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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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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

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sabbath. It's

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the twenty first day of June in twenty twenty five. Hello,

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my name is El David Harris. I am your host,

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and this is your Daily Portion where we give you

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God's word every single day, and today is no exception.

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We are continuing in our lesson study series for the

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final week how to study Bible prophecy. Under the caption

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image is of the End Images of the End. We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but first I

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like to say welcome to you and ask you to

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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our online community and let us know where you are

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in the world. There at your Daily Portion dot com.

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father, we thank you for

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this Sabbath morning and for the privilege we have to

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consider many times in history that you let your people

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through trials, through tribulations, even through the ways and means

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for us to do your will in those days. Father,

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please help us to be faithful in our day. In

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Jesus name, I pray Amen and Amen again images of

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the end. And so the Bible reads here in the

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Bible Book of Jonah, chapter one and verse nine said,

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so he said to them, I am a Hebrew, and

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I fear the Lord, the God of Heaven, who made

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the sea and the dry land. I have to begin

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here with a question, are you a willing participant in

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the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm talking about right now

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on this Sabbath morning. If God gives you the privilege

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of saving one, two or three thousand or three million

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lives by simply teaching them the word of God, by

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simply sharing the testimony of Jesus Christ in your life,

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to transform you so that they can see that He

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can also transform them. Are you willing to be a

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party to that or to turn your back on them?

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You know, it's interesting. Jonah's weird, Like, as far as

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I'm concerned, and I know people say, oh, well, you

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would have done it too. I don't know about that.

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Sure about that. There were people of God like during

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the exodus, there was Joshua and Caleb, they were faithful,

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and the rest of the people that were of age

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twenty and above they all died in the wilderness. Of course,

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we know that Moses was resurrected based on the Book

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of Jude. But the bottom line is there were always

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two sets of people among the people of God, the

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faithful and those who are losing faith, the faithful and

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the weak. When the three young men Hannah Andayah, Michel, Azariah,

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we're alive with Daniel, there were four people who had

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to make a decision, just like I'm asking us to

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make it. Now, are you going to be a party

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to helping people get saved or turn your back on them?

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God had told Jonah where exactly to go, what exactly

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to do to help people have one more opportunity to

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live according to God's principles, Not only that to be

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saved from destruction. You think he did it? Absolutely not,

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absolutely not. He immediately went the other He went the

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opposite direction and got some other men's lives imperiled because

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he was on the boat with them when God turned

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up the sea and the winds and the waves. But

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the Bible says that he did confess that he was

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from among God's people. And yeah, the rest, of course

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is history. And so this week coming, as the lesson

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writer says, we will take our final look at accounts

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that help to enlighten our understanding of last day events.

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This time we will look at the mission of Jonah

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to Nineveh, the fall of Babylon, and the rise of Cyrus,

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the Persian king who liberated God's people and enabled them

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to return to the land of Promise. But again, when

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you see these stories, I don't want you to see

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a story. I want you to see a win into

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the mindset of other human beings and ask God, like,

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which of these humans am i? Am I among the faithful?

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Or am I among the people who who have turned

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their backs on you or have become weak in my faith?

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And then ask God how to live according to his principles.

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So we go here to that same passage in verse

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nine of Jonah chapter one. And now we see a

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parallel because God had told Jonah to go and warn

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the people. He had a message to warn the people

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of Nineveh that if they don't turn their turn away

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from their sins, that God would destroy them. And it's

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just like what but he went there. He went there

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and reluctantly, but he had a message. And in Revelation

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chapter fourteen we see that there is a message for

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our day because judgment has come. Judgment has come, and

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God has given us the pathway to success. And so

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we need to personally accept our role. I asked you earlier,

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like are you a willing participant? Are your willing party

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to the gospel mission of Jesus Christ. So accept personally

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your role in proclaiming the everlasting Gospel and the call

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to fear God and worship Him as creator. Don't be

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like Jonah. Don't get on the boat going the wrong direction.

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Don't choose to be saved by grace and then decide,

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you know what, I don't want to do what God

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wants me to do, and then put yourself on the

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wrong team rather than be connected with God. In fact,

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there is a warning that we all get to trumpet

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if we are God's people in the Last of the

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Last Days. That shows us that Babylon is fallen, that confusion,

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that false direction toward God, like the pathway that people

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invented by turning their backs on on God by erecting

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a false Sabbath, to also cause people to think that

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every pathway leads to connection with God when He has

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given us a direct path through Christ. Babylon has fallen,

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that confusion is fallen that great city. And so in

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the Last of the Last Days, spiritual Babylon will indeed

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and in fact fall, just as ancient Babylon did. False

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religion and political alliances that oppose God's will will collapse,

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And so we get to decide are we going to

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participate in the collapse? Are we going to warn people

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and see what God has to say for these last days?

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For those who have lost their love for God and

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have chosen tradition of human beings over connection with God,

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who have chosen political power over connection with God, that

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have chosen to do all sorts of things that God

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has already shared that that is not the pathway to

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spiritual success. And so we choose. Are we going to

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be the messengers that help people? Are we going to

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be the ones who turn our backs on him? In

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Isaiah chapter forty five and verse, when the Bible reads,

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thus set the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose

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right hand I have chosen. And in this case I

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wish I had the time to really drill this. But

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in this case Cyrus actually represents Jesus Christ delivering his people,

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delivering his people. He was a type or a symbol

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of Jesus Christ, even though this was in the Old Testament.

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And so we can rest our confidence fully in Christ's

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power to save us and to lead us out of bondage.

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Just like Cyrus toppled Babylon. Yes, God's people will outlive

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the fallen Babylon, that confusion that sets itself up against God.

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As Cyrus set God's people free, Jesus delivers his people

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from sin, spiritual Babylon and final oppression. So much to say, conceptually,

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so little time. Human pride always resists God's authority, but

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ultimately it falls. And so we're going to drill, like

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I said before, into the story of Jonah and get

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closer to what God would have us to do. And

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we can see where Jonah went on his pathway. We

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can see where he went wrong and where he hopefully

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would have gotten a little bit more sense in relation

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to God. But in either case we can learn how

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to serve God.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Speaking to friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris, make

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it a great day. Yeah,