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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 Tuesday, September three,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson

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study series through the Book of Mark, and our caption

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for today is the Abomination of Desolation. The Abomination of Desolation.

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We'll get into that in just a moment, but first

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I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you

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to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily

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Portion book, and let us know where you are in

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the world. At your Daily Portion dot com. This is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we

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will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving

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us this new morning and for the privilege that you

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have given us to live and breathe again today. Please

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help us to listen for your voice and live according

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to your principles. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. Okay, So this is one of the days

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that the group or the community that I keep referencing

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becomes invaluable. So again at your Daily portion dot com,

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I want you to join the online community. And if

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I don't already post it, like if I don't post

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it because it just hit me while I'm here, I

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want you to ask me to post a study that

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Pastor Damien Chambers did and I did some years ago

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that will help with this subject. Pastor Damien Chambers is

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an associate professor if I'm correct, for theology at the

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Northern Caribbean University School of Religion and Theology. And so yeah,

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we did a good study some time ago. I think

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we were covering Daniel chapter eleven, and so I need

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to post that and when I say study, we did

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a video together, so please request that if I forget

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to put it in. And yeah, so we can get

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more understanding there. Today we are going to learn a

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few lessons. I will read what the lesson writer said,

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but we're going to learn some lessons about God from

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the text in Mark chapter thirteen. Okay, and so the

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lesson writer says, Jesus comes to the central point about

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the fall of Jerusalem in Mark chapter thirteen, he refers

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to the abomination of desolation. The Lord says that the

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reader should understand with these words Jesus is pointing to

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the disciples. Is point of the disciples to the book

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of Daniel. And of course this terminology appears a few

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times in the book of Daniel. And so the anointed

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one in Daniel chapter nine and verse twenty six is

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the Hebrew word Messiah in English Messiah. I know you

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wanted me to pronounce it another way. In a careful

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study of Daniel chapter nine, verses twenty four to twenty seven,

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it is clear that this anointed one refers to the

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coming of Jesus Christ. But who is the prince who

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is to come, who brings the desolation of the city

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of Jerusalem. The city is destroyed by the Roman general Titus. Thus,

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it seems logical that the Prince who is to come

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referred to in Daniel chapter nine, that's the one two

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individuals are linked, because the way that the Messiah is

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treated spelled the doom of the city. What though, is

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the abomination of desolation that Jesus is referring to in Daniel. Unfortunately,

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many scholars believe that this abomination refers to Antiochus epiphanes

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desecration of the temple in the second century BC, But

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that doesn't work. Jesus describes the abomination of desolation as

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something that occurs after his own time here, so it

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hardly could refer to something that appeared or happened two

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centuries before Jesus's earthly ministry. Instead, the abomination likely refers

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to the planting of the Roman pagan standards in Israel

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during the Siege of Jerusalem in the late AD sixties.

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This was the sign for the Christian to flee, which

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they did, And so we know that there was a

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destruction that happened in seventy a d. But the people

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of God, if they were paying keen attention, would have

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seen where the armies. The Roman armies started to plant

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their standards. They started to plant their standards around the

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city a few years prior, and so that was a

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signal to the people of God to flee, to flee

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and be safe from what was about to take place. Okay.

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And I know that some people are like, oh my goodness,

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this is too much. It's too much. This is why

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I'm saying that I want you to request the study

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that we did Pastor Damien Chambers and I did, and

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you'll get more understanding there. But let's go ahead now

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and read the passage. Let's read the passage and then

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see if we can learn some other things, some other

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key truths here. Okay. So we begin at verse fourteen

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of Mark chapter thirteen, and it reads, but when ye

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shall see the abomination spoken of by Daniel the prophets

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standing where it are not, let him that readeth understand.

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Then let him or them that be in Judea flee

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to the mountains. And let him that is on the

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housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein

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to take anything out of his house. And let him

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that is in the field not turned back again, for

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to take up his garment. But woe unto them that

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are with child and to them that give suck in

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those days. And pray ye that your flight be not

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in winter. Okay. And so now we need to answer

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just really quickly and see and see if there are

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any practical life applications that we can we can derive

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from this. And really I want to focus on how

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God is like who God is or how God is

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in this case. Okay. Number one, God is omniscient, that

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means he knows everything. And attached to this reality is

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that he when he knows everything, then there are times

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that he shares like he is with his complete fore knowledge, willing,

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ready and available to share with us the things that

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we need. You know, sometimes crises happen on planet Earth

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and people are like I wish I had known, and

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it's like, well, depending on the crisis, maybe God did reveal,

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and in this case that was a major crisis in Jerusalem,

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and he had revealed as we see in verse fourteen.

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And so trust in God's complete fore knowledge and wisdom

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when facing uncertainties in life, and to rely on his

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guidance and remain confident that he knows exactly what's going

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to happen. He knows exactly where we fit into the

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equation and how to get us through. We should not

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be fearful for the future. I know that there's really, really,

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really difficult things happening. We see it recorded in the

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news media. There are some things that are just throwing

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some of our minds off. But we have to know

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that God knows everything. And let me just tie it

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to our second point. And he's also protective. He's protective.

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If we will just listen, if we will yield our

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lives to God and listen to what He is teaching us,

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how he is preparing us through these last and terrible days,

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then we will be fine. We'll be safe. He gave

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the people of God a clear guideline. Let him that

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is on the housetop, don't go down into the house,

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and so forth. And so the way we can apply

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this is that we need to recognize and trust in

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God's protection. Not just recognize it, but do we trust

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that God is protecting us follow his directions for safety. Yeah.

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He gives us directives and safety guidelines related to our health,

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how we should live and where we should live, what

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our marriage life should look like, how we should treat

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money right, how we should behave and live and prepare

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during the last days of Earth's history, how holiness looks

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from his perspective. And then, of course God is sovereign.

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He's sovereign, he knows everything, He's protective, and he's sovereign.

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There is nothing that is outside of his purview. His

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authority is still intact even when you think or God forbid,

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I think that things are out of control. When I

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have questions, it's okay.

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Speaker 1: But God is.

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Speaker 2: Sovereigns he knows everything, but he also has ultimate authority

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in these last days. Make it a great 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,