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 Sabbath, April nineteen,
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 Nation's Part one, The Nations Part One.
Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We thank
you for this day. Thank you for giving us the
opportunity to open up your word on your holy seventh
day Sabbath, Lord, especially today. We know there is special power.
Your power to accompany us and transform us is special
today because you are sanctifying us. Father, Please please transform
our lives in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again.
The nation's part one. I'm going to jump right into
what the lesson writer said, and then we'll use that
as a context for what we will see in the Bible. Okay,
and so the lesson writer pended these words. The Book
of Revelation shows us God's solutions for our fallen world.
By show of hands, I know that we're not in
the same place, but use a virtual hand, use a
number one in the chat. If this is you, okay,
by show of hands, do you see that God is
providing solutions right out of the scriptures for the world
in which we live. If you see that God is
showing us solutions in his word for this world as
it is today, is fallen and broken as it is,
please type a one in the chat or put some
kind of virtual hand up. The reality is in the
final chapters we access the Tree of Life as restored,
the curse is lifted, and we are readmitted into the
fullness of the presence of God. Revelation in some ways
is the Book of Genesis in reverse, which is why
Genesis remains an important key to understanding how the world's
problems developed in the first place. I'll just pause right
there on that reading, and then we will jump right in,
jump right in and read from the Bible Book of Daniel.
Bible Book of Daniel, chapter seven and verse fourteen. Okay,
Daniel l Chapter seven and verse fourteen. We're not going
to give an expose of the text, but we're going
to glean something critical as we connected to a text
in the Book of Revelation in just a moment. Okay,
Daniel chapter seven in verse fourteen, and the Bible reads,
and there was given him meaning Christ, the Messiah, the
one who appeared before the ancient of days. In the text,
dominion and glory and the kingdom that all people, nations
and languages, that's everybody should serve him. His dominion is
an everlasting dominion. And I like that in contrast to
all of the dominions represented in the Bible Book of Daniel.
From Daniel chapter two onward Daniel chapter eleven, we see
kingdom standing and falling, standing and sitting down, standing and
sitting down until until, of course, we know when the
judgment is complete. And then Jesus finally, as as the
one who has all of this dominion, has all of
this glory, has all of this power, he will stand
up and then he will be seated firmly on the
universe's throne. I wish I had the time that the
Bible continues. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall
not pass away, and his kingdom which shall not be destroyed.
Aren't you glad that we can join the team with
Jesus Christ today, on this nineteenth day of the month
of April in twenty twenty five, at about six minutes
into our broadcast, we can make the decision today to
join join Jesus's power, his dominion, join Jesus as kingdom
builders because the kingdom that we've joined will not be destroyed,
cannot must not be destroyed. And so we see a
key theme here in a restoration pattern in Revelation chapter
twenty one and verse one, and I saw a new
Heaven and a new Earth. This shows what happened in Genesis,
what went wrong in Genesis reversed reversed. They were kicked
out of the Garden of Eden. They were barred and
banned from eating from the Tree of Life as a
protective measure. Yes, in some ways it was punitive, but
in other ways it was a protective measure. But we
see this restored in Revelation twenty one, and we see
paradise is restored. The curse is completely removed because of
the work of Jesus Christ. As he lived on planet Earth,
he lived a perfect life. He died a substitutionary death
that satisfied all of the claims of sin on human
beings as he lived in human flesh, and he took
up with great power and great glory his life again
and is now ministering on behalf of those who are
surrendering our will to Him, so that our sin records
can be finally and completely expunged. And so the curse
is removed, and God's presence is renewed and restored in
a way that we will be able to see God
face to face. And then we also see human governmental failure.
The Bible teaches us when it talks about the tentative
nature or temporary nature of human beings, the fact that
we have to borrow our breath, and at some time
God forbid, but at some point any of us can
give up the ghost or our breath will go back
to God who gave it, and in that moment our
thoughts will perish, and in that vein the Bible writer
says in Psalmn Chapter one hundred and forty six and
verse three, don't put your trust in princes, don't put
your trust in and any human being, no governmental official,
no governmental body, no political party, no human should we
put our trust in, because well, we've done this before,
like we've seen this movie before. We've failed in our
attempts to do that. There are human limitations, there are
corrupted ideals, and there are tragic results when we put
our trust in human beings, human governments, religio political powers.
We put our trust there, and it's a fail. It's
a fail. Number three. Divine kingdom has a promise. And
in Daniel chapter two and verse forty four, the Bible reads,
the God of heavens set up a kingdom which shall
never be destroyed. It's shown in extreme and stark contrast
to all of the human kingdoms that we've seen in
world dominance. We've seen Babylon, we've seen Grecia, we've seen
Medo Persia, we've seen the Western Roman Empire. We have
seen the divisions of Rome. We have seen the Vaticano power.
I just made the word of Vaticanal power. But the
Papal power. We've seen that. We have seen even the
rise of extreme power in the United States of America.
But if we put our trust there, then we won't
begin to experience the kingdom. Thy Kingdom, Come, Thy will
be done on earth as it is in heaven. We
will not see and experience the fullness of God's kingdom,
which shall never be destroyed, if we put our trust
in earthly kingdoms. And then, of course there is so
much more. But the point of all of this, and
what I had not covered, is that human governments are temporary,
Divine rule is certain, and then one day we will
see justice established and God's eternal kingdom firmly established.
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,