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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 Friday. It's

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April eighteen, 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

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day and today is no exception. We are continuing in

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our lesson study series how to Study the Bible Prophecy

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or how to Study Bible Prophecy, and our caption for

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today is anchored in real events, anchored in real events.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome

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And also please join our your Daily Portion community right

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of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven, Please give us your Holy spirit, help

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us to be anchored, anchored in your word, and help

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us to know that we're talking about the reality of

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life and not just symbols. In Jesus's name, I pray,

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Amen and a man again. So the lesson writer opens

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up for today. By the way, I realize that in

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your churches that most of you are not going to

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even touch Friday's lesson. I have never said that to

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you in all of these many years that we've been

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doing your Daily Portion. But I know that people just

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skip over or skim over. But we need to really

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focus narrowly on today's lesson in preparation for our understanding

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for other lessons. Okay, And so the lesson writer invested

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the time to say, once you realize how much data

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is available in the rest of the Bible to help

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you to broaden your understanding of prophecy, it can be

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tempting to over apply it, and then you can read

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the rest from the lesson yourself. So this is what

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we're going to do. We're going to look at some

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principles here and make sure that we have a firm

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footing when we are looking at Bible prophecy, especially last

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days Bible prophecy. Number one. We're going to look at

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a balance in interpretation. And we get that right out

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of Two Timothy, chapter two and verse fifteen where Paul

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admonishes us under the Holy Ghost to rightly divide the

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Word of truth, rightly to divide the Word of truth,

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and we are avoiding two extremes. Number one, it's over

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spiritualizing historical events. Do I really need to give an example?

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I want to, but I think you can understand. Don't

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over spiritualize historic events. Some president in some country is elected,

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and then it becomes like a major spiritual drama within

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our churches. There is a pandemic and it becomes a

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spiritual drama in our churches. And when I say that,

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I'm talking about specific prophetic stuff that may not be

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as clear as you are representing it. Maybe something happened

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in nineteen forty or nineteen eighteen or nineteen oh one.

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And then it becomes like an overly spiritualized event in

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your mind, and you don't have any spiritual reference. Nothing

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in the scripture is nothing in inspiration, okay. And then

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comes that missing deeper meanings. There are deeper meanings that

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we do miss, So we can either over spiritualize on

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one extreme or we can go way to the other

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extreme and miss what God is actually saying here. Okay.

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And then there comes a historical reality straight from two Peter,

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chapter one and verse sixteen. We are not following cunningly

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devised fables, you see, when God was correct and correct

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is really a terrible way of saying it. But God

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was right about everything that he said. Whenever Jesus was

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on planet Earth, he said, I'm telling you these things

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before they happen, so that when they do happen, you

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will know that I am he. And when you look

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at all of the prophetic utterances in scripture right and

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the ones related to even the last days, we can say, well,

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if God was right about the rise and fall of

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Babylon under Nebuicud Nezer, and then subsequent to Nebukud Nezar,

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and he was right about the rise and fall of Grecia,

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and the rise and fall of Media Persian, the rise

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and fall of the Western Roman Empire and the division

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of the empire, the rise and the subsequent fall, and

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the wound being levied against the papal Rome, and the

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wound being healed, even in twenty twenty five, continuing to

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be If he was correct about that, then everything that

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he had to say about the mark of the Beast

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is true. Everything that he had to say about all

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of the other realities in Bible prophecy, he was correct.

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And so the principle is that the events are real,

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the people are his or were historical, the occurrences were

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actual and history authentic. We can go back into our

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ancient history books and mark out details of all of

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those empires that I referenced out of the Bible Book

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of Daniel, and we can see that if that is

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what God referenced and he predicted for us, then everything

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he said that would come in the future would be

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easily seen and documentable. I wish I had the time.

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Number three, there is a prophetic application in First Corinthians,

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chapter ten and verse eleven. The Bible reads now all

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these things have been done to them for en samples.

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Of course, this is referencing the ancient people of God Israel,

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and how we see that they some of the time

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did not listen to God. Much of the time they

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did not listen to God. The majority of the people

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of God had turned their backs on Him, which is

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identified clearly and manifest in the fact that nearly, like nearly,

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none of the first generation of free slaves from Egyptian

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captivity went into the Promised Land. It was only the

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children who were twenty years in younger and two men.

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Those two men, by the way, were not Moses, and

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we're not Aaron. The two men Jacob, not Jacob. Why

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they say Jacob, Joshua and Caleb. And then the babies

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from twenty years and younger that came from those first generations,

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you see, And so we can see here that we

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have them as in samples of what not to do.

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So when God teaches us the truth, as he opens

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the book to our understanding, what not to do us

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to reject it? What not to do us to erect

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false gods of our own thinking, false gods of religio

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political powers, false gods of our own what we think

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is understanding and wisdom. You understand, and so we see

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as in samples what not to do. Now, we do

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have to have a proper balance. There is historical truth

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that must be maintained. We don't turn our backs on it.

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We don't cover our eyes and then say peekable, I

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see you and think that if we cover our eyes

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we vanish. We forget the twelve hundred and sixty years

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of persecution of the church, We forget of the times

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in Bible and ancient history where certain other events took place.

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We have to keep the historical truth maintained in our

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mind and embrace it. Of course, there are spiritual lessons

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that we would have learned, and the great disappointment of

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the eighteen forties when God's people were studying the twenty

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three hundred years of prophecy and miss the point. We

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need to look back and say, well, what did we

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learn there about fortitude? What did we learn there about

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going back to God? And saying we missed something? Help

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us to understand and then live what did we miss? Okay?

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And then comes the prophetic insights that we gained and

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the reality of all of that were to be respect

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and of course, there's a divine method. God's pattern uses

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real events, teaches deeper truth, preserves history, and then reveals

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the future. There is so much more I should say,

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but I just literally don't have the time. Make it

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a great rest of your day, peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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