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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 Sabbath, April nineteen,

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twenty twenty five. 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 how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption

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for today is the Nation's Part one, The Nations Part One.

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

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to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the

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very first time. I'd just like to say welcome to you,

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because this is a place where God is transforming our

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lives through understanding and applying the scriptures. So I'd like

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to welcome you to your Daily Portion dot com. There

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are two communities there, one behind a red button and

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join both of those. And i'd like for you also

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at the appropriate time listening. Some of you are listening

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at different times, and so it may be Sabbath where

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you are, of course, not today. To pick it up

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and at the appropriate time. Pick up the your Daily

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Portion Companion guide. That's where we teach you how to

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apply whatever we're studying in four key areas. Okay, so

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pick that up at the appropriate time, and also please

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let us know where you are in the world at

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your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We thank

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you for this day. Thank you for giving us the

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opportunity to open up your word on your holy seventh

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day Sabbath, Lord, especially today. We know there is special power.

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Your power to accompany us and transform us is special

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today because you are sanctifying us. Father, Please please transform

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our lives in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again.

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The nation's part one. I'm going to jump right into

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what the lesson writer said, and then we'll use that

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as a context for what we will see in the Bible. Okay,

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and so the lesson writer pended these words. The Book

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of Revelation shows us God's solutions for our fallen world.

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By show of hands, I know that we're not in

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the same place, but use a virtual hand, use a

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number one in the chat. If this is you, okay,

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by show of hands, do you see that God is

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providing solutions right out of the scriptures for the world

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in which we live. If you see that God is

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showing us solutions in his word for this world as

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it is today, is fallen and broken as it is,

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please type a one in the chat or put some

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kind of virtual hand up. The reality is in the

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final chapters we access the Tree of Life as restored,

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the curse is lifted, and we are readmitted into the

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fullness of the presence of God. Revelation in some ways

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is the Book of Genesis in reverse, which is why

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Genesis remains an important key to understanding how the world's

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problems developed in the first place. I'll just pause right

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there on that reading, and then we will jump right in,

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jump right in and read from the Bible Book of Daniel.

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Bible Book of Daniel, chapter seven and verse fourteen. Okay,

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Daniel l Chapter seven and verse fourteen. We're not going

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to give an expose of the text, but we're going

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to glean something critical as we connected to a text

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in the Book of Revelation in just a moment. Okay,

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Daniel chapter seven in verse fourteen, and the Bible reads,

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and there was given him meaning Christ, the Messiah, the

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one who appeared before the ancient of days. In the text,

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dominion and glory and the kingdom that all people, nations

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and languages, that's everybody should serve him. His dominion is

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an everlasting dominion. And I like that in contrast to

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all of the dominions represented in the Bible Book of Daniel.

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From Daniel chapter two onward Daniel chapter eleven, we see

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kingdom standing and falling, standing and sitting down, standing and

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sitting down until until, of course, we know when the

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judgment is complete. And then Jesus finally, as as the

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one who has all of this dominion, has all of

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this glory, has all of this power, he will stand

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up and then he will be seated firmly on the

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universe's throne. I wish I had the time that the

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Bible continues. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall

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not pass away, and his kingdom which shall not be destroyed.

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Aren't you glad that we can join the team with

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Jesus Christ today, on this nineteenth day of the month

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of April in twenty twenty five, at about six minutes

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into our broadcast, we can make the decision today to

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join join Jesus's power, his dominion, join Jesus as kingdom

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builders because the kingdom that we've joined will not be destroyed,

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cannot must not be destroyed. And so we see a

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key theme here in a restoration pattern in Revelation chapter

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twenty one and verse one, and I saw a new

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Heaven and a new Earth. This shows what happened in Genesis,

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what went wrong in Genesis reversed reversed. They were kicked

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out of the Garden of Eden. They were barred and

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banned from eating from the Tree of Life as a

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protective measure. Yes, in some ways it was punitive, but

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in other ways it was a protective measure. But we

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see this restored in Revelation twenty one, and we see

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paradise is restored. The curse is completely removed because of

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the work of Jesus Christ. As he lived on planet Earth,

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he lived a perfect life. He died a substitutionary death

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that satisfied all of the claims of sin on human

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beings as he lived in human flesh, and he took

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up with great power and great glory his life again

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and is now ministering on behalf of those who are

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surrendering our will to Him, so that our sin records

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can be finally and completely expunged. And so the curse

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is removed, and God's presence is renewed and restored in

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a way that we will be able to see God

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face to face. And then we also see human governmental failure.

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The Bible teaches us when it talks about the tentative

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nature or temporary nature of human beings, the fact that

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we have to borrow our breath, and at some time

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God forbid, but at some point any of us can

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give up the ghost or our breath will go back

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to God who gave it, and in that moment our

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thoughts will perish, and in that vein the Bible writer

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says in Psalmn Chapter one hundred and forty six and

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verse three, don't put your trust in princes, don't put

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your trust in and any human being, no governmental official,

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no governmental body, no political party, no human should we

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put our trust in, because well, we've done this before,

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like we've seen this movie before. We've failed in our

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attempts to do that. There are human limitations, there are

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corrupted ideals, and there are tragic results when we put

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our trust in human beings, human governments, religio political powers.

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We put our trust there, and it's a fail. It's

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a fail. Number three. Divine kingdom has a promise. And

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in Daniel chapter two and verse forty four, the Bible reads,

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the God of heavens set up a kingdom which shall

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never be destroyed. It's shown in extreme and stark contrast

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to all of the human kingdoms that we've seen in

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world dominance. We've seen Babylon, we've seen Grecia, we've seen

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Medo Persia, we've seen the Western Roman Empire. We have

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seen the divisions of Rome. We have seen the Vaticano power.

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I just made the word of Vaticanal power. But the

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Papal power. We've seen that. We have seen even the

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rise of extreme power in the United States of America.

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But if we put our trust there, then we won't

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begin to experience the kingdom. Thy Kingdom, Come, Thy will

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be done on earth as it is in heaven. We

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will not see and experience the fullness of God's kingdom,

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which shall never be destroyed, if we put our trust

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in earthly kingdoms. And then, of course there is so

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much more. But the point of all of this, and

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what I had not covered, is that human governments are temporary,

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Divine rule is certain, and then one day we will

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see justice established and God's eternal kingdom firmly established.

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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,