Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sabbath. It's
the twenty first day of June in twenty twenty five. 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 how to study Bible prophecy. Under the caption
image is of the End Images of the End. We'll
get into that in just a moment, but first I
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father, we thank you for
this Sabbath morning and for the privilege we have to
consider many times in history that you let your people
through trials, through tribulations, even through the ways and means
for us to do your will in those days. Father,
please help us to be faithful in our day. In
Jesus name, I pray Amen and Amen again images of
the end. And so the Bible reads here in the
Bible Book of Jonah, chapter one and verse nine said,
so he said to them, I am a Hebrew, and
I fear the Lord, the God of Heaven, who made
the sea and the dry land. I have to begin
here with a question, are you a willing participant in
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm talking about right now
on this Sabbath morning. If God gives you the privilege
of saving one, two or three thousand or three million
lives by simply teaching them the word of God, by
simply sharing the testimony of Jesus Christ in your life,
to transform you so that they can see that He
can also transform them. Are you willing to be a
party to that or to turn your back on them?
You know, it's interesting. Jonah's weird, Like, as far as
I'm concerned, and I know people say, oh, well, you
would have done it too. I don't know about that.
Sure about that. There were people of God like during
the exodus, there was Joshua and Caleb, they were faithful,
and the rest of the people that were of age
twenty and above they all died in the wilderness. Of course,
we know that Moses was resurrected based on the Book
of Jude. But the bottom line is there were always
two sets of people among the people of God, the
faithful and those who are losing faith, the faithful and
the weak. When the three young men Hannah Andayah, Michel, Azariah,
we're alive with Daniel, there were four people who had
to make a decision, just like I'm asking us to
make it. Now, are you going to be a party
to helping people get saved or turn your back on them?
God had told Jonah where exactly to go, what exactly
to do to help people have one more opportunity to
live according to God's principles, Not only that to be
saved from destruction. You think he did it? Absolutely not,
absolutely not. He immediately went the other He went the
opposite direction and got some other men's lives imperiled because
he was on the boat with them when God turned
up the sea and the winds and the waves. But
the Bible says that he did confess that he was
from among God's people. And yeah, the rest, of course
is history. And so this week coming, as the lesson
writer says, we will take our final look at accounts
that help to enlighten our understanding of last day events.
This time we will look at the mission of Jonah
to Nineveh, the fall of Babylon, and the rise of Cyrus,
the Persian king who liberated God's people and enabled them
to return to the land of Promise. But again, when
you see these stories, I don't want you to see
a story. I want you to see a win into
the mindset of other human beings and ask God, like,
which of these humans am i? Am I among the faithful?
Or am I among the people who who have turned
their backs on you or have become weak in my faith?
And then ask God how to live according to his principles.
So we go here to that same passage in verse
nine of Jonah chapter one. And now we see a
parallel because God had told Jonah to go and warn
the people. He had a message to warn the people
of Nineveh that if they don't turn their turn away
from their sins, that God would destroy them. And it's
just like what but he went there. He went there
and reluctantly, but he had a message. And in Revelation
chapter fourteen we see that there is a message for
our day because judgment has come. Judgment has come, and
God has given us the pathway to success. And so
we need to personally accept our role. I asked you earlier,
like are you a willing participant? Are your willing party
to the gospel mission of Jesus Christ. So accept personally
your role in proclaiming the everlasting Gospel and the call
to fear God and worship Him as creator. Don't be
like Jonah. Don't get on the boat going the wrong direction.
Don't choose to be saved by grace and then decide,
you know what, I don't want to do what God
wants me to do, and then put yourself on the
wrong team rather than be connected with God. In fact,
there is a warning that we all get to trumpet
if we are God's people in the Last of the
Last Days. That shows us that Babylon is fallen, that confusion,
that false direction toward God, like the pathway that people
invented by turning their backs on on God by erecting
a false Sabbath, to also cause people to think that
every pathway leads to connection with God when He has
given us a direct path through Christ. Babylon has fallen,
that confusion is fallen that great city. And so in
the Last of the Last Days, spiritual Babylon will indeed
and in fact fall, just as ancient Babylon did. False
religion and political alliances that oppose God's will will collapse,
And so we get to decide are we going to
participate in the collapse? Are we going to warn people
and see what God has to say for these last days?
For those who have lost their love for God and
have chosen tradition of human beings over connection with God,
who have chosen political power over connection with God, that
have chosen to do all sorts of things that God
has already shared that that is not the pathway to
spiritual success. And so we choose. Are we going to
be the messengers that help people? Are we going to
be the ones who turn our backs on him? In
Isaiah chapter forty five and verse, when the Bible reads,
thus set the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose
right hand I have chosen. And in this case I
wish I had the time to really drill this. But
in this case Cyrus actually represents Jesus Christ delivering his people,
delivering his people. He was a type or a symbol
of Jesus Christ, even though this was in the Old Testament.
And so we can rest our confidence fully in Christ's
power to save us and to lead us out of bondage.
Just like Cyrus toppled Babylon. Yes, God's people will outlive
the fallen Babylon, that confusion that sets itself up against God.
As Cyrus set God's people free, Jesus delivers his people
from sin, spiritual Babylon and final oppression. So much to say, conceptually,
so little time. Human pride always resists God's authority, but
ultimately it falls. And so we're going to drill, like
I said before, into the story of Jonah and get
closer to what God would have us to do. And
we can see where Jonah went on his pathway. We
can see where he went wrong and where he hopefully
would have gotten a little bit more sense in relation
to God. But in either case we can learn how
to serve God.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2: Speaking to friends.
Speaker 1: 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,