where are these random

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fires coming from? Like where are
these these volcanic eruptions coming from? Even

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though after the fact, after some
time, you start to see in many

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of those places some lush foliage growing, some beautiful things that come out of

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it. But really and truly did
God intend for that to happen in the

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beginning? Absolutely not. Why are
some of these beautiful mountains that we love

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so jagged and full of rocks and
stones and little or no vegetation on some

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of them? Was that what God's
plan was before there was a beginning?

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And then when he created the earth
before Noah's flood? Did the flood during

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Noah's time? Was it like that? Or was it that everywhere was beautiful

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and everywhere full of the things that
God caused to grow on the earth?

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Why are so many things going wrong
in the minds and hearts of humans that

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were created after God's image? You
see? And that's because there was a

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war and it's going on now not
in heaven because the devil was kicked out.

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We know that he's no longer welcomed
there. He was kicked out a

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long time ago, and his little
army was kicked out with him. And

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where are they? They aren't domiciled
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on planet Earth. Yeah, And
so if we read through Ezekiel chapter twenty

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eight, verses twelve through fifteen and
Isaiah chapter fourteen, verses twelve through fourteen,

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We see the details, and I
need you to do this in your

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spare time. Ah. We see
the details of his eye problem. I

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I, I. Until he got
to the point that he said he was

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going to replace the most High,
and so that equals sin, that equals

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a choice to separate himself from God, that equals death. Help us God

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to lose ourselves and win. Thanks
for joining us listening. Friends. Always

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

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

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Make it a great day. Yeah,