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

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

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

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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

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

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sabbath, March

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twenty nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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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,

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and today is no exception. We are beginning our new

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lesson study series, how to study Bible Prophecy, and our

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caption for today is some principles of Prophecy. Got stuttered

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right there. Let me say it again, Some principles of

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Bible prophecy. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to you and

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say a great, big, happy Sabbath to you. If this

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is your very first time. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. This is

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lesson number one of thirteen. Most times throughout the year

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our quarters are thirteen lessons in total, but once in

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a while we will see fourteen. But this one thirteen

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lessons in all, spanning a week per lesson. And of

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course we are here every single day, so welcome to you.

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And I'm asking you to go ahead and click that

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share budgeon if you have never been with us before,

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Let's go ahead and pray, Father and Heaven, thank you

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for giving us this new Sabbath morning and for the

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opportunity for us to look at prophecy in your word

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through a different lens. Father, Please help us to only

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see what you want us to see there in Jesus name,

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I pray a man and a man again. I will admit.

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I will admit that people, Christian people, and I often

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say Christianese speaking people argue even among our own fellowships.

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We argue about prophecy all the time. Everybody wants to

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be a prophet. Sometimes there's money involved, like sometimes people

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people find a way to monetize being a quote prophet.

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And let me just say this, as Jesus was describing

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some things going on right after he would go back

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to heaven about you know, thirty some years after he

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would go back to heaven and for the end of

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time or the time of the end. Pardon me, he

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said something invaluable when his disciples said, well, when shall

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these things be? And what shall be the son of

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thy coming and of the end of the world. Then

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he goes through some things, and he said, He started with,

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do not be deceived. There will be false christs and

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false prophets, but do not be deceived by them. And

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he says some more things, false christs and false prophets.

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I seldom go into the Greek or Hebrew when I'm

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talking to you, because I believe God can show us

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right in our own languages, wherever you are in the world,

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what He has to say. But I just want to

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highlight in this case there are times when people will

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be prophets, except not always true prophets, like Jesus said,

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And so the Bible word for false prophet is pseudo

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profhe tassees pseudo. You know what pseudo is, look it

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up ps pseudo. Yeah, false prophets. And so do not

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be enamored by don't get excited by the fact that

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once in a while you'll have somebody say something that's

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true to you, but then you look at the other

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tests of a true profit and see that they failed it.

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So they tell you something that you're like, WHOA, that's

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actually true? Do not listen. That's that's nothing new, Like

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there are times that that false prophets will tell you

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stuff that's true. But there are some more. There are

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some more tests of the true profit. And so I

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start right there by saying, there are some prophecy principles

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that I hold dear apart from my ramblings here, when

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I am reading and studying from the Bible prophecies now

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the ones that are fully established and God's stamp has

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already been placed on them in those sixty six blessed

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books of the Bible. When I'm studying and reading the prophecies,

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I'm looking for principles. The first principle I'm looking for

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is whatever I see should guide me to connection with God.

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And you're like, what, that's what you're looking for? Mm hm.

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I'm looking for my connection with God. I'm looking for

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how can I be so close to God that when

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he sees me, it's like when he saw Enoch when

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it said that Enoch walked with God, for he was

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not because God took him. God could not resist the

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desire to have Enoch with him early before the second

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coming of Jesus Christ, before the first coming, for that matter,

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But when Enoch was so connected with God that the

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Bible describes it as walking with God. That's what I'm

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looking for when I'm in the prophecies. I'm not just

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looking for timelines. I'm not looking for just the interpretation

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of what the beasts and the kings and the kingdoms

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and the horns and all of the dates that do

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align with the truth in ancient history and in the

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mind of God. I'm not only looking for that, I am,

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but I'm looking for a guide for connection with God.

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God is leading us and guiding us into the paths

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of righteousness because He loves us. And so let me

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begin by just highlighting a few principles. We're going to

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see them throughout the week, so I won't read all

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of the passages. We're going to use these same passages,

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but from Psalms chapter one hundred and thirty nine, verses

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one through six. I want us to have the principle

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of God's omnicience. In prophecy, God knows everything, He sees

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all and when he reveals it from before it happens.

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In Jesus's words, I show you these things before they happen,

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so that when they do happen, you will know that

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I am he okay. And so I'll just read a

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couple of the verses. Oh Lord, thou hast searched me

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and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising.

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Thou understandest my thought afar off. And when you look

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into the Bible Book of Isaiah, chapters forty to about fifty,

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you see God flexing his real life supernatural muscles and saying,

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you have all of these false gods out here, but

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let them declare the end from the beginning, and then

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we'll know they're worthy of worship. But I, of course

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inhabit eternity. And when he God speaks to us in

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those ominous words in the mouths of the prophets, then

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we know that it is indeed God okay. And number two,

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there is timing in our understanding. When God opens up

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prophecy in Daniel chapter twelve and verse four, there was

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a context for last day's prophecies, and the Bible reads,

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but thou olt Daniel shut up the words and seal

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up the book. Even to the time of the end,

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many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

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And so God has timing sometimes on when He's going

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to reveal the prophecies. And so in the Book of Revelation,

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in the very first chapter, the Bible says, now is

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the time for God to release the truth concerning God

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and his people and the affairs of the world in

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the last days. Now is the time to unseal. Now

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is the time to reveal. Now is the time to

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open up what was sealed up back then. Of course,

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the Bible also teaches us that the scripture has purpose

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in two Timothy chapters, Chapter three, verses fifteen through seventeen,

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and it teaches us that we are to be made

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wise unto salvation. And we don't get to interpret the prophecies.

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We don't get to interpret the scriptures in our own way.

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We listen for God's voice to know what he intended.

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So much more, there is living power in God's word

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and his prophecies. So here are some basic principles. Number one,

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God has complete knowledge, perfect understanding of the future. Nothing

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is hidden from him, and of course he has complete

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control of all events. Number two, there is progressive revelation,

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meaning there are some prophecies that are sealed until the

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appointed time, others for immediate understanding. Timing matters. Number three

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practical purpose. It leads us to salvation, provides instruction, and

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shapes character. And of course number four, God's transformative power

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is in his word, including the prophecies.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, Asking to friends, always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,