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 Friday. It's
April eighteen, 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 the Bible Prophecy
or how to Study Bible Prophecy, and our caption for
today is anchored in real events, anchored in real events.
Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, Please give us your Holy spirit, help
us to be anchored, anchored in your word, and help
us to know that we're talking about the reality of
life and not just symbols. In Jesus's name, I pray,
Amen and a man again. So the lesson writer opens
up for today. By the way, I realize that in
your churches that most of you are not going to
even touch Friday's lesson. I have never said that to
you in all of these many years that we've been
doing your Daily Portion. But I know that people just
skip over or skim over. But we need to really
focus narrowly on today's lesson in preparation for our understanding
for other lessons. Okay, And so the lesson writer invested
the time to say, once you realize how much data
is available in the rest of the Bible to help
you to broaden your understanding of prophecy, it can be
tempting to over apply it, and then you can read
the rest from the lesson yourself. So this is what
we're going to do. We're going to look at some
principles here and make sure that we have a firm
footing when we are looking at Bible prophecy, especially last
days Bible prophecy. Number one. We're going to look at
a balance in interpretation. And we get that right out
of Two Timothy, chapter two and verse fifteen where Paul
admonishes us under the Holy Ghost to rightly divide the
Word of truth, rightly to divide the Word of truth,
and we are avoiding two extremes. Number one, it's over
spiritualizing historical events. Do I really need to give an example?
I want to, but I think you can understand. Don't
over spiritualize historic events. Some president in some country is elected,
and then it becomes like a major spiritual drama within
our churches. There is a pandemic and it becomes a
spiritual drama in our churches. And when I say that,
I'm talking about specific prophetic stuff that may not be
as clear as you are representing it. Maybe something happened
in nineteen forty or nineteen eighteen or nineteen oh one.
And then it becomes like an overly spiritualized event in
your mind, and you don't have any spiritual reference. Nothing
in the scripture is nothing in inspiration, okay. And then
comes that missing deeper meanings. There are deeper meanings that
we do miss, So we can either over spiritualize on
one extreme or we can go way to the other
extreme and miss what God is actually saying here. Okay.
And then there comes a historical reality straight from two Peter,
chapter one and verse sixteen. We are not following cunningly
devised fables, you see, when God was correct and correct
is really a terrible way of saying it. But God
was right about everything that he said. Whenever Jesus was
on planet Earth, he said, I'm telling you these things
before they happen, so that when they do happen, you
will know that I am he. And when you look
at all of the prophetic utterances in scripture right and
the ones related to even the last days, we can say, well,
if God was right about the rise and fall of
Babylon under Nebuicud Nezer, and then subsequent to Nebukud Nezar,
and he was right about the rise and fall of Grecia,
and the rise and fall of Media Persian, the rise
and fall of the Western Roman Empire and the division
of the empire, the rise and the subsequent fall, and
the wound being levied against the papal Rome, and the
wound being healed, even in twenty twenty five, continuing to
be If he was correct about that, then everything that
he had to say about the mark of the Beast
is true. Everything that he had to say about all
of the other realities in Bible prophecy, he was correct.
And so the principle is that the events are real,
the people are his or were historical, the occurrences were
actual and history authentic. We can go back into our
ancient history books and mark out details of all of
those empires that I referenced out of the Bible Book
of Daniel, and we can see that if that is
what God referenced and he predicted for us, then everything
he said that would come in the future would be
easily seen and documentable. I wish I had the time.
Number three, there is a prophetic application in First Corinthians,
chapter ten and verse eleven. The Bible reads now all
these things have been done to them for en samples.
Of course, this is referencing the ancient people of God Israel,
and how we see that they some of the time
did not listen to God. Much of the time they
did not listen to God. The majority of the people
of God had turned their backs on Him, which is
identified clearly and manifest in the fact that nearly, like nearly,
none of the first generation of free slaves from Egyptian
captivity went into the Promised Land. It was only the
children who were twenty years in younger and two men.
Those two men, by the way, were not Moses, and
we're not Aaron. The two men Jacob, not Jacob. Why
they say Jacob, Joshua and Caleb. And then the babies
from twenty years and younger that came from those first generations,
you see, And so we can see here that we
have them as in samples of what not to do.
So when God teaches us the truth, as he opens
the book to our understanding, what not to do us
to reject it? What not to do us to erect
false gods of our own thinking, false gods of religio
political powers, false gods of our own what we think
is understanding and wisdom. You understand, and so we see
as in samples what not to do. Now, we do
have to have a proper balance. There is historical truth
that must be maintained. We don't turn our backs on it.
We don't cover our eyes and then say peekable, I
see you and think that if we cover our eyes
we vanish. We forget the twelve hundred and sixty years
of persecution of the church, We forget of the times
in Bible and ancient history where certain other events took place.
We have to keep the historical truth maintained in our
mind and embrace it. Of course, there are spiritual lessons
that we would have learned, and the great disappointment of
the eighteen forties when God's people were studying the twenty
three hundred years of prophecy and miss the point. We
need to look back and say, well, what did we
learn there about fortitude? What did we learn there about
going back to God? And saying we missed something? Help
us to understand and then live what did we miss? Okay?
And then comes the prophetic insights that we gained and
the reality of all of that were to be respect
and of course, there's a divine method. God's pattern uses
real events, teaches deeper truth, preserves history, and then reveals
the future. There is so much more I should say,
but I just literally don't have the time. Make it
a great rest of your day, peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. 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. Yeah,