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.
Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning, it is Thursday. It's
April seventeen, 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 how to study Bible Prophecy, and our
caption for today is the Harlot is Judged. That sounds harsh,
but it's not. The Harlot is Judged. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
we thank you for giving us this new day and
for the opportunity to continue in your word. And I'm
asking you, Lord to please make us faithful to you,
make us holy, make us faithful in Jesus' name. I pray,
Amen and Amen again. I think it was yesterday that
I said to you that the person who has the
most influence over my life is my wife, Simone. We're
married almost twenty four years, thank God, and these are
great years, thank God. But sometimes there are people who
are married who don't take their connection with their spouses
very seriously, or maybe get lackadaisical about the relationship and
then unfortunately commit adultery. Right, I don't have the time
to really drill that. But that is the reality. That
is the reality. And in that case, that degrades the relationship,
that impacts the people who were observing the relationship, and
it also impacts our children, our offspring are negatively impacted
when we God forbid if we in a in a
marital relationship commit adultery. Okay. And so in this Bible
passage in Revelation chapter nineteen, we see something very interesting,
and the lesson writer poses it this way. Two things
are celebrated simultaneously. The end of the Harlot. Wait a minute,
That is the bride who turned away from God, the
people of God who decided that they wanted to replace
the relationship that God intended for us and with something
that is completely opposite of him and blasphem us, and
to just transform this relationship into something God never intended,
that harlot, that harlot, and then the marriage of Christ
to his bride. We're talking about the faithful people of God.
How is it possible that both events are actually demonstrations
of God's righteousness and the loving character of God God
both in at the same time. Now, that's a good question.
We're going now to the Bible Book of Revelation, chapter nineteen.
And I'm going to allow my audio bible. My favorite
one faith comes by hearing is the ministry. They have
the best audio bibles in my mind to read this
aloud to us Revelation chapter nineteen, and I will read,
and it will read. Pardon me. Beginning at verse.
Speaker 3: One, Revelation nineteen. And after these things, I heard a
great voice of much people in heaven, saying salvation and
Glorian honor and horror to the Lord our God.
Speaker 4: For true and righteous are his judgments. For he hath.
Speaker 3: Judged the great horror which did corrupt the earth with
her phonication, and hath a bench the blood of his
servants at her hand. And again they said, a.
Speaker 4: Man loui and her small drows up forever and ever.
Speaker 3: And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts
fell down and worshiped God that sat on the throne, saying, a.
Speaker 4: Man a loui'ah.
Speaker 5: And the voice came out of the throne saying.
Speaker 4: Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that
fear him, both small and great.
Speaker 5: And I heard, as it were the voice of a
great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and
as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying.
Speaker 4: I Louia. For the Lord God omnipotent reigna. Let us
be glad and rejoice and give honor to him. For
the marriage of the Lamb is come. And his wife
hath made herself ready, and to her was granted that
she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white.
Speaker 3: For the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And
he saith, unto me.
Speaker 2: Right, blessed are they which are called unto the marriage
supper of the Lamb. And he saith, oh my, oh my.
Now we are ushered into the presence of God. We're
ushered into a worship scene in Revelation chapter nineteen in Heaven,
and I'm thankful because it shows us how much God
values right relationship with him. You see, anything that gets
in the way of right relationship with God has to
be destroyed. Can I just say that again? It sounds
it sounds harsh to people who are not able to
hear well. Anything that gets in the way of right
relationship with God needs to be destroyed. Yes, And so
the marriage that God intended for his people after the judgment,
we're saying, now God's people. Unfortunately, Adam and Eve both sinned.
Eve fell into sin. She was deceived. Adam jumped into sin.
He knew exactly what he was doing in a special way, unfortunately,
but he jumped into sin. Both of them were naked, ashamed.
They naked ashamed, and they covered themselves with fig leaf
of righteousness. That's human human self righteousness. And that is
where this problem began. When humans begin to cover our
sins rather than to confess our sins, knowing that God
is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, then we are now
separating ourselves from holiness, separating ourselves from the tree of life.
We are embracing harl try. Of course, the church, the
church in modern era, has demonstrated, unfortunately, the false church,
that they don't want to be in right relationship with God.
They would rather replace God, They would rather take Jesus
off of his throne. They would rather seek to change
times in his holy Law, which he, by the way,
is written in our hearts and in our minds. And
so that has to be destroyed, that paradigm has to
be destroyed, so that the genuine, eternal pulse of love
can reverberate through the universe, throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity.
And so now we can see the dual demonstration of
God's character. First justice, that is righteousness. According to Psalms
chapter ninety seven and verse two, we see righteousness and
judgment are the habitation of his throne. And so he
has to eliminate sin. He has to put evil at
its end. He has to serve justice and truth must
be vindicated. And of course we see love. We see
love in First John chapter four and verse eight. Very simply,
God is love, and so this shows perfect union with
God's people, perfect relationship, pure relationship, eternal fellowship and complete restoration.
And finally, both events reveal God's holiness. They reveal love
in triumph, truth's victory, and the removal of evil for
ultimate redemption. I'm thankful that God's character.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to 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.
Speaker 3: Yeah,